Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10)American School of Correspondence
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Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10)
American School of Correspondence
Accounting; Business; Commerce
[Illustration: Fig. 28. Showing Manner of Joining Upright Sections.
_Browne-Morse Co._]
The selection of filing equipment has been greatly simplified by the
manufacturers, who have studied the filing problem with the view to
supplying the demand for equipment to accommodate every business
paper. As new problems have presented themselves, new equipment has
been designed. The needs of the smallest office, as well as those of
the largest corporation, have been studied and met. Heavy cabinets of
solid construction have given way to cabinets built in sections, any
one of which can be carried by the office boy. The man who has but a
half-dozen letters a day to file finds a section exactly suited to
his requirements; as his business grows, he adds other sections; the
cabinet grows with the business, making one complete system, no matter
how small or how large.
The most universally used of all filing devices is the vertical file.
As has been explained in the preceding pages, it adapts itself to
almost all of the papers found in a business office. Vertical files are
made with drawers in three standard sizes: letter size, for ordinary
correspondence, or papers up to 9½"×11" in size; legal or cap size,
for legal blanks, reports, and other large papers up to 10"×15" in
size; invoice size, for invoices, orders, credit reports, and all
papers not larger than 5¼"×8". Papers 8"×10" can be filed in the
invoice size by folding once.
=Styles of Construction.= Two standard styles of construction are used
for vertical files, horizontal sections and upright sections or units.
The horizontal section is made one vertical file drawer high and either
two or three drawers wide. Upright units are one drawer wide, four
drawers high for letter and cap sizes, and five drawers high for the
invoice size.
The upright unit is the newer and preferred style of construction;
it is more substantial, and for either large or small filing systems
occupies less floor space. Upright units are put together as shown in
Fig. 28. Each section is built with skeleton ends, and at each end of
the cabinet--whether one or a dozen sections--end panels are used,
making one complete cabinet. The sections are locked together, and can
be separated at will. Fig. 29 shows three upright sections, in the
three standard sizes, joined together to make a complete cabinet. This
gives some indication of the possibilities offered by this style of
construction in building a cabinet to meet every requirement.
[Illustration: Fig. 29. Three Upright Sections in Standard Sizes
_Browne-Morse Co._]
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