Patents by Inventor Yaakov Kalisher

Yaakov Kalisher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6174120
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for affixing book pages to a book cover is disclosed having a sheet of paper with at least one waxy side and two stickers, each having a first side, the first side being sticky and removably affixed to the waxy side of the sheet of paper. In the preferred embodiment, the two stickers are separated by a distance to accommodate the thickness of pages of a book. The apparatus also has a means for easy removal of the stickers from said sheet and is preferably done by having the sheet of paper extending beyond each of the stickers to allow for easy separation of the stickers from the sheet of paper. The stickers may be attached to the book pages by a variety of means such as staples, channel binding, or otherwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Inventor: Yaakov Kalisher
  • Patent number: 5524932
    Abstract: A method of making a personalized children's storybook using preprinted books with textually blank areas on various ones of their pages, and adhering transparent stickers with personalized text thereon to the textually blank page areas to create a personalized story line in the book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Inventor: Yaakov Kalisher
  • Patent number: 5213461
    Abstract: The disclosed method relates generally to the creation of books or documents and, more particularly, to a process for rapidly generating personalized books while a purchaser waits. In carrying out the method of the present invention, a series of steps is performed that includes loading a program having a predetermined story stored therein into a computer, entering personalized data into the computer to create a personalized story therefrom, feeding into a printing device a set of sheets having a first and second side, printing the personalized story on one of the sides of the sheets, separating the sheets transversely into pages, assembling the pages in a predetermined order and the fastening the assembled pages to a book jacket to form a personalized book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Inventor: Yaakov Kalisher