GB1585468A

GB1585468A - Books

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Publication number: GB1585468A
Application number: GB4139476A
Authority: GB
Original assignee: Howitt & Son Ltd J
Current assignee: Howitt & Son Ltd J
Priority date: 1977-10-17
Filing date: 1977-10-17
Publication date: 1981-03-04

Description

(54) IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATIN G TO BOOKS (71) We, J. Howirr & SON LIMITED, a British Company of Barlock Road, Basford, Nottingham, do hereby declare the invention, for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement: This invention is for improvements in or relating to books and has for one object to provide an improved method of forming a book, particularly an educational type book, for children. However, this invention does have application to other types of books.

The invention is concerned with a book that is manufactured according to the method of manufacture of this invention.

Particularly the invention is concerned with a book in which cut-outs are provided, that is to say, shaped portions which have been punched through so that they may be removed either partially or entirely from the page.

According to one aspect of the present invention the book has a shaped cut-out which may for example be a figure which may be moved from one page to the next.

In order to achieve this object it will be appreciated that the successive pages have to have the cut-outs of the appropriate shape punched therefrom.

In a particular aspect the present invention provides a childs educational book in card form in which successive pages have shaped cut-outs and which the printed figure to fit said cut-outs is provided so that the child may build up a picture on successive pages with the figure in different relative positions.

Thus a book is provided in which a child is able to participate and to move the figure onto the relative pages to form different pictures within the book. The term figure as used herein includes human and animal figures as well as all manner of objects.

It is thought that this has the object of teaching the child both to manipulate shapes to the right cut-outs and at the same time providing added interest in that the child is able to form the pictures themselves as opposed to all the pictures being already printed on the pages for the child to look at.

Accordingly the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a book which comprises firstly printing the desired matter onto a sheet, subjecting one face of the sheet to a selective glueing process so that glue is applied only to pre-determined areas of the sheet and thereafter applying a further sheet to said glued face to adhere the two sheets together, in the selected area only, and thereafter folding the sheet to form pages of a book with selected areas of the sheet glued together.

In a particular example a sheet of card or board like material is printed on one face with the desired pictures and representations of e.g. animals, or houses, such as will form the final book.

The sheet is then scored along parallel lines so that the sheet will subsequently fold into concertina fashion and form leaves of a book. It will be appreciated that next adjacent areas of the sheet which are scored will form the pages of the book back to back, and the next adjacent portions of the sheet will form pages face to face.

The sheet is simultaneously punched so that portions of the sheets may be removed.

Such portions being hereinafter referred to as the cut-outs.

The sheet is then glued on the back face thereof, that is to say the face not being printed, such that the adjacent leaves may be glued back to back, but the glue is applied selectively by a method as described in our co-pending patent application No.

41395/76 so that no glue is applied to the cut-out areas.

The sheet is then folded so that it is rendered in concertina fashion with those areas of the sheet which have been glued brought together in order to secure the sheets in back to back formation and with the front of the sheet with printed matter thereon in face to face formation. Finally the sheet is trimmed all round to the desired final size.

It will be appreciated therefore that a book is formed of a plurality of pages with cut-outs formed therein on successive pages from one sheet of paper or card.

Accordingly the present invention also provides a printed book having a plurality of pages formed by glueing, back to back, sheets of printed matter in which glue has been selectively applied to one sheet so as to adhere the sheet to a second sheet in selected areas so that cut-outs may be removed either from the sheet or the cover leaving the back of the other sheet or cover visible through the aperture formed by removal of the cut-out.

In order that the present invention may be more readily understood reference is now made to the accompanying drawing in which figures 1 to 5 illustrate diagramatically the formation of a book according to one embodiment of the present invention and in which figures 6 to 10 illustrate the formation of a book according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring firstly to figure 1, a sheet of material suitably stiffened is printed and is scored to provide fold lines to divide the sheet into areas indicated in figure 1 by the letters A to F together with the letters A-, F-. The sheet is split along a central line 5 leaving only the two sheets F and Fjoined together. The view of the sheet in figure 1 is the non-page face of the sheet that is to say the face of the sheets which will not be seen when the book is made and assembled.

The indication OA or OF- is used to indicate the obverse face of the sheet A or E-- as the case may be.

The sheet as seen in figure 1 is selectively glued according to a pre-arranaed programme and particularly in accordance with the manner of selective glueing as described and claimed in our co-pending patent application 41395/76.

The fold lines are indicated at 1. 2, 3, 4 and 5 as will hereinafter appear. The sheets are firstly folded about the line 2 so that sheets C are glued to C- and B v} d to B- and F now becomes visible as OF and OF-. A second fold is then made about line 4 so that sheets E are glued to E- and D to Dagain leaving sheets OF and OF-- visible. Final fold is then made about line 5 so that sheets A and A are glued together and OF and OF glued together so that now ns illustrated in figure 5, just prior to pressing down and glueing, the sheets which become visible are OA, being the cover of the book, and OF which is the first page of the book.

The book is printed so that cut-outs or removable portions are provided on the pages in such form as is illustrated, particularly in figure 3. Referring to the sheets OF and OF- a triangle and square are illustrated purely for diagramatic purposes of illustration only.

On sheet OF there is shown a triangle which may be printed onto the sheet OF and a square which is indicated in cross hatching on sheet OF. The cross hatch square on OF is perforated so that square may removed from the sheet.

On sheet OF there is shown a square which will register with the square of OF when the sheets are glued together but the open square on OF will be printed on the sheet while the triangle on sheet OF may be removed since it has been perforated or scored for removal.

Thus in this situation the triangle on sheet OF may be removed by a child and placed elsewhere leaving visible, through the aperture formed by the removal of the triangle from the sheet OF-, a further triangle printed on the sheet OF.

It will be appreciated that this principle may be extended to animals or characters in a story as well as to a variety of shapes to assist in teaching a child both shapes and colours and assisting a child to identify shapes and to replace them back into the cut-out portions of the sheets.

In figures 6 to 10 an alternative form of book according to the present invention is illustrated. It will be appreciated that in figures 1 to 5 that 6 sections of a book are provided by the sheets A, B, C, D, E and F in figures 6 to 10 only 5 sheets are provided indicated as A, B, C, D and E.

In figure 6 the sheet C is provided with a flap P and the edge of the sheet B is indicated by the letter Q for purpose hereinafter specified.

The first fold is made about the line 1 so that sheets C and C-, B and B- are glued together as illustrated in figure 7. The second fold is made about line 3 so that sheets D and D-, and E and E-- are glued together leaving exposed now the sheets A and A-, OC and OB.

The flap P now stands up from sheet OC and it will be appreciated that the edge Q of sheet OB has to be secured together otherwise on the interior spine of the book there would be no means of securing that edge together and it would be a loose inside unsecured page within the book.

Thus when making the fold at figure 9 the flap P is tucked around the edge Q so that the flap P is in fact glued to the surface B on the other side of the sheet indicated in OB in figure 9 thus locking the sheets OC and OB together as illustrated in figure 10.

The inside cover of the book OA, the first page of the book will have been printed on OD-. The principle illustrated with reference to figure 3 of the cut-outs and the printing on the face of the sheets through which the cut-outs may be seen applies.

In an alternative construction to provide for cut-outs on both left and right hand pages an interleaving sheet may be inserted on a stencil application machine and the sheets passed through the said machine.

Again to obtain left and right hand cut-outs, on the subsequent assembly such a sheet may be inserted either by hand or a machine and such a sheet may be an interleaving sheet which may have printed matter on, which will be brought into alignment with the blank areas formed by the removed or removable cut-outs.

This is an alternative construction if the cut-outs are required to be in such a place and formation of the sheets where it is not possible to have a non cut-out portion of the sheet to which it is glued appearing through the portion removed by the removal of the cut-out.

It will be appreciated that it will be necessary to ensure that no glue is applied to the cut-out portions otherwise the cut-outs may not be removed if they have not previously been removed at the punching stage it will be glued to the back of the sheet. It will not normally be necessary to glue to the interleaving sheet providing both faces of the sheet have had glue applied thereto. The pages will be formed by the backs of the sheet being secured to the interleaving sheet.

It will be appreciated that the present invention enables a book of novel form with cut-outs on right or right and left-hand pages to be provided so that the user of the book may create pictures from the cut-out which may be separately provided. Desirably the unwanted cut-out portions are removed at the punching stage but alternatively they may remain in the book either so that the purchaser of the book has a plurality of additionally shaped portions or they may be removed by hand at a later stage before sale or trimming of the book. It is thought that the present invention provides a novel book as well as a novel method of constructing a book with cut-outs.

WHAT WE CLAIM IS:- 1. A method of manufacturing a book which comprises firstly printing the desired matter on to a sheet, subjecting one face of the sheet to a selective glueing process so that the glue is applied only to pre-determined areas of the sheet, and thereafter applying a further sheet to said glued face to adhere the two sheets together in the selected areas only, and thereafter folding the sheets to form pages of the book with selected areas of the sheets glued together.

2. The method according to claim 1 which comprises folding and scoring a printed sheet into pages and applying glue to one face of said sheet folding the sheet along pre-determined score lines to adhere adjacent areas of the sheet one to another and back to back to form the pages of the book in such manner that portions of one or more of the sheets have parts which have been punched to form cut-outs and in such manner that having removed the cut-out from one sheet printed matter on the other sheet is visible through the aperture formed by the removal of the said cut-out.

3. The method of manufacturing a book substantially as described and illustrated herein with reference to the accompanying drawings.

4. A book having a plurality of pages formed by glueing back to back printed sheets in which glue has been selectively applied to one of the sheets so as to adhere the sheets together in selected areas so that cut-outs provided on at least one sheet may be removed therefrom leaving the back of the other sheet visible through the aperture formed by the removal of the cut-out.

5. A book according to claim 4 in which only one sheet has printed matter thereon and the other sheet which has a cut-out is adhered to the said sheet.

6. A printed book substantially as described and illustrated herein with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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Claims

**WARNING** start of CLMS field may overlap end of DESC **. printing on the face of the sheets through which the cut-outs may be seen applies. In an alternative construction to provide for cut-outs on both left and right hand pages an interleaving sheet may be inserted on a stencil application machine and the sheets passed through the said machine. Again to obtain left and right hand cut-outs, on the subsequent assembly such a sheet may be inserted either by hand or a machine and such a sheet may be an interleaving sheet which may have printed matter on, which will be brought into alignment with the blank areas formed by the removed or removable cut-outs. This is an alternative construction if the cut-outs are required to be in such a place and formation of the sheets where it is not possible to have a non cut-out portion of the sheet to which it is glued appearing through the portion removed by the removal of the cut-out. It will be appreciated that it will be necessary to ensure that no glue is applied to the cut-out portions otherwise the cut-outs may not be removed if they have not previously been removed at the punching stage it will be glued to the back of the sheet. It will not normally be necessary to glue to the interleaving sheet providing both faces of the sheet have had glue applied thereto. The pages will be formed by the backs of the sheet being secured to the interleaving sheet. It will be appreciated that the present invention enables a book of novel form with cut-outs on right or right and left-hand pages to be provided so that the user of the book may create pictures from the cut-out which may be separately provided. Desirably the unwanted cut-out portions are removed at the punching stage but alternatively they may remain in the book either so that the purchaser of the book has a plurality of additionally shaped portions or they may be removed by hand at a later stage before sale or trimming of the book. It is thought that the present invention provides a novel book as well as a novel method of constructing a book with cut-outs. WHAT WE CLAIM IS:-

1. A method of manufacturing a book which comprises firstly printing the desired matter on to a sheet, subjecting one face of the sheet to a selective glueing process so that the glue is applied only to pre-determined areas of the sheet, and thereafter applying a further sheet to said glued face to adhere the two sheets together in the selected areas only, and thereafter folding the sheets to form pages of the book with selected areas of the sheets glued together.