Binding device for paper and other items
OwnerJacek Tuszynskiinventor
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Abstract
A binding device for hole-punched paper and other items can be made from a sheet of material without necessarily requiring metal or plastic parts. The device can include a tie and an arrangement of openings cut in a sheet of material to secure the tie in place and withstand the load of bonded hole-punched paper or other items. Some devices can exhibit flexible thickness, adjusting automatically to the thickness of items being bonded.
Claims20
A binding device for hole-punched paper or other items, the binding device comprising:
- a flexible sheet comprising a sheet substrate;
- a tie that extends from the sheet substrate;
- a first opening in the sheet substrate;
- and
- a second opening in the sheet substrate;
- wherein the tie:
- forms a securing loop;
- extends from the securing loop along the sheet substrate in a first direction to pass through the first opening from a first side of the first opening to a second side of the first opening;
- and
- on the second side of the first opening, acutely bends to extend along the sheet substrate in a second direction from the first opening to the second opening and pass through the second opening, wherein the second direction is at an acute angle relative to the first direction within a plane defined by the sheet substrate, the securing loop being thereby configured to secure the hole-punched paper or other items.
A binding device comprising:
- a flexible sheet comprising a sheet substrate having openings in a nonlinear arrangement relative to a first direction;
- a tie that extends from the sheet substrate;
- and
- one or more flaps that extend from the sheet substrate, and include corresponding one or more of the openings of the sheet substrate;
- wherein the tie:
- extends from the sheet substrate to form a loop;
- extends from the loop through a first of the openings;
- extends from the first opening along the sheet substrate to pass through a second of the openings;
- and
- extends from the second opening to pass through a third of the openings,
- with the tie entering the second opening in the first direction and exiting the second opening at an acute angle relative to the first direction to secure the tie at the second opening.
The binding device of 13, wherein the tie and the flexible sheet are included monolithically in the binding device.
A method for manufacturing a binding device for hole-punched paper or other items, the method comprising:
- forming a tie;
- forming a sheet substrate into a flexible sheet with an arrangement of a first opening and a second opening relative to a first direction, in which the first opening is spaced apart from the second opening in a second direction that forms an acute angle relative to the first direction within a plane defined by the sheet substrate;
- wherein, the first direction is an insertion direction of the tie, with the tie secured at a tie location to extend from the sheet substrate to form a securing loop, such that the tie:
- extends from the securing loop along a side of the sheet substrate in the first direction to pass through the first opening;
- and
- the tie exits the first opening and acutely bends relative to the first direction to extend from the first opening along the sheet substrate in the second direction and pass through the second opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.