EP0963860A1 - Vorrichtung zum Befestigen und Verstärken eines Bögens - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Befestigen und Verstärken eines Bögens Download PDF

Info

Publication number
EP0963860A1
EP0963860A1 EP99650048A EP99650048A EP0963860A1 EP 0963860 A1 EP0963860 A1 EP 0963860A1 EP 99650048 A EP99650048 A EP 99650048A EP 99650048 A EP99650048 A EP 99650048A EP 0963860 A1 EP0963860 A1 EP 0963860A1
Authority
EP
European Patent Office
Prior art keywords
edge
holes
sheet
page
slits
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Withdrawn
Application number
EP99650048A
Other languages
English (en)
French (fr)
Inventor
Gerald Ryan
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Individual
Original Assignee
Individual
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Individual filed Critical Individual
Publication of EP0963860A1 publication Critical patent/EP0963860A1/de
Withdrawn legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42F—SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING
    • B42F3/00—Sheets temporarily attached together involving perforations; Means therefor; Sheet details therefor
    • B42F3/003—Perforated or punched sheets
    • B42F3/006—Perforated or punched sheets with edge reinforcing means

Definitions

  • This invention relates to a page attachment and/or reinforcement device.
  • So-called loose leaf binders or lever arch files are well known. They essentially comprise a pair of relatively strong covers hinged together, and a retaining mechanism which allows pages to be inserted or removed from between the covers. Each page has two or more holes punched at intervals along one edge of the page, these holes being positioned so as to engage correspondingly spaced elements of the retaining mechanism such that the pages, when in place, are wholly protected by and retained between the covers.
  • a reinforcement element comprises a material of relatively stronger and thicker construction when compared with the paper of the page.
  • the reinforcement in plan view, is substantially circular with a coaxially disposed circular hole therein.
  • One face of the element comprises adhesive which enables the element to adhere to the page.
  • a disadvantage of this arrangement is that an element is required for each hole in the page and the application of the element or elements onto the page is cumbersome and time consuming.
  • a plurality of pages has a plurality of holes punched along one edge thereof.
  • a binding element is threaded through the holes.
  • the element provides a means whereby the pages are held together in the form of a book, the pages being moveable relative to the element to enable the collection of pages to be read in the manner of a book.
  • the invention therefore, provides a page attachment and/or reinforcement device comprising at least a first sheet of material having a plurality of holes spaced along a notional line substantially parallel to one edge of the sheet.
  • the device 100 comprises an elongate laminate strip 100A comprising a first strip-like element 11 in register with, and releasably adhered to, a second strip-like element 12.
  • the first element 11 has an obverse face 51 and a reverse face 52 and is made of a sheet material which is significantly more rigid (though still flexible) and resistant to tearing than ordinary printer or typewriter paper.
  • the element 11 is preferably made of a plastics sheet material, preferably uPVC, preferably transparent, and has a thickness of preferably between 175 ⁇ m and 275 ⁇ m, most preferably about 250 ⁇ m.
  • the reverse face 52 is coated with a suitable layer of adhesive 70 such as a water based acrylic adhesive.
  • the second element 12 has an obverse face 21 and a reverse face 22 and is made of a sheet material which constitutes a peel-to-remove backing strip 12 having a thickness of preferably between 50 ⁇ m and 125 ⁇ m, most preferably 100 ⁇ m.
  • the element 12 is preferably a high flow liner or a polyurethane coated liner or a film which, through the action of the adhesive 70, forms a laminate with the first element.
  • the strip 100A has first and second substantially parallel longitudinal edges 101, 102 and first and second transverse edges 103, 104.
  • a plurality of holes 140 are provided at intervals along the strip 100A, along a notional line 105 running substantially parallel to and spaced apart from the edge 101.
  • the number, shape and spacing of these holes 140 depends on the nature and type of binder intended for use with the device 100.
  • each of the holes 140 is a rectangle whose longitudinal axis is aligned parallel to the edge 101.
  • the number of holes 140 is approximately twenty.
  • the strip 100A also includes a plurality of slits 150, each extending between, and in communication with, a respective hole 140 and the edge 101.
  • the slit 150 may be absent.
  • a slit 151 may be provided which extends between, and is in communication with, the hole 140 and the edge 103.
  • a slit 152 may be provided which extends between, and is in communication with, the hole 140 and the edge 104.
  • the device 200 is identical in all respects to the device 100 except as follows.
  • the second element 12 comprises two sub-elements 12a and 12b. This may be achieved after the manufacture of the device 100 by scoring the second element 12 with a sharp blade so as to provide a division line 12c which runs from the edge 103 to the edge 104 along the inner edges of the holes 140 so that the holes 140 lie entirely, or substantially entirely, between the dividing line 12c and the edge 101.
  • a third embodiment of a device 300 according to the invention.
  • the device 300 comprises the first element 11 only as described with respect to Fig. 1 of the drawings.
  • the element 11 does not have any adhesive.
  • the element 11 additionally includes a plurality of holes 301 disposed along the length of the element 11 along a second notional line which is substantially parallel to the notional line 105 (Fig. 1) and on the opposite side thereof to the edge 101.
  • the holes 301 may be of any desired shape, configuration and size and may be disposed relative to each other along the length of the device 300 as desired.
  • the purpose of the holes 301 is to enable the device 300 to be releasably bound into a folder such as a so-called lever arch folder.
  • Such folders are well known and do not need to be described here save to say that they are available in a variety of types and so require a different number of holes 301 to be present at differing intervals depending on the type used.
  • FIG. 4 of the drawings there is shown a fourth embodiment of a device 400 according to the invention, which is the same as the device 100 (Figs. 1, 6, 6a, 6b) in its construction and further comprises the holes 301.
  • a fifth embodiment of a device 500 according to the invention.
  • the device 500 is the same in construction as the device 200 (Figs. 2, 7, 7a, 7b) and further comprises the holes 301 which are on the opposite side of the division line 12c to the edge 101.
  • a part of a page 520 (Fig. 8) which is retained in a so-called spiral binder 610 (Fig. 10) has a side or longitudinal edge 511, a top edge 512 and a bottom edge 513. The edge opposite the edge 511 is not shown.
  • the page 520 is provided along the edge 511 with a plurality of holes 40 equal in number to, and having substantially the same shape and spacing as, the holes 140 along the edge of the strip 100A.
  • the holes 40 are located near the edge 511. If the holes 40 are substantially all intact, then the page 520 will be successfully retained in place by the binder 610 which is threaded through the holes 40.
  • the binder 610 will not be able to accurately retain the page 520 in place and, at best, the page 520 will be loose and skewed relative to the other pages and, at worst, fall from the binder 610.
  • the adhesive 70 is exposed on the element 11. If the device 100 without the second element 12 is now offered to the page 520 such that the top edge 103 and the top edge 512 are in register, the bottom edge 104 and the bottom edge 513 are in register, and the edge 101 and the edge 511 (or what remains of it) are in register, then respective holes 140 will be in register with respective holes 40. When thus in the correct alignment, the device 100 with exposed adhesive 70 is pressed onto the page 520 thereby providing a repair and reinforcement for the page 520. The resulting combination (Fig. 9) may now be offered to the binder 610 in a manner described later in the specification.
  • a page 520 with damaged perforations 40 is shown.
  • the inner edge of each hole 40 lies on a notional line 44 which is substantially parallel to the edge 511. If the page 520 is now cut substantial along this notional line 44 or on a line substantially parallel to and to the left of the notional line 44, as viewed in Fig. 11 of the drawings, the paper to the right of the line 44 and associated holes 40 are removed from the page 520.
  • the page 520 will now have a straight edge 44 (Fig. 12) and have a width less than when the page 520 had the holes 40.
  • the sub-element 12b of the second element 12 is now removed from the device 200 and the first element 11 (together with the in-place sub-element 12a) and the thus exposed adhesive 70 is offered to the page 520 such that the line 12c and the edge 44 (previously the notional line 44) of the page 520 are in register and the element 11 is applied to the paper, there is now provided a combination 505 (Fig. 13) which has substantially the dimensions of the original sized page 520. In essence, therefore, the sub-element 12b (which functions as a peel-to-remove strip) is removed to expose the adhesive 70 thereunder which is placed on the paper 520.
  • the device 200 it can function in the manner described with respect to the device 100 if both sub-elements 12b and 12c are removed.
  • the advantage of the device 200 over the device 100 is that the former is then more versatile.
  • the device 400 is the same as the device 100 save that the former has holes 301.
  • the device 400 is used to repair/reinforce a page in an identical fashion to that described with respect to the device 100.
  • the manner of use of the device 500 to repair/reinforce a page is essentially the same as that of the device 200.
  • Figs. 15-19 show how the devices 100, 200, 400 and 500 with attached page may be offered to a spiral binder 610.
  • the description with respect to the device 100 and associated page 520 of Fig. 8 of the drawings will be described. It will be appreciated that the devices 200, 400 and 500 function in a similar fashion.
  • the spiral binder 610 which has already in place a number of pages 700.
  • each spiral of the binder 610 is labelled. Thus, in Figs. 15-19, there are shown spirals 611, 612, 613 and 614.
  • the edges 103, 512 are offered axially to the spiral 611. It will be appreciated that where the devices 100 and 400 are used, it would be necessary to cut a slit in paper which might be present at the slits 151, 152. As the page 520 is offered to the first spiral 611, the slit 151 opens or is opened to allow the spiral to occupy the hole 140 associated therewith (Fig. 15) . The page 520 now assumes a flat orientation as shown in Fig. 16.
  • Material 141, 142 on either side of the next adjacent slit 150 is manipulated in a direction transverse to the plane of the device 100 so as to effectively enlarge the associated slit 150, thereby enabling the spiral 612 to enter the hole 140.
  • the page 520 may be moved in the direction of the arrow 550 so that all of the materials 142 can be caused to engage with their respective spirals 612, 613, etc.
  • the page 520 is moved in the direction of the arrow 551 to enable all of the materials 142 to engage with their respective spirals 612, 613, etc.
  • each of the spirals 611, 612, 613, etc. is threaded through a respective hole 140 thus enabling the page 520 to be rebound in the binder 610 as shown in Figs. 10 and 14.
  • the device 200 may be used to advantage to hold other substrates besides pages.
  • an object in the form of, for example, a metal washer 800 could be attached to the adhesive 70.
  • Such samples could be incorporated into a spiral binder with other objects or pages making it very convenient for a reader to refer to actual samples in the same book as the text relating thereto.
  • the length of the device 200 could be reduced as required.
  • the device 200 has only two holes 140.
  • the pages attached thereto could be housed in a so-called lever arch binder 900 of the kind shown in Fig. 24.
  • the device 300 is offered to the binder 610 as was previously described with respect to the device 100.
  • the device 300 is now bound with other pages 700 in the binder 610.
  • the device 300 is without adhesive 70 and does not carry an attached page.
  • the provision of the holes 301 now enable the device 300 to be placed between the jaws 81 of the lever arch file 900 thereby allowing the binder 610 and associated pages 520 to be releasably retained in the lever arch file 900 (Fig. 24).
  • This arrangement can be very convenient in that an entire book of pages 520 retained together by a binder 610 can be housed in a lever arch file 900 either alone or with other similarly bound books or individual pages.
  • Figs. 25 and 26 show a device 600 according to a sixth embodiment of the invention for use with a two-ring lever arch file.
  • Figs. 27 to 29 the same reference numerals as were used in the previous embodiments are used for the same or equivalent parts of the present embodiment.
  • the device 600 is the same as the device 200, with the following differences. Since the device 600 is for use with a two-ring lever arch file there are only two holes 140, which are round, and the length of the strip 100A is only slightly longer than the distance between the two holes. Also, the division line 12c is moved away from the edge 101 slightly so that it does not intersect the holes. Finally, since there are no holes intermediate the holes 140 there are no slits 150 extending to the edge 101, and only the slits 151 and 152 are present.
  • the device is used in a similar way to the device 200 to repair a page 520 (Fig. 27) with torn holes 40.
  • First the torn edge 511 is cut back to remove the torn holes to present a straight edge 44, Fig. 28.
  • the sub-element 12b is removed and the exposed adhesive 70 on the element 11 pressed against the page 520 with the dividing line 12c in register with the edge 44 to form the composite shown in Fig. 28.
  • the thus repaired and reinforced page may now be inserted in the lever arch file 950, Fig. 29, by manoeuvring the device 600 such that the rings 952 enter the holes 40 along the slits 151, 152.
  • the device 600 may be used to repair a damaged page 520', without removing the torn holes at the edge of the page, by removing both sub-elements 12a and 12b and sticking the element 11 onto the page with its holes 140 in register with the torn holes.
  • Fig. 30 shows a modification of the device 600 in which the slits 151, 152 are replaced by slits 150 leading to the edge 101.
  • Fig. 31 shows a further modification in which the slits 151, 152 are omitted altogether, this being possible because of the nature of lever arch files which allow the insertion of pages at any point.
  • a hole 140 or 301, or a slit 150, 151 or 152 is formed in a part of the device from which the element 12 or part thereof is removed before the device is used, it is only necessary to form the hole or slit in the element 11. Nonethelss, for ease of manufacture, it is preferabe to form the hole or slit through both the elements 11 and 12.

Landscapes

  • Sheet Holders (AREA)
EP99650048A 1998-06-12 1999-06-14 Vorrichtung zum Befestigen und Verstärken eines Bögens Withdrawn EP0963860A1 (de)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
IE980454 1998-06-12
IE980454 1998-06-12

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
EP0963860A1 true EP0963860A1 (de) 1999-12-15

Family

ID=11041817

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
EP99650048A Withdrawn EP0963860A1 (de) 1998-06-12 1999-06-14 Vorrichtung zum Befestigen und Verstärken eines Bögens

Country Status (2)

Country Link
EP (1) EP0963860A1 (de)
IE (1) IES990487A2 (de)

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US20150048610A1 (en) * 2013-08-13 2015-02-19 ACCO Brands Corporation Device with Quick-Attach Feature
US20150130177A1 (en) * 2013-11-13 2015-05-14 Barbara BECKER Spiral Notebook Repair Strip
USD981138S1 (en) 2000-07-17 2023-03-21 Zahner Design Group, Ltd. Shower curtain

Citations (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5590972A (en) * 1995-11-13 1997-01-07 Shobin; Sharyn B. Reinforcement strip and kit for use in attaching a page to a wire binding of a wire bound notebook

Patent Citations (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5590972A (en) * 1995-11-13 1997-01-07 Shobin; Sharyn B. Reinforcement strip and kit for use in attaching a page to a wire binding of a wire bound notebook

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
USD981138S1 (en) 2000-07-17 2023-03-21 Zahner Design Group, Ltd. Shower curtain
USD997597S1 (en) 2000-07-17 2023-09-05 Zahner Design Group, Ltd. Curtain
US20150048610A1 (en) * 2013-08-13 2015-02-19 ACCO Brands Corporation Device with Quick-Attach Feature
US10086637B2 (en) * 2013-08-13 2018-10-02 ACCO Brands Corporation Device with quick-attach feature
US20190001730A1 (en) * 2013-08-13 2019-01-03 ACCO Brands Corporation Device with quick-attach feature
US20150130177A1 (en) * 2013-11-13 2015-05-14 Barbara BECKER Spiral Notebook Repair Strip

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
IES990487A2 (en) 2000-07-26

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US5248164A (en) Stub binding for the filing of loose sheets and interposed sheets
US5909979A (en) One-piece machinable index divider with integral pocket
CA2015479C (en) Plastic multi-ring paper binding system using one piece cover
JPH08504688A (ja) 装丁された印刷物の平面上から突起した見出しを設けた装丁された印刷物の仕切り手段
EP1669212A2 (de) Buchbindebausatz
WO2003101756A1 (en) Removable insert for a binder
US5941569A (en) Album binding system
EP0963860A1 (de) Vorrichtung zum Befestigen und Verstärken eines Bögens
US20100207375A1 (en) Book product and pages for the same
US20080277917A1 (en) Bookmark
EP1915261B1 (de) Blattunterlage für fotografische digitaldrucke
EP0888223A1 (de) Verfahren und vorrichtung zum befestigen eines gegenstandes, insbesondere einer datenträgerplatte, an einer fläche, insbesondere einem printmedium
GB2247433A (en) Ring file insert
GB2072582A (en) Holder for folded sheet material
US8061736B2 (en) Longitudinally articulated view binder spines for easy spine labeling
EP0063046A1 (de) Ordner
US5018765A (en) Auxiliary binder
CH692912A5 (de) Binderücken zum permanenten Zusammenhalten einer Mehrzahl von Blättern.
US20100187802A1 (en) Loose leaf pages suitable for binding
DE2408108A1 (de) Schriftgut-sammelstreifen
JPH08324153A (ja) 開きをスムーズにした書籍の製本構造
JP6417469B1 (ja) 冊子作製綴具
EP0337611B1 (de) Verstärkung zum Buchbinden
JP2024004421A (ja) ファイル・バインダーのとじ具に合わせ、文書や用紙を貼り付けて整理ができる取り付け台
DE19646397A1 (de) Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Befestigung einer Datenträgerplatte an einem Printmedium

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
PUAI Public reference made under article 153(3) epc to a published international application that has entered the european phase

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009012

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: A1

Designated state(s): AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

AX Request for extension of the european patent

Free format text: AL;LT;LV;MK;RO;SI

17P Request for examination filed

Effective date: 20000615

AKX Designation fees paid

Free format text: AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

17Q First examination report despatched

Effective date: 20020627

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: THE APPLICATION IS DEEMED TO BE WITHDRAWN

18D Application deemed to be withdrawn

Effective date: 20030704