Covers

A metal book binding comprising a metal cover laminated to hard covers and a spine cover of a conventional fabric-hinged, bound book with flexible mesh or woven wire metal hinges connecting the metal portions of the covers and spine to completely cover the book with metal, while not interferring with...     

For binding books with plastic covers, this invention cuts the covers from plastic stock such as calendered sheets or continuous webs; and the plastic is preferably one that can be cut from the stock with a die used with a high frequency electromagnetic field for softening the plastic. In the preferred...     

A holder is provided for a writing pad having a binding strip extending around and lapping over the top of the pad. A cover for the holder has a front portion extending over the binding strip and the upper side of the pad. A first flap formed integrally with the cover extends over the binding strip and...     

A book cover formed from synthetic resin and comprising a unitary rectangular sheet having an intermediate back panel integrally connected to cover panels, the intermediate back panel being more flexible than the cover panel and adapted to extend across and be adhesively connected to the spine of a book...     

An improved technique of forming the hinge joint of a hard bound book. An adhesive is applied over the animal glue on the hinge area of the cover and allowed to dry. Thereafter, the body, coated with a synthetic resin, may be joined to the hinge area to bind the book. Priming the animal glue with the...     

An expandable cover for books is provided for storing, protecting and labeling data processing sheets, accounting records, and the like, comprising a pair of cover boards hinged to corner members which carry openings for receiving sheet attaching means, spine elements for the back of the book cover which...     

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...     

An improved process of attaching a book body to a case at the hinge to form a hard bound book. A liquid thermoplastic bonding agent is applied to the body or case at the hinge area. The bonding agent is allowed to dry and form a solidified layer. The body is then inserted into the case so that the portion...     

A ring binder has a ring mechanism on the inside of the binder spine and two boards covering the inside surfaces of the binder covers which are hinged to the spine, the boards forming extensions which extend the covers inwardly close to the rings when the binder is open to provide flat writing supports,...     

A binder for filing microfiche cards together with a portable card viewer, said binder having a pair of hinged cover panels connected by a U-shaped assembly and a looseleaf binding mechanism mounted between the sides of said assembly above the back panel thereof thereby forming a compartment between...     

A cover is provided around the spine of a book of the type bound together by two plastic binding strips positioned along the spine marginal edges of the core of the book, one strip having studs passing through holes in the sheets of the core and through holes in the second strip. The cover in the vicinity...     

This invention relates to a device for protecting the edges of a book. An elongated, flexible material has a zipper located along the center of the elongated axis. The zipper, which may be of the plastic pressure lock type, connects two elongated halves forming the flexible material. On the outer edges...     

The invention relates to loose leaf binders for holding periodicals and the object of the invention is to provide a loose leaf binder having a curved back and no rivets visible from the back. For this purpose, the paper-retaining means are fitted to an inner flat spine which is connected to the covers...     

This method makes plastic book covers which have stiffer front and back panels and which have diminished plasticizer migration between the cover and any contacting cover or other adjacent surface. The covers are cross-linked to a limited extent to improve the elasticity of the hinge lines; and to a greater...     

A process for attaching one or more layers of materials to a base or backing having an anvil in its composition. A backing has incorporated therein an anvil strip of high impact material with formed depressions for clenching staples driven through the layer or layers to be attached. The anvil strip may...     

A method and apparatus for permanently binding sheets of paper into a cover inexpensively and quickly is disclosed. The cover has a top and bottom leaf with a center fold therebetween and a folding score on each leaf near the center fold. An elongated strip of heat reactivatible adhesive is applied to...     

Book comprising uncreasable and water-proof cards (6) of a thickness remaining constant in time, these cards being produced from plastics, the text thereon being printed by typographic or offset or other process in a manner known per se. The thickness of the cards is comprised between 0.20 and 0.26 mm...     

A method and apparatus for permanently binding sheets of paper into a cover inexpensively and quickly is disclosed. The cover has a top and bottom leaf with a center fold therebetween and a folding score on each leaf near the center fold. An elongated strip of heat reactivatible adhesive is applied to...     

A book with just a few leaves, the leaves being soft and thick and made by inserting foam plastic or rubber into pockets of material. The exterior of the book is preferably made from a continuous web of material. The book, primarily intended as a toy or novelty item, may vary from small enough to be...     

A backbone construction for a file folder including a pair of parallel grooves on the inside of the folder between the backbone portion and the front and rear leaves, slots extending inwardly from the ends of the backbone portion, a flexible tape overlying both the inner and outer surfaces of the backbone...     

A book cover structure of the type having a spine with front and back cover structures connected to the spine and separated from the spine by scribes to enable the front and back cover structures to flex relative to the spine. A spine strip of hot metal adhesive is secured on an inside face area of the...     

A clip-on identifier is provided for a loose-leaf ledger book of the type having a front binder bar with a front cover pivotally attached thereto. The clip-on identifier is formed from a transparent material and includes a middle portion extending across a flat front side of the front binder bar of the...     

Book binders with a front cover panel, a rear cover panel, and a spine which is a cross wall connected along opposite longitudinal edges thereof by living hinges to said front cover panel and said rear cover panel; a first, rectangular strip, having three free sides, mounted on and projecting substantially...     

A book cover making process feeds transparent polymer sheet material from a roll of material across a plurality of roller cutting blades for making cuts a portion of the way through the material. The polymer sheet material being fed is coated with adhesive in two space coats on either side of the cut...     

A directory holder is disclosed. The holder includes a bed with a cover hinged to the bed. The bed and cover each have flanges which cooperate to form a case for the directory. The cover and bed are hinged together with plural pivoting clips and, in addition, a security bar is provided to prevent unwanted...     

A file folder comprises a rear panel of stiff paper-stock and a front panel of transparent plastic material connected to the rear panel along a hinge line. Preferably, the hinge line is provided by a soft crease in the front panel which defines an inturned margin adhesively secured to the rear panel....     

A cover assembly for protectively mounting a telephone directory utilizes a cover member that is integrally formed from a single sheet of thermoplastic material. The cover member is so constructed as to ensure good ventilation while preventing the entrance of rain thereinto, thereby protecting the directory...     

This disclosure provides a mechanical embodiment for a question and answer book. The current invention provides for a question posed by the story in the book to be answered by a mechanical manipulation of the book pages.

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...     

A loose-leaf binder spacer apparatus is used to space the covers of an unfilled loose-leaf binder. It has a base portion for attaching to a page for inserting into a loose-leaf binder or to the inside cover of the loose-leaf binder and a spacing portion hinged to the base and positioned to space the...     

In the higher priced grade of books, which for example are known generally as the "hard copies" as distinguished from the more economically priced so-called "paper backs", it is customary to protect the books by a so-called dust shield or protective book cover. These protective covers are generally highly...     

A working folder comprises first and second cover panels folded one upon the other with the panels being joined to each other through a common fold edge. The folder also includes a cut-out portion in the second cover panel and a pocket panel which forms an insertion pocket together with the first cover...     

A ring binder cover is composed of a pair of thermoplastic sheets superimposed in edge-to-edge relation with stiffener insert panels disposed therebetween. The inner edges of the insert panels are spaced apart a distance which is approximately the width of the back panel and hinged portions of the binder....     

A book cover having a reinforced hinge including a reinforcing member secured to the edges of the leafboards of the book cover, a hinge member secured to the outer surface of the reinforcing member and a central lining paper adhered to the inner surface of the reinforcing member, so that the composite...     

The invention relates to a book, comprising a book cover blank and an inner book having a spine. The book cover blank is preferably formed in one piece, includes two inner cover portions, two outer cover portions, at least one spine member, and a spine portion. The inner cover portions are glued to the...     

A folder has a base sheet including a base tab portion on one outside edge. An overlapping sheet extends over an inside surface of the base sheet to provide a pocket between the overlapping sheet and one part of the inside surface of the base sheet. The overlapping sheet includes an overlapping tab portion...     

This invention relates generally to a book panel having a particular novel layered construction. In place of a conventional solid chipboard laminated construction, an undulated midstratum layer is utilized in such manner that air cells or pockets are formed within the structure. An overlayer and an underlayer...     

A cover for use in binding sheets without use of a machine comprises a sheet of cover with a central fold dividing the cover to a front cover portion and a back portion and a strip of pressure-sensitive adhesive along the fold has a moveable liner.

Loose pages can easily be bound in a cover having a strip of aggressive pressure sensitive adhesive near the fold line by aligning the pages with the outer edge and then rolling the inner edge of the cover and pages to shingle the edges along the adhesive to attach each page.

A report cover (10) is disclosed for securing and protecting a report (12). The report cover (10) includes a front panel (14) and a rear panel (16). Three parallel hinges (22,24,26) are formed in the front panel (14). A single hinge (36) is formed in the rear panel (16). The report is secured between...     

In a standard binder, the improvement comprising the provision of a closure connected by a hinge to one of the covers at an outside edge thereof, a ledge on the closure and having an upper surface, the surface located at a distance from the cover to which the closure is connected approximately equal...     

A loose-leaf notebook (10) including a spine (12) on which a ring assembly (14) with openable rings (18) is mounted includes front and back cover flaps (22,24) of plywood with a generally uniform thickness in the range of about 0.08 to 0.18 of an inch. The plywood cover flaps (22,24) provide a lightweight,...     

The disclosure relates to a story book wherein the rear cover is of increased thickness so that it can hold the necessary transparencies and optics therein for viewing and wherein predetermined pages of the story book are provided with apertures aligned with transparencies and optics associated therewith...     

A cover for protecting and supporting a plurality of sheets bound together with a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape and bound to the cover by the tape. The cover has a binding area and a protective coating in that area where the binding tape has an adhesion force of between 200 and 700 grams per 1.27...     

A cover for the machine-less binding of pages into a booklet comprises a cover having a longitudinal edge of a strip of pressure sensitive tape adhered inside the cover along the central fold line to accept shingled edges of the pages.

A loose-leaf personalized album comprising a top cover having an exterior surface and an interior surface. The top cover contains a recess in the exterior surface thereof. A personal indicia is positioned within the recess so as to permanently maintain the personal indicia in position in the recess whereby...     

This invention relates to a screen-like photo album constituted by linking adjacent edges of each page in sequence to form a belt-like structure, placing its first page and last page inside with respect to a hard front cover and hard back cover, and edging the top and the bottom edges of each but the...     

A perforated interior binder pocket is provided for use in conjunction with binders having hingedly connected covers. The perforated interior binder pocket is located on at least one cover of the binder. The pocket has first and second walls which are molded together on three sides. The first wall includes...     

A binder having recesses at both sides of the spine to enable easy grasping for removal from a shelf. The spine recesses also facilitate carrying of the binder. Carrying of the binder is additionally facilitated by a hand-hold recess opposite the spine recesses.

An apparatus and technique for strengthening and reinforcing book bindings. A laminate having a polyester face sheet is coated on one side with adhesive. A backing sheet is releasably secured to the adhesive. The backing sheet is split down the center thereof to define a removable center strip with adjacent...     

The invention relates to a holding device produced by folding a blank of sheet material which is improved so as to safely hold printed matter of various widths down to the last sheet. This is achieved according to the invention in that the sheet material is subdivided into a front wall panel and a back...     

A supplemental cover for and method of reinforcing a book with a spine, a first cover and a second cover is disclosed. The supplemental cover comprises a first sheet and a second sheet. The first sheet is stuff throughout. The second sheet comprises a flexible region and a stiff region. Both sheets are...     

Cover folders for permanently binding a stack of paper sheets without the use of fasteners. The cover folder has a binder spline which contains a quick drying adhesive which is protected by a removable protective film. The film is removed just prior to use to expose the adhesive. The cover folder allows...     

A lottery kit comprising a scraping tool for removing particle covering materials from a lottery ticket, a collection mat for collecting the particles, and pocket size foldable panels that contain slash type pockets for frictionally holding a lottery ticket, a scraping tool, and a collection mat.

An information pad for checkbooks that comprises a checkbook cover having flexible material, and an information receiving pad that is flexibly fastened to an edge of the checkbook cover. The checkbook cover is a type that has a suitable slot for receiving checkbooks. The information receiving pad has...     

Cover folders for permanently binding a stack of paper sheets without the use of fasteners. The cover folder has a binder spline which contains a quick drying adhesive which is protected by a removable protective film. The film is removed just prior to use to expose the adhesive. The cover folder allows...     

A handy bookbinder comprises at least one cover and a spine member. The spine member is formed with an adhesive face at one surface thereof. The spine member may or may not be attached to the cover at one side portion of its adhesive face. In the case where the spine member is attached to the cover,...     

A blanket for covering the printed document comprising an elongated sheet of flexible transparent material having a vertical height substantially equal to the vertical height of the document which is covered and a horizontal length substantially equal to the horizontal width of the document to be covered,...     

A method and device for advertising goods which includes a booklet having front and back cover sections and a plurality of pages therebetween adapted to bear descriptive material. A plurality of slots partially extend through the pages. Each of the slots is adapted to receive a sample of goods being...     

A portfolio comprising a front cover having cut-out sections, a rear cover hingedly connected to the front cover, and a transparent film overlaying the cut-out sections forming windows in the front cover. The front cover includes an inner front panel having openings corresponding to the cut-out sections...     

A protective envelope for a book having front and rear covers, and a binding area, the envelope comprising, a stretchable sheet defining front and rear sections adapted to closely overlie the front and rear book covers, the sheet having edges; a stretchable seam binding extending in a loop and attached...     

A binding system including a method for binding sheets in which a stack of the sheets is shingled to disclose narrow side surface portions along their spine edges, a uniform layer of pressure sensitive adhesive is adhered to those spine edges and narrow side surface portion after which the spine edges...     

A binder is provided having a cover featuring a three-dimensional design produced by depressing plastic cover sheets into an opening in an underlying cover panel. The cover sheets are heat sealed together around the perimeter of the cover panel and in the regional of the depression. A plurality of such...     

A device to facilitate organization of educational and business schedules and paperwork, simultaneous with conveying varied graphic and social images. The device is a ring binder in which a time piece is mounted for easily viewing the time display. A pocket is provided on the front cover of the device...     

A book stiffener comprises a relatively flat, thin, elongated, ridged, rotatable strip (32) having a length dimension (38) substantially greater than a width (44) of a back binding (22) of a book cover (16) but less than a length (46) of the book cover and a width dimension which is less than the length...     

A blank book attachment having a mark and sweep leaf with a fold out feature is provided. The leaf is pivotably retained along one edge on a frame, and the frame is pivotably retained at the binding spine of the host blank book. Pulling outward on the leaf causes the leaf to extend out and beyond the...     

A resilient adhesive resin tab adapted to permanently secure paper sheets thereto by edge-binding in a hot melt condition is, at one extreme side peripheral area thereof, bonded or heat-sealed to a width-adjustable backbone of a bookbinding cloth. The adhesive tab may be split, before use, along a selective...     

An information pad for checkbooks that comprises a checkbook cover having flexible material, and an information receiving pad that is flexibly fastened to an edge of the checkbook cover. The checkbook cover is a type that has a suitable slot for receiving checkbooks. The information receiving pad has...     

A protective cover for a book including cover sleeves consisting of two overlaying sheets bonded together along three edges adapted to fit over book covers or the like. Each cover having a plurality of tear away strips along an open end of the sleeve. Each of the strips bearing a line pressure sensitive...     

A notepad including a plurality of sheets affixed together along a common edge, a backing surface connected to the plurality of sheets, and an adhesive strip fastened to the backing surface. The backing surface has a front side and a back side. The plurality of sheets are aligned along the front side...     

A protective magazine cover consists of a pair of transparent polyester sheets secured at opposed lateral edges thereof by means of an appropriate pressure sensitive adhesive tape. A portion of the adhesive of the tape along the lateral edges thereof secures the sheets, while a portion of the pressure...     

A pair of laminates for a dust cover for a hardback book assures that the dust cover is protected from damage while also providing a means for adhesively securing the dust cover to the book. A polyester sheet is adhesively laminated to the outer surface of the dust cover. In like manner, a double backed...     

A book according to the present invention has a front cover and a back cover joined by a spine. A plurality of pages are bound to each other and to the cover near the spine. All or nearly all of the pages have a lay flat hinge so that the book will lie flat when opened. The lay flat hinge comprises a...     

A binder comprises front and rear rectangular cover panels, a sheet retaining assembly, and a spine sheet. The rear cover panel has a width between its first and second opposite side margins. The retaining assembly is mounted on the rear cover panel adjacent to the first side margin of the rear panel...     

An expandable capacity album or binder for storing and displaying artwork or photographs retains the appearance of a library bound hardcover book at any state of expansion. The front cover and back cover are hinged to a spine which has page retaining channels that allow looseleaf pages to be inserted...     

A cardboard blank has a plurality of fold lines dividing the blank into section for folding into a loose leaf folder or a box file. The fold lines define two cover sections between which there is a spine portion having multiple spine fold lines defining a binding zone which can be formed as a double...     

The invention pertains to a fabric covered book cover having front and back leafboards and a spine wherein both leafboards are covered with a fabric material. One characteristic feature of the book cover is that the spine includes a plurality of longitudinal parallel seams which permit the spin to curl...     

A notepad having a plurality of sheets affixed together along a common edge and a backing layer affixed to the plurality of sheets. The plurality of sheets are adhered together by an adhesive of a quality suitable for permitting the separation of one sheet from another without tearing. The backing layer...     

A binder having a rectangular stiffener board and a sheet retaining assembly. The stiffener board is provided in its first surface with at least three spaced parallel channels medially located between the side edges of the board. Each channel defines a hinge line extending along the height of the stiffener...     

A garden planning kit including a book having a bottom panel, first spiral binder attached to a marginal edge of the bottom panel, second spiral binder attached to an opposite marginal edge of the bottom panel, and a plurality of transparent overlays. A first overlay is attached to the first spiral binder,...     

An expansion pocket is provided for use with folders, binders or the like which allows large quantities of materials to be securely inserted into the expansion pocket. The expansion pocket cover member is provided with a series of slits which run along the two adjacent edges of the cover member secured...     

A document holder is disclosed including a semi-rigid inner member extending along at least a portion of the length of the holder. A layer of padding material is provided on one side of the inner member and a protective outer layer covers the padding material on the inner member. A suitable arrangement...     

A book cover hinge assembly is disclosed having two end connectors respectively fastened to two opposite open ends of an elongated casing to hold two opposite book covers, each end connector having two pins bilaterally disposed in the longitudinal direction and respectively inserted in pivot holes on...     

A filing book with bag sheets comprising a cover sheet and a plural number of bag sheets made of plastics and fixed tightly at the central part of the inside of the cover sheet by heat sealing to form a singly bound book has a structure that the central parts of all of a number of bag sheets are tightly...     

An information pad for checkbooks including a checkbook cover of flexible member, a slotted member flexibly affixed to a surface of the checkbook cover, and an information receiving pad having a surface received within the slotted member. The slotted member includes an inner planar surface having an...     

A photo and memorabilia album is disclosed which includes an audio tape player. The invention contemplates a holder mounted on a cover of the photo album which is configured to retain an audio tape player therein. In one embodiment, the holder is formed by a frame which defines the compartment into which...     

A swatch book for displaying sample swatches of paper. The book has non-integral front and rear covers of paper. The rear sheet has integral panels which are folded to form a sleeve which encompasses the front cover and the swatches of paper. Grommets extend through the sleeve, the cover sheets and the...     

This invention is a binding case for use in an office-type, small-volume, binding operation employing the hot-melt adhesive binding method. The invention is a design and method which cause the excess hot-melt adhesive which expresses laterally from each side of the adhesive strip to be directed in such...     

A pocket-size personal financial organizer for monitoring, controlling and reducing spending. The organizer provides means for projecting spending in various categories by month and by week, recording daily, weekly, and monthly spending by category, determining spending differentials between projected...     

An accordion folded sheet is anchored between covers and can be drawn out from between the covers by providing a notch or other opening along a free edge of one of the covers, preferably in conjunction with another notch or set back edge of the other cover so that a grippable portion of the sheet can...     

A loose leaf binder for holding papers and supplies comprising a top cover having an exterior surface and an interior surface; a bottom cover having an exterior surface and an interior surface; a spine having an exterior surface and an interior surface; a hinge mechanism connecting the spine to the top...     

This invention relates to a portfolio having a detachable walled member and, more particularly, a wallet member containing an electronic computing device or radio slidably secured in a pocket in the portfolio such that the wallet member can be rotated to a position outside the perimeter of the portfolio...     

A pouch is described for attachment to the front cover of a notebook (e.g., a spiral wire bound notebook) for containing personal items such as pencils, erasers, rulers, calculator, etc. The pouch is preferably made of flexible plastic and includes a flap or other type of closure for closing an interior...     

A blank book attachment having a mark and sweep leaf with a fold out feature is provided. The leaf is pivotably retained along one edge on a frame, and the frame is pivotably retained at the binding spine of the host blank book. Pulling outward on the leaf causes the leaf to extend out and beyond the...     

By providing a foldable portion in association with the cover of a book with the cover and foldable portion incorporating coordinated indicia thereon, a unique book construction is achieved which provides a readily deployable, enlarged, visually stimulating display associated therewith. Preferably, the...     

A binder cover restraining member comprises a central, one piece, restraining strut portion and cover mounting portions formed by inner and outer retention shoulders held spaced apart in opposed relation by a narrow neck portion, at respective opposite ends thereof. The cover members are formed with...     

The present invention is a folder, particularly adapted for containing and viewing photographic prints or the like. The folder includes a front cover and a rear cover foldably connected to the front cover at a spine or binding area. The folder includes an integral interior pocket and selectively releaseable...     

The invention provides for "windowing" leafs of various types which retain their face and perimeter orientation when repositioned with respect to their host binder, including leafs with pluralities of surfaces, leafs with arrays of stacked repositionable notes, leafs with notepads, leafs with arrays...     

Paper from a roll or other supply is processed by an in-line magazine publishing and/or assembly system. A magazine with a cover made from two sheets of paper is produced. The cover is assembled from two sheets, one of which has a pattern of adhesive material printed on one sheet, the second sheet being...     

This ring binder (10) includes a first cover (12) and a second cover (14) interconnected by a ring element (16). The first cover (12) is divided into mirror image sections (24) each having a pocket (30) on at least one face (20). The second cover (14) is also divided into mirror-image sections (44) each...