EP0928701A2 - Verfahren zur Abgabe von abziehbaren, selbstklebenden Seitenmarkierungen - Google Patents

Verfahren zur Abgabe von abziehbaren, selbstklebenden Seitenmarkierungen Download PDF

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EP0928701A2
EP0928701A2 EP98308749A EP98308749A EP0928701A2 EP 0928701 A2 EP0928701 A2 EP 0928701A2 EP 98308749 A EP98308749 A EP 98308749A EP 98308749 A EP98308749 A EP 98308749A EP 0928701 A2 EP0928701 A2 EP 0928701A2
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Junichi c/o Ko-Pack Int.(Europe) Ltd. Kobayashi
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42F—SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING
    • B42F21/00—Indexing means; Indexing tabs or protectors therefor

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  • a first aspect of this invention relates to a method of making devices for dispensing adhesive peelable page markers, and to such page markers themselves.
  • the invention provides page markers which are particularly applicable to the convenient page-marking of magazines, journals, books such as dictionaries and encyclopaedias, trade catalogues, newspapers and the like. Indeed, this aspect of the invention is applicable to any multi-page printed or other product where there is a requirement for page marking to assist rapid page identification.
  • Previously proposed page markers comprising the usual assembly of multiple sheets, each provided with at least a zone or line of peelable adhesive whereby the individual markers can be peelably adhered to selected pages to provide the usual function.
  • the known products of this kind are usually supplied in the form of a block or stack comprising twenty five or fifty or more sheets, which can be peeled off one at a time and used for the purpose in question.
  • Such an arrangement is a considerable advance over the use of non-adhesive slips of paper as bookmarks, but it suffers from the limitation that it frequently happens that a book or magazine or newpaper user does not have access to such a supply of page markers just when he or she needs it, when reading or studying otherwise than at a desk or other location where a supply of office-type requisites can be conveniently stored.
  • An existing proposal to meet this particular requirement is the provision of a dispensing device in which a small supply of page markers is provided in an envelope format dispensing device which is formed with a slit or slot in the envelope, such slit or slot being disposed generally horizontally when mounted on the page of the book or magazine, and the envelope being provided internally with a small supply of adhesive peelable page markers arranged in a vertical stack, with the successive markers being adhesively linked to each other so that the manual withdrawal of a given one through the slit or slot causes the next marker to be pulled outwards until it partly emerges through the slit or slot and disengages from the marker being dispensesd, whereby the particular marker removed is ready for adhesion to a page, and the next marker is projecting outwardly, ready for the dispensing operation to be repeated.
  • each page marker is rendered highly accessible by virtue of its outward projection from the dispensing slit or slot.
  • the dispensing device itself has a significant thickness due to the thickness of the vertical stack of markers and which is accentuated by the mechanical/adhesive relationship between successive markers, and likewise by the dispensing envelope itself, whereby the assembly is not particularly well adapted for use in mass circulation publications which of necessity are handled in stacks consisting of many tens of publications, whereby the localised internal thickness or width of the page marker dispensing device serves to cause instability, lack of uniformity, potential damage to adjacent pages, and related shortcomings.
  • the method of manufacture of this prior proposal is inevitably complex and therefore relatively uneconomic for mass circulation publications which require a dispensing device of considerable simplicity and offering economy of production.
  • an assembly of adhesive peelable page markers comprises an array of at least two such markers disposed in a horizontally-extended stack and with at least the major part of their non-adhesive surfaces exposed.
  • the page markers are disposed in edge-to-edge or indeed in spaced-apart relationship and carried on a mounting which may comprise a page or card for a magazine, book, catalogue etc, and which may be bound into such a multi-page article.
  • the mounting comprises a page of a booklet label, and the latter is itself caused to be adhered to a relevant page of a multi-page article in which the page markers are to be used.
  • the present invention is not strictly limited to the provision of only a one-layer thickness of page markers, and (depending upon the materials used therefor, and its laminar thickness) the invention contemplates two or three or slightly more layers, but in each case, the page markers of each layer are disposed in the described horizontally-extended stack, meaning that they are arranged either edge-to-edge or spaced apart a little, but in both cases they co-operate to provide a laterally-extended upwardly-facing surface to distribute the load applied when the magazine, journal, book etc is arranged as part of a vertical stack.
  • the method of manufacture of the page marker dispensing device involves the use of web systems, and the merger of same, in a label-type press, or a similar press, so that the array of horizontally-extended stacks or assemblies of page markers are transferred to and carried on their associated mountings (for example, a page of a book, a card, or a page of a booklet label) by merger of a web of mounting elements and a web of arrays of page markers.
  • the web of page markers may comprise or even consist of a web of page marker material which is stamped and printed/coloured appropriately so that the web can be readily separated into edge-joined arrays of two or more such page markers disposed relative to each other in the defined manner.
  • Such an arrangement of page markers can be readily separated into individual arrays at a relatively high speed, and these arrays can be simultaneously transferred in the web-merger process to the likewise rapidly incoming and merging web of mounting pages and cards or the like.
  • a second aspect of this invention relates to a method and apparatus for commercial labelling, tabbing, page-marking and the like.
  • An example of an application of the invention is to systems for the labelling and page-marking of commercial journals, periodicals, newspapers and other publications, notably systems in which the end-user of the publication in question has available to him/her a supply of adhesive and usually peelable page markers for application to chosen pages of the publication so that matters of interest can be more readily relocated for future reference and study.
  • US 5,411,168 and US 5,551,595 and US 5,518,144 and US 5,158,205 disclose systems for dispensing small vertical stacks of adhesive notepaper including a dispensing envelope with a slot between opposed flaps for sheet withdrawal in sequence from the stack.
  • the systems provide convenience of dispensing which is counterbalanced by physical space requirements which impose limitations on the utility of the system for in-situ utilisation within journals, magazines and the like, due to the cumulative effect of the inevitable width requirements arising from the vertically-stacked configuration of the notelets and the associated dispensing envelope.
  • WO94/12357 discloses a device for marking pages and/or individual sections of an information carrier such as a book or directory and provides a sheet for carrying removable marking elements which can be peeled from the carrier and adhered to selected pages of the book, as shown in Fig 1 of the drawings.
  • US 4,680,210 discloses an elongate directional marker having a triangular head and an elliptical body.
  • the markers are manufactured in an array by pattern-gluing adhesive stripes to a face stock, and laminating a liner to the face stock and die-cutting the markers out of the face stock so that the triangular heads of the markers are intermeshed in alternating orientation on the adhesive strips.
  • US 5,462,783 discloses a label-dispensing sheet for incorporation within a book such as a telephone directory, dictionary or the like, and includes a facing sheet of heavy paper stock releasably secured to a relatively thin backing sheet or liner by a pressure sensitive adhesive and containing a series of alphabetical labels or tabs adapted to be applied to the pages of the book to designate the various alphabetical headings etc.
  • a method for creating a three-dimensional presentation of a product and/or service indicia wherein a mounting for a series of adhesive page-markers or notelets is provided, to which the markers are peelably secured and which carry the relevant product and/or service name or indicia for peelable adhesive application to various selected pages at differing locations within the depth (front-to-back) of the corresponding book or journal.
  • a mounting for a series of adhesive page-markers or notelets is provided, to which the markers are peelably secured and which carry the relevant product and/or service name or indicia for peelable adhesive application to various selected pages at differing locations within the depth (front-to-back) of the corresponding book or journal.
  • the indicia or name-carrying page markers are initially provided as a horizontally-extended array on a mounting which is surfaced with release material to promote easy peeling of the page markers for use.
  • the mounting for the page markers carries related product and/or service identification or technical/ commercial information which is commercially linked with the relevant product or service name or indicia carried on the page markers themselves.
  • the page -markers will be mounted on an advertising zone in the publication and after being peelably removed for page-marking purposes and after being affixed to chosen pages of the publication, the result is that the product or service name or indicia is now carried at several locations on the external surface of the publication and in a prominent manner so that the same or other users of the publication thereby have the particular product or service identification drawn to their attention significantly more effectively then would otherwise be the case. Moreover, this is achieved without any significant additional expense in terms of the advertisement itself, and the three-dimensional effect is created by the user her or himself, which likewise is directly cost effective for the commercial organisation concerned.
  • the page-marking or tabbing device is in a hybrid format which incorporates both a tabbing or page-marking element which, in use, is adapted to project laterally outwardly from the edge of a page so as to provide the tabbing or page-marking function.
  • a tabbing or page-marking element which, in use, is adapted to project laterally outwardly from the edge of a page so as to provide the tabbing or page-marking function.
  • an extended function in relation to the main body of the page-marker or tab, which is adhesively securable to a page to be marked.
  • the page marker is a hybrid structure which incorporates not only a page-marking and product or service-identifying projecting tab, but also an integrally-formed booklet label which is readily opened to provide amplification of the data relating to the product or service concerned.
  • the booklet label carries at its reverse side the relevant peelable adhesive whereby the assembly is readily secured to the chosen page at a chosen location for page-marking purposes.
  • the booklet label is available to be opened for further investigative interaction with the book or journal reader in confirmation of the interest initially created by the page marker or tab itself.
  • a device 10 for dispensing adhesive peelable page markers 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 comprises a mounting 36 for an assembly of the page markers, such mounting 36 providing access to the page markers for manual removal by peeling, for peelable adhesive attachment to a printed or other page to act as a marker therefor.
  • the assembly of page markers 12 to 34 is provided in the form of an array of 12 such page markers disposed in a horizontally-extended stack with the individual markers arranged edge-to-edge (but it would be possible for them to be disposed in at least partially overlapping arrangement) with their non-adhesive surfaces 38 exposed and facing upwardly.
  • device 10 is in the form of a page for a book or magazine in which mounting 36 comprises a paper page 40 which is bound into book or magazine 42 in the same manner as any other page, using adhesives and/or thread-type binding techniques as is wellknown in the art.
  • Page 40 comprises a binding strip 44 for this purpose.
  • mounting 36 may comprise any suitable materials for the application in question, ranging from various grades of paper through plastics sheet to card where appropriate.
  • a publication may conveniently be provided with an inserted and separable card which otherwise is constructed in a similar manner to page 40, but is not bound into the magazine, and may include advertising or other commercial material printed thereon.
  • the adhesive peelable page markers 12 to 34 are provided in the form of an array 46 of such page markers which are of elongated rectangular format with their longitudinal edges 48 disposed in horizontal edge-to-edge relationship as a continuous strip 50 extending lengthwise of page 40 from near the top edge 52 to near the bottom edge 44.
  • Each page marker is formed of a light duty paper or plastics sheet material and may be coloured at its outer end 56 (to enhance its page marking visual characteristics), and is provided with a layer of peelable adhesive 58 on one side only at its other or inner end for adhesion purposes.
  • the portion of each page marker which, in use, will be within and between the book or magazine (usually about three quarters of the length of the page marker) may be transparent, and likewise the adhesive 58 may be transparent or translucent, so as to permit reading through it if by accident or design it is placed over any printed material 60 while in use.
  • Printed material 62 (below page markers 12 to 34 may be provided relating to the mode of use of the page markers, or to any related commercial concept. For example, a page marker itself or text printed on its mounting page or card could relate to a particular item in that particular publication, so that the reader is invited to place the page marker on an identified page of the publication, which page relates to a particular technical or commercial subject.
  • the manufacturing technique for the dispensing device 10 of the present invention comprises providing two webs which are merged or joined in the label press so that there are produced individual mountings 36 carrying arrays 46 of page markers 12 to 34 in accordance with the principles of the invention described above and as shown in Figs 1 and 2 of the drawings.
  • a first longitudinally-extending web is provided for carrying multiple arrays of the adhesive peelable page markers disposed in succession lengthwise.
  • this web is formed from the page marker sheet material, provided in the form of a web, and coated with adhesive and die-cut as part of the in-line process.
  • the die-cut web is then caused to separate into arrays or strips of twelve individual page markers 12 to 34, which are separated from each other and transferred to their respective mountings 36, as part of the in-line process.
  • the mountings 36 are likewise provided in the form of a web.
  • the corresponding web is of paper which is duly printed, and if necessary adhesively coated along binding strips 44 if appropriate, printed at 60 and 62 and die-cut for page separation prior to merger with the first web, at which stage the arrays 46 of page markers are transferred to their individual pages 40, whereupon these pages are immediately available for binding purposes, which can follow immediately, or else can be performed as an entirely separate operation.
  • the arrays of page markers 12 to 34 provide a convenient and very accessible source for a small supply of page markers, such as will be well sufficient for the purposes of a single publication. These are provided on a page which carries a single-thickness half-page width zone of markers, which thus presents a uniform and generally flat surface to co-operate with the adjacent page 64 of the magazine or book 42.
  • the individual page markers are readily removed by lifting the non-adhesive ends (remote from the spine of the book) in the manner shown for page marker 34 in Fig 1.
  • the manufacturing process is substantially the same, but with the substitution of the appropriate alternative sheet material for the paper web which in the above embodiment provides book or magazine page 40.
  • a page-marking device 100 for a multi-page printed product such as the magazine or journal seen in Fig 1 is adapted to be peelably adhesively securable to selected pages of said magazine or journal with a tab or projection portion or element 102 projecting outwardly from an edge of a page of the journal to provide the page-marking function.
  • Page-marking devices 100 each comprise an adhesive mounting portion 104 which itself comprises an adhesive strip or sheet element 106 having an adhesively treated face (the lower face in Fig 3) to effect the peelable adhesion to a selected page of the journal.
  • each device 100 is generally coplanar with the mounting portion 104 and projects laterally of the mounting portion when the latter is affixed to a selected page of the journal.
  • page-marking device 100 includes, on each such device, indicia material in the form of text 108 and graphics 110 for identifying a related product and/or service.
  • indicia material 108 is located on the tab element 102 of each of the devices 100 whereby, in use, an end user applying the devices 100 to the pages of a book or journal as shown in Fig 1 will effect 3-dimensional display of the indicia material.
  • Figs 4 and 5 this comprises a related structure which is numbered in a corresponding manner to the embodiment of Fig 3 but with the numerical indication of parts increased by 100.
  • the page-marking devices in Fig 4 are identified a 200, their tabs at 202, the adhesive mounting portions at 204, the strip or sheet elements at 206, the text (Japanese text) at 208, and the graphics at 210.
  • the structure of the mounting portion 204 differs significantly from that of the embodiment of Fig 3 in that it is constructed in accordance with the structure shown in Fig 5 in which two extendable display elements 212, 214 are provided which are adapted to carry and display printed text or data or graphics thereon and which can be displayed in the extended configurations shown in Fig 5, or the relatively confined and non-extended or retracted condition shown in Fig 4.
  • display element 212 comprises folded portions 216, 218, 220 which can be folded downwards as indicated in Fig 5 to a fully flat condition in which they are retained in position by display element 214, which is the upper face of the device 200 as seen in Fig 4.
  • a rupturable perforation strip may be provided between edges 222 and 224 or a line of peelable adhesive may be provided on one of these faces, adjacent the edge.
  • page marker device 200 is affixed to a page of the book or journal with the tab 202 projecting from the edge of the page and the openable booklet label structure provides information relating to a product advertised on the mounting page seen in Fig 1.
  • the printed matter within the extendable structure relates to the relevant product or service which the user has identified on the page seen in Fig 1 and provides further confirmation of required data relating thereto.
  • this comprises the steps shown at A to E on the left hand side in Fig 6 for producing the page marker mountings, and the steps C to H for production of the page-marker arrays, followed by their in-line web merger at J.
  • the production of the page-marker mountings commences at A with a web of sheet material for the mountings which at B is subjected to the successive printing and die-cutting functions which are a feature of the programme of text/graphics and size data of control programme C.
  • the steps are carried out in apparatus as described, for example, in our own published European patent EP 0324764 B (our reference P50746EP) which relates to the in-line and all-in-one pass manufacturing technique for labels and like products utilised in the label presses of Ko-Pack international (Europe) Ltd.
  • EP 0324764 B our reference P50746EP
  • the result of the printing and die-cutting functions at B (carried out at more than one location within the in-line press) produces the defined page marker mounting product at D leading to the web of printed page marker mountings at E.
  • the page-markers themselves are produced from a web of page-marker sheet material at F which is printed and adhesively treated and die-cut at steps F and G, thus being effected in the press of our prior patent, to produce the web of horizontally-extended arrays of page-markers at step H.
EP98308749A 1997-10-27 1998-10-27 Verfahren zur Abgabe von abziehbaren, selbstklebenden Seitenmarkierungen Withdrawn EP0928701A3 (de)

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GBGB9722577.5A GB9722577D0 (en) 1997-10-27 1997-10-27 Dispensing adhesive peelable page markers
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GBGB9806140.1A GB9806140D0 (en) 1998-03-24 1998-03-24 Method and apparatus for commercial labelling,tabbing,page-marking and the like
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