Sheet Patents (Class 402/79)
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Patent number: 6736428Abstract: A method of systematizing a process for a user, in which the process has steps. Each step has a corresponding tab. The user sequentially performs the steps of the process in a sequence defined by an order of tabs. One step is linked to a subsequent step. Performing the step will affect the subsequent step.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2002Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Inventor: Anthony F. Insalaco
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Patent number: 6694650Abstract: An apparatus for displaying and/or dispensing paper and like objects, such as artwork, photographs, sports cards, brochures and business cards whether such objects are made of paper, plastic or a like medium. The apparatus comprises a backer panel that serves as a background and support for a pocket panel. The pocket panel has a pocket or pockets formed between a front sheet and a back sheet. The pocket panel is attached to the backer panel by suitable means such as an adhesive, heat sealing, hook-and-loop fastening, double-sided tape or the like. The backer panel is made from a rigid or flexible, colored or translucent material of a suitable composition and may be decorated or have a texture suitable for receiving markings or captions. The pocket panel may be made from a transparent or translucent material so that a paper or like object contained within a pocket in the pocket panel is visible from outside the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2001Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Inventor: Sandra Guy Brown
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Patent number: 6672785Abstract: An insert for being coupled to coil, the insert comprising a piece of sheet-like material having an inner edge and a plurality of wings. Each wing has a central stem extending outwardly from the inner edge and a pair of tip portions located on opposed sides of the central stem. Each tip portion extends inwardly toward the inner edge to define a coil receiving portion located between the stem and the associated tip portion. Each coil receiving portion is shaped and located to receive a turn of the coil therein to couple the insert to the coil.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2000Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: MeadWestvaco CorporationInventors: Kate M. O'Hara, Bobby G. James, Jr.
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Patent number: 6666610Abstract: A folder for receiving papers including a first side panel including a recess formed in an edge thereof, and a first lower panel facing the side panel. The first side panel and the first lower panel are joined to form a pocket therebetween, and the recess is located adjacent an open end of the pocket to enable the pocket to expand without tearing the first side panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: MeadWestvaco CorporationInventors: Marc L. Moor, Thomas DeBlasis
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Patent number: 6659508Abstract: A security document, banknote, bond, travellers check, passport or token, including a substrate (1), said substrate having a device including a first macro-embossing (2, 3) of the substrate having a predetermined feature, and a second micro-embossing of smaller dimensions formed in or on said predetermined feature of said embossing. The first embossing being formed to hide and reveal said second embossing at predetermined viewing angles &agr;, &bgr;. The macro-embossing may comprise lines having a height of about 20 microns and a spacing of 80 microns, and the micro-embossing in the form of lines or dots (4) to a height of about 2 to 5 microns. The lines have a predetermined height (H) and a predetermined spacing (S) such that the ratio S:H is typically from about 6:1 to 2:1.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Note Printing Australia LimitedInventors: Joshua Robert Nemeth, Wayne Kevin Jackson
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Patent number: 6660119Abstract: A method of making a laminated scrapbook page including providing a filler sheet which is adapted to be folded and laminated to provide the scrapbook page, providing one or more visual images on at least one medium, providing indicia associated with the filler sheet to be able to receive the visual image(s), folding such indicia provided filler sheet, laminating the indicia provided folded filler sheet and mounting the visual images in such indicia of the filler sheet to provide the page of the scrapbook, and laminating the scrapbook page formed in step d).Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Loretta E. Allen, Dale F. McIntyre, Joseph A. Manico
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Publication number: 20030223804Abstract: A removable insert adapted for use with a spiral or other ring-type binder includes a thin body member, a hooking element connected to, or integral with, the body member which defines a longitudinally extending recess configured to receive at least a first page retaining member, and a fastener connected to, or integral with, the body member configured to detachably secure the body member to a second page retaining member. The hooking element includes a journal bearing about which the first page retaining member may be rotated. The fastener includes a constricted channel adjacent to the edge of the insert and an enlarged portion disposed inwardly from the edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2002Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventor: Robert John Roca
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Patent number: 6652178Abstract: The Small Card Organizer, or simply “Organizer”, is an accessory that fits into a notebook binder and enables users to organize and transport card materials, especially educational flashcards. The Organizer is typically composed of a substrate (such as a three-ring binder insert sheet) to which is mounted a number of miniature-sized pouches called carriers. The carriers, enclosed on the bottom, front, side and back, provide a single opening through their top for inserting flashcards, but also for business cards, index cards, and photographs. To keep card materials from falling out through the carriers' openings, retaining members are also provided with the Organizer. Retaining members, most commonly resembling flaps, are fixed in place to the substrate or carriers.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Inventor: Michael G. Walton
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Patent number: 6648374Abstract: A folder, binder or book includes envelope pages with slits in the outer edges thereof so that the tabs of tabbed index cards, sized to fit snugly in the envelope pages can retain their tabs extending out through the slits. The index cards have cut off inner corners to allow easy insertion and removal.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2001Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Itoya of America, Ltd.Inventor: Shun Takemura
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Patent number: 6644697Abstract: The invention is an integrated shopping list and coupon folder, formed from a single shopping list sheet. Major food and non-food category listings are provided on the shopping list sheet, as well as blank lines for listing individual items, sizes, brands, and the like. Coupon reminders are also located proximate to each blank line. A bottom tacky strip is located across the bottom edge of the shopping list sheet, and two side tacky strips are located at opposing side edges of shopping list sheet. To convert the shopping list sheet into an integrated shopping list and coupon folder, the completed shopping list sheet is peeled from a pad of such sheets and folded along a central fold line, such that the bottom tacky strip seals against itself and the side tacky strips seal against each other. The integrated shopping list and coupon folder is thus formed.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Inventor: Adriane Maria Schinella
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Patent number: 6632042Abstract: In addition to a set of dividers having staggered tabs and binder holes, the retail packaging includes a sheet protector pocket having a front sheet and a back sheet and binder holes. The user removes the dividers and pocket from the packaging and custom designs and prints sheet indicia on a paper sheet. He/she then inserts the printed sheet into the pocket whereby the front sheet allows the sheet indicia to be viewed therethrough. The front sheet has pre-printed indicia thereon. With the printed sheet in the pocket and the pocket and dividers assembled in a ringed notebook or other binding system, the sheet indicia and the pre-printed indicia line up with respective ones of the tabs. The indicia thereby form an attractive custom-designed table of contents, which can be easily corrected or changed by the user by simply printing and inserting into the pocket a new sheet. The front sheet can either be transparent or have a window to allow the sheet indicia to be viewed therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2000Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: MaryBeth Liener Chin, Galen C. Wong
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Patent number: 6629800Abstract: A book structure having front and back covers bound together along a spine, with pages therein being secured to the back cover by a binder mounted exclusively upon the back cover, separate and apart from the spine.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Streetwise Maps Inc.Inventor: Michael E. Brown
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Patent number: 6625915Abstract: An album page having at least one pair of parallel strips (5), which are joined to a substrate (1) in the longitudinal direction of the strips (5) and, at their mutually facing edges, have an unjoined region. The distance between the longitudinal joins is slightly greater than the extent in one direction of an object (6) to be held. In one embodiment the strips (5) are of the same length as the longitudinal edges of the substrate (1). In this way the album pages can be produced in a continuous process. The album page is preferably produced from the same materials (e.g., cardboard).Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1999Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Holson GmbHInventor: Christian Friederichsen
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Patent number: 6626601Abstract: A storage pouch has a pouch body and a cord. The pouch body encloses an interior cavity and has an opening in communication with the interior cavity. The cord is attached to the pouch body and has variable-size first and second loops located outside the pouch body, wherein increasing the size of the first loop decreases the size of the second loop, and wherein increasing the size of the second loop decreases the size of the first loop. The loops are made of substantially equal size to attach the storage pouch by the loops to the rings of a loose-leaf ring binder, and the size of one loop is enlarged to hang the storage pouch by the one loop on a larger hook.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2000Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: MeadWestvaco CorporationInventors: Marc L. Moor, Jeffrey T. DeBord, Diana W. Juratovac
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Publication number: 20030173770Abstract: A single sheet of non-woven material is provided with sufficient strength and durability to store two compact discs without the necessity of laminating or otherwise interconnecting the non-woven sheet to a backing sheet or other materials for strength. The single sheet of non-woven material is positioned between the playing surfaces of the two compact discs to provide a non-scratching, protective surface and to reduce the costs associated with manufacturing the sleeves used to store the CDS.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Applicant: Case Logic, Inc.Inventors: James Allen Bergh, Mark E. Phillips, Terrence Martin Drew
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Publication number: 20030143018Abstract: The invention is a greeting card album page and albums using the same. The page comprises a backing sheet having one or more pockets formed thereon by one or more transparent overlays traversing across the page. The pockets may be oriented to form a vertical pocket for receiving vertically opening cards, or a horizontal pocket for receiving horizontally opening cards. In an alternative embodiment, the page comprises a backing sheet having a plurality of strips formed by cutting pairs of slits into the sheet. The strips are adapted for receiving the fold of the card, which seats on the strip, and may be horizontally or vertically oriented. In an additional embodiment, the page comprises a plurality of adhesive patches covered by protective overlays. The invention also provides greeting card albums containing the album pages of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Inventor: Nathalie T. Warriner
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Publication number: 20030122366Abstract: An indexing system with a label display configured for connection to a stack holder for placement adjacent a stack of sheets held in the stack holder. The display has a label portion disposed in a viewing position beyond the stack and is configured for displaying label indicia thereon for identifying a section of the stack. A divider is configured for dividing the section of the stack from other sections and for mounting in the stack holder within the stack. A tab connected to the divider and positionable extending beyond the stack and over the label portion is configured to permit viewing of the indicia therethrough with the divider held in the stack holder. An indexing system package and a system for displaying indexing system packages is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Applicant: ACCO Brands, Inc.Inventors: Mark C. Sapienza, John E. Peters
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Patent number: 6572302Abstract: The present invention provides techniques for imparting both flexibility and lamination to leaves or sheets comprising laminate films, including but not limited to leaves or sheets which at least partially enclose or encase printed matter to or between laminate film(s). The first laminate film and the second laminate film may or may not have part of all of a segment of printed matter, e.g., a display content sheet, positioned or sandwiched therebetween. All embodiments have a flex or flexible zone which provides flexibility to the leaf or sheet, the thickness of the flex zone being thinner than the thickness of portions of the leaf or sheet having two laminate films. The flex zone of each sheet or leaf provides flexibility for the leaf at strategic locations, the remainder of the sheet or leaf having durability and stiffness as afforded by the two films of lamination and the adhesive utilized in conjunction with one or both of the two lamination films.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Inventor: Marian V. Gogoana
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Publication number: 20030099504Abstract: Double-sided sleeves and album pages for holding flat items such as compact discs or photographs, including an embedded synthetic paper strip with exposed write-on areas in respective positional association with the pockets of the sleeve or album page.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2002Publication date: May 29, 2003Applicant: Ultra Pro LP, a California limited partnershipInventors: David Fu, Robert D. Shipp
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Patent number: 6547472Abstract: An album page for displaying articles, such as photographs, includes at least two sheets, and preferably an opaque sheet located between two transparent outer sheets. The sheets are sealed together, preferably by heat welding or ultrasonic welding to create an album attachment section and a display section. The display section has a pair of stair-step shaped seal arrangements which, together with a sheet seal, are adapted to define horizontal display surfaces having a variety of widths, thereby permitting a variety of different sizes of planar objects to be displayed. The seal arrangement is also preferably made by ultrasonic welding. In all of the display positions, the objects are supported on both of their bottom corners.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Intercraft CompanyInventor: John P. Jordan
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Patent number: 6540260Abstract: A photograph album system (10) has a spine (14) with an internal lateral groove (30) at one end and a removable retainer (42) having a plurality of internal retaining fingers (44) within the groove. A plurality of pages (52) are defined by a plurality of signatures (54). Each signature is defined by a plurality of page sets (56). Each page set consists of an interior support sheet (58) with a central fold (60) and a pair of exterior cover sheets (64). The exterior cover sheets are folded around an individual outer edge of an interior support sheet with each having a central fold defining an outer bend (66). The exterior cover sheets are adhered to the interior support sheet so that two pages are formed with separate pockets (72) on each side of each page. Posts (36) couple the pages to the spine.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Inventor: Whang Kwee Tan
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Publication number: 20030059248Abstract: The Small Card Organizer, or simply “Organizer”, is an accessory that fits into a notebook binder and enables users to organize and transport card materials, especially educational flashcards. The Organizer is typically composed of a substrate (such as a three-ring binder insert sheet) to which is mounted a number of miniature-sized pouches called carriers. The carriers, enclosed on the bottom, front, side and back, provide a single opening through their top for inserting flashcards, but also for business cards, index cards, and photographs. To keep card materials from falling out through the carriers' openings, retaining members are also provided with the Organizer. Retaining members, most commonly resembling flaps, are fixed in place to the substrate or carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2001Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventor: Michael G. Walton
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Patent number: 6511245Abstract: A photograph album page and system is adapted to be coupled with similar pages for displaying a plurality of photographs of a wide variety of sizes in a convenient manner. A rectangular backing sheet has an upper and a lower edge and also an interior edge and an exterior edge with an upper and a lower surface. A plurality of primary holes are formed through the sheet thus forming photograph receiving areas. A rectangular transparent bag is formed of an upper layer overlying the upper surface of the sheet and a lower layer overlying the lower surface of the sheet with closed upper, lower, and exterior edges and an open interior edge for receiving the sheet and for the passage of photographs. Heat sealed couplings are provided between the bag and the primary holes.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2000Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Inventor: Whang Kwee Tan
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Patent number: 6511246Abstract: An indexing system with a label display configured for connection to a stack holder for placement adjacent a stack of sheets held in the stack holder. The display has a label portion disposed in a viewing position beyond the stack and is configured for displaying label indicia thereon for identifying a section of the stack. A divider is configured for dividing the section of the stack from other sections and for mounting in the stack holder within the stack. A tab connected to the divider and positionable extending beyond the stack and over the label portion is configured to permit viewing of the indicia therethrough with the divider held in the stack holder. An indexing system package and a system for displaying indexing system packages is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: ACCO Brands, Inc.Inventors: Mark C. Sapienza, John E. Peters, Jr.
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Patent number: 6499903Abstract: The invention relates to leaf accessory holders, and in particular to leaf accessory holders otherwise known as mechanical “windowing” devices which can be positioned into multiple locations while still attached to a host. The new elements of the invention are a morphable leaf, which leaf itself has joined functional portions for allowing the transformation of the leaf into a multi-position device, said morphing leaf formed as a planar multisided structure comprising both the mounting leaf and the orientation leaf portion, where both the mounting leaf and the orientation leaf can be positioned into a first position to lie flat, in the same plane, and further where the orientation leaf portion can be rotationally respositioned by 180 degrees into a second location substantially adjacent itself.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Productive Environments Inc.Inventor: David C. Schwartz
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Publication number: 20020197098Abstract: A sleeve for storing an data storage device and associated documentation including a generally sheet-like body having a first side and a second side, and a storage area coupled to the first side of the body. The storage area is sized and shaped to receive the documentation therein. The sleeve further includes a pocket coupled to the first side of the body, the pocket being sized and shaped to receive the data storage device therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2002Publication date: December 26, 2002Inventor: Christopher G. Palmer
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Publication number: 20020131812Abstract: The present invention provides a binder insert with a marginal memo area, whereby pulling a film up and writing memos in the marginal memo area are facilitated. The binder insert with a marginal memo area is comprised of a body made by folding such as a board-paper at the center thereof in two and adhering facing pages thereof, nondrying adhesive applied on both front and back surfaces of the body leaving a margin at a binding side of the body, a marginal memo area provided on the margin, and a transparent synthetic resin film covering the front and back surfaces of the body starting from a folding side. A binder insert having the above composition provides a means for extending free-end portion of the film slightly to the binding side or an end of the binding side of the body beyond the nondrying adhesive applied portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Inventor: Masaaki Nakaji
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Patent number: 6449886Abstract: A greeting card or document holder constructed from an elongated piece of plastic folded in half along its longitudinal axis, the two halves are then bonded together along a line running parallel with the fold. An adhesive is located inside the two flaps created by the fold adjacent to the longitudinal edges opposite the fold. The two adhesives are located such that they can attach to the front and back surface of a greeting card or other brochure.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Inventor: William (Bill) James Gray
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Publication number: 20020127047Abstract: Title areas are preprinted on the table-of-contents sheet and oriented so that the titles are designed by the user on his personal computer and printed in the areas on his desktop printer. In addition to this sheet a set of dividers having staggered tabs are provided to the user in the retail packaging. The tabs have individual indicia (such as coloring, numbers and/or letters) corresponding to that of each of the title areas. The divider sheets when in a binder system have the tabs and their indicia running in a landscape direction from left to right. Lines on the sheet connecting the title areas with the corresponding tabs can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2001Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Russell D. Pollman, MaryBeth Liener Chin, Grace Kurek
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Patent number: 6431448Abstract: A keyed data-and-print album page has a receiver having an array of image spaces, a plurality of invisible printed encodements, and a visible key. The image spaces each have a visible boundary. The encodements each have a margin. The encodements each at least partially overlap at least one of the image spaces. The margins are each in registration with at least one of the boundaries. The key indicates the relative geometry of the boundaries of the visible image spaces and the margins of the invisible encodements.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David J. Nelson, Jose A. Rosario
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Patent number: 6431780Abstract: A paper sheet comprising a sheet having a first set of holes for receiving an external binder therethrough and a second set of holes for receiving an external binder therethrough. The second set of holes are laterally aligned with the first set of holes. The sheet further includes a set of perforations extending between the first and second set of holes such that a portion of the sheet containing the second set of holes may be manually separated from a portion of the sheet containing the first set of holes.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1999Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Bally Design Inc.Inventors: Marc L. Moor, Thomas DeBlasis
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Publication number: 20020106236Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a binder insert enabling a photograph to be mounted without using adhesive and the like and to write memos as needs arise. The binder insert is comprised of a plastic body and having a bag shape with the upper side thereof opened, a photograph store portion and a memo store portion are provided by dividing the body at a melt portion, a store board, which is made by folding a thick paper in two, having slits at predetermined positions thereof to insert corners of a photograph and a color paper therebetween, and a memo paper to be inserted into a memo store portion. At one side of the body, a binding section having a plurality of binding holes is provided. Slits provided within the store board are a set consisting of four pieces and plural sets are positioned in accordance with standardized photograph sizes for insertion of corners of a photograph. A form of each slit is curved, and round holes are provided at both ends of said curved slits.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2001Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventor: Yukari Hashizume
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Publication number: 20020104767Abstract: A packaging blank capable of forming a sleeve having at least one internal cavity comprises in one embodiment a substantially rectangular bottom panel, a substantially rectangular top panel connected to the bottom panel along a fold line, and a perforated retaining wall formed in the top panel, wherein the top panel includes at least one display window. Upon construction the packaging blank provides a sleeve having at least one internal cavity that is viewable through at least one display window. A method of packaging an article comprises in one embodiment the steps of providing a blank, placing an article to be packaged on the blank, folding the top panel over the bottom panel, and binding the sleeve formed by the blank into a publication.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2001Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventors: Gerard Paul Lux, Melanie A. Moore, Thompson G. McRae
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Publication number: 20020102125Abstract: An indexing system with a label display configured for connection to a stack holder for placement adjacent a stack of sheets held in the stack holder. The display has a label portion disposed in a viewing position beyond the stack and is configured for displaying label indicia thereon for identifying a section of the stack. A divider is configured for dividing the section of the stack from other sections and for mounting in the stack holder within the stack. A tab connected to the divider and positionable extending beyond the stack and over the label portion is configured to permit viewing of the indicia therethrough with the divider held in the stack holder. The stack holder preferably includes first and second covers and one of the covers is configured to permit viewing of the tab and a label indicia even when the covers are in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2001Publication date: August 1, 2002Applicant: Acco Brands, Inc.Inventors: Mark C. Sapienza, John E. Peters
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Publication number: 20020094226Abstract: A packaged stack of dividers comprising a container including front and back covers, at least two dividers oriented in stacked relation to each other and positioned in the container between the front and back covers, and an alignment member coupled to the stacked dividers. In one embodiment, the alignment member is positioned through holes in the dividers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2001Publication date: July 18, 2002Applicant: Acco Brands, Inc.Inventors: Mark C. Sapienza, John E. Peters
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Patent number: 6415976Abstract: A versatile envelope assembly that can be printed upon either before or after the resulting envelope is assembled. The resulting envelope can be used to store a wide variety of items, including compact discs and digital video discs, and can also provide a label for labeling the items contained in the envelope. The label is specially designed to extend the life of compact discs and digital video discs when applied to these items. Furthermore, the resulting envelope can be used as a mailing envelope, a filing pocket, a ring-binder pocket, or for any other suitable use.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2000Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Inventors: Timothy J. Flynn, Patrick J. Flynn, Kenneth A. Kritz
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Publication number: 20020081144Abstract: A sheet for a binder system having a universal retention member is provided. The universal retention member includes at least one aperture defining a slot portion with a hole portion at one end. The slot portion includes an opening at the other end of the slot portion. The binder system also includes a binder having a securement mechanism adapted to secure the sheet to the binder such as a post, ring, strap which is receivable within the aperture. The opening is sized to reduce frictional wear and snagging between the aperture and securement mechanism while also enhancing the structural integrity of the region surrounding the aperture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2001Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventor: Michael Lamming
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Patent number: 6409409Abstract: A foldable paper sheet is formed having a sheet body portion, a sheet lower side flap extending out from a lower side edge of the sheet body portion, a pocket panel extending out from a bottom edge of the sheet body portion, and a pocket side flap extending out from a side edge of the pocket panel. The pocket side flap is folded in towards the pocket panel, the pocket panel is folded up and the pocket side flap is glued to the back face of the sheet body portion. The sheet lower side flap is folded and glued to the pocket panel. The pocket panel is thereby secured along both side edges to the sheet body portion, has an open top and thus defines a pocket on the back of the sheet body portion. The pocket panel can have a finger notch at the center of its top edge. A tab is cut out of the edge portion of the sheet body portion to form a tabbed divider sheet. The tab advantageously can be formed at any location along the edge portion including at a lower location directly adjacent to the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1998Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: Bruce D. Bauman, Andrew S. Gordon, Russ D. Pollman
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Publication number: 20020071712Abstract: A walking/running race event item comprises a document having loose leaf mounting features. The document includes a race event participant data section and a race logo, wherein the race logo includes an image unique to a particular walking/running race.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2000Publication date: June 13, 2002Inventor: Delbert Backs
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Patent number: 6401372Abstract: Disclosed is a holder for business cards with a rectangular area having holes at its corners into which the corner of a business card are inserted.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Inventor: Spencer Kovner
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Patent number: 6394498Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a photo album leaf from a media having a front and back side. The apparatus includes a processing path along which the media moves through the apparatus; a digital printer disposed along the processing path for printing images on the front side of the media, the images being composed so as to define a segment having a fold line about which the segment is folded so as to form the leaf; a processing section disposed after the printer along the processing path for processing the media on which the images have been written; a removal mechanism for removing the protective release layer from the segment; a folding mechanism for folding the segment so as to form an album leaf.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph A. Manico, Dale F. McIntyre, Madhav Mehra
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Patent number: 6390713Abstract: An adapter for coupling a piece of paper having a plurality of holes to a binding coil, the adapter comprising a strip of material having a plurality of attachment components. Each attachment component is shaped to be passed through one of the plurality of holes of the paper to couple the paper to the strip. The strip of material further has a quick attachment feature for releasably coupling the strip to the coil.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: The Mead CorporationInventors: Marc L. Moor, Kate M. O'Hara, Bobby G. James, Jr., Thomas DeBlasis
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Patent number: 6390714Abstract: A customizable leaf for retaining visual material includes a first assembly and a second assembly. Each of the assemblies includes a front sheet and a back sheet attached together to form a margin and an accessible pocket. The sheets are made from an optically transparent material such as polypropylene. The sleeve is adapted to receive a background that may include graphics. The background is visible in the margins when received within the sleeve. One or more backgrounds may be provided, each with graphics, so that a user may select one of the backgrounds and then insert the selected background into the sleeve. When visual material such as a photograph is then inserted into one of the pockets, the background, particularly the graphics, is visible at the margins. The leaf is particularly suitable for albums, such photo albums, scrap books, card-collecting albums, and so on.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
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Patent number: 6390715Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus and method for the display and mailing of advertisements including a large transparent display window and a plurality of transparent pockets associated therewith for the purpose of providing cards or samples, and to such an apparatus that may be easily folded and sealed so as to provide its own mailing envelope and also having a plurality of holes along one edge so as to be suitable for storage in a binder notebook.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Inventor: Kathleen C. Gerbasi
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Patent number: 6382864Abstract: A folder for receiving papers or other loose articles comprising a side panel and a retaining tab made of a generally flexible material and mounted onto the side panel. The retaining tab has a pair of openings formed therein, the openings being shaped and located such that a writing instrument may be received therethrough such that the writing instrument is securely received in the retaining tab.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: The Mead CorporationInventor: Marc L. Moor
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Patent number: 6371680Abstract: Divider means for dividing a set of pages, especially but not exclusively in a binder, into groups of pages. The divider means comprise a single sheet of material which is cut into a plurality of divider portions of the sheet, each extending from a common connecting portion of the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: Folders Galore LimitedInventor: Hugh Webb
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Patent number: 6364366Abstract: A composite label sheet, is provided for comprising: a face sheet having perimeter features and having first and second sides, said first side having at least one or more regions, each region comprising a die cut self tabbing label, said each of said die cut self tabbing labels comprising an upper tab portion, a lower tab portion connected thereto, and a base portion connected to said lower tab portion; a coating of pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on said second side of said face sheet; and a liner having two sides, a first side and a second side, said liner having perimeter features substantially equal to said face sheet, where said first side of said liner is attached to said second side of said face sheet pressure sensitive adhesive, said first side of said liner having its face adapted to be releasably fixed to said pressure sensitive adhesive, such that said each of said at least one regions of die cut self tabbing labels is thereby separable from said releasably adapted face of said liner.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Productive Environments, Inc.Inventor: David C. Schwartz
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Patent number: 6364362Abstract: The present invention relates to an educational planner for providing a cooperative system of planning books and folders that promote socially beneficial aims while providing assistance and organization of course materials.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Inventor: Pamela L. Severin
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Patent number: 6364560Abstract: An EVA book comprises a number of leaves and at least one pivot member. Each leaf has an edge and at least one hole adjacent to the edge. A slit extends from the edge into the hole. The pivot member includes a central member and two outer members respectively provided on two sides of the central member, thereby defining two outwardly facing recesses. Each leaf and the pivot member are deformable to allow forcible insertion of the pivot member into the hole until the central member is received in the slit, thereby allowing relative pivotal movement between the pivot member and the leaves. In addition, each leaf and the pivot member are also deformable to allow forcible removal of the pivot member from the hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2001Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Inventor: Jieh-Liang Lin
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Patent number: 6361639Abstract: A method for manufacturing an index divider sheet assembly adapted for feeding into ink jet printers and the like for a printing operation on the sheet body and/or the index tab of the assembly. The assembly includes a divider sheet having a tab extending out of one edge and a reinforced binding edge flap. The divider sheet can be manufactured from ink jet receptive top-coated white cardstock. A guide strip along the tab edge assists the assembly being fed and passing through the printer despite the presence of the tab. The binding edge flap is folded over onto the body of the sheet and held thereon to reduce the width dimension of the assembly so that it can be fed into and passed through the printer. After passing through the printer, the guide strip is removed and the flap is unfolded.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: Sonia Owen, Galen C. Wong, Richard M. Housewright, II