Patents by Inventor Larry A. Merchant

Larry A. Merchant 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: 4723861
    Abstract: In a bookbinding apparatus and method, a catalog is bound in book form and includes a back cover having a plurality of equidistantly-spaced openings extending therethrough adjacent an inner edge of the back cover, and a price list includes a substantially double or single width front cover having apertures extending through a free edge thereof and registerable with the openings of the catalog back cover. An elongated flexible strip is woven through the registered openings and apertures to bind the price list to the catalog. When the double or single width front cover is folded upon itself at a center fold thereof, it encompasses the remaining portions of the price list, which include bound pages in book form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Inventor: Larry A. Merchant