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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6817516 | Ballot secrecy sleeve A ballot secrecy sleeve is presented which is used to cover a ballot once it has been marked by the voter. The secrecy sleeve has a top and a bottom and a narrow shoulder at one end as well as a slot for pushing the ballot once it has been inserted into the ballot s... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6644695 | Method for merchandising mouse pads A novel method of advertising in appropriate bound or unbound publications wherein the pages of the publication are folded in half and may be bound along one edge by either saddle-stitching or perfect-binding the pages at the center of the publication tog... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6601874 | Bookbinding repair kit A bookbinding repair kit containing instructions, diagrams and equipment to carry out repair to damaged or torn backing shoulder joints of any book, the equipment comprising a complete endpaper consisting of one evenly folded sheet of paper with a double-... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6257622 | Cloth bookcover The improved cloth book cover according to the invention has a spine area, and a front and back cover portion having pockets at the two lateral edges in which the front cover and the back cover of a book may be inserted. The cover is made from an elastic ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 5967404 | Hyart-fylts letter envelope and display A new hyart-fylts letter envelope and display for providing an alternate form of stationary instead of greeting cards. The inventive device includes an envelope sheet having a display region, and a plurality of flap regions located around the outer perime... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5944353 | Document cover A document cover formed of a thin sheet material of synthetic resin, includes a front cover portion, a rear cover portion, and a fold portion formed in a boundary portion between the front cover portion and the rear cover portion. The fold portion include... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5799978 | Coated book cover An improved cover material for hard- and soft-book covers is disclosed. The material comprises a conventional substrate, such as paper, and a coating that comprises an acrylic binder, the binder having a Tg of -10° to 10° C., and a filler system, the fi... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5692849 | File folder A file folder improved in stiffness otherwise to fall down or deform when the S-binding file folder is placed in the E-type storage mode comprises a pair of foldable front and rear covers 4 and 5, a back cover 6 integrally located between and connected to... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5622385 | Wraparound cover for a paperback book A removable, reusable, wrap-around cover for a paperback book consisting of a single sheet of semi-rigid synthetic plastic material, vertically scored with multiple lines to allow it to fit around varying thickness of book, with two pairs of flaps on each... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5503486 | Notebook and notebook cover assembly The improved notebook and notebook cover assembly of the present invention includes a notebook, preferably of a loose-leaf type, and a sub-assembly which includes front and rear notebook covers, an edge binder interconnecting the two covers and foldable b... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5474332 | Wraparound cover for a paperback book A removable, reusable, wrap-around cover for a paperback book consisting of a single sheet of semi-rigid synthetic plastic material, vertically scored with multiple lines to allow it to fit around varying thickness of book, with two pairs of flaps on each... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5472237 | Adjustable book cover An adjustable book cover includes a pair of panels which are joined togther to form a flat tubular member of extended length. A relatvely narrow adhesive layer is deposited proximate to each of the longitudinal edges of the panels. A narrow strip of relea... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5447333 | Method of producing a laminated wrinkle-free presentation folder having perfect binding sheets A customized insert sheet is laminated by heat and pressure between a plastic cover sheet and a major portion of a folder sheet. A heat activatable adhesive strip may thereafter be applied to an adhesive strip receiving channel adjacent a side edge of the... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5445417 | Presentation folder and method of making A presentation folder having a plastic cover sheet or front and back cover sheets joined at a common edge, capable of holding and protecting contents such as papers having information thereon. The cover sheet has pre-applied graphics forming selected opaq... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5407231 | Windowing leaf structure The invention provides for "windowing" leafs of various types which retain their face and perimeter orientation when repositioned with respect to their host binder, including leafs with pluralities of surfaces, leafs with arrays of stacked repositionable ... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5405169 | Book cover and binding with respositionable loose leaves The invention provides for "windowing" leafs of various types which retain their face and perimeter orientation when repositioned with respect to their host binder, including leafs with pluralities of surfaces, leafs with arrays of stacked repositionable ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5405473 | Method of laminating a customized presentation folder A method of laminating a customized presentation folder including placing a plastic cover sheet on one cover face of the folder and sealing the bottom of the plastic cover sheet thereon, inserting an insert sheet behind the plastic cover sheet in-between ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5370419 | Purse A plurality of component holder members for a purse, each having a base plate arranged at one or both sides pockets or cases for carrying any of credit cards, bank cards, calling cards, commutation tickets, a driver's license, coins, banknotes, etc. and p... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5178414 | Protective magazine cover A protective magazine cover consists of a pair of transparent polyester sheets secured at opposed lateral edges thereof by means of an appropriate pressure sensitive adhesive tape. A portion of the adhesive of the tape along the lateral edges thereof secu... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5158325 | Adjustable size book jacket An adjustable size book jacket is disclosed including a first pouch section that is composed of an elastic material and has a first opening formed therein for receiving the front cover of a book and generally conforming to at least a portion of the periph... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5154447 | Binding for soft cover books A book binding process and apparatus are shown wherein polyurethane adhesive (PUR) attaches a crepe portion of a book binding to a book block and hot glue attaches the crepe portion to the book cover. The PUR delivery system includes an inclined trough po... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5100181 | Low cost laminatable plastic envelope for easy customized self-lamination of greeting cards, memorabilia, and like displays Memorabilia insert sheets are pressed against a support sheet having rows and columns of small area self-stick visual fiducial adhesive zones imprinted thereon. Since the adhesive in the zones is releasable and reusable, misaligned insert sheets may be re... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5098127 | Magazine advertising insert An advertising insert is secured, page-like, within a magazine and comprises a folded-over rectangular jacket sheet having adhesively intersecured edge portions positioned opposite its fold line and adhesively secured to an edge flap of an anchor sheet bo... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5092630 | Adjustable protective book cover and method A protective book cover which comprises a sheet material with folded over top and bottom edges and side edges with short hems, with a fully stretchable flat band loop of elastic material contained within each hem. The side edges are folded over to the wid... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5090732 | Inexpensive laminated universal sales presentation or security folder having many uses A single configuration presentation folder is provided, enabling a user to heat laminate custom printed sheets to the face of the folder without the use of a conventional paper carrier. Portions of the folder are scored to produce folders with one or two ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5063637 | Laminated article with hinge and method for manufacturing laminated articles A laminated article of two or more leaves with an improved hinge and method for manufacturing laminated articles. This improved hinge pivots easily and does not act to change the position of the leaves it connects. The hinge means opens from 0° to 360° ... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5056663 | Adjustable protective book cover and method An adjustable book cover and method wherein the book cover comprises a generally rectangular protective cover material wherein the length of the cover material may be easily adjusted through the use of releasable hook and loop fasteners or adhesive materi... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5052717 | Bookbinding cloth A resilient adhesive resin tab adapted to permanently secure paper sheets thereto by edge-binding in a hot melt condition is, at one extreme side peripheral area thereof, bonded or heat-sealed to a width-adjustable backbone of a bookbinding cloth. The adh... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5052872 | Manual sheet binding structure and method A method for binding a stack of fan folded sheets including manually disposing the stack of sheets with spine edges of the sheets generally aligned in a plane generally at a right angle to the side surfaces of the sheets in the stack; manually positioning... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5048869 | Hypertext book attachment A blank book attachment having a mark and sweep leaf with a fold out feature is provided. The leaf is pivotably retained along one edge on a frame, and the frame is pivotably retained at the binding spine of the host blank book. Pulling outward on the lea... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5025979 | Hanging expandable file A decorative expandable hanging file has closed reinforced sides, a supportive base and reinforced partitions. The partitions may contain vertically extending label surfaces to allow for file identification while the file is stored in a standard hanging f... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5013068 | Stretchable, water repellant book cover A protective envelope for a book having front and rear covers, and a binding area, the envelope comprising, a stretchable sheet defining front and rear sections adapted to closely overlie the front and rear book covers, the sheet having edges; a stretchab... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5004514 | Method of making protective book coverings A protective book covering including a relatively long piece of sheet material and a relatively short piece of sheet material overlying the long piece, the longitudinal edges of the two sheets being sealed together. A seal and tear line extending transver... | 04/02/1991 |
| 5002447 | Process for producing a binding with stationary pockets and binding obtained by this process A binding provided with stationary transparent pockets which can receive sheets of any type of materials, such as sheets of paper, cardboard, photographs, samples of floor or wall coverings, and the like. The cover of the binding comprises a transparent d... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4988038 | Document file A document file in which a plurality of compartments formed of soft synthetic resin sheet material are connected contiguously in an accordion-like fashion and mounted between a pair of covers includes auxiliary sheets attached along both side edges and a ... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4962949 | Book blanket A blanket for covering the printed document comprising an elongated sheet of flexible transparent material having a vertical height substantially equal to the vertical height of the document which is covered and a horizontal length substantially equal to ... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4934584 | Portfolio with mirrorized cover A portfolio comprising a front cover having a cut-out section, a rear cover hingedly connected to the front cover, and a flexible sheet having a reflective surface, the sheet being attached to the front cover such that the reflective surface is displayed ... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4893837 | Protective book covering and method of making it A protective book covering including a relatively long piece of sheet material and a relatively short piece of sheet material overlaying the long piece, the longitudinal edges of the two sheets being sealed together. A seal and tear line extending transve... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893979 | Supplemental book cover A supplemental cover for and method of reinforcing a book with a spine, a first cover and a second cover is disclosed. The supplemental cover comprises a first sheet and a second sheet. The first sheet is stuff throughout. The second sheet comprises a fle... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4890728 | Travel kit assembly A travel kit in the form of a foldable multi-panel base having a multi-page insert means secured to one of two fold lines about which the panels are selectively positioned into overlapping relation with one another wherein interior surfaces of the panels ... | 01/02/1990 |
