EP0816121B1 - Marqueur automatique pour livres, agendas et autres et procede de fabrication - Google Patents

Marqueur automatique pour livres, agendas et autres et procede de fabrication Download PDF

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EP0816121B1
EP0816121B1 EP96939940A EP96939940A EP0816121B1 EP 0816121 B1 EP0816121 B1 EP 0816121B1 EP 96939940 A EP96939940 A EP 96939940A EP 96939940 A EP96939940 A EP 96939940A EP 0816121 B1 EP0816121 B1 EP 0816121B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D9/00—Bookmarkers; Spot indicators; Devices for holding books open; Leaf turners
    • B42D9/001—Devices for indicating a page in a book, e.g. bookmarkers
    • B42D9/004—Devices for indicating a page in a book, e.g. bookmarkers removably attached to the book
    • B42D9/005—Devices for indicating a page in a book, e.g. bookmarkers removably attached to the book clamped on the sheet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D9/00—Bookmarkers; Spot indicators; Devices for holding books open; Leaf turners
    • B42D9/001—Devices for indicating a page in a book, e.g. bookmarkers

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  • This application for a patent refers to an automatic marker for books, agendas and the like, appropriate for signalling and provide an easy access to the last page read in a book or written in an agenda, the special construction, shape and design characteristics thereof meeting the function for which it has specifically been designed, with maximum safety and effectiveness.
  • a system used in some agendas comprises the cut of a little part of a corner, already marked, of the current page. In this manner all the used pages lack of said paper portion while the unused ones remain complete thus facilitating to find the current page in a next use.
  • a clamp, a clip or a bit of paper, optionally self-adhesive protruding from a page edge are, in the largest part of the cases, the practical solutions which are adopted to solve the problem.
  • German Patent DE-A-29 31 263 discloses an automatic marker for books, having a simple construction, basically including three operating parts: a banderole-like indicator segment, a flexing arm and a clamp-shaped fixing element, considering the possibility of being made as a synthetic, metal or cardboard sheet as well as a wire single part.
  • said marker has following drawbacks:
  • the disclosed invention results optimally compatible with an advertising support as it offers sufficient visible surface, providing so the innovation with double interest and usefulness.
  • the automatic marker is constituted by a single part which can be obtained by die-cutting a plate of a suitable material (plastic, bristol, fiber, plastified paper, etc.) or by means of plastic injection in a simple and regular mould, in this later case weakening lines are left. Only in the event book fixing is by adherence, adhesive material would be a different component to be added.
  • a suitable material plastic, bristol, fiber, plastified paper, etc.
  • the die-cut forming the automatic marker leaves some small uncut lengths or sections to provide the system with stiffness in its handling and carriage, the marker user being who manually cut them to definitively form the marker before its use.
  • the die-cut forming the automatic marker forms at same time, on the fixing element surface, a tab or surface which projects at the top of the sheet indicating so where the marker fixing element is located, performing thus as double marker.
  • the cut with the die will be carried out in such a way that the scraps produced by the cut, with the marker located in the book or the like, remains folded, with their protruding edges towards the reader.
  • the flexing arm comprises, at the end joined to the supporting element, certain geometrical shapes or cuts facilitating the flexing path to make possible opening the book from the pages subsequent to the current one.
  • it can include geometrical shapes or cuts facilitating the torsion by the end joined to the indicator segment, facilitating the skip from one sheet to another.
  • the fixing element to the book involves a workable visible surface for advertising, which can be extended up to the sheet width and length.
  • the fixing element to the book has an extension with workable and visible surface which can be extended up to the book back allowing that useful indications are engraved as, for example, the title of the book, the author, a number of order or others.
  • some or all the surfaces forming the marker have a finish in such a way it allows the user handwriting thereon.
  • the fixing element to the book contain a support or clamp for ball point pen or the like.
  • the automatic marker indicator segment comprises an extension which protrudes outwards the book which attempts to facilitate placing the current sheet and opening the book.
  • the automatic marker indicator segment possess a support, clamp or clip to seize small notes or reminder sheets.
  • the automatic marker indicator segment includes a workable surface for handwriting or inserting advertisements which will skip from one page to another.
  • the automatic marker is die-cut or fabricated in such a way it forms as a whole a post card, for congratulations or the like the marker being formed in one of its faces.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective, schematic view, of a first simplified embodiment of the disclosed marker.
  • Figure 2 is a schematic perspective of an alternative embodiment of the marker.
  • Figure 3 shows, also in perspective, a preferred embodiment of the marker including most of the improvements.
  • Figure 4 is a schematized perspective of the application to a book of the marker disclosed where there is no need of adhesive or clamp as fixing means.
  • Figure 5 shows in perspective special durability conditions of the marker disclosed, thanks to flexing and torsion properties of its connection sector with the supporting-fixing part.
  • Figure 6 is another schematized perspective of the application of the marker to a book cover or page in folded position (inverted lower position) before using it to pass to a working position when it is used (straight top position).
  • Said marker can be die-cut on the cover or flap or fixed with adhesive to the book by a part of its supporting sector.
  • Figure 7 is a schematized perspective of the application of the marker to a writing pad or agenda, by means of a set of markers having different arm lengths.
  • Figure 8 shows a congratulation card in which a marker has been formed, providing the gift with a double value.
  • the element indicated with numeral 1 corresponds to what has been mentioned as indicator segment.
  • This element is approximate rectangular, trapezoid or diamond-shaped, more o less elongated and it can admit a figure as an arrow or akin and include a printed message which skips from page to page.
  • the element 1 has advantageously a slight angle of inclination with respect to the edge of the book, outwards the sheet so as to facilitate a sliding thereof with the sheet of paper.
  • the indicator segment can constitute an extension 4 protruding outwards the book with the aim of facilitate to locate the current page and the aperture of the book.
  • the indicator segment can include o build a clamp, clip o adhesive means in order to fix reminder notes (this detail has not been illustrated in the drawings).
  • the numeral 2 corresponds to what has been mentioned as support-fixing element.
  • Fig. 3 it essentially has a rectangular shape and it may include, although in general it is unnecessary, a fixing means such as an adhesive material in one of its faces, while the face o faces which are visible can be used as a support for an advertising message.
  • a fixing means such as an adhesive material in one of its faces
  • the face o faces which are visible can be used as a support for an advertising message.
  • this fixing element or through attached fittings it can incorporate other useful elements such as a support for a ball-point pen, glasses, notes, etc. and also a surface to be marked with some interesting data such a set number, title, etc. Mentioned fittings are not disclosed in the drawings.
  • Both elements 1 and 2 previously disclosed are connected by an elongated member which has been beforehand referred as flexing arm 3. Thanks to its bending and torsion properties the indicator segment remains pressed on the current page and skips to the next page when manually turning said page.
  • the aim to ameliorate the action of said element 3 it can be devised with two transversal differentiated sections, a narrow one in the part 3a adjoining the element 1 which assist in the torsion moment of said part 3a and the part immediate to the element 2 having a wider section in order to resist the flexion stress.
  • the arm 3 can entail a similar shape in which the section changes in a continuous way from one end of great extent, adjacent the fixing element, towards one small section in the part 3a contiguous to the indicator element 1.
  • the skip of the pages is in part assisted, thanks to the lower stiffness of a single page of paper which slightly turn under the pressure of the flexing arm 3 allowing the skip of the indicator segment 1 to the next page.
  • Another important factor in the features of the skip is the torsion ability of the flexing arm 3 with regard to the indicator segment. This torsion ability can be increased and to be controlled by using geometrical shapes o cuts alike to the referred buy the numerical references 6 and 8 or as it is shown in Fig. 2, through weakening of the flexing arm 3 produced through holes on said arm.
  • the last meaningful component which contributes to the page skip conditions is due to the sliding of the indicator segment 1 over the page edge when one tries to turn said page. Said sliding can be assisted by a particular angle of inclination of the indicator segment 1 with respect to the page.
  • the fixing element can include at its left top corner a protuberance 9 with link through a step, said step when being supported against an end or the back or pages of the book allow an alignment and a suitable location with respect to the edge of the pages, of the assembly arm 3 and marker 1.
  • Another form to adapt the marker to the book consist in incorporate the marker to the book in such a way that the support part 2 of the piece 20 can be folded on itself and remain the marker folded in the cover of the book 10 when this is in a bookshop to be marketed and when in use it can be unfolded and placed in a working position as it is indicated in Fig. 6, so that the marker is incorporated to the book and can be employed when the user operates it.
  • FIG. 7 Another alternative embodiment of the automatic marker is the one illustrated in Fig. 7.
  • a set of several markers having different arm lengths are stepwise placed in a writing pad 10a in each of the departments thereof in such a way that said markers also act as classifiers of the different matters.

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  1. Marque-page automatique pour livres, agendas et assimilés, utilisé pour signaler la dernière page lue/écrite par l'utilisateur, du type basiquement constitué par trois parties fonctionnellement différenciées: a) un segment indicateur (1) qui est introduit vers l'intérieur de la page en question, par un de ses bords avec une portion qui dépasse la page à signaler, ayant des propriétés coulissantes par rapport à ce bord de page, b) un élément de fixation (2) placé contre une des couvertures, pages ou dos du livre,et c) des moyens d'union ou bras de flexion (3) entre ce segment (1) et cet élément de fixation, ayant des propriétés de flexion pour entraíner la pression continue du segment indicateur (1) sur la feuille que l'on est en train de lire ou d'écrire, en permettant en même temps le passage spontané à la prochaine page lorsqu'on tourne la page en question, ces trois parties (1,2,3) étant formées à partir d'une seule pièce (20), CARACTÉRISÉ en ce que: d) les parties de segment indicateur (1) et de bras de flexion (3) sont obtenues par des lignes de séparation affaiblissante prédécoupées autour d'une zone du contour de la pièce (20), avec au moins un point de fixation, amovible au moment où on utilise le marque-page, e) le reste de cette pièce (20) forme l'élément de fixation (2) qui agit comme support et pouvant être fixé au livre par intercalation entre les pages du livre, de sorte qu'un bord vertical de cette pièce (20), distal du segment indicateur (1) est poussé contre la reliure du livre et reste fixé par la pression des feuilles, f) une référence d'arrêt ou membre (9) est agencée pour un positionnement approprié du bord supérieur du marque-page, près de l'union du bras (3) avec l'élément de fixation mais permettant cependant le mouvement libre du segment indicateur (1).
  2. Marque-page pour livres, conformément à la revendication 1 caractérisé en ce que le bras de flexion (1) comprend à l'extrémité unie à l'élément de fixation (3), une portion à forme de coude, ayant un secteur de ce coude introduit dans le corps de la pièce (20), délimité par des entailles permettant une torsion (15) (Fig. 5) et augmentant l'étendue de la possible trajectoire angulaire du bras de flexion (3) sans que le bras ne souffre de déformation ni de rupture.
  3. Marque-page pour livres, conformément à la revendication précédente, caractérisé en ce que le segment indicateur (1) du marque-page automatique a un certain angle d'inclinaison par rapport au bras (3), de sorte qu'il reste orienté oblique vers l'extérieur de la feuille pour aider au coulissement entre eux, ce segment indicateur (1) étant constitué par un onglet ou une banderole à diverses formes.
  4. Marque-page pour livres, conformément à la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le bras flexible (3) possède au secteur d'extrémité (3a) qui est uni au segment indicateur (1), des entailles ou des amincissements qui augmentent la capacité de torsion de ce secteur (3a) lorsque ce segment indicateur (1) s'incline, facilitant la flexion du bras (3), et comprenant notamment au moins deux secteurs à étendue différente, un près du segment indicateur (1), ayant une section étroite et un autre près de la partie de fixation (2) ayant une section plus grande qui donne de la résistance, la variation entre les deux secteurs étant graduelle ou continue, progressive.
  5. Marque-page pour livres, conformément à la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que las lignes matricées ou affaiblies formant le marque-page automatique, forment en même temps sur le bord supérieur de la pièce (20) un onglet ou une surface (12) qui dépasse la partie supérieure de la feuille du livre (10) ou assimilé, permettant ainsi de le situer facilement là où est placée la partie principale de support du marque-page dont l'onglet (12) peut être obtenu au dépens de cette section plus courte de l'extrémité proche au segment indicateur (1) du bras de flexion (3), lors du matriçage ou de la séparation par des lignes affaiblissantes de la pièce (20).
  6. Marque-page pour livres, conformément aux revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que à un sommet supérieur de la pièce (20) une protubérance (9) a été agencée qui unit à travers un gradin qui est supporté contre l'extrémité du dos ou jeu de feuilles constituant cette référence d'arrêt ou membre pour positionner de façon appropriée le bord supérieur de cette pièce (20) qui intègre le bras (3) et le segment indicateur (1), afin de permettre son mouvement lorsqu'on tourne les pages.
  7. Marque-page pour livres, conformément aux revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il forme un tout avec le livre (10) ou assimilé la partie de support (2) de la pièce (20) ayant dans une zone éloignée des parties (1 et 3) une ligne de pliage horizontale ou pli, de sorte que le marque-page peut être plié vers l'extérieur du livre (10) pour son transport et être déplié ver l'extérieur lorsqu'on va utiliser le marque-page, les parties (1 et 3) peuvent être constituées par simple matriçage d'un rabat ou page du livre (10) ou assimilé, ou bien y être jointes par une partie au-dessous de cette ligne de pliage ou pli fixé au livre (10) avec un adhésif.
  8. Marque-page pour livres, conformément aux revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il possède un jeu de plusieurs marque-pages ayant diverses longueurs de bras, qui sont placés échelonnés dans un livre (10), bloc-note, calepin (10a) ou assimilé, à chaque section de celui-ci, de sorte que les marque-pages servent également de classeurs de diverses matières.
  9. Méthode pour fabriquer un marque-page automatique pour livres (10), agendas et assimilés, comprenant trois parties fonctionnelles, caractérisé en ce que ces parties son formées en une seule pièce (20) pour donner de la rigidité au système pour sa manipulation et son transport, un segment indicateur (1), un élément de fixation (2) et un bras de flexion (3), le segment indicateur (1) et le bras de flexion (3) sont séparés de l'élément de fixation par une ligne d'affaiblissement, interrompue par au moins un point d'union qui doit se casser au moment d'utiliser le marque-page, cette pièce (20) ayant une forme régulière et simple et ladite division en trois parties (1, 2, 3) est obtenue au moyen d'un processus de fabrication simple tel que le matriçage d'une planche en matériau flexible, tel qu'un papier plastifié, du bristol, du plastique ou assimilé, qui sera opaque, translucide ou transparente o par injection d'un matériau approprié, et en ce que dans le cas de matriçage, la coupe avec la matrice se fait de sorte que les fragments produits par cette coupe, avec le marque-page placé dans le livre (10) ou assimilé, reste plié avec ses bords qui dépassent tournés vers l'utilisateur.
  10. Méthode conformément à la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que le marque-page automatique es matricé ou fabriqué de sorte que le tout forme une carte postale, pour félicitation, un diptyque, un triptyque ou assimilé (14) le marque-page restant formé sur un de ses côtés, l'arrêt de position ou élément de référence peut être formé d'un côté ou feuille autre que le bras de flexion.
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ES9502976U ES1033621Y (es) 1995-11-23 1995-11-23 Punto de libro automatico para libros, agendas y similares.
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