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| 7305785 | Shadow box page A shadow box scrapbook page adapted to hold and secure three-dimensional objects for storage and display. The page includes a binder portion having openings to receive standard rings or posts common to binders, and a frame device, having a front, back and side, top ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7252452 | Binder with front pocket A binder including a binder body including a front cover and a rear cover directly or indirectly pivotally coupled together, and a panel located on an outer surface of the binder body to thereby form a pocket between the panel and the binder body. The panel has a fr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7225975 | Check carrier The check carrier consists of an envelope of translucent material that is dimensioned to closely conform to the dimensions of a standard check. The back of the check carrier includes an endorsement window through which a bank or other financial institution can apply... | 06/05/2007 |
| 6435559 | Adjustable book jacket and cover An adjustable book jacket and book cover combination for a book comprising a book jacket for covering said book cover wherein the book jacket contains printed indicia of the subject matter of said book, and the jacket indicia, by reason of graphics, color... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6419274 | Book covering A book covering, for example for protecting a dust jacket on a hardback book, has a transparent front sheet (10) and overlapping upper and lower rear sheets (12,14) which can be secured together by means of an adhesive strip (26). In an alternative embodi... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6364362 | Organizational apparatus The present invention relates to an educational planner for providing a cooperative system of planning books and folders that promote socially beneficial aims while providing assistance and organization of course materials.... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6247730 | Book A book has two covers and a set of book pages contained between the covers. The covers close to form a shape which has an external appearance resembling the head of a creature, with two eyes and a mouth. The two covers are joined to one another along a mi... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6231943 | Record pad A record pad is provided having a paper top sheet with top and bottom faces and an underlying record bottom sheet with a transfer medium between them. The top sheet has an upper margin and a pattern (such as a substantially continuous strip) of reposition... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6179508 | Ring binder A ring binder (100) has a center spine (102) and end leafs (104). The spine section has jaws (108) formed on each side which extend the length of the spine section. Each end leaf has one end (104a) insertable into one of the jaws and thereafter held in pl... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6174120 | Apparatus for affixing book pages to a book cover and process for making same An apparatus and method for affixing book pages to a book cover is disclosed having a sheet of paper with at least one waxy side and two stickers, each having a first side, the first side being sticky and removably affixed to the waxy side of the sheet of... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6045159 | Book holder A holder for a book, such as a paperback or hard cover book, comprises a stiff flat member creased to provide a central stationary panel corresponding to the spine of the book, and a pair of pivoted panels corresponding to the front and back of the book. ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5433480 | Notebook binder system A system for releasably and laterally mounting or removing a plurality of booklets including in a preferred embodiment: 1) unitary spines for removably retaining the booklets therein each having at least one upstanding tab on an outer surface thereof and,... | 07/18/1995 |
| 4930926 | Binder for removable leaves A binder for attaching separate leaves together in a non-permanent fashion. The binder comprises a scarfing section, a clamping section, and tenons. Each binder is attachable to additional binders such that the number of leaves held together by the device... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4832372 | Portfolio Disclosed is a portfolio comprising a body of sheet-like material having a central hinge line dividing the body into first and second covers. A foldable panel is hingeably attached to the first cover, and has a surface carrying a serial array of card-rece... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4807909 | Prescription assembly An assembly for incorporation in a binder assembly facilitates distribution of free starter sample dosages of prescription pharmaceuticals to patients; in particular, the starter dosage is dispensed by a pharmacist based on a preprinted prescription form ... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4743049 | Folder system A folder system comprising a folder which has attached on the inside (2) thereof a ring mechanism (3) or corresponding device for holding hole-punched paper sheets (4). The ring mechanism (3) is placed between two side-pieces (6,7) of the folder, these si... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4699538 | File system and method of organizing documents therein The papers in an office file folder are organized into subfiles by dividing the documents including papers and/or other things into predetermined sets. Each set is then secured to a header plate which is removably secured to an associated attachment plate... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4605245 | Self-adjusting book cover A flexible, transparent plastic book cover has a pocket portion attached to the front cover portion containing various pages or a booklet containing emergency medical information. The book cover is particularly adapted to fit telephone directories of any ... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4601489 | Album design and method of fabrication This invention relates to an improved design associated with an album whose appearance evidences that of prebound construction and the method for the fabricating thereof such that there is able to be created an album of as many pages as desired, each page... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4524993 | Book assembly A large rectangular sheet is subdivided into successive sheets joined along common fold line edges to produce an accordian, folded book in which pairs of the smaller sheets form successive pages and the successive pages are joined side-by-side by the succ... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4452471 | Memory book A book-type ornament adapted to be suspended from a Christmas tree bough or other like support has a plurality of pliant inner sheets folded on themselves to provide pages. A pliant outer sheet is folded on itself to provide top and bottom cover portions,... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4441739 | Booklet A booklet containing a multiplicity of multi-page pamphlets is affixed to a bulk container for prescription drugs. Each pamphlet can be removed from the booklet for dispensing with a filled prescription. Each pamphlet serves as a patient package insert. T... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4440422 | Sectionalized paperback book A paperback book has divider pages positioned at intervals between the pages of reading matter and perforations along its spine at such divider pages so that the book can be separated into one or more sections by tearing the spine along a perforation.... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4153275 | Checkbook cover A simulated leather checkbook cover includes an outer cover sheet and an inner pocket-forming sheet of vinyl sheet material. The peripheral edge of the outer sheet is turned inwardly over and around the peripheral edge of the inner sheet, and the layers o... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4138143 | Loose leaf binders The invention relates to loose leaf binders for holding periodicals and the object of the invention is to provide a loose leaf binder having a curved back and no rivets visible from the back. For this purpose, the paper-retaining means are fitted to an inner f... | 02/06/1979 |
