Book And Leaf Patents (Class 281/3.1)
  • Patent number: 11887426
    Abstract: A security management apparatus includes a receiver, a printer, and a notifier. The receiver acquires, at an entrance of a facility, information about a visitor to a visiting destination of the facility. The information includes a stay permitted time at the visiting destination and at least one of an attribute, relation information, or a visiting purpose. The printer generates a portable medium that includes the information and the stay permitted time and records an image allowing distinguishing of content of the information. The notifier is configured to receive the stay permitted time from one or more readers disposed at the facility and is configured to read the stay permitted time from the portable medium in a noncontact manner. The notifier, in response to the stay permitted time being elapsed, warns the visitor who passes a disposition position of the one or more readers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiki Kogiso
  • Patent number: 11618274
    Abstract: A brochure is made by folding a single sheet of paper along a plurality of parallel longitudinal fold lines to make an interim piece. The interim piece is conveyed in the direction of the longitudinal fold lines, and folded in a right-angle direction transverse to the first direction, along transverse fold lines perpendicular to the longitudinal fold lines. A pouch is placed inside of the interim piece without adhesive, as the interim piece is folded, and the interim piece is sealed to complete the brochure. The pouch is preferably placed over one of the transverse fold lines. A label can be applied to the brochure if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: The Challenge Printing Company
    Inventor: Kevin Thies
  • Patent number: 11077696
    Abstract: Binding folder for binding a bundle of leaves, whereby this binding folder comprises a cover with a spine and two endpapers. In the spine a U-shaped profile from heat-conductive material is applied. The U-shaped profile comprises a base and upright arms. In the U-shaped profile a binding adhesive in the form of a hotmelt adhesive is applied. The U-shaped profile in the spine is applied by an assembly adhesive between the upright arms of the U-shaped profile and the spine of the cover. The assembly adhesive extends beyond the free edges of the upright arms and over these free edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: UNIBIND LIMITED
    Inventor: Guido Frans M. Peleman
  • Patent number: 9033370
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer information page (1) for a security document, which includes an information part (3) manufactured from a material allowing at least some identification information of the information page to be entered thereto by utilizing laser engraving, the identification information provided on the information page (1) being readable from an upper surface thereof, and a flexible and bending resistant connecting part (2) for connecting the information page (1) to the security document, the connecting part (2) comprising a fastening end (8) by means of which the connecting part (2) is fastened to the information part (3). In order to ensure that detachment of the information part and the connecting part from one another leaves visible marks, the fastening end (3) of the connecting part (2) is arranged to overlap with a lower surface of the information part (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Setec Oy
    Inventors: Taru Syrjänen, Mika Holmberg
  • Patent number: 8858148
    Abstract: Binding equipment and false cover forming equipment for hardcover books are disclosed. The false cover forming equipment carries out false covers, by positioning a pair of endpapers in correspondence of lateral binding flaps of a respective backstrip, arranging folds of the endpapers at a pre-assembling distance associated with the thickness of the text block and gluing margins of past-down sheets of the endpapers with binding edges of the backstrip. The binding equipment is feedable, at a cover input “IC”, with the false covers for carrying out book blocks by gluing the backstrips of the false covers with the binding edges of corresponding text blocks and refolding the pairs of endpapers on the respective text blocks. An electronic processing unit is settable for the control of the false cover forming equipment and the binding equipment as a function of the dimensions of the hardcover book to be bound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Tecnau S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giuliano De Marco, Armando Aprato, Francesco Modica, Gianrico Scarton, Francesco Terrusi
  • Patent number: 8647008
    Abstract: A binding cover having a transparent overlay cover disposed over and around the spine of the binding is configured to provide a label pocket on the spine portion of the binding cover wherein a label may be inserted easily without tools or rigid label material. In several embodiments the label pocket provides a fixed label space. In another embodiment the label pocket opens along the spine when the binding cover is opened, and returns to a closed position when closed, thereby retaining a label inserted therein. In another embodiment a method for forming the label pocket is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Samsill Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Christian Bowers, John William Pigg, Jr., James Robert Schultz, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8616798
    Abstract: A cover (10) is disclosed for holding objects such as papers and reports. The cover (10) is formed of a member (20) having a front cover (22), a spine (24) and a back cover (26). A first portion (32) and a second portion (38) are folded over to encapsulate a prong fastener (12). The second portion (38) is then fastened to the back cover (26) with adhesive tape (58). The first and second portions (32, 38) can be part of a fastener assembly (70) having a third portion (72) that is secured to the inner surface (62) of the back cover (26). In a modification, a flap (128) can be hinged to the side of the back cover (126).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Lockhart Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory L. Lockhart, Eric S. Israel
  • Publication number: 20130334805
    Abstract: An extended content booklet label having a substrate, a folded booklet and overlaminate. The overlaminate is applied to secure the multi-up book to the substrate. The area between the booklet and the substrate is devoid of adhesive so that the substrate can conform to the shape of a container without interference from the booklet. The booklet is held closed against the substrate by the overlaminate which extends beyond the booklet to adhere to the substrate or the container. The overlaminate can pivot away from the container to an open position where the booklet can be unfolded to access all of the pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: MINIGRAPHICS, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen W. DeLise, JR.
  • Patent number: 8567822
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a luminous advertisement sheet. The luminous advertisement sheet includes a light-transmitting print sheet having an EL advertisement region formed in at least one area of the print sheet, and a general advertisement region formed in the other area thereof. The EL advertisement region has at least one of a fixed pattern portion in which a transparent electrode layer, an EL layer and a dielectric layer are sequentially laminated and a variable pattern portion in which a transparent electrode layer, an EL layer, a dielectric layer and a plurality of pixel electrode layers are sequentially laminated. The general advertisement region allows general dye printing to be performed therein. The luminous advertisement sheet further includes a pattern electrode layer laminated and printed with a conductive ink material to have a predetermined luminous pattern in at least one area of the dielectric layer laminated in the fixed pattern portion and/or the variable pattern portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials
    Inventors: Taik-Min Lee, Dong-Youn Shin, Chung-Hwan Kim, Jeong-Dai Jo, Dong-Soo Kim, Byung-Oh Choi
  • Patent number: 8550501
    Abstract: A wire-bound product using a double type laminated paper board and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The wire-bound product employs a structure in which inner paper sheets are turned over in the rightward and leftward directions on front plates of a frame, instead a structure in which a plurality of inner paper sheets is turned over toward the rear surface of a frame, thereby allowing a user to see both surfaces of the inner paper sheets. Further, rear plates of the frame are inserted into various positions of a spring to support the front plates, thereby allowing a standing angle of the front plates of the frame to be adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Inventors: Jun Gyu Pyeon, Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 8534707
    Abstract: An information page (1) of a security document, includes: an information part (3), on the upper or lower surface of which part of the information recorded on the information page (1) can be seen; and a flexible connecting part (2) with good bending strength for attaching the information page (1) to a security document. To ensure that detaching the information part and the connecting part from each other leaves visible marks, the connecting part (2) has a netlike structure, and the connecting part (2) is arranged to penetrate into the information part (3) in the immediate vicinity of the upper or lower surface of the information part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Setec Oy
    Inventors: Jari Herlin, Maila Korhonen, Teemu Pohjola, Taru Syrjänen, Mika Holmberg
  • Patent number: 8523234
    Abstract: A set of sheet dividers comprises a first plurality of sheet dividers, each divider comprising a sheet with a tab extending therefrom at a different location and for a first length along the same side as all other dividers in the first plurality; and a second plurality of sheet dividers, each divider comprising a sheet with a tab extending therefrom at a different location and for a second length along the same side as all other dividers in the second plurality, the second length being shorter than the first length, the second plurality being divided into subsets of dividers having their tabs adjacent one another and overlaid by the tab of a corresponding one of the first plurality of sheet dividers when the subset and corresponding one of the first plurality of sheet dividers are stacked together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: CCL Label, Inc.
    Inventors: Tara M. Green, Regina A. Reichert, Monica L. Brox, Ronald Ugolick
  • Patent number: 8517427
    Abstract: An information page (1) and method are provided for a security document. The information page includes: an information part (3), and an attachment part (2) for attaching the information part to the security document. In order to make forgery visually detectable, the information part (3) is provided with a unique identifier (5), and the attachment part (2, 2?) is provided with the same unique identifier (5) as the information part (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Setec Oy
    Inventors: Jari Herlin, Mika Holmberg, Maila Korhonen, Taru Syrjänen, Ari Vairola
  • Patent number: 8505977
    Abstract: A book of sleeve protected pages bound together to form a sleeve bundle cradled inside a receiving channel formed by a hardcover spine and longitudinal flanges extending from the spine and a method of binding thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Magen Hasefer Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoel Duparc
  • Patent number: 8480132
    Abstract: Provided is a book cover core body and a kit, which are used for manufacturing a book cover member which allows the original book to be finished easily, accurately, and neatly when an individual prepares an original book according to his taste without having to use an auxiliary tool such as a ruler and a stabbing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Kobayashi Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8444180
    Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Arbitron Inc.
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
  • Patent number: 8308194
    Abstract: A folding booklet is disclosed having a booklet cover and one or more of booklet pages in which are formed a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal fold lines defining a plurality of longitudinal panels and a plurality of transverse fold lines defining a plurality of transverse panels. The longitudinal panels can be folded along the longitudinal fold lines to overlay one another and the transverse panels can be folded along the transverse fold lines to overlay one another. The cover can then be folded along a booklet cover fold line to completely contain the folded booklet pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Inventor: Richard Wilen
  • Patent number: 8182189
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pro label book includes printing static indicia on a web of label material, applying an adhesive to each portion of the web of label material that will become a label page in a pro label book that is not the portion of the web of label material that will become a top page of a label book to be formed if the adhesive is applied to a top surface of the web of label material or a bottom page of a label book to be formed if the adhesive is applied to the bottom surface of the web of label material, printing variable information on the web of label material, sheeting the web of label material to form label pages, and batching the label pages together utilizing the applied adhesive. Certain embodiments include attaching one of a backer or a cover to the web of label material following the printing static indicia step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.
    Inventors: F. Paul Valenti, Jr., Carl Opel, John Cammarata, Tom Hogan, Daniel Hedger
  • Publication number: 20110175342
    Abstract: An inside leaflet of a book is provided which is bond-bound with pages of the book to provide an advertisement. The inside leaflet includes an advertisement printed part and a binding part. Catchphrases or illustrations for advertisement are printed on at least one side of the advertisement printed part. The binding part is configured to be bound with the pages along an edge of the inside leaflet such that the binding part has less binding portions than those of the pages in order to leave no traces or marks when the inside leaflet is detached from the book. Accordingly, since the inside leaflet is able to be bound to pages of various kinds of books and easily removed from the books without leaving any traces or marks in the books, the inside leaflet contributes to extension of the application range of advertisements and improvement of advertisement efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Sang-Mok LEE, Sin-Ho Lee, Byeong-Ho Seong
  • Publication number: 20110101666
    Abstract: Provided is a booklet including: a plurality of leaves 2; a spine 4 that couples bound edges of the leaves 2 via a flexible glue layer 3; and a front cover 5 and a back cover 6 each having at least an entire area of a surface portion continuing to an entire area of a surface portion of the spine 4, wherein a flexural strength of the spine 4 backed by the glue layer 3 is set such that the spine 4 is flexibly deformed inwardly at a near acute angle together with the bound edges of the leaves 2 when center pages of the leaves 2 are spread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Tetsurou Tamaki, Takaaki Kiyose, Akira Tanaka, Takashi Oda
  • Patent number: 7883115
    Abstract: A multi-page printed medium features an advertising insert and includes a first printed page and a second printed page, and an insert located between the first and second pages. The insert includes a sheet having a fold separating a first panel and a second panel with a bending memory along the fold. A portion of a first adhesive is applied between the first panel and the first page and a second portion of adhesive is applied between the second panel and the second page. The second portion of adhesive has lesser adhesion than the first portion of adhesive such that when the second printed page is moved away from the first printed page the second page separates from the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Inventor: Richard Ignatius Keefe
  • Patent number: 7793986
    Abstract: An improved structure for book cover includes a cover layer, a left positioning plate and a right positioning plate, wherein the left and the right positioning plates are disposed above the cover layer and the edges of the cover layer can be folded inwardly for being adhered or stitched at the edges of the left and the right positioning plates, and the left and the right positioning plates respectively have a protruded left binding portion and a protruded right binding portion which both have plural holes corresponding to each other for fixing loose leaf papers between the left and the right positioning plates directly by a spiral so as to form a book. Through the improved structure of book cover in the present invention, the manufacturing process can be simplified and the cost of labor and material can be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: C. & T. Enterprises Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chiu-Lieh Liang
  • Patent number: 7703808
    Abstract: An expandable business card is described that includes a first foldable page and a second foldable page. The first foldable page has a detachable business card. The second foldable page is connected to a booklet. The first page and second page are interconnected and slidingly engaged. When in a first folded position, the booklet is concealed within the perimeter of the expandable business card. When the expandable business card is opened in the second position, the booklet can expand to a predetermined size to provide an additional area for promotional information. The first page includes a projection that is not visible in the first folded position but then extends for viewing in the second open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Inventor: Richard Wilen
  • Patent number: 7654575
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include personalized books as well as methods and kits for providing personalized books. One method includes: providing an adult with a list of interview information to be obtained from a child; providing the adult with a list of particular drawings to be obtained from the child; obtaining the interview information from the child in the form of a number of personal comments provided by the child; obtaining a number of drawings from the list of particular drawings, the number of drawings independently created by the child at the direction of the adult; and creating a personalized book by combining the obtained number of drawings created by the child and the obtained number of personal comments in a particular arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: I See Me! Inc.
    Inventor: Maia B. Haag
  • Publication number: 20080238079
    Abstract: A memory book or diary intended for recording pleasant memories for sharing in the future. This book may include dedications, suggestions, encouragement, guidance, advice, and storage pouches to promote and support relationships. The book may also include clinical or problem solving tools or techniques to improve a relationship. The book is for immortalizing pleasant memories, sentiments, events, gifts exchanged or memories shared. The book can be shared by partners, siblings, parents, pet owners, and are ideally suited to document the beginning of relationships, marriages, pet owners or parenthood. The book can be shared in the future to relive the memories captured in the book.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventor: Ricardo J. Whyte
  • Patent number: 7029034
    Abstract: A calendar is provided for behavior modification as well as a method for using the same. The calendar has calendar sheets and informational sheets. The calendar has objectives sections, data collection sections, analysis sections, non-date pages and/or detachable pages for use by an individual. The calendar may be customized and/or pre-designed for an individual or by the individual. In use, the behavior information may be recorded on the calendar sheet. Information associated with daily, weekly, and/or monthly behavior may be recorded. The information may include weekly and/or monthly averages and/or summations, delta calculations, and/or minimum/maximum data. The calendar may be adapted to measure or track indicators, such as, for example, developmental progress, caloric intake, amount and type of exercise, amount of fat, sodium or sugar, amount of cigarettes smoked, blood pressure measurements, weight gain or the like. A bottom space may also be provided to record monthly goals and/or objectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Inventor: Patricia M. Newell
  • Patent number: 6951352
    Abstract: Included is a flap board book having at least one page constructed of a first piece of grayback board and a second piece of grayback board wherein each piece of grayback board has a front and a back side. Each front side includes a coating adapted to accept printing. The first piece of grayback board includes a rotateably attached section positioned to allow viewing of a portion of the backside of the first piece of the grayback board and a portion of the backside of the second piece of grayback board. The portion of the backside of the first piece of the grayback board and the portion of the backside of the second piece of the grayback board includes a flashing adapted to accept printing ink. In this invention, only the portion of the back of each grayback board piece has been flashed, or treated. This treatment enables these portions, and only these portions on the flashed side of each piece, to properly accept printing ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: The Clever Factory, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew M. Hyde
  • Patent number: 6938931
    Abstract: An organizer for take-out menus comprises a plastic folder of a size conveniently held in one hand and stored in a kitchen drawer or like area. The folder is made of multiple layers that provide pockets for permanent insert cards that stiffen the folder and, optionally, provide decorative and/or informational data, and pockets for receiving take-out menus of various sizes and configurations in a manner that displays such menus for quick identification, retrieval, reference and return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Tablecraft Products Company
    Inventor: Glenn Davis
  • Patent number: 6865837
    Abstract: An album page for displaying articles, such as photographs, includes an intermediate, preferably opaque, sheet and a pair of outer sheets made from a transparent plastic material. Die cuts are provided in the immediate sheet at a plurality of locations, and the two outer sheets are adhered to one another at the locations defined by the die cuts. The preferred album page does not use adhesives to bond either outer sheet to the intermediate sheet, and the die cut/seal areas are arranged to permit display of rectangular objects in either horizontal or vertical positions. The invention features an arrangement, which insures that horizontally displayed objects are supported on both sides of the bottom edge thereof to enhance the overall aesthetics of the filled page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Intercraft Company
    Inventors: Paul Raymond Matteau, John P. Jordan, Paul Mylander
  • Patent number: 6843505
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly of calendar sheets in a book, ring binder or the like wherein the sheets are kept together by means of a holder; and wherein two consecutive calendar sheets are displayed to each their side of the holder during referencing. The particular feature of the assembly of sheets constitutes in that each sheet has a front and opposite this a back that is, along a hinge line via a connecting element, pivotally connected to the holder whereby each sheet can be shifted from a plane position at the one side of the holder to a plane position at the other side of the holder during the pivoting movement of the connecting element about the hinge line and the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Special Creation APS
    Inventor: Hans Eriksen
  • Patent number: 6752427
    Abstract: A folding booklet is disclosed having a booklet cover and one or more of booklet pages in which are formed a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal fold lines defining a plurality of longitudinal panels and a plurality of transverse fold lines defining a plurality of transverse panels. The longitudinal panels can be folded along the longitudinal fold lines to overlay one another and the transverse panels can be folded along the transverse fold lines to overlay one another. The cover can then be folded along a booklet cover fold line to completely contain the folded booklet pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Inventor: Richard Wilen
  • Patent number: 6749229
    Abstract: A promotional card including a base card defining front and rear surfaces with at least one of the surfaces having indicia thereon and a token attached to at least one of the surfaces of the base card. In one example, the token is an informational booklet that is removably attached to the base card. An overlaminate is disposed over at least a portion of the informational booklet, the overlaminate includes at least one weakened region between the informational booklet and at least one of the top and bottom edges of the base card. The informational booklet is attached to at least one of the surfaces of the base card and contains at least one non-adhered edge and at least one adhered edge with the adhered edge being the leading edge for feeding the promotional card into a high speed processing machine that will feed the promotional card into a multi-page article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Rock Ridge Technologies, Co.
    Inventor: Michael R. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 6742809
    Abstract: A photo album is disclosed, made from a unitary strip of image bearing media having images printed in a pre-determined sequence. A plurality of pages is formed by folding the image media strip between the images into accordion folds and adhering the folds together so that each pair of the images forms two sides of a page. The photo album may have reinforced front and rear photo album covers. A binding holds the pages together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Peter A. Frosig, Joseph A. Manico
  • Patent number: 6688648
    Abstract: An assembly of a carrier and an information storage unit for attachment to a publication. The assembly includes a support panel and a cover secured thereto and forming a pouch for receipt of a storage unit therein. The assembly is adapted for securement in a publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Form House, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren McKinney, Gary White, Steve Pasek
  • Patent number: 6685226
    Abstract: An assembly of a carrier and an information storage unit for attachment to a publication. The assembly includes a support panel and a cover secured thereto and forming a pouch for receipt of a storage unit therein. The assembly is adapted for securement in a publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: The Form House, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren McKinney, Gary White, Steve Pasek
  • Patent number: 6511097
    Abstract: A booklet is provided which is easily formed in the in-line finishing process part of a web printing press operation having a plurality of sheets or layers, each sheet or layer having multiple removable portions positioned about a central portion used to attach the layers or sheets to one another. The removable portions of the booklet are particularly useful as coupons, advertising material or the like. The booklet may be attached to a newspaper, magazine, catalog or the like by extending the outer edge of one of the removable portions so such outer edge can be attached to the newspaper, magazine, or the like. The booklet may also be removable from the newspaper, magazine, catalog or the like by placing perforations between the attachable extension and the outer removable portion. Also provided is a method of making the inventive booklet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Sleepeck Printing Company
    Inventor: Ake L. Dahlquist
  • Patent number: 6454307
    Abstract: An accordion-folded page book with a binding which compresses the pages of the book but is not permanently fastened in one location, thereby allowing the binding to be moved from one position which allows access to one set of pages, to a second position which allows access to a second set of pages; whereby sliding the binding and flipping the book over enables the user to have access to the opposite sides of the pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Innovative USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Polick
  • Patent number: 6419275
    Abstract: An instruction leaflet made of paper comprising a box which contains this instruction leaflet together with the packaging and a content is provided along with a method of making same. The invention relates to an instruction leaflet for pharmaceutical products or similar comprising at least two superposed sheets joined on one of their edges, the instruction leaflet comprising at least one thinning line allowing the division of the originally single instruction leaflet into at least two distinct parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Rotanotice
    Inventor: Stéphane Huault
  • Patent number: 6286752
    Abstract: A folder for papers (S), comprising a cover (1) and a base (2) operatively joined together by a back (3), wherein the back (3) is adjustable in width (y) to accommodate a height of a stack of papers, wherein the back (3) extends on a base side into a tongue (4} said tongue being insertable and movable in a pocket (5), said tongue constituting an insertable tongue said pocket_being joined to the base (2), and movement of the insertable tongue (4) in the pocket (5) being limited by a stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Mappei-Organisationsmittel GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Heyer
  • Patent number: 6276887
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the manufacture of board books including the folding of sheets into a four-page spread at a folding machine with each sheet having a pair of folds facing in one direction and a reverse integral fold facing in the opposite direction. At the folding machine, the second and third pages of the spread are adhered together to form an integral, four-page spread. These four-page spreads are placed into the feeding hoppers of a board book bindery line and adhesive is applied to one of the pages as the four-page spread is delivered to the conveyor. The integral four-page spreads, and any other spreads on the conveyor, are adhered to form a book block and a cover is added to complete the board book. The resulting board book has the pair of fold lines located at the book backbone and the integral reverse fold line is at the outer edge of the central page of the respective, four-page spreads in the board books.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company
    Inventor: Dennis Ray Hughes
  • Patent number: 6273471
    Abstract: The invention concerns a book structure which includes, assembled under one cover, a certain number of bound pages, some of which at least include leaflets with the dimensions exceeding those of the cover, with the external part of each section glued to corresponding adjacent leaflets and having, relative to the reading direction, at least one vertical folding line coinciding with the straight line of the book back to define the adjacent surfaces, and at least a horizontal folding line for covering the external element of the overlap of the lower and/or upper part of the coverings surface of the book cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignees: Zanardi Editoriale S.p.A., Gallimard Jeunesse
    Inventor: Rodolfo Zanardi
  • Patent number: 6186555
    Abstract: A shelf talker sheet includes a plurality of labels arranged head-to-head in a common sheet along a separation line. Each label has printing thereon inverted on opposite sides of the separation line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy W. Rawlings
  • Patent number: 6179336
    Abstract: A pocket containing business form, an intermediate for producing the form, and method of producing the business form, provide optimum securement of the panels of the form together with adhesive by providing the adhesive at and along the side edges rather than merely adjacent the side edges. The form may be produced from a web or sheet by moving it in a first direction, applying adhesive patterns (preferably pressure activated cohesive) to the web or sheet along the first direction adjacent but spaced from first and second side edges and at and along a plurality of centerlines between the side edges, and slitting or cutting the web or sheet along the first direction at the adhesive patterns so that adhesive is provided on both sides of each cut or slit, to provide a plurality of forms (e.g. four forms) with form side edges having adhesive at and along the form side edges. If in a web configuration the web is ultimately formed into a sheet, and the sheet is folded (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Moore North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne C. Peterson
  • Patent number: 6179335
    Abstract: A two part identifying and instructional booklet having a label part and a booklet part. The front of the label has a small unvarnished region. The booklet is folded and glued closed with the free edges secured interiorly. An adhesive is printed onto the unvarnished region of the label and the folded booklet is adhered to the unvarnished region. The booklet has a tab portion to facilitate opening of the book during use. The tab portion faces the identifying portion of the label which extends longitudinally outwardly from the unvarnished region. The label may be placed onto a cylindrical container and bent in the longitudinal direction whereby the spine and folds of the booklet remain straight, flat and parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Minigraphics, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen W. DeLise, Jr.