WO2003018325B1

WO2003018325B1 - A kit for manufacturing a stitch-bound printed book

Info

Publication number: WO2003018325B1
Application number: PCT/IB2002/003521
Authority: WO
Inventors: Kevin Paul Steele
Original assignee: Comm Promotion Edition S A; Kevin Paul Steele
Priority date: 2002-08-29
Filing date: 2002-08-29
Publication date: 2004-03-04
Also published as: EP1545901B1; WO2003018325A2; AU2002330683A1; DE60231564D1; ATE425016T1; EP1545901A2; WO2003018325A3

Abstract

A kit for manufacturing a stitch-bound printed book comprises a book cover (10), a collection of pre- S perforated sheets (15) that can be printed to make up a printed bookblock (18), and endpapers (20a,20b) for assembling the printed bookblock in the cover. The pre- perforated loose sheets (15) have along one edge that corresponds to the book's spine a series of binding 10 perforations (16). The pre-perforated loose sheets (15) are printable on one or both sides in an A4 printer to constitute printed pages of the book. A bookblock (18) is formed by reconstituting the printed pre-perforated pages as a collection with their perforations (16) 15 aligned and by sewing through the perforations (16). This involves stitch-binding of individual sheets (15) instead of the usual stitch-binding of folded sheets, which makes it feasible to print the prepared collection of pre-perforated sheets using desktop publishing 20 equipment. The kit lends itself to using adhesive contact paper for the endpapers (20a,20b) in place of the application of glue, making binding practical and convenient. Fig. 2 and by sewing through the perforations (16). This involves stitch-binding of individual sheets (15) instead of the usual stitch-binding of folded sheets, which makes it feasible to print the prepared collection of pre-perforated sheets using desktop publishing equipment. The kit lends itself to using adhesive contact paper for the endpapers (20a,20b) in place of the application of glue, making binding practical and convenient.

Claims

AMENDED CLAIMS

[received by the International Bureau on 29 December 2003 (29.12.03); original claims 1-15 replaced by new claims 1-18

(5 pages)]

1. A kit for manufacturing a stitch-bound printed book, comprising:

- a book cover (10) composed of a front (11) and a back (12) attached by a spine (13) for accepting a bookblock (18) formed from a collection of bound pages of corresponding size;

- a corresponding collection of pre-perforated loose single sheets (15) for making up a bookblock (18) that fits the book cover (10) , the pre-per orated loose sheets (15) having printable areas and their size corresponding to a given printing format acceptable by available personal printers, the collection of sheets (15) having along one edge that corresponds to the book's spine a series of binding perforations (16) for accepting a binding thread

(31) , the pre-perforated loose sheets (15) being printable on one or both sides in a printer to constitute printed pages of the book, the printed pages being bindable to form said bookblock (18) by reconstituting them as a collection with their perforations (16) aligned and by sewing thread (31) through the perforations (lβ); and

- front and back endpapers (20a, 20b) attachable to the inside front and back faces (11,12) o the book cover (10) for securing the bookblock (18) formed by sewing together the collection of loose printed sheets (15) , to form the stitch-bound printed book.

2. The book manufacturing kit of claim 1, wherein the book cover (10) is a hard-back cover, in particular made of cardboard, plastics material, leather or imitation leather, or covered therewith.

3. The book manufacturing kit of claim 1 or 2, wherein the binding perforations (16) are so arranged that when the collection of sheets (15) is reassembled the binding perforations (16) can be aligned only by placing the sheets (15) in their original orientation.

4. The book manufacturing kit of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein each endpaper (20a, 20b) is a folded-over sheet having an adhesive protected by a peel-off layer (21) on one or both of its outer faces.

5. The book manufacturing kit of any preceding claim, further comprising a double-sided adhesive sheet

(45) protected by peel-off layers (47,48), one adhesive side for securing the bookblock (18) over its edge corresponding to the cover spine (13) and over the sewn perforations (16,33), and the other adhesive side for securing the bookblock (18) to the endpapers (20a, 2Qb).

6. The book manufacturing kit of claim 5, wherein each endpaper (20a, 20b) is a folded over sheet having an adhesive protected by a peel-off layer (21) on one of its outer faces, the other of the outer faces of each endpaper (20a, 20b) being securable to the assembled bookblock (IS) by said adhesive side of the double-sided adhesive sheet (45) when the latter is secured over the edge of the bookblock (18) . 7. The book manuf cturing kit of any preceding claim, further comprising a double or single-sided adhesive sheet (40) protected by at least one peel-off layer (41) , for adhering to and reinforcing the cover spine (13) . 8. The book manufacturing kit of any preceding claim, further comprising a pair of clamps (35) for securing the collection of pages (15) between the covers (11,12) in a temporary position for facilitating sewing together of the collection of pages (15) .

9. The book manufacturing kit of any preceding claim, further comprising software containing at least one of: assembly instructions and/or a demonstration of assembly; printing instructions; and texts and/or images, in particular corresponding to a theme for the book to be manufactured.

10. The book manufacturing kit of any preceding claim, wherein the collection of sheets are A5, 21x21 cm, or A4 format, printable in standard A4 printers.

11. The book manufacturing kit of any preceding claim, further comprising a cover jacket (25) , the cover jacket having dimensions exceeding twice the dimensions of the book cover (10) so it can be fitted on the finished book by folding it over the edges of the cover (10) , the cover jacket (25) being initially folded in a configuration corresponding to a flat dimension that can be accepted by a standard printer, in particular an A4 printer.

12. A collection of pre-perforated sheets of a kit for manufacturing a stitch-bound printed book, comprising a pre-perforated collection of loose single sheets (15) for making up a bookblock (18) that fits a corresponding book cover (10) , the loose sheets (15) having printable areas and their size corresponding to a given printing format acceptable by available personal printers, the collection of sheets (15) having along one edge that corresponds to the book's spine (13) a series of binding perforations (16) for accepting a binding thread

(31) , the loose sheets (15) being printable on one or both sides in a printer to constitute printed pages of the book, the printed pages being bindable to form said bookblock (18) by reconstituting them as a collection with their perforations (16) aligned and by sewing thread (31) through the perforations (16).

13. The collection of pre-perforated sheets of claim 12, wherein the binding perforations (16) are so arranged that when the collection of sheets (15) is reassembled the binding perforations (16) can be aligned only by placing the sheets (15) in their original orientation.

14, The collection of pre-perforated sheets of claim 12 or 13, wherein the sheets are A5_f 21x21 cm, or A4 format, are printable in standard A4 printers, and are of a quality suited for ink-jet and/or laser printing.

15. A method of manufacturing a stitch-bound book, comprising:

- providing a collection of pre-perforated loose single sheets (15) for making up a bookblock (18) that fits a book cover (10), the loose sheets (15) having printable areas and their size corresponding to a given printing format' acceptable by available personal printers, the collection of sheets (15) having along one edge that corresponds to a book's spine a series of binding perforations (16) for accepting a binding thread (31) ;

- printing the pre-perforated loose sheets (15) on one or both sides in a printer to constitute printed pages of a book;

- reconstituting the printed sheets as a collection with their perforations (16) aligned; and

- sewing thread (31) through the aligned perforations (16) to form a stitch-bound bookblock (18) ountable in a book cover (10) .

6. The method of claim 15, wherein the stitch-bound bookblock is mounted in a book cover by :

- attaching front and back endpapers (20a, 20b) to the bookblock (18) ; and

- attaching the front and back endpapers (20a, 20b), united with the bookblock (18) , to the inside front and back faces (11,12) of a book cover (10) to form the stitch-bound printed book.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein :

-the bookblock (18) is assembled by. applying a double-sided adhesive sheet (45) over the edge of the bookblock (19) corresponding to the cover spine and over the sewn perforations (16,33); and

- the front and back endpapers (20a, 20b) are attached to the bookblock (18) by said double-sided adhesive sheet (45) on the bookblock (18) .

18. The method of claim 16 or 17, wherein :

- the front and back endpapers (20a, 20b) united with the bookblock (18) are attached to the inside front and back faces (11,12) of the book cover (10) by removing a protective peel-off layer (47,48) from the outside faces of the endpapers (20a, 20b) to uncover adhesive faces thereof, and applying these adhesive faces against the inside front and back faces (11,12) of the book cover (10).