Preceded By Rectilinear Travel Patents (Class 402/30)
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Patent number: 9102188Abstract: A ring binder mechanism has an elongate housing, a pair of locking elements, a translation bar, a pair of elongate hinge plates having mating ring halves extending there-from, a plurality of mating ring halves, and an actuator. Movement of the actuator moves the hinge plates, translation bar, and locking elements to cause the ring halves to disengage so a user can place holed paper over the open ring halves, or closes the ring halves together to secure the paper with the closed-loop rings thus form while simultaneously locking the rings in the closed-loop configuration to prevent inadvertent opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Inventor: Wing Sun Wong
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Patent number: 8801317Abstract: A ring binder mechanism includes a housing, a ring support, and rings for holding loose-leaf pages. Each ring includes a first ring member and a second ring member that are moveable between a closed position and an opened position. An actuator is mounted on the housing for moving the ring members from the closed position to the opened position. A travel bar has at least one locking element and is moveable between a locked position wherein the ring members are locked in the closed position and an unlocked position wherein the ring members are capable of being moved to the opened position. An intermediate connector operably connects the travel bar to the actuator. A portion of the intermediate connector is captured by and moveable with a wide section of a mounting groove in the travel bar so the intermediate connector can move relative to the travel bar.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: World Wide Stationary Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jn Biao Pi, Chun Yuen To
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Patent number: 8545123Abstract: A ring binder, with a fixed bar (1), bearing hooks (2) and a moving bar (3), wherein the fixed bar (1) is immovably fixed on a spine plate of a folder; the bearing hooks (2) are fixed on the upper surface of the fixed bar (1); the moving bar (3) is movably lapped over one side of the fixed bar (1); the lower surface of the moving bar (3) and the lower surface of the fixed bar (1) are clamped and connected with each other; the moving bar (3) can rotate relative to the fixed bar (1) and slide along the length direction of the fixed bar (1); a spring (4) connected between the moving bar (3) and the fixed bar (1); and moving shackles (5) fixed on the upper surface of the moving bar (3). As the ring binder lacks a base plate, a housing, etc., both the opening and the closing of the binder are convenient and the cost of the ring binder is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Dongguan Huang Jiang New Original Stationery FactoryInventor: Chunhai Lin
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Patent number: 8517624Abstract: Binder apparatus are described. An example binder apparatus includes a housing and a first carrier rail having a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge. The first carrier rail defining a notch adjacent the second longitudinal edge. The housing biasing the first carrier rail by engaging the first longitudinal edge. The binder apparatus includes a second carrier rail having a third longitudinal edge and a fourth longitudinal edge. The housing biasing the second carrier rail by engaging the third longitudinal edge. The second longitudinal edge hingably engaging the fourth longitudinal edge, the notch defining an opening having a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. The binder includes a slider having a control element extending therefrom. The control element comprising a first control surface and a second control surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: R.R. Donnelly & SonsInventor: James Warmus
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Patent number: 8480326Abstract: A ring binder mechanism has an elongate housing, a pair of locking elements, a translation bar, a pair of elongate hinge plates having mating ring halves extending there-from, a plurality of mating ring halves, and an actuator. Movement of the actuator moves the hinge plates, translation bar, and locking elements to cause the ring halves to disengage so a user can place holed paper over the open ring halves, or closes the ring halves together to secure the paper with the closed-loop rings thus form while simultaneously locking the rings in the closed-loop configuration to prevent inadvertent opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Inventor: Wing Sun Wong
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Publication number: 20120288322Abstract: [Object] To provide a binding device having binding rods easily opened and closed for easy leaf replacement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: Lihit Lab, Inc.Inventors: Kanji Tanaka, Yoshiteru Arimoto, Hiroyuki Yamashita
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Patent number: 8118513Abstract: A binder lock mechanism includes a manually adjustable locking bar and co-operative locking-hook parts. Pair-wise mutually overlappable locking-hook parts are connected with and project from a respective binder end half, and are situated at mutual distances from each other. The binder end halves are connected by an intermediate pivot joint. The pair-wise mutually overlappable locking-hook parts present openings adapted to receive a respective lock lever connected with the locking bar and have a respective lock lever permanently received on a common binder end half in a mating opening in an assembled state. The lock levers are arranged at a tip portion and at a waved part, respectively, of the locking bar in such a way that they are situated on a common line through the bar, which is retained by a counter-directed resilient tongue situated on the locking bar and a stopper and co-operatable counter-stoppers situated on the binder end.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Keba Sweden ABInventor: Tore Haraldsson
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Publication number: 20110318086Abstract: Binder apparatus are described. An example binder apparatus includes a housing, a first support rail positioned within the housing and a second support rail positioned within the housing. The binder apparatus also includes first and second closure members coupled to the respective support rails. The closure members are positioned on the respective support rails to enable locking elements of the closure members to interlock when the binder apparatus is in a closed position. The binder apparatus also includes a lever comprising tabs that are received by recesses defined by the support rails. An interaction between the tabs and the support rails enables the support rails to be moved relative to one another and the locking elements to be moved to an unlocked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventor: Hans Johann Horn
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Patent number: 8047737Abstract: A ring binder mechanism includes a housing, a ring support, and rings for holding loose-leaf pages. Each ring includes a first ring member and a second ring member that are moveable between a closed position and an opened position. An actuator is mounted on the housing for moving the ring members from the closed position to the opened position. A travel bar has at least one locking element and is moveable between a locked position wherein the ring members are locked in the closed position and an unlocked position wherein the ring members are capable of being moved to the opened position. An intermediate connector operably connects the travel bar to the actuator. A biasing member is engageable with the intermediate connector and at least one of the travel bar and actuator for biasing the travel bar toward the locked position.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: World Wide Stationery Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jn Biao Pi, Chun Yuen To, Ze Yu Zhang
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Patent number: 6062760Abstract: A modular binder ring unit (16) used in a ring binder (10) comprises a plurality of modules including a binder ring module (18). The modules are spaced along the length of the unit. A plurality of spacer modules (22, 24, 30) attach to the ring modules. The spacer modules are available in different lengths, and a combination of different length modules are usable together with the ring modules to form a binder ring unit of a desired length. The spacer modules space the ring modules an appropriate distance apart for the binder rings to be at locations corresponding to holes (H) in a sheet of paper (S) stored in the binder. End caps (26) are removably attachable at each end of said unit for locking the ring modules and spacer modules in place. Each module element is an elongate module having a recess (R) formed in one end and an extension (E) at the opposite end for securing one module to an adjacent module.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1998Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Assignee: U.S. Ring Binder Corp.Inventor: Paul Whaley
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Patent number: 4930925Abstract: The invention is a notebook having a cover and a selectively openable and closable binder mechanism which can support a plurality of pre-punched, loose-leaf sheets.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1989Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Strategic Financial Communications Corp.Inventors: Judith A. M. Baldwin, Stephen Selwyn
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Patent number: 4820073Abstract: A cartridge for binding multi-page documents comprises a center member and a pair of side members pivotally connected to the center member. In the closed operative configuration, the side and center members cooperate to form a U-shaped channel for receiving the documents. Pins extending between and supported by the side members enter aligned holes in the documents for suspending them. The side members are provided with a lock for releasably locking the cartridge in the closed configuration. The lock comprises a first tab on one side member having an opening therein and a second tab on the other side member having a protrusion. The two tabs cooperate such that the second tab protrusion releaseably engages the first tab opening when the cartridge is in the closed configuration. The cartridge may be made with a T-shaped bar or a center hook suspension system.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1988Date of Patent: April 11, 1989Assignee: Tab Products CompanyInventors: Kent Thomas, Daniel R. Bullis, Jr., Thomas J. Bottelson
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Patent number: 4815882Abstract: A turnable type binder assembly including a fixed base plate provided with a fixed binding rod and a turnable base plate provided with a turnable binding rod, said turnable plate being turnable with respect to said fixed plate, wherein said turnable plate is slightly movable along the axis, around which it is turnable, under the action of a spring.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1987Date of Patent: March 28, 1989Assignee: King Jim Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kiyoshi Ohminato
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Patent number: 4765768Abstract: The ring binding mechanism includes one or more partial rings which are slidably mounted in arcuate tracks in a base plate member for rotational movement between a loading position wherein an opening between the ends of the rings is accessible to install or remove sheets of paper or the like and a loaded position wherein the opening is located beneath the surface of the base plate member. The tracks, base plate member and rings include parts which cooperate to releasably lock the rings in the loaded position. In one embodiment, the ring binding mechanism is installed on a one-piece cover including a spine section defined between laterally spaced hinged sections. The spine section is either mounted directly on the base plate member or sandwiched between the base plate member and a back plate member which are secured together with snap-in fingers. The binder can be transported in an unassembled condition and assembled at the point of use by the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1987Date of Patent: August 23, 1988Inventor: John S. Wright
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Patent number: 4349289Abstract: An arrangement is provided for retaining loose sheets of paper. A pair of sheet retaining components, each having a plurality of half loops, are hingedly held together by wire clips. An actuator is interposed between the sheet retaining components. The actuator is provided with inclined slots which, when the actuator is displaced, engage and move the clips causing one sheet retaining component to move with respect to the other to unlock the engaged ends of the respective half loops. Once unlocked, the sheet retaining components can be hinged apart to permit removal and/or addition of loose leaf paper.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1980Date of Patent: September 14, 1982Inventor: Vincenzo E. Cardellini
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Patent number: 4056326Abstract: A stiff plastic sheet is heat-scored on spaced parallel lines to form front and rear binder covers hinged at the score lines to a wide backbone. Two post-mounting units formed of similar plastic sheet material have a base strip along one edge and a post-supporting strip along the other edge, connected by a web which is heat-scored so as to flex at two-spaced flex lines and which is cut away at spaced areas to leave a series of straps between the strips so that together they are more flexible than the cover hinges. The base strips are ultrasonically welded to the covers along the inner edges of the covers so as to hold the post-supporting strips for swinging movement about the flex lines which are spaced outward from the hinge lines between the covers and the backbone.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1975Date of Patent: November 1, 1977Assignee: Crawford Industries, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth Z. Crawford
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Patent number: RE34593Abstract: The invention is a notebook having a cover and a selectively openable and closable binder mechanism which can support a plurality of pre-punched, loose-leaf sheets.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1992Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: Strategic Financial Communications Corp.Inventors: Judith A. Moncrieff Baldwin, Steven Selwyn