Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7052045 | Labeling device for bound materials The present invention relates to an apparatus for labeling the spine or edge of a binder. In an embodiment, the device comprises a housing, a clip attached to the housing and a label encased within the housing. The housing further comprises a base portion and a cove... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051871 | Optical disk containers The present invention relates generally to plastic containers which can be used for holding, organizing and securing optical disks including CDs, DVDs, mini CDs, and mini DVDs. Features of the apparatus serve to prevent dirt, dust, water, and other debris from enter... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7021852 | Article holder An open ring-like device for holding articles such as plastic cards and keys is formed so that its ends are opposed to one another and includes tips at the ends. The distance between the tips is less than the thickness of an article. Articles can be inserted into th... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7018125 | Notebook having integral binder members A notebook device includes an intermediate connection member integrally coupled between a top and a bottom cover sheet members with folding lines. The intermediate connection member includes one or more bars and one or more straps coupled between the top and the bot... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6964538 | Corner clip document holder The document holder essentially includes a front, generally flat, rectangular cover and a back, generally flat, rectangular cover. The covers may be transparent and are joined at one corner. This may be the upper left hand corner. A clip is pivotably mounted to both... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6752559 | Indexing system package and display system A packaged stack of dividers comprising a container including front and back covers, at least two dividers oriented in stacked relation to each other and positioned in the container between the front and back covers, and an alignment member coupled to the stacked di... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6666610 | Folder A folder for receiving papers including a first side panel including a recess formed in an edge thereof, and a first lower panel facing the side panel. The first side panel and the first lower panel are joined to form a pocket therebetween, and the recess... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6648374 | Presentation devices with indexed holders A folder, binder or book includes envelope pages with slits in the outer edges thereof so that the tabs of tabbed index cards, sized to fit snugly in the envelope pages can retain their tabs extending out through the slits. The index cards have cut off in... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6558064 | Ring binder sheet positioner A springy panel bridges the ring mechanism housing. It is mounted on the ring halves so that when the ring halves close they cam the panel up the lower curve of the segments, and bow the panel upward away from the ring mechanism housing cover. An element ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6416243 | Keepsake sleeve The present invention discloses a apparatus which includes a left front panel and a left back panel which together form a first pocket and a right front panel and a right back panel which together form a second pocket. The apparatus also includes a left c... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6390714 | Customizable album leaves with changeable backgrounds A customizable leaf for retaining visual material includes a first assembly and a second assembly. Each of the assemblies includes a front sheet and a back sheet attached together to form a margin and an accessible pocket. The sheets are made from an opti... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6273630 | Sheet lifter A sheet lifter for use with a ring-binder for storing loose-leaf pages having a substantially flat base portion with first and second lateral sides. The base portion further includes at least one aperture located between the first and second sides for rec... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6234701 | Molded plastic binder An improved binder formed of two cover portions made of rigid material joined together with a living hinge is disclosed. A closure flap with a second living hinge joins the free ends of the cover opposite the binder spine. An improved method of attaching ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6196748 | Folder binder What is provided is a folio having at least one set of interleaved attachment tabs hingedly formed at the folio spine, comprising a first tab and a second nested tab, where both tabs share the same spine axis, and where each tab provides a means for attac... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6183157 | Method and apparatus for securing an electronic device to a loose-leaf support assembly An apparatus for attaching an electronic device to a loose-leaf support assembly. The attachment apparatus includes a housing, a receptacle defined in the housing, a capture element adjacent the receptacle, and an attachment member. The capture element in... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6095711 | Flip packet A stack of sheet material defining a packet assembly. Each sheet is provided with a single elongated slot spaced from one of its edges such that each sheet is captured by a single tubular element providing for the stack of sheet material to be in registry... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6082769 | Clip for binding cut sheets used with a multi-functional picture book learning system A clip for securing cut sheets of image bearing medium to a notebook or picture book is provided that has an inverted U-shape. The clip is made of an elastic material that has a latch on either end to attach to a cavity in either a notebook, picture book,... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6076990 | Binder for holed paper A binder for sheets of paper comprises a bendable cover and a binding system secured centrally of the cover. The binding system has a one piece plastic construction comprising a base portion with first and second bosses formed from and located to either s... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6027275 | Seal for notebook and album rings A seal is provided for notebooks and albums to prevent inadvertent opening of the rings and to prevent pilferage of paper, photo album insert sheets and the like. The seal is a continuous band or overlapped loop of plastic material which is heat-shrunk ov... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6010270 | Ring binder with locking device A ring type binder for perforated sheets or the like in which two members are coaxially secured so that a slot is formed along each longitudinal edge of the members. Another partially open ring member is provided that is configured to be slidably received... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5863335 | Wall protector A wall protector with a multiplicity of sheets of protective material bound together between a pair of interlocking members that are held together by pegs formed on one member and that are press fitted into openings in the other member. Openings in the me... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5827003 | Ring binder with alignment blade tongues A ring binder having an upper and a lower cover blank joined by a flexible rear blank. The binder has at least two aligning tongues extending from the lower cover blank to the upper cover blank for retaining perforated paper. Each aligning tongue is forme... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5772349 | Greeting card album A protective sleeve or jacket for displaying and storing a greeting card or other similarly folded flat object such as a program, announcement or invitation is disclosed. The sleeve is made from a single rectangular sheet of transparent synthetic polymeri... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5620271 | Three ring binder page for holding compact discs A loose leaf page for selectively storing four compact discs (CDs) on each side of the page, or for storing two CDs and associated printed and graphic information on each side of the page. A flexible, plastic, two-sided, loose leaf page includes four CD s... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5597256 | Insert for loose-leaf binder An insert for a loose-leaf binder is provided with a perforation near one inside corner at a proximal end of the insert to receive one ring of a loose-leaf binder. The insert is thus positioned with respect to the rings of the binder, and retained by the ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5593242 | Filing of sheets of paper A filing strip is of a bendable material. The filing strip has a central elongate anchor strip and a prong extending from each end of the strip. Each prong has a tip portion and an intermediate portion. Each tip portion is narrower than its adjacent inter... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5480192 | Coupon organizer A coupon holder for efficiently organizing, storing, viewing and retrieving a variety of sizes of coupons. The holder includes a rectangular sheet of plastic including a tab, positioned along one edge, for attachment of the holder within a cover. Each she... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5393154 | Hook and binder arrangement A pair of detachable hooks for engagement to posts of a binder. The hooks have longitudinal and cross slots for permitting detachable engagement of the hooks on the posts.... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5358280 | Apparatus for assembling and displaying information A group of cards containing printed information on one or more selected topics and interconnected to form a deck of such cards. The deck may include a title card bearing indicia denoting a particular topic of information on other cards in the deck, and al... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5333962 | Foldable ring binder-folder A hybrid binder-folder utilizing a foldable ring system for holding pages, which affords the advantage of easy page manipulation of ring binders with the advantage of flat folding of folders. The binder-folder has two side members which are mutually folda... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5290118 | Filing device for storing recording discs A recording disc filing device for storing optical recording discs such as compact discs. The filing device includes a recording disc filing sheet having a plurality of recording disc storing sections for receiving recording discs, respectively. The recor... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5284361 | Modular book kit and method of assembly A modular book which is uniquely adapted for a particular professor's course is formed by preassembling a plurality of different potential individually wrapped modules or chapters relating to a subject. Only selected ones of these modules are combined tog... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5281040 | Ring binder mechanisms A ring binder mechanism comprises a fixed part (10) for mounting on a folder, and a movable part (13) connected to the fixed part by a four-bar-chain linkage (15) allowing translational movement of the movable part relatively to the fixed part between an ... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5253943 | Plastic clipboard having elastic engaging pins A clipboard for holding worksheets is disclosed, which is a plastic rectangular board bent into a largely inverted U-shaped cross-section having a vertical front board, an also vertical backside board that is larger in length than the front board, and a h... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5224788 | Direct access modular binder A Direct Access Modular Binder containing one or more posts. Each post is comprised of two or more interconnected independent locking modules. These locking modules can easily be inserted or removed to change the length of the post to efficiently accommod... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5213429 | Foldable ring binder-folder A hybrid binder-folder utilizing a foldable ring system for holding pages, which affords the advantage of easy page manipulation of ring binders with the advantage of flat folding of folders. The binder-folder has two side members which are mutually folda... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5180246 | Binding system A binder useful for containing articles that have holes located near the edge of the article. The binder has a plurality of spaced apart oppositely located ribs attached to either side of a hinge that pass through the holes when the binder is in a closed ... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5163768 | Combined binder and suspended file assembly A combined binder and suspended file assembly has an elongated spine defining an elongated triangular channel with two substantially planar elongated members integrally formed in a hinged relationship to the edges of the channel. The binder and file assem... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5154528 | U-bind page holder The disclosed apparatus is a page holder to hold the sheets or pages in any book, album, loose leaf binder or other device that holds sheets or pages. The apparatus may be used in a book, album or binder whether it is manufactured by a heat seal, case mad... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5143466 | Notebook page with pressure-sensitive repositionable labels on both sides thereof A notebook page with repositionable labels on both sides thereof. Each side of the page is covered with a web of pressure-sensitive label stock which is kiss die cut to form removable, repositionable labels within permanent matrices. The matrices define z... | 09/01/1992 |
