Smead Manufacturing Company

John A Calkins

Steve MacWilliams

Philip O Jesme

A file folder blank can be folded to form a file folder. The file folder blank is designed for single side printing. The file folder blank can be folded to reveal printed indicia to two directions of a single panel. The printed indicia can be printed by a standard desktop type of printer. The printed indicia can include graphics, location indicator, content indicators, pictures, graphs or the like. In addition, top taps or side tabs are integrally formed with the file folder blank that can be printed with identifying indicia. In some applications, the identifying indicia comprises a repeating set of color bars that can be individualized during printing of the folder blank.

Desktop printable file folder blank and filing system

For use in combination with a machine that has an endless conveyor for conveying a file folder to a tang assembly station and thence away therefrom, folder tang assembly apparatus that includes a frame, a feed assembly for indexingly feeding a plurality of webs having folded tangs nearly punched thereoutof, a stationary die plate, a stripper bar above the die plate, a pressure pad for each web reciprocally mounted in a die plate aperture to press the web against the stripper bar, tang punches reciprocally extended in the pressure pad for punching a tang out of a web, through a stripper bar aperture, and against a folder, a cinching device for each web to cinch the tang to the folder when the punches move the tang against the folder, a tang location quill carried by one of the tang punches for each web to properly locate the tang to be punched out of the web, a power operated lower die shoe for reciprocating the punches, and piston cylinders for moving the pressure pads to press the webs against the stripper plates. As carried by the web each tang is folded to have one prong overlay the other and a ring portion that is joined to one prong overlaying the ring portion that is joined to the other prong. The ring portions are integrally joined to tabs opposite the prongs.

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Hastings, MN, United States of America

John A Calkins