US20020056986A1 - Book for holding products such as compact discs and method of making the same - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to making a book for holding a plurality of compact discs or other products in pockets on pages of the book, and to the method of manufacturing the same.
- Compact discs are stored in a wide variety of manners; and there is a need for an improved method of storing the compact discs so that they are protected from being damaged and from damaging foreign material. Also, there is a need for storing and for presenting a series of compact discs on the same subject matter or course of instruction with printed instructions and information relative to the use of the CDs. For music compact discs, it is often desired to provide some printed text explaining the music on the compact disc or providing information about the disc being stored. Compact discs are often intended to be used in a particular sequence or to be stored at a particular location, which allows use of an index to locate quickly the desired compact disc for removal from storage.
- a compact disc storage book is formed with pages having pockets therein to receive and store products such as compact discs therein.
- the preferred compact disc storage books have text or indicia on the pages thereof with slits in the pages to form an entrance to a pocket defined between adjacent signature sheets defining one board book page.
- the compact disc book is a board book comprised of folded signatures adhered to one another to form a book of board pages which can be opened to allow access to the discs being carried in pockets in the respective board pages.
- board pages is intended to mean thicker pages than the usual thin sheet of a magazine, such as the thick board pages often used for children's books for very young children.
- children's board books are for children too young to read and carry pictures of animals for the children to identify—i.e., cartoon books such as Barney or stories such as Dr. Seuss or the like.
- the thickness of the board book pages provides the strength and stability to support a CD and, preferably, a hard cover is provided to protect the pages and CDs from being damaged or crushed and to avoid contamination by dirt, dust, liquids, etc.
- the present invention provides an expandable binder or spine for the book to allow the book to increase in shape as CDs are placed into the board book. Conversely, the size of the board book has a reduced thickness prior to introduction of CDs or after removal of the CDs from the board book.
- the board book provides an inexpensive book with printed text and illustrations as well as a decorative cover. For example, if a particular course of instruction is stored on the CDs, the board book cover will have advertising informing the purchaser of the course and materials inside.
- the individual board pages also carry text and/or illustrations to assist the user in understanding the associated compact disc being stored and also to locate the disc at a specific, associated page for storage after use of the disc.
- these compact disc board books are made inexpensively using signature folding machines and signature gathering machines, which also apply adhesive in predetermined patterns to cause the signatures to be attached to one another to form the book block, but leaving unadhered pockets to receive a disc between adjacent sheets of a board page.
- the signature folds at the backbone are not glued together so that the folded portions may expand or contract to provide an accordion-like backbone to allow expansion with insertion of the CDs into the CD pockets.
- the entry into the pockets is preferably a slit in one sheet that allows the lower portion or half of the CD to be inserted into the w pocket while the upper, remaining portion or half of the CD is exposed and is outside of the pocket.
- the illustrated slit is arcuate with a central, lower point between equally-spaced upper, outer edges of the slit.
- signature handling equipment is used with the signatures having been printed prior to being folded, and with signatures slit on a die cutting machine.
- the slit, printed signature is fed into a signature folding machine to make a folded signature.
- the respective folded signatures are delivered to associated feeders of the gathering machine, which feeds sequentially the respective folded signatures in proper sequence onto a gathering conveyor.
- the preferred signature gathering machine also has a programmable gluing or adhesive applicator that allows a specific adhesive pattern to be established in order to form the CD pocket and to form the accordion, expandable backbone for the book form.
- the gathered pages are pressed together to adhere the pages to make the book form.
- the cover is attached, preferably by adhering the outer sides of the book form pages to adjacent, inner facing sides of a casing or cover.
- the preferred cover also has an expandable, foldable spine to allow expansion as the CDs are being loaded into the pockets in the board pages, and the backbone of the board book is being expanded.
- the illustrated, expandable cover spine is formed by a first and second pair of adjacent, parallel fold lines in the cover.
- the preferred cover also is of a thick board material, which is thicker than signature board material; and it has an outer, printed signature mounted thereon and adhered thereto to provide a very decorative, outer appearance for assistance in marketing the book to purchasers.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a compact disc book without discs therein and embodying the invention
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a front cover opened to expose a CD carrying page in the book of FIG.
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the book of FIG. 1 but is expanded in width because of the insertion of CDs into the pockets in the book;
- FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 2 but with a CD in a pocket in the first page of the book;
- FIG. 5 is an enlarged plan view of a CD in a pocket
- FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view through the book showing some pages having CDs in pockets and other pages without a CD in a pocket;
- FIG. 7A is an exploded view showing adjacent signatures and a glue pattern thereon for attaching the signatures to one another;
- FIG. 7B is an exploded view of three signatures being joined together into the book block
- FIG. 7C is an exploded view showing the cover and adhesive for attaching the cover to the outer pages of the book block;
- FIG. 8 is an enlarged, fragmentary, sectional view of the expandable backbone formed of folded portions of folded signatures without adhesive applied thereto;
- FIG. 9 is a view of a signature having received a slot therein at a die cutting station
- FIG. 10 is a view of adjacent folded signatures and adhesive for adhering the signatures together;
- FIG. 11 is a view of a signature block and a cover being wrapped about the book block.
- FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a process for making the CD book of FIG. 3, and then for shipping the CD books in a carton.
- the invention is embodied in a book 10 of the board-book kind having an outer cover 12 and an interior book block 14 of individual board book pages 16 .
- the cover comprises a front cover 12 a and a rear cover 12 b , as best seen in FIG. 6, and a spine 12 c which covers an interior backbone 18 for the book block 14 .
- the book block is formed of board pages 16 which are of double thickness in that they each comprise a pair of signature sheets 20 a and 20 b , which have been folded from the flat signature sheet 20 (shown in FIG. 9) into folded signatures with a central fold or fold line 20 c .
- the sheet 20 a of a first signature 20 is adhered to a sheet 20 b of an adjacent, second signature by an adhesive or glue 24 applied in a predetermined pattern.
- the folded signatures are fed from feed hoppers of a signature gathering machine while in a folded V-shape (as shown in FIG. 10) with the adhesive 24 applied to the signature sheet 20 b as it is fed from the feed hopper; and upon contact with the signature sheet 20 a of an adjacent signature gathered on the gathering machine, the adjacent signature sheets 20 a and 20 b are adhered to one another and are later pressed together to form the board block page 16 comprised of adhered sheets from adjacent, folded signatures.
- the board book 10 is formed with a plurality of product-receiving pockets 30 holding a product, such as the CDs 32 , as shown in FIGS. 3 - 5 .
- the pockets 32 are formed with the entrance slit or slot 34 leading into a space between the signature sheets 20 a and 20 b of adjacent, folded signatures.
- the signature sheets 20 a and 20 b are adhered together by adhesive 24 and, in this instance, the adhesive pattern is a line 36 a , 36 b and 36 c of adhesive about each of three exposed edges of signature sheet 20 a .
- a fourth line of adhesive 38 is positioned adjacent the fold 20 c in the signature.
- the slit 34 is in the signature sheet within the glue border (lines 36 a , 36 b , 36 c and 38 ), the slit leads into an open space or pocket 30 being defined between the sheets 20 a and 20 b of each board book page 16 . That is, the slit 34 leads into a hollow space between the sheets 20 a and 20 b , which hollow space is bound by the four glued together portions of these sheets at the adhesive lines 36 a - 36 c and 38 .
- the glue lines 36 a , 36 b and 36 c glue together the upper, lower and outer side edges of the two sheets 20 a and 20 b to form a closed, sealed edge about the book board page 16 .
- the board book is expandable from its position of not having any CDs therein (FIG. 1) to its expanded position where it is filled as shown in FIG. 3.
- the backbone is preferably formed from signature folds 20 c arranged in an accordion-like fashion, as best seen in FIG. 8, with fold edge areas or portions 40 being unglued.
- the glue line 38 adjacent the fold line 20 c , is spaced by an unglued strip area 40 intermediate the fold or crease line 20 c and the adhesive line 38 .
- the outer cover is also made to be expandable along with the expandable cover spine 42 , which changes from its unfilled, smaller position of FIG. 1 to its expanded filled position of FIG. 3.
- the CD board book has an attached, hard, protective cover 12 to protect the CDs in the pockets 30 of the board book pages 12.
- the signature sheets 20 are printed as well as a case outer cover sheet 50 used when forming the cover 12 , as indicated at station 51 (FIG. 12).
- the signatures are sent to a die cutting machine, such as a Bobst die cutter at a die cutting station 54 , where the slot 34 is formed in the flat signature 20 , as shown in FIG. 9.
- the slot in the signature sheet 20 a portion of the signature is preferably arcuate in shape (FIG. 9) with a central space 34 a between an upper edge 34 b and a lower edge 34 c of the slot.
- the illustrated slot 34 has upper ends 34 e and 34 f of equal height from the lower, central portion of the slot 34 .
- the illustrated slot 34 is formed in the die cutter with waste being cut from the signature to form the space 34 a ; hence, the slot 34 is more than a mere slit where no scrap material is removed from the signature.
- the slot 34 serves as an entrance to the pocket.
- the pocket may take various forms; and the slot likewise may take various forms, particularly for products other than the thin, flat, circular CDs illustrated herein.
- the slotted signatures 20 are sent to a folding machine at a folding station 56 (FIG. 12) wherein the folding machine folds the signature in half to form the fold 20 c and the two signature sheets 20 a and 20 b .
- the folding machine includes pressure rollers which press the sheets 20 a and 20 b tightly against one another to remove air therebetween and to crease the fold 20 c .
- the folded signature sheets are now in a familiar signature shape to be sent to station 60 at which is located a conventional, signature-gathering machine.
- the gathering machine typically has a large number of hoppers each assigned to receive a stack of one of the signatures of the sequence used to make up the book block.
- the gathering machine may have 16 hoppers for depositing sixteen signatures in timed sequence to be gathered on the gathering conveyor to form the book block.
- Usually, only one side 20 h (FIG. 10) of the signature has printing thereon.
- the other side 20 j of the signature does not have printing thereon in this instance, although it could have printing thereon, if desired.
- a glue applicator such as a glue roller
- the glue pattern comprises glue lines 36 a , 36 b , 36 c and 38 .
- the printed text is on inside surfaces 20 h of the respective signature sheets 20 a and 20 b when in the V position shown in FIG. 10.
- the outer surfaces 20 j and 20 k of the respective signature sheets 20 a and 20 b are not printed because they are to be glued to an adjacent signature sheet to form the pockets 30 .
- the lefthand signature will have page 1 on its inner surface 20 h of a sheet 20 a ; and page 2 will be facing it on inside surface 20 h of page 20 b .
- Page 3 of the text will be on inside surface 20 h of sheet 20 a of the right folded signature; and page 4 will be on the inside surface 20 h of the signature sheet 20 b of the right folded signature sheet 20 b .
- the adhesive will have been applied, as shown in FIG. 10 to the outer sides 20 j of the sheets 20 a of each of the folded signatures.
- This adhesive is pressed against an outer side 20 k of an adjacent sheet 20 b of an adjacent, folded signature.
- the sides 20 j of each of the sheets 20 a having adhesive thereon will be pressed against a facing side 20 k of adjacent and preceding signature sheet 20 b of a preceding, folded signature, thereby joining the signatures together into a book block 14 having a book backbone 18 defined by the folds 20 d of the adhered signature sheets of the book.
- the case or cover 12 may be applied immediately to the book block 14 at a cover applying station 64 .
- the manufacture of the preferred and illustrated case or cover 12 will be described below.
- the illustrated cover 12 is formed with a harder and stiffer material, which is usually thicker than the stock of the signature.
- the cover is formed with three pieces of chip board including a central spine board 20 (FIG. 6) that is about 1 ⁇ 2′′ in width or greater and is connected to similar cover boards 71 and 72 by an outer printed case side sheet.
- a cover-making station 59 FIG. 12
- the chip board for the cover is severed into three pieces including the front cover board 70 , the spline board 71 and the back cover board 72 .
- the front and back cover boards are identical in size.
- a case or cover-making machine such as Horan FC.M. machine, applies glue to boards and adheres them to the outer case or cover sheet 50 .
- the case cover sheet 50 covers the entire outer sides of the chip board pieces, and preferably has edged portions 50 a (FIG. 5) folded over and adhered to the inner sides of the chip boards.
- the case cover sheet 50 has hinge portions 50 b and 50 c that join the spline piece 65 to the front and back cover pieces 66 and 67 .
- the cover is folded over to form the book cover shape shown in FIGS. 1, 3 and 6 .
- the attaching of the book covers 12 to the book blocks ( 14 ) takes place in station 64 and is done with a machine.
- the first and last outer sides of the book block are adhered by adhesive to the inner sides of the cover side pieces 66 and 67 to attach the book block to the cover.
- the spline piece 65 is not attached to the accordion backbone of the book block, but is spaced therefrom to allow the book's backbone 18 to expand.
- the book block will be expanded as CDs are placed into the pockets 30 of the board book pages 16.
- the now-completed CD book is individually shrink-wrapped in plastic to protect the CD book and the CDs therein at a shrink wrap station 78 .
- the shrink-wrapped CD books are then placed in cartons at a cartoning station 79 and shipped at a shipping station 80 .
- the CD board books can be made quickly and inexpensively on board book-making machines at high production rates to provide an inexpensive CD board book.
- the use of signature-gathering machines allows the fast formation of book blocks using signatures that are uniquely shaped to provide CD pockets therein.
- the provision of unglued strips, e.g., 1 ⁇ 4 to 3 ⁇ 8 inch in width adjacent the folds in the signatures allows for an expandable backbone, which expands as CDs are placed in the pockets.
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- This invention relates to making a book for holding a plurality of compact discs or other products in pockets on pages of the book, and to the method of manufacturing the same.
- Compact discs are stored in a wide variety of manners; and there is a need for an improved method of storing the compact discs so that they are protected from being damaged and from damaging foreign material. Also, there is a need for storing and for presenting a series of compact discs on the same subject matter or course of instruction with printed instructions and information relative to the use of the CDs. For music compact discs, it is often desired to provide some printed text explaining the music on the compact disc or providing information about the disc being stored. Compact discs are often intended to be used in a particular sequence or to be stored at a particular location, which allows use of an index to locate quickly the desired compact disc for removal from storage.
- Many of common storage devices for compact discs are expensive and rather bulky. There is a need for inexpensive compact disc storage which stores cassettes in a very small storage space. Often storage space is at a premium in retail stores selling the compact disc book or is worth a premium when shipping the compact disc book to a purchaser.
- In accordance with the present invention, a compact disc storage book is formed with pages having pockets therein to receive and store products such as compact discs therein. The preferred compact disc storage books have text or indicia on the pages thereof with slits in the pages to form an entrance to a pocket defined between adjacent signature sheets defining one board book page.
- In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the compact disc book is a board book comprised of folded signatures adhered to one another to form a book of board pages which can be opened to allow access to the discs being carried in pockets in the respective board pages. The term “board pages” is intended to mean thicker pages than the usual thin sheet of a magazine, such as the thick board pages often used for children's books for very young children. Typically, children's board books are for children too young to read and carry pictures of animals for the children to identify—i.e., cartoon books such as Barney or stories such as Dr. Seuss or the like. The thickness of the board book pages provides the strength and stability to support a CD and, preferably, a hard cover is provided to protect the pages and CDs from being damaged or crushed and to avoid contamination by dirt, dust, liquids, etc.
- The present invention provides an expandable binder or spine for the book to allow the book to increase in shape as CDs are placed into the board book. Conversely, the size of the board book has a reduced thickness prior to introduction of CDs or after removal of the CDs from the board book.
- The board book provides an inexpensive book with printed text and illustrations as well as a decorative cover. For example, if a particular course of instruction is stored on the CDs, the board book cover will have advertising informing the purchaser of the course and materials inside. The individual board pages also carry text and/or illustrations to assist the user in understanding the associated compact disc being stored and also to locate the disc at a specific, associated page for storage after use of the disc.
- Preferably, these compact disc board books are made inexpensively using signature folding machines and signature gathering machines, which also apply adhesive in predetermined patterns to cause the signatures to be attached to one another to form the book block, but leaving unadhered pockets to receive a disc between adjacent sheets of a board page. Also, the signature folds at the backbone are not glued together so that the folded portions may expand or contract to provide an accordion-like backbone to allow expansion with insertion of the CDs into the CD pockets. The entry into the pockets is preferably a slit in one sheet that allows the lower portion or half of the CD to be inserted into the w pocket while the upper, remaining portion or half of the CD is exposed and is outside of the pocket. The illustrated slit is arcuate with a central, lower point between equally-spaced upper, outer edges of the slit.
- In accordance with the preferred method of making the CD books, signature handling equipment is used with the signatures having been printed prior to being folded, and with signatures slit on a die cutting machine. The slit, printed signature is fed into a signature folding machine to make a folded signature. The respective folded signatures are delivered to associated feeders of the gathering machine, which feeds sequentially the respective folded signatures in proper sequence onto a gathering conveyor. The preferred signature gathering machine also has a programmable gluing or adhesive applicator that allows a specific adhesive pattern to be established in order to form the CD pocket and to form the accordion, expandable backbone for the book form. The gathered pages are pressed together to adhere the pages to make the book form. Then, the cover is attached, preferably by adhering the outer sides of the book form pages to adjacent, inner facing sides of a casing or cover. The preferred cover also has an expandable, foldable spine to allow expansion as the CDs are being loaded into the pockets in the board pages, and the backbone of the board book is being expanded. Herein, the illustrated, expandable cover spine is formed by a first and second pair of adjacent, parallel fold lines in the cover. The preferred cover also is of a thick board material, which is thicker than signature board material; and it has an outer, printed signature mounted thereon and adhered thereto to provide a very decorative, outer appearance for assistance in marketing the book to purchasers.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a compact disc book without discs therein and embodying the invention;
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a front cover opened to expose a CD carrying page in the book of FIG.
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the book of FIG. 1 but is expanded in width because of the insertion of CDs into the pockets in the book;
- FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 2 but with a CD in a pocket in the first page of the book;
- FIG. 5 is an enlarged plan view of a CD in a pocket;
- FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view through the book showing some pages having CDs in pockets and other pages without a CD in a pocket;
- FIG. 7A is an exploded view showing adjacent signatures and a glue pattern thereon for attaching the signatures to one another;
- FIG. 7B is an exploded view of three signatures being joined together into the book block;
- FIG. 7C is an exploded view showing the cover and adhesive for attaching the cover to the outer pages of the book block;
- FIG. 8 is an enlarged, fragmentary, sectional view of the expandable backbone formed of folded portions of folded signatures without adhesive applied thereto;
- FIG. 9 is a view of a signature having received a slot therein at a die cutting station;
- FIG. 10 is a view of adjacent folded signatures and adhesive for adhering the signatures together;
- FIG. 11 is a view of a signature block and a cover being wrapped about the book block; and
- FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a process for making the CD book of FIG. 3, and then for shipping the CD books in a carton.
- As shown in the drawings, for purposes of illustration, the invention is embodied in a
book 10 of the board-book kind having anouter cover 12 and aninterior book block 14 of individualboard book pages 16. The cover comprises afront cover 12 a and arear cover 12 b, as best seen in FIG. 6, and aspine 12 c which covers aninterior backbone 18 for thebook block 14. The book block is formed ofboard pages 16 which are of double thickness in that they each comprise a pair ofsignature sheets fold line 20 c. As best can be understood from viewing, FIGS. 7A, 7B and 10, thesheet 20 a of afirst signature 20 is adhered to asheet 20 b of an adjacent, second signature by an adhesive orglue 24 applied in a predetermined pattern. The folded signatures are fed from feed hoppers of a signature gathering machine while in a folded V-shape (as shown in FIG. 10) with theadhesive 24 applied to thesignature sheet 20 b as it is fed from the feed hopper; and upon contact with thesignature sheet 20 a of an adjacent signature gathered on the gathering machine, theadjacent signature sheets board block page 16 comprised of adhered sheets from adjacent, folded signatures. - In accordance with the present invention, the
board book 10 is formed with a plurality of product-receivingpockets 30 holding a product, such as theCDs 32, as shown in FIGS. 3-5. Herein, thepockets 32 are formed with the entrance slit orslot 34 leading into a space between thesignature sheets signature sheets signature sheet 20 a. A fourth line of adhesive 38 is positioned adjacent thefold 20 c in the signature. Because theslit 34 is in the signature sheet within the glue border (lines 36 a , 36 b , 36 c and 38), the slit leads into an open space orpocket 30 being defined between thesheets board book page 16. That is, theslit 34 leads into a hollow space between thesheets sheets book board page 16. - In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the board book is expandable from its position of not having any CDs therein (FIG. 1) to its expanded position where it is filled as shown in FIG. 3. It will be appreciated that where the book has 15 to 20 CDs inside the book, that it should be capable of being expanded while keeping a nice, flat appearance with the
front cover 12 a being substantially in a plane parallel to the plane of theback cover 12 b. To provide for the expansion of the thickness of theboard book 10 as it is being filled with CDs, the backbone is preferably formed from signature folds 20 c arranged in an accordion-like fashion, as best seen in FIG. 8, with fold edge areas orportions 40 being unglued. That is, the glue line 38, adjacent thefold line 20 c, is spaced by anunglued strip area 40 intermediate the fold orcrease line 20 c and the adhesive line 38. This is unlike the usual board book wherein the adhesive covers thearea 40 so that the sheets are glued together up to the fold. Herein, the outer cover is also made to be expandable along with theexpandable cover spine 42, which changes from its unfilled, smaller position of FIG. 1 to its expanded filled position of FIG. 3. Thus, the CD board book has an attached, hard,protective cover 12 to protect the CDs in thepockets 30 of the board book pages 12. - Turning now in greater detail to the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the process used and described herein involves an automated process used to make board books; and it will be explained in connection with FIG. 12. The
signature sheets 20 are printed as well as a caseouter cover sheet 50 used when forming thecover 12, as indicated at station 51 (FIG. 12). After printing, the signatures are sent to a die cutting machine, such as a Bobst die cutter at adie cutting station 54, where theslot 34 is formed in theflat signature 20, as shown in FIG. 9. The slot in thesignature sheet 20 a portion of the signature is preferably arcuate in shape (FIG. 9) with a central space 34 a between anupper edge 34 b and alower edge 34 c of the slot. The illustratedslot 34 has upper ends 34 e and 34 f of equal height from the lower, central portion of theslot 34. The illustratedslot 34 is formed in the die cutter with waste being cut from the signature to form the space 34 a ; hence, theslot 34 is more than a mere slit where no scrap material is removed from the signature. Theslot 34 serves as an entrance to the pocket. The pocket may take various forms; and the slot likewise may take various forms, particularly for products other than the thin, flat, circular CDs illustrated herein. The slottedsignatures 20 are sent to a folding machine at a folding station 56 (FIG. 12) wherein the folding machine folds the signature in half to form thefold 20 c and the twosignature sheets sheets fold 20 c. The folded signature sheets are now in a familiar signature shape to be sent to station 60 at which is located a conventional, signature-gathering machine. - The gathering machine typically has a large number of hoppers each assigned to receive a stack of one of the signatures of the sequence used to make up the book block. For example, the gathering machine may have16 hoppers for depositing sixteen signatures in timed sequence to be gathered on the gathering conveyor to form the book block. Usually, only one
side 20 h (FIG. 10) of the signature has printing thereon. Theother side 20 j of the signature does not have printing thereon in this instance, although it could have printing thereon, if desired. As each signature is fed from a hopper of the gathering machine, it is fed past a gluing station, at which a glue applicator, such as a glue roller, applies a pattern of glue to the signature. Herein, the glue pattern comprises glue lines 36 a , 36 b , 36 c and 38. Herein, the printed text is oninside surfaces 20 h of therespective signature sheets outer surfaces 20 j and 20 k of therespective signature sheets pockets 30. - If the two-folded signatures20 (shown in FIG. 10) bore
pages page 1 on itsinner surface 20 h of asheet 20 a ; andpage 2 will be facing it oninside surface 20 h ofpage 20 b. Page 3 of the text will be oninside surface 20 h ofsheet 20 a of the right folded signature; and page 4 will be on theinside surface 20 h of thesignature sheet 20 b of the right foldedsignature sheet 20 b. The adhesive will have been applied, as shown in FIG. 10 to theouter sides 20 j of thesheets 20 a of each of the folded signatures. This adhesive is pressed against an outer side 20 k of anadjacent sheet 20 b of an adjacent, folded signature. Thus, thesides 20 j of each of thesheets 20 a having adhesive thereon, will be pressed against a facing side 20 k of adjacent andpreceding signature sheet 20 b of a preceding, folded signature, thereby joining the signatures together into abook block 14 having abook backbone 18 defined by the folds 20 d of the adhered signature sheets of the book. - If desired, after assembling the book block, it may be trimmed to size by a trimming machine to cut one or more edges from the book block at a book block trimming station62 (FIG. 12). If no trimming is desired, then the case or cover 12 may be applied immediately to the
book block 14 at acover applying station 64. The manufacture of the preferred and illustrated case or cover 12 will be described below. - The illustrated
cover 12 is formed with a harder and stiffer material, which is usually thicker than the stock of the signature. Herein, the cover is formed with three pieces of chip board including a central spine board 20 (FIG. 6) that is about ½″ in width or greater and is connected tosimilar cover boards front cover board 70, thespline board 71 and theback cover board 72. The front and back cover boards are identical in size. A case or cover-making machine, such as Horan FC.M. machine, applies glue to boards and adheres them to the outer case or coversheet 50. Thecase cover sheet 50 covers the entire outer sides of the chip board pieces, and preferably has edgedportions 50 a (FIG. 5) folded over and adhered to the inner sides of the chip boards. Thecase cover sheet 50 has hinge portions 50 b and 50 c that join thespline piece 65 to the front andback cover pieces - The attaching of the book covers12 to the book blocks (14) takes place in
station 64 and is done with a machine. The first and last outer sides of the book block are adhered by adhesive to the inner sides of thecover side pieces spline piece 65 is not attached to the accordion backbone of the book block, but is spaced therefrom to allow the book'sbackbone 18 to expand. The book block will be expanded as CDs are placed into thepockets 30 of the board book pages 16. Herein, the now-completed CD book is individually shrink-wrapped in plastic to protect the CD book and the CDs therein at ashrink wrap station 78. The shrink-wrapped CD books are then placed in cartons at acartoning station 79 and shipped at ashipping station 80. - From the foregoing, it will be seen that there is provided a new and improved board book for products such as CDs. The CD board books can be made quickly and inexpensively on board book-making machines at high production rates to provide an inexpensive CD board book. The use of signature-gathering machines allows the fast formation of book blocks using signatures that are uniquely shaped to provide CD pockets therein. The provision of unglued strips, e.g., ¼ to ⅜ inch in width adjacent the folds in the signatures allows for an expandable backbone, which expands as CDs are placed in the pockets.
- It will be appreciated that although various aspects of the invention have been described with respect to specific embodiments, alternatives and modifications will be apparent from the present disclosure, which are within the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the following claims.
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