US3756627A - Book-like product and method for opening and stuffing same with an insert - Google Patents

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US3756627A
US3756627A US00213626A US3756627DA US3756627A US 3756627 A US3756627 A US 3756627A US 00213626 A US00213626 A US 00213626A US 3756627D A US3756627D A US 3756627DA US 3756627 A US3756627 A US 3756627A
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  • ABSTRACT A book-like product composed of flexible sheets, with given ones of the sheets having indexing means at predetermined index locations of the product for reducing the friction between each two sheets bounding a respective index locations.
  • the indexing means reduces
  • each such reduced friction zone is arranged to be at least partially free of overlapping with regard to the remaining reduced friction zones.
  • the present invention relates to a new and improved construction of book-like product having flexible sheets and equipped with so-called index locations for facilitating opening of the product to such index locations and at which the friction between both sheets bounding each such respective index location is reduced. Additionally, the present invention relates to an improved method of opening such novel constructed book-like products and if desired stuffing same with an insert.
  • index location as used in the context of this disclosure is intended to convey a location or point at the book-like product to which same can be conveniently opened.
  • book-like product is employed herein in its broadest sense and encompasses by way of example books, magazines, periodicals, pamphlets, newspapers, sample books as used by salesmen, and is not strictly limited to products having paper sheets.
  • the prior art is also familiar with printed products, for instance paper-bound, stitched or bonded printed materials wherein the preferred index locations are visibly marked by means of a so-called manually grippable index.
  • Such manually grippable index for instance, can be formed by tabs or flaps which protrude past the cut or fore edges of the sheets of the printed material and are adhesively bonded to the sheet bordering the desired index location within the printed work.
  • tabs or flaps By means of such tabs it is possible with one manual operation to quickly open the printed work to each desired index location.
  • indexing tabs are either readily susceptible to damage, or oftentimes are unintentionally torn away if they are relatively stiff in comparison with the paper of the printed material or work.
  • manually grippable index device consists of cutouts or notches which are cut-out at the cut edges of all of the sheets of the products up to the location of the sheet bordering the index location within the work.
  • Such manually grippable index is, however, expensive to produce, in particular disfigures the rectangular shape of the first sheet of the product, the cut or cutting edge of which, particularly if there are to be provided a number of such index locations, so to speak assumes a serrated or cut-up appearance.
  • Another known technique for visibly marking the index locations of a printed work resorts to coloring a section of the cut edge of the sheet neighboring the relevant index location, so that when the printed product is closed this sheet appears in the form of a thin line at the fore or cut edge of the product.
  • This technique of rendering visible the desired index locations of a work is, however, only suitable for such printed products where the cut edges of the sheet are practically located in a single plane, that is to say, for such works where the sheets are cut following binding or stitching. Additionally, it is not very convenient to use such manually grippable index since in only a few cases is it possible to readily open the work with a single manual manipulation to the desired index location.
  • Another and more specific object of the present invention relates to a printed product equipped with new and improved indexing means for easily and reliably opening the product to any one of a number of desired index locations.
  • Another objective of this invention is to provide a book-like product which, on the one hand, according to a preferred constructional manifestation is equipped with visibly marked index locations" in order to pre' vent the drawbacks of the previously known grippable indexes and which, on the other hand, according to a modified inventive embodiment wherein the index locations are not of necessity visibly marked renders possible automatic insertion of inserts at a number of different preferred index locations, and indeed for instance when using one .or a number of apparatuses, for instance of the type taught in Swiss Pat. Nos. 458,408 and 461,547, whereby inboth cases there are disclosed techniques constituting improvements upon the procedures disclosed in Swiss Pat. No. 440,339 of US. Pat. No. 3,392,856.
  • Still a further significant object of the present invention relates to a novel method of opening book-like products and, if desired, inserting inserts or the like therein, such book-like-products having unique indexing means for conveniently opening such products to any one of a number of desired index locations.
  • the proposed book-like product is manifested by the features that in each instance the friction is reduced at a zone of the surface of the appropriate sheets, and that each such reduced friction zone is arranged so that at least part thereof does not overlap any of the remaining reduced friction zones.
  • the inventive method of opening such book-like products comprises the steps of engaging the product at the region of one of the reduced friction zones, displacing the sheets of the product relative to one another at the relevant index location, thereby opening the product at the index location associated with such reduced friction zone, thereafter introducing an insert into such index location, and then repeating such operations at a different reduced friction zone of the product.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a brochure with index locations for the brochure visibly marked at the cover sheet;
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of the sheet bordering or bounding the index location which is marked at the cover sheet of FIG. 1 at the second location from the top, whereby there is shown in phantom lines the position of the friction-poor zones of the remaining index locations;
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate the use of the grippable index of the brochure illustratedin FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 5 schematically illustrates an embodiment of printed product having index locations which are not visibly marked and constituting a component of a socalled insert line for opening and possibly stuffing such products with an insert or the like;
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a further embodiment of inventive book-like product similar to the showing of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 7 illustrates the use of the inventive embodiment book-like product wherein the individual sheets are indeed flexible yet however possess increased rigidity or stiffness.
  • the book-like product i.e., for instance the brochure illustrated in FIG. 1 possesses more that 100 sheets or pages and is equipped with a flexible cover sheet 2.
  • cover sheet 2 At the cover sheet 2 there are visibly marked five index locations, as shown.
  • This marking is provided with an explanatory text 3, for instance the title of the brochure portion beginning at the relevant index location or, as illustrated, the notation second part, page 27.
  • the marking is provided with a grippable zone 4. All of these grippable or manually operable zones 4 are distributively urranged along the fore or cut edge 6 of the brochure l situated opposite the spine 5 of such brochure.
  • FIG. 2 the sheet of the brochure l at which page 27 is printed has been designated by reference character 7.
  • This sheet 7 thusborders that index location of the brochure l which is marked at the cover sheet 2 at the second location from the top.
  • FIG. 2 there is also shown in phantom lines the position of all of the other grippable zones 4 which appear at the cover sheet 2 in a manner as if such were projected through the entire brochure 1.
  • a zone 8 equipped with a preferably transparent slide or gliding sheet adhering to such sheet 7 or with a coated non-visible dry lubricant.
  • This reduced friction zone 8 is indicated by the cross-hatched area.
  • Suitable for use as the socalled slide or gliding sheet 8 are for instance a glossy lining or laminated coating or plastic foil piece, for instance formed of polyethylene.
  • suitable dry lubricants such as talcum, stearic acid anhydrides, soap, which can be applied, for instance sprayed upon the appropriate zones 8 during the printing operation.
  • the grippable index can also be actuated or manipulated in a different fashion. What is important is that there is exerted upon the closed brochure l, at the region of the grippable zones 4 defining index marker means, a force which is directed approximately parallel to the brochure itself and approximately towards the spine 5 thereof, the point of force application being approximately at the region of the desired grippable zone 4.
  • the reduction of the friction is not locally limited to the cutting edges or fore edges 6 situated opposite the spine 5 of the printed material, rather can also be undertaken at the cutting edges merging with the spine 5, i.e., the cutting edges extending laterally towards the spine, for instance at the top and bottom of the sheets, as indicated for instance at locations 6a and 6b.
  • the height of the reduced friction zones which are advantageously free of overlapping portions can, for instance, assume a dimension in a range of approximately 30 35 mm. With such dimension it is readily possible to mark approximately 8 10 index locations along the longer cutting edge 6 of a brochure having a size format known in Europe as DIN A4, approximately corresponding to letter size stationery in the US. If this is not sufficient then the remaining cut or cutting edges can be provided with a grippable index or a further similar grippable index for the remaining portion of the brochure can be provided at the last index location. In the latter situation the remaining portion of the brochure would be separated from the first portion of the brochure by a reinforcement sheet.
  • FIG. 5 such schematically depicts the use of an embodiment of inventive book-like product possessing index locations which are not visibly marked, the products being arranged at a so-called insert line of equipment of the type known in the art and suitable, for instance, for the stuffing of such paper products with one or more inserts.
  • insert line 21 four product opening stations 22.
  • Insert stations which here have not been particularly shown because in the context of this disclosure such are not really important for the understanding of the inventive concepts, are arranged between such product opening stations 22.
  • a conveyor band or belt 23 travels through all these stations, the conveyor band 23 being arranged in an approximately upright conveying plane.
  • the conveyor band 23 can be driven stepwise or continuously, as desired.
  • a chain 24 is also provided which runs synchronously with the conveyor band or belt 23, chain 24 carrying at regular spaced intervals suitable press or contact arms 25 serving the purpose of pressing one of the therewith associated products 9 against the surface of the conveyor band 23.
  • the products 9 travel in an upright position through the insert line 21, the spine of each such book-like product being situated lowermost in the depicted arrangement.
  • the illustrated products 9 can be compared with those depicted in FIG. 2, with the difference that here the five zones 10, ll, 12, 13 and 14 which are poor in friction, i.e., the reduced friction zones, are not visibly marked, whereas in the embodiment of FIG. 2 the position of the friction-poor or reduced friction zones 8 at the cover sheet are visibly marked by means of the grippable or manually actuatable fields 4.
  • the five zones 10, ll, 12, 13 and 14 which are poor in friction, i.e., the reduced friction zones, are not visibly marked
  • the position of the friction-poor or reduced friction zones 8 at the cover sheet are visibly marked by means of the grippable or manually actuatable fields 4.
  • index locations at the products only serve for the mechanical insertion of inserts into such index locations, it is not at all necessary that these index locations be visibly marked. However, if such index locations are to be used both for the mechanical insertion of the insert and later on also as an index location for opening the product conveniently to a desired location or point thereof, then nothing would prelude providing visible markings at least for those index locations which later are to be visibly discernible.
  • press arms 15 which can be moved back and forth in the direction of the arrows 18.
  • These press arms 15 are controlled in such a manner that they press upon the flat side'of the associated product 9. Actuation of these press arms 15 can be undertaken in any suitable fashion, for instance by means of a cylinder-piston drive or other appropriate drive means accommodated to the drive of the conveyor band 23 and the press arms 25 in such a'manner that at the first opening station 22 appearing at the left of the showing of FIG. 5 the press arm 15 always acts upon a predetermined one of the friction-poor zones to 14, for instance at the zone 10, the press arm of the second opening station 22, viewed from the left of FIG.
  • the product opening stations 22 are designed such and the drive mechanisms of the conveyor band 23 and the press arms 25 and 15 are accommodated to one another such that at each one of the opening stations only one index location is acted upon, that is to say, the product is always opened at any one given station at only one predetermined index location or position.
  • FIG. 6 there is schematically illustrated a further embodiment of inventive book-like product. It will be seen that at the cutting or cut edge 30 opposite the spine 5 of the product there are provided elongate friction-poor or reduced friction zones 19 which neighbor such cut edge, these friction-poor zones 19 extending obliquely with regard to the associated cut edge. It should be understood that the force which is to be applied to the product in this case is also preferably directed in the same direction as extend the friction-poor zones 19. This has been schematically indicated by the arrow 18 in FIG. 6.
  • the invention can also be applied to products which are indeed flexible, however possess sheets which are stiff to a certain degree.
  • Such sheets can be designated as self-supporting" which in effect means that they, when horizontally held or clamped at one edge, and without any further force being applied only bend through to a slight extend owing to their inherent weight.
  • these sheets In the case of paper of the standard A4 size previously mentioned, that is, corresponding approximately to letter size stationery in the United States, these sheets have a weight of approximately 100 200 g/m.
  • paper with a lesser weight than approximately g/m is usually referred to as completely flexible, sheets with the heavier weight are indeed completely still bendable, but approach the characteristics of self-supporting.
  • FIG. 7 This has been schematically depicted in FIG. 7 where with reference character 5 there is designated the spine of the product, reference character 4 designating the grippable zones, reference character 19 the frictionpoor or reduced friction zones and reference character 18 the direction of the force which is to be applied to the product in order to open same to a desired index position.
  • reference character 5 there is designated the spine of the product
  • reference character 4 designating the grippable zones
  • reference character 19 the frictionpoor or reduced friction zones
  • reference character 18 the direction of the force which is to be applied to the product in order to open same to a desired index position.
  • a book-like product composed of flexible sheets and containing predetermined index locations, indexing means provided for given ones of said sheets at said predetermined index locations for reducing the friction between each two sheets bounding a respective index location, said indexing means reducing the friction at a zone of the surface of the relevant sheet, said reduced friction zone being arranged to be at least partially free of portions which overlap the remaining reduced friction zones.
  • indexing means forming said reduced friction zones comprises both a dry lubricant and a coating material.
  • a method of opening book-like products of the type provided with means for reducing the friction between each two neighboring sheets defining a respective index location to which the product is to be opened, said means reducing the friction being provided at a zone of the surface of the relevant sheet of an index location, there being provided as many such zones as there are index locations of the product, the improvement comprising the steps of: engaging the product at the region of one of the reduced friction zones, displacing the sheets of the product relative to one another at the region of the relevant index location, thereby opening the product at such index location associated with said one reduced friction zone, thereafter introducing an insert into such index location, and then repeating such operations at a different reduced friction zone of the product.

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