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Title: Business card system
Claims: What is claimed is: 1. An apparatus of the Class described comprising a main rectangular card greater in size than the size of a standard business card and having a top edge, a side edge and a bottom edge, a first region of said main rectangular card defined by a first arrangement of tear lines forming a first rectangular area the size of a business card, the first rectangular area of the main rectangular card adapted to have information printed thereon, said first arrangement of tear lines permitting said first rectangular area to be torn away from said main rectangular card whereby the information printed on the first rectangular area can be filed in a first filing device adapted to hold cards the size of business cards, a second region of said main rectangular card including said first rectangular area defined by a second arrangement of tear lines and forming a second generally rectangular area, said second arrangement of tear lines permitting said second rectangular area to be torn from said main rectangular card and filed in a second filing device that is larger than the first filing device and which holds cards the size of said second rectangular area, a third region of said rectangular area including said second rectangular area defined by a third arrangement of tear lines and forming a third generally rectangular area, said third arrangement of tear lines permitting said third rectangular area to be torn from said main rectangular card and filed in a third filing device that is larger than the second filing device and which holds cards the size of said third rectangular area, said main rectangular card the size of cards filed in a fourth filing device, said fourth filing device larger than the third filing device, whereby said main rectangular card with said information printed on said first rectangular area can be filed therein, the bottom of said second rectangular area being defined by one tear line and the bottom of said third rectangular area being defined by a second tear line, said first and second tear lines parallel to each other and parallel to and below the bottom edge of said first rectangular area, openings associated with said first and second tear lines, said openings conforming to the shape of the perforations formed in cards filed in said second and third filing devices, the bottom edge of said main rectangular card parallel to and below said first and second tear lines and having openings formed therein, said openings conforming to the shape of the perforations formed in cards filed in said fourth filing devices so that the information printed on the first rectangular area can be filed in said second, third or fourth filing devices which have devices which penetrate said openings and which hold cards at their bottom edge, and a second group of holes, said second group of holes being disposed in a line parallel to the side edge of said main rectangular card, and shaped and positioned so the information printed on said first rectangular area and including said second or third rectangular areas or said main rectangular card can be filed in filing devices which have devices which penetrate said holes and which hold cards by the side edge. 2. The main rectangular card described in claim 1 wherein the openings are "T" shaped and are associated with said first and second tear lines and the bottom edge of the main rectangular card, two "T" shaped openings communicating with the second tear lines, two with the third tear line and two with the bottom edge of the main rectangular card respectively, said "T" shaped openings in said second tear line, said third tear line, and the bottom edge of said main rectangular card spaced so they conform to the spacing of "T" shaped perforations formed in cards filed in the second, third and fourth filing devices. 3. The main rectangular card described in claim 1 wherein the second group of holes are circular. 4. The main rectangular card described in claim 1 wherein adhesive material is secured to the back of a portion of the main rectangular card whereby the main rectangular card or the first, second, third or fourth rectangular areas may be adhesively secured to a sheet. 5. The main rectangular card described in claim 4 wherein said adhesive material is secured to the back of said first rectangular area of said main rectangular card whereby the first rectangular area of the main rectangular card is adhesively secured to a sheet. Other info: Inventors: Armstrong, Terrance R. (Los Angeles, CA, US) Application Number: 555816 Filing Date: 1975-03-06 Publication_date: 1976-07-20 Assignee: Primary Class(es): 402/79 40/360, 402/501 Other Classes: US Patent Ref:
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Primary Examiner: Schnall, Jerome Assistant Examiner: Attorney: Rubinstein; Julius |
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