Abstract: A novel inexpensive but durable book cover is provided which enables hard cover books to be provided at a substantially decreased cost with respect to conventional hard cover books. The binder comprises cover members comprising overlying panels which are joined to provide pockets in which may be received the cover of a paperback book and a spine hinged to the cover members through fold lines. The interiors of the pockets are embossed to aid in the insertion of the paperback book covers.

Abstract: A new page type holder adapted to store, e.g., computer disks. A finished page of the disk holder is generated from a single oversize piece of paper in order to provide a desired finished size page with at least one disk pocket on both the front and back face thereof. The disk pockets on the page are established by the overlying relation of the oversize unfolded page's top edge or bottom edge portions in combination with a binding element that (a) holds all finished pages and covers together one with the other in book configuration, and (b) holds each folded page together to define one side edge of the pockets on that page. The other side edge of the pockets, and the bottom edges of the pockets, on the finished page are defined by the folded configuration of the oversize unfolded page when it is in the finished page form.

Abstract: A protective book cover includes a pair of pocket sections for removably receiving the front and back covers of a book with the open ends of the pocket sections disposed toward each other. The pocket sections fit snugly on the book cover juxtaposed the book binding. The flap on one section is inserted into the other section while the flap on the other section secures both sections together.

Abstract: A binding system is disclosed wherein a relatively narrow strip of heavy paper or the like is provided with a section having a heat sealing adhesive. Papers to be bound are placed against the heat sealable adhesive which is heated to activate the adhesive and is cooled. Various embodiments include side mounted, top mounted, hanging, and computer print out binders.

Abstract: This invention in general relates to improvements in telephone directory binders for telephone books used in public telephone facilities and like books, where the books and binders are subjected to hard use and often are the target of vandalism and theft; and to improvements in lanyards for hanging the binders, the securing thereof in the binders, and improved wall mounting members to secure the opposite ends of the lanyards on a wall or other surface, e.g., adjacent the public telephone.

Abstract: One piece, molded, looseleaf books having a plastic spine and front and rear, plastic cover panels integrally molded with the spine and hingedly connected to the spine by living, plastic hinges, said spine having on its inner face a plurality of tubular posts on which a snap-ring binder is mounted and is secured thereon by drive or clinch rivets pressed into the tubular posts.

Abstract: Binders for telephone directories subjected to hard use, vandalism and theft, as in public telephone facilities and the like, and having a front cover panel, a rear cover panel, and a spine along whose opposite longitudinal edges the front and rear cover panels respectively are hingedly connected by living hinges, a thin metal member with oppositely extending wings adapted to lie between and against the bound edges of the pages of the directory and a thin-edged tongue adapted to penetrate the bound edges of said pages and project through a slot in the spine, a hole through the spine-projecting part of said tongue, and ring means coacting with said hole and said spine for locking said tongue and said wings in book-securing position to prevent removal of said telephone directory from said binder, said spine preferably having a thick segment with a transverse passage aligned with the hole in said tongue, and said ring means being passed through said passage and said hole to secure said metal member on said spine

Abstract: A book holder for enclosing and holding books, said book holder having a pair of cover panels, a back panel hingedly connected between said cover panels, book holding means on the cover panels, and a transverse spring element mounted in and across said cover and back panels, the spring element being normally extended in a generally straight line and in a generally common plane to support the book holder and a book held therein, in substantially flat, open position. The spring element is resiliently bendable transversely of its length to close the book holder and book held therein. A book holding strap is transversely disposed across the book holder, extending across a book held therein when the book holder and book are both in open position, said strap extending around the book holder when the latter and the book contained therein are in closed position.