Hanging filing-card cabinets

Claim 1

A hanging filing card system comprising a frame including spaced upper rails, a plurality of magnetic metal hangers having end portions removably supported on said upper rails, each of said end portions including an extreme tip, a filIng card having an upper end secured to each of said metal hangers between said end portions leaving portions of said hangers exposed, thereby hanging freely on said hangers, and having at the bottom a plurality of a group of holes and a plurality of slots open at their lower end, stiletto means inserted selectively into said holes and said slots of said cards, respectively, and magnetized extractor means including spaced parallel magnetic rails for engaging said metal hangers at said exposed portions for withdrawing cards through which said stilettos pass only through slots, by mutual magnetic attraction of said magnetic rails of said magnetized means and said metal hangers, and for being moved upwardly from said frame, said upper rails being substantially of U-shaped cross-section having an innermost supporting section on which said end portions are supported and outermost stop wall slightly spaced from an extreme tip of a corresponding of said end portions when said metal hanger is aligned horizontally, and abutting with said tip in the event a corresponding filing card is tilted, whereby said hangers return to said horizontal alignment, said innermost supporting sections which support the end portions of each of said hangers, respectively, being lower in height than said stop walls of said upper rails, and a plurality of rigid separators, disposed between groupings of said cards and including holes at the bottoms corresponding in alignment to the holes in said cards.