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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8007008 | Foldable media holder and related method for blocking wind A foldable media holder for blocking wind includes a foldable frame and a flexible sheeted material. The foldable frame has an erect configuration and a folded configuration and the flexible sheeted material is attached to the foldable frame. The foldable frame incl... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7325836 | Combined clamp and retaining pin A retainer including a pin adapted for attachment to a mounting member for supporting a stack of sheets having one or more openings; the pin having a shank portion for insertion into the one opening, an outer end portion defining a pair of parallel bores with transv... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7240887 | Book holder A book holder for supporting and protecting an article of reading material is provided. The book holder includes a spine, a pair of cover panels, each of the cover panels is hingidly to the spine permitting the pair of cover panels to be rotated into an open positio... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7017878 | Book holder on the steering wheel A book holder for use with automobile steering wheel is not only fastened to the rim of an automobile or truck steering wheels so as to hold printed matter and various electronic devices, but also is foldable to smaller size for storage. The book holder can also be ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6994377 | Sheet binding system The invention relates to a sheet-retaining system for securing sheets on a sheet carrier, in particular for securing paper sheets in a cover, having a retaining and connecting device for securing at least one sheet at the sheet edge and for connecting the at least o... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6932400 | Desktop bible carrying case A desktop bible carrying case 10 is provided with an enclosure 12 having a cavity 24 formed therein. A rectangular shaped support ridge 26 is coupled in the cavity 24 to inside portions of the enclosure 12. A flexible lid | 08/23/2005 |
| 6499766 | Media folder improvements A media folder or book binder provided with a rotor having elastic bands stretched between pins on its opposite ends has mounting brackets which are mechanically fastened to the spine of the folder. The brackets have trunnions facing inwardly toward the o... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6089609 | Check clip A clip that is attached to a checkbook and that will hold the checkbook in an open condition to enable a person to enter information from the checkbook into, for example a computer, without having to hold the checkbook open with one hand. The clip has a f... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6030140 | Binder An improved binder formed of two cover portions made of rigid material joined together with a living hinge. A closure flap with a second living hinge joins the free ends of the cover opposite the binder spine. An improved method of attaching a pocket to t... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5967689 | Binder file A binder for storage of sheet materials, particularly large sheet materials, such as maps, blueprints and the like, in a flat configuration. An elongated frame element, which supports the sheet materials along a marginal edge in a hanging orientation, is ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5895023 | Document holder A document holder comprising two supporting members. Each supporting member includes an upper member which is aligned with an upper part of the document, a lower member which is aligned with a lower part of the document, and a resilient member which conne... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5472238 | Paper binder A paper binder which removably secures a large number of pages of paper without injury to the paper, and which conducts binding so that it is easy to leaf through the pages. The paper binder comprises: a rectangular mount; a lever member extending in para... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5186497 | Rapid change directory holder A telephone directory holder and binder spine is designed for use with telephone enclosures. The directory holder comprises a separable directory holder unit which may be inserted in a directory at a site distant from the binder spine which is fixed to th... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5120075 | Binder spine assembly A spine assembly (1) for a binder (20, 21, 22) comprises a base portion (2) and a lid portion (6) releasably fixable to the base portion (2), the lid (6) and base (2) portions forming a tubular spine structure when fixed together, and a plurality of elong... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5056823 | Album design This invention relates to a new and improved design associated with the fabrication and construction of a prebound album wherein the individual pages of the album are selectively interchangeable in accordance with the invention, each particular page evide... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5028075 | Field blueprint carrier A portable carrier for containing, using and displaying blueprints in an outdoor working environment includes an expandable living hinge along the centerline of a planar folio with integral handles and closure devices specifically configured restraining c... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4913463 | Hinged case providing sectional cover with anti-pinch interleaving through Interleaving troughs (28-30) are securely fixed to a front cover (12) and a back cover (14) of a hinged apparatus (10). The first and second troughs (28-30) are generally semicircular in shape and are dimensioned to slidably cooperate with each other. A g... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4655478 | Book support A book support has a pair of platens set in a V-shape and a felxible web spanning between the platens at the base of the V-shape. The platens may be mounted so that they can move towards and away from one another to accommodate books of different sizes an... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4624480 | Magazine and directory cover and holder assembly A binder for holding magazines, catalogs and directories in a protective cover, consisting of a simple, one-piece plastic molding.... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4486032 | Cover folders Cover folders having binders that securely retain the cover and inserted sheets, without the use of external fasteners. The binder is an elongated bar with an interior channel for receiving and holding a folded cover. The bar includes within the channel s... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4436442 | Directory holder A directory holder adaptable for mounting in various places comprising a bed and a cover of rigid sheet material such as acrylic hingeably attached to each other at side flanges, top flange on cover, bottom flanges on bed and cover which overlap when clos... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4391457 | Combination pocket pad and writing instrument holder A memo or check pad holder is disclosed which is designed to fit into an open shirt pocket and retain not only a memo or check pad but also writing instruments. The holder includes a cover foldable along a flexible hinge into front and back cover sections... | 07/05/1983 |
