MXPA97007491A - Book of leaves recolocables, dismon - Google Patents

Abstract

A book (10) including a plurality of sheet assemblies (11a, 11b, 11c) each comprising first (12) and second (13) sheets and layers of pressure sensitive adhesive (16) in a predetermined design in the rear surface of each of the sheets, which adheres releasably to the rear main surface (5) of the other sheet only in areas without adhesive. The sheet assemblies are placed in a stack with their peripheral edges (26, 23) generally in alignment, and a joint, such as a layer of filling compound (18), is provided which joins together one of the peripheral edges corresponding to the leaf assemblies. The book (10) can be a coloring book with linear drawings (25) adapter to be colored on the front surfaces of some or all of the sheets, in which case a user can color the line drawings (25) in one of the leaves, separate that sheet from the joining material, and adhere that separate sheet to a substra

Description

BOOK OF REMOVABLE, REMOVABLE LEAVES Technical Field The present invention relates to paper sheets of the type having pressure sensitive adhesive on its back sides by which the sheets can adhere to a substrate, attached pillar of these sheets, and methods for making and using the joined stacks of these leaves.

Previous Technique A well-known notepad comprises a stack of paper sheets, each having a narrow strip of low-release pressure-sensitive adhesive, adjacent to an edge on its back side by which the sheets can temporarily adhere to substrates such as documents or other items (often for the purpose of carrying messages), strips of adhesive by which the sheets can be adhered together on the pad. In a pad configuration, all of the adhesive strips are along one side of the notebook, while in another pad configuration, the adhesive strip REF: 25610 on each successive sheet in the pad is along the opposite side of the pad as illustrated in U.S. Patent No. 4,416,392. The note pads in both of these configurations are commonly manufactured under the "Post-it" trademark of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, San Paul, Minnesota. Some of these notebooks have printed signs (for example, a printed message and / or illustration and / or decoration) on each sheet. U.S. Patent No. 5,382,055 discloses a method, and a sheet assembly used in that method, whereby an individual or a small custom printing company can inexpensively prepare a small amount of notes or notepad that have adhesive pressure sensitive on a back surface and custom made signs (for example, printed messages and / or decorations and / or illustrations and / or signs that make useful notes such as flags, labels or shapes) on the front surfaces of all or Some of the sheets that are applied when using a conventional printing medium include electrophotography through laser printers, conventional office copiers, lithography, flexography, or the like.

The method for making custom printed notes or notebook used one or more new sheet mounts, each of which has first and second sheets and layers of pressure sensitive adhesive in a predetermined design on the back main surface of the sheet. each of the sheets that contact and adhere releasably to the back surface of the other sheet only in areas that do not have adhesive. Signs are printed on the front major surfaces of the sheets using a conventional printing medium of the type described above. The sheets could then either be separated along predetermined planes normal to and extending through the major surfaces of the sheets to form the custom printed notes, or the sheets of a plurality of these printed sheet assemblies could be separated. separating, stacking to adhere to the layers of pressure sensitive adhesive on the back surfaces the sheets to the front surfaces of the other sheets in the stack with the adhesive layers on the sheets in a predetermined orientation with respect to one another; and the stacked sheets could be separated along predetermined normal planes a and which extend through the main surfaces of the sheets to form the printed notebooks on request.

Description of the invention The present invention is a book comprising a plurality of sheet assemblies described above each comprising first and second sheets, the layers of pressure-sensitive adhesive in a predetermined pattern on the back surfaces of each of the sheets, pressure sensitive adhesive design on the back main surface of each of the sheets makes contact and releasably adheres to the back main surface of the other sheet only in areas without adhesive. The leaf mounts are placed in a stack, and means are provided for joining them together to one of the corresponding peripheral edges of the sheet assemblies. The means for jointly joining the peripheral edges of the sheet assemblies in the stack could be any of the known means for joining sheets in a stack, such as staples, rivets, stitches, etc. However, preferably that means is a layer of a filler compound by which the sheet assemblies are releasably adhered together in the stack. The use of the filler compound for this joint allows the sheet assemblies to move relative to one another in a manner of the pages in a book without damaging the sheet assemblies or separating from the joint, while allowing the sheet assemblies are easily separated from the joint for uses such as those described above and in greater detail in U.S. Patent No. 5,382,055. The book can advantageously be used as a coloring book, in which case the line drawings adapted to be colored are printed on the front surfaces of at least some of the sheets. A person who uses the coloring book can then color the line drawings on one of the sheets in one of the book assemblies in the book and then separate that colored sheet of the binding material and the other sheet from the sheet assembly and adhere the colored sheet, separated to a substrate in which it is going to be exhibited. Alternatively, that person can separate a sheet that wishes to color from one of the sheet mounts and the bonding material and then adhere the separate sheet to a substrate during the coloring process, after which it can be removed from its substrate and adhere to a different substrate on which the colored sheet will be displayed (for example, in a refrigerator). Other uses of the book might include, among others, having the sheets of printed sheet assemblies (1) to provide a calendar, or (2) to provide signs, (eg "For Sales," "Garage Sale," etc. .) or labels, in which case the sheets can be adapted or not to have additional information such as the telephone number or address added before use, or (3) to provide pages of the type where some information is printed on the pages and other information will be filled out by the user of the book (for example, a workbook or form book), or (4) to provide coupons or business cards. The book may also have blank pages in which the information can be printed manually, so that the sheets can be removed and used in creativity or planning assignments or to form history or similar boards. Additionally, the books could contain sheets of polymeric material that could be transparent, so that they could be removed and used as protective sheets on other surfaces or documents that could be printed and / or adapted to be written in ways and for similar purposes. those described above. If desired, the sheets of at least some of the book assemblies in the book may be joined together along the adjacent peripheral edges (e.g., the edges of the top or side edges), attachment that may be a fold that allows the sheets to provide portions of a larger sheet when they are separated from the joint and to each other and do not fold. Alternatively, these joined sheets may have a path of weakness (e.g., a deep crease or perforations) along their joined peripheral edges, along which the sheets may be separated, as may be desired if the sheets of a sheet assembly will be printed and after the sheet assembly is removed from the joint. Also, in each sheet assembly, a portion of the first sheet adjacent one of its edges may extend beyond the adjacent edge of the second sheet to facilitate manual separation of the sheets in the sheet assembly. The book may include covers placed on opposite sides of the pile of sheet assemblies and attached to them by means of the union, at least one of the covers that may have a release liner on at least one of its surfaces to facilitate adhesion of one of the sheets thereto for viewing and / or storage purposes after the sheet is removed from one of the sheets. the assemblies of leaves in the book. Alternatively, or in addition, the book may include at least one support sheet that attaches to the pile of sheet assemblies by the joining means and is adapted to have one of the sheets releasably attached thereto for the purposes of display / storage after the sheet is removed from one of the sheet mounts. The adhesive used in the pressure sensitive adhesive layers may be a low tack adhesive pressure sensitive adhesive (eg, comprising elastomeric, sticky copolymer microspheres) in which case the non-adhesive areas on the back surface of the sheets to which the sheets of adhesive adhere in the sheet mounts may be free of release coating; or a more adhesive, conventional pressure sensitive adhesive can be used, in which case the sheet assembly can include a release liner in those areas that do not have adhesive to provide separation of the sheets from the sheet assembly. The sheets in the sheet assembly can be of any conventional material (eg, conventional paper, with or coated with clay, opaque or translucent polymeric material, or carbonless paper sold under the trademark "Scotchmark" by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota which is the paper that contains structures such as microencapsulated chemicals that will form an image on the paper when pressure is applied to the paper, so that for example, the capsules are broken by pressure to release the product chemical formed from the image). Also, the sheets can be adapted to be divided into small segments along routes of weakness (for example, as in the case of perforations) such that only a portion of one of the leaves can be removed and adhered to another substrate.

Brief Description of the Drawings The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which like reference numbers refer to like parts in the various views, and wherein: Figure 1 is a terminal view of the bottom of a book according to the present invention in which the portions are enlarged to show the detail.

Figure 2 is an edge, vertical book view of Figure 1 in which the portions are enlarged to show the detail and the adhesive coatings normally releasably adhered to the adjacent page are separated from that page; Figure 3 is a sectional view taken approximately along line 3-3 of Figure 2; Figure 4 is a sectional view taken approximately along 4-4 of Figure 2; Figure 5 is a schematic view of a method according to the present invention for making and using a coloring book.

Detailed Description Referring now to Figures 1 to 4 of the drawings, there is illustrated a coloring book according to the present invention, generally designated by reference numeral 10. In general, coloring book 10 comprises a plurality of assemblies lia, 11b and 11c of sheets having peripheral edges. Only the three assemblies lia, 11b and 11c of sheets are illustrated, and each has a slightly different structure. Typically, the book would contain much more than three sheet mounts, and all the book mounts in a book could have the same structure. Each of the sheet assemblies 11b, 11b or 11c comprises the first and second sheets 12 and 13 each having major front and rear surfaces 14 and 15, and spaced strips or layers 16 of pressure sensitive adhesive in one design predetermined on the back surface 15 of each of the sheets 12 and 13. The layers 16 of the pressure sensitive adhesive in the predetermined pattern on the rear surface 15 of each of the sheets 12 or 13 makes contact and adheres releasable to the rear surface 15 of the other sheet 12 or 13 in each assembly 11a, 11b or 11c of sheets only in areas that do not have adhesives of that rear surface 15 (such contact and adhesion is illustrated in Figure 1, but is not illustrated in the Figure 2 where the layers 16 are shown separated from the sheet to which they are normally releasably adhered to illustrate their location on each sheet 12 and 13). The leaf assemblies 11b, 11c and 11c are placed in a stack with their peripheral edges generally in alignment, and a means is provided in the form of a layer 18 of filler compound for the joint joining of one of the corresponding peripheral edges. of the assemblies lia, 11b and 11c of leaves. As illustrated, the book 10 includes the optional feature of the front and rear covers 20 and 21 that have opposite major surfaces that may be slightly larger than, but generally correspond in size to the major surfaces of the assemblies lia, 11b and 11c of leaves. Covers 20 and 21 are placed on opposite sides of the stack of the sheet assemblies 11, 11 and 11c and have peripheral edges attached to the stack of the sheet mounts by the layer 18 of the filling compound. A release liner 22 may be provided on some or all (as illustrated, one) of the surfaces of the covers 20 to facilitate adhesion of one of the sheets 12 or 13 thereto after the sheet has been removed from the sheet. one of the assemblies lia, 11b or 11c of sheets, since it may be desirable for the display and / or storage of that sheet 12 or 13. A suitable release material for the coating 22 is a solids solution at 20 percent of the release liner described in Example 1 of the publication of European Patent Application No. 0,618,509A1 dated January 5, 1994, modified so that the composition is KF2001 / MA / MAA / MAA 25/50/20/5 dispersed in 2-butanone. As an alternative to the back cover 21 illustrated, a back cover having a width at right angles to the layer 18 of the filling compound that is twice the width of the assemblies 11b, 11c and 11c of sheets and that is folded in half along a length of one can be provided. line parallel to its edge adhered to the layer 18 of the filling compound, with its distal portion placed adjacent to the leaf assemblies 11, 11 and 11c. Distant portion which could then be placed adjacent to the inner surface of the front cover 20, so that it is wound around and protects the distant edges of the assemblies 11b, 11b and / or 11c of sheets, or could be inserted between any of the assemblies lia, 11b and / or 11c of sheets. The book 10 further includes the optional feature of the support sheets 24 (two are illustrated, however any number could be provided) having opposing major surfaces generally corresponding in size to the major surfaces of the assemblies 11b, 11b and 11c of leaves. Each of the support sheets 24 has a peripheral edge attached to the pile of sheet mountings 11b, 11c, and 11c by the layer 18 of the filling compound, and has a coating such as the coating 22 described above, or is adapted otherwise to have one of the sheets 12 or 13 releasably adhered thereto after the sheet 12 or 13 is removed from one of the assemblies lia, 11b or 11c of sheets as may be desirable for storage and / or the display of that sheet 12 or 13 in addition to the display / storage provided by the cover 20. As in Figure 4, the book 10 includes linear patterns 25 adapted to be colored on the front surfaces 14 of the sheets 12 or 13 of the assemblies 11b, 11b and 11c of sheets, line drawings that could be typically different on each sheet 12 or 13. The sheets 12 and 13 are generally flexible, flat material that includes, but is not limited to, clear paper or bond , coating paper or with clay, or layers of polymeric materials. The main surfaces of the sheets 12 and 13 could be of any size, in desirable size that would be between 21.5 cm x 27.94 cm (eight and a half inches by 11 inches). Also, while the sheets 12 and 13 of the sheet mounts can be completely separated and joined together only by the adhesive layers 16 as illustrated by the sheet assembly, optionally, as illustrated by the mounts 11b and 11c of sheets, sheets 12 and 13 of each sheet assembly 11b or 11c can be joined together along peripheral edges 26, adjacent (see Figure 2) and 28 (see Figure 1) respectively, sheets 12 and 13 can be folding along their attached peripheral edges 26 or 28, so that the sheets 12 and 13 in the sheet assembly 11b or 11c can be separated and unfolded to provide a double-width sheet compared to the individual sheets 12 and 13. Alternatively, the sheets 12 and 13 of the sheet assemblies 11b and 11c may have weak paths along their peripheral, joined edges 26 and 28, paths of weakness along which the sheets 12 and 13 They can easily separate. By "path of weakness" is meant any weakening of the sheet material along a line that allows the sheet to bend or tear along that line while providing sufficient integrity so that the sheets do not separate along that line before they are intentionally separated. A suitable path of weakness can be provided by forming perforations spaced across the sheet, crushing the sheet, chemical treatment to reduce the thickness and / or strength of the sheet, grooves formed by cuts with depth of control, or the like. Also, as illustrated in Figure 2, a portion 30 of each of the first sheets 12 adjacent an edge of the first sheet 12 and in each sheet assembly 11b or 11c extends beyond the adjacent edge of the sheet. second sheet 13 in that assembly lia, 11b or 11c of sheets to provide a medium along one of its peripheral edges that facilitates the manual separation of the sheets 12 and 13 in that assembly lia, 11b or 11c of leaves by allowing a person to more easily attach and detach. the edges of those leaves with your fingers. If it is desired or necessary to facilitate the release of the sheets 16 of the adhesive, the sheet assemblies 11b, 11c and 11c illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 could have release liners in non-adhesive areas of the back surfaces of the sheets. 12 and 13, release liners that could be in strips opposite to, parallel to, and slightly wider than the adhesive strips or layers 16, so that with the rear surfaces 15 of the sheets 12 and 13 face to face as shown. illustrated in Figure 1 and 2, the adhesive layers 16 will contact and generally focus on the release liners. Referring now to Figure 5, a method in accordance with the present invention for making and using coloring book 10 illustrated in Figures 1 through 4 is schematically illustrated. This method comprises the steps of (1) providing a plurality of mounts 11b, 11b and / or 11c of sheets illustrated in Figures 1 through 3 and described above, which can be done by conventional paper handling and adhesive coating methods, (2) printing line drawings adapted to be colored on the front surfaces 14 of the sheets 12 and 13 in the sheet assemblies 11b, 11b and 11c, which could be made by using a conventional printing device 30, or alternatively, for the sheet assemblies 11b and 11c, when using a machine office copier for which an appropriate design sheet has been prepared to be copied, (3) jointly joining one of the corresponding peripheral edges of the sheet assemblies, which can be done using the "Padder" 32 and a method described later, (4) coloring the line drawings on one of the sheets, which as illustrated is done manually by one person 34 while sheet 12 or 13 is in book 10, (5) ) separating the thus colored sheet 12 or 13 from the bonded material 18, and (6) adhering the colored sheet 12 or 13, separated to a substrate 36 (for example, the side of a refrigerator) for display using the adhesive layers 16 on its back surface. Alternatively, although not illustrated, the sheet 12 or 13 taken from the book 10 could then be colored, rather than before, to be separated from the book 10, in which case, that separate sheet 12 or 13 could be adhered to a surface (for example, the top of a table) while it is being colored, and then removed and adhered to the substrate 35. The preferred method for attaching the assemblies lia, 11b and / or 11c of sheets and any of covers 20 and 21 and support sheets 24 which could be included in book 10 include the use of a hot melt filler compound such as that commercially designed hot melt filler compound "Glue Fast", number of part GF5023C, commercially available from Glue Fast Equipment Co. , Inc., Carlstadt, NJ. That filler compound can be applied to form layer 18 by using the commercially-designed "Kansa Corporation Padder, Model # KP-2824" device commercially available from Kansa Corporatin, Emporia, KS. The assemblies lia, 11b and / or 11c of sheets of sheets are compiled, together with any of the covers 20 and 21 and the supporting sheets 24 to be included in book 10 and then fed into that filling apparatus which applies the layer 18 in the filling compound along the corresponding peripheral edges of the leaf assemblies Ia, 11b and / or 11c, the covers 20 and 21 and the support sheets 24 for joining them together. Alternatively, the commercially available filling compound "3M Latex Padding Compound, 3M I.D. # 98-0439-6211-1" commercially available from Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, San Paul, MN., Can be used to join the assemblies lia, 11b and / or 11c of sheets and any of the covers 20 and 21 and the supporting sheets 24 of the book 10 when stacking them, holding them together with a clamp in shape of C, and brush the multiple layers of the filler compound at its peripheral edges along one side of the stack using a regular paint brush, while allowing a drying time of approximately 20 minutes between the layers. The number of these layers needed to join book 10 will depend on the thickness of the stack. It has been found that three to four layers of this compound are sufficient for a book 10 having a thickness of about 0.63 cm (one quarter of an inch). The present invention has now been described with reference to a modality that illustrates many possible variations. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that many changes can be made in the described embodiment without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, as indicated above, the sheets could be printed with many different things from linear drawings for a coloring book, or they might not have prints at all and the sheets could be of many different materials. Thus, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the methods and structures described in the application, but only by the methods and structures described by the language of the claims and the equivalents of those methods and structures.

It is noted that in relation to this date, the best method known by the applicant to carry out the present invention is that which is clear from the present description of the invention.

Having described the invention as above, the content of the following is claimed as property:

Claims (22)

1. A book characterized in that it comprises: a plurality of sheet assemblies having peripheral edges and each comprising first and second sheets each having front and rear main surfaces, and layers of pressure sensitive adhesive in a predetermined pattern on a surface At the back of each of the sheets, the design of the pressure-sensitive adhesive on the back main surface of each of the sheets that makes contact and releasably adhere to the back main surface of the other sheet only in non-adhesive areas , the leaf assemblies are placed in a stack with the peripheral edges in general in alignment; and a means for joining together one of the corresponding peripheral edges of the blade assemblies.

2. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that it includes covers having opposite major surfaces that generally correspond in size to the main surfaces of the sheet assemblies, the covers that are placed on opposite sides of the stack of the sheet assemblies and having peripheral edges attached to the stack of the sheet assemblies by the joining means.

3. A book according to claim 2, characterized in that it includes a release liner on at least one of the surfaces of at least one of the covers to facilitate adhesion of one of the sheets thereto after the sheet is removed from the sheet. one of the leaf assemblies.

4. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that it also includes at least one support sheet having opposite main surfaces that correspond in general in size to the main surfaces of the sheet assemblies, the support sheet having a peripheral edge joined together. to the stack of sheet assemblies by the joining means, and which is adapted to have one of the sheets releasably adhered thereto after the sheet is removed from one of the sheet assemblies.

5. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that the adhesive is a low-tack pressure-sensitive adhesive and the non-adhesive areas are free of the release coating.

6. A book according to claim 5, characterized in that the low-tack pressure sensitive adhesive comprises sticky, elastomeric copolymer microspheres.

7. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that it also includes a release liner in one of the areas that do not have adhesive.

8. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that the sheets of at least some of the sheet assemblies are joined together along the adjacent peripheral edges.

9. A sheet assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the sheets are joined along the adjacent peripheral edges and have a path of weakness along their peripheral edges joined along which the sheets can be separated. .

10. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that it also includes linear patterns adapted to be colored on the front surfaces of at least some of the sheets.

11. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that the means for joining together one of the corresponding peripheral edges of the sheet assemblies comprises a layer of a filling compound by which the sheet assemblies are releasably adhered together in the battery.

12. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that the means for joining together one of the corresponding peripheral edges of the sheet assemblies comprises a layer of a filling compound by which the sheet assemblies are releasably adhered together in the battery.

13. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that it includes signals on the front surfaces of at least some of the sheets.

14. A book according to claim 1, characterized in that at least some of the sheets are made of polymeric material.

15. A method for making a book, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: providing a plurality of first and second sheets each having leading front and rear surfaces, and layers of pressure sensitive adhesive in predetermined designs on the back surfaces of the sheets; releasably adhering the layers of pressure sensitive adhesive on the back surfaces of the first sheets to the back surfaces of the second sheets and the layers of the pressure sensitive adhesive on the back surfaces of the second sheets to the back surfaces of the second sheets. the first sheets only in areas that do not have adhesive to form a plurality of sheet mounts having peripheral edges; and joining together one of the corresponding peripheral edges of the blade assemblies.

16. A method according to claim 15, characterized in that it also includes the step of using the book, comprising: separating one of the sheets of the joining material; and adhere one of the separated sheets to a substrate.

17. A method according to claim 15, characterized in that it also includes the step of printing linear patterns on the front surfaces of the sheets.

18. A method according to claim 15, characterized in that it includes the step of manually applying signals on the front surfaces of the sheets.

19. A method according to claim 15, characterized in that it further includes the step of printing linear patterns adapted to be colored on the front surfaces of the sheets so that the book is a coloring book.

20. A method according to claim 19, characterized in that it also includes the steps for using the coloring book, comprising: coloring the line drawings on one of the sheets to separate one of the sheets of the joining material; and adhere one of the separated sheets to a substrate.

21. A method according to claim 20, characterized in that the coloring step is carried out before the adhesion step.

22. A method according to claim 20, characterized in that the coloring step is carried out after the adhesion step.