DE20001582U1 - Illustrated books, especially children's picture books - Google Patents

Description

Buch-Haferl GmbH GM-OOl.

83064 RAUBLING

Application for registration of a utility model

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, especially CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS

Description :

Illustrated books, especially children's picture books, are redesigned. The focus is on translating the text into another language. This is done by printing on commercially available, transparent, printable adhesive films and pressure-sensitive labels for PC color printers.

The printing point on the film with new text is backed with a background color that matches the color of the book page and is designed and placed in such a way that after lamination it covers the text on the existing book page with precise registration.

The film can be laminated using standard sheet-fed laminating machines or manually.

As a secondary effect, the laminated film provides protection against dirt and mechanical damage.
The text part is covered with a label or flag manually.

In many countries around the world, authors and illustrators create and design picture books for children, which are written in the respective national languages, printed in large editions and published.

It is always a joy for children and of course adults to look at the beautiful, colorful pictures and read the accompanying texts. It is a shame when the books come from a different language or even culture, the texts are not translated and therefore cannot be understood by the reader.

Due to copyright barriers and, even more so, the effort and costs of printing tools (printing rollers, printing forms), the production of color-illustrated books is only profitable in large print runs.

The present invention makes it possible for small publishers or even bookshops to carry out text translations of even the smallest editions for limited customer groups at an acceptable price by redesigning the books in the manner described.

In addition, the book pages are protected from dirt and damage by the inventive treatment with full-page adhesive film.

In practice, one can imagine that in the case of text translations of larger editions for which a reprint is not yet worthwhile, loose book pages are purchased from the foreign publisher, these are laminated with printed adhesive foil on sheet-fed laminating machines and bound by machine. The new text design and foil printing are carried out on a PC with a suitable printer.

In bookstores, the texts stored on CD-ROM, translated into one or more languages and suitable for each book page could be printed on transparencies and/or labels / adhesive flags and laminated as required for interested customers or added to the books so that the customer can then apply them manually themselves using the enclosed instructions.

Pressure-sensitive adhesive films are well known and are used especially for protecting book covers and as envelopes.

DE 199 11 298 A 1 describes children’s books in which areas are provided for the placement of photographic representations of the book’s owner.

The invention aims to ensure that children approach such a book with greater enthusiasm; the book is to be individualized.

The invention specified in claim 1, on the other hand, is intended to make texts in picture books from foreign language and culture areas understandable for readers who do not speak other languages, in a way that makes this possible at an acceptable cost even in relatively small editions and, if desired, also at a lower price using the "do it yourself" method with the help of the book buyer.

Of course, without great technical and material effort, the new texts in a different language could be placed under or next to the original texts. However, this version was deliberately avoided because it is extremely controversial from an educational point of view. Children's eyes first take in the colorful picture, and then the text is absorbed incidentally.

Concentration when viewing and absorbing what is being presented would be greatly disrupted by having to search for the appropriate or linguistically understandable text. In the event that a second or even third language is to be absorbed and learned, the version with an adhesive flag is provided.

Claims (3)

1. Illustrated books, predominantly illustrated in colour with underlying text, characterised by - that the pages of the books are fully laminated either mechanically or manually with a transparent adhesive film and that the text part is covered with a translated text in a different language printed on the film and backed with a background colour that matches the colour of the page. - that the text part of the book page is covered with an adhesive label (base: paper or plastic film).
On the self-adhesive label, the original text is translated into another language. The color of the label material can be adapted to the background color of the book page or the new text section can be highlighted in the appropriate color when the label is printed. - that the text part of the book page is covered with an adhesive label (based on paper or plastic film), but only has an adhesive on one edge and is stuck over the original text part as a flag.
The flag can be folded back so that the original text can be read again.
The original text is translated into another language on the adhesive flag. The material of the flag can be colour-coordinated with the background colour of the book page or the new part of the text can be colour-coded accordingly when the flag is printed. 2. Illustrated books according to claim 1, characterized in that -that the adhesive films, pressure-sensitive labels and adhesive flags printed with translated text are enclosed separately in the book and are laminated or applied by the customer using the "do it yourself" method.