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US 11,958,310 B2Granted
Book binding assembly method
AssigneePowis Parker Inc.
InventorKevin P. Parker
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Abstract
A method of providing a book binding assembly in the form of a stack of hardcovers for making hardcover books, with the hardcovers having pressure sensitive adhesives on both sides for securing a cover wrap onto the hardcovers. Liner sheets are disposed over the upper hardcover and intermediate the hardcovers of the stack to protect the various adhesive elements. The liner sheet is then used to accurately apply a cover wrap to the hardcover on which the liner sheet is disposed.
Claims13
A method of applying cover wraps to hardcovers comprising the following:
- a. providing a book binding assembly including
- i. a plurality of substantially identical liner sheets, with the liner sheets possessing orthogonal edges;
- ii. a plurality of substantially identical hardcovers, with the hardcovers comprising a front cover piece, a rear cover piece and a spine piece, with the hardcovers including a front adhesive layer disposed on a front side of the hardcover to form a surface for receiving a central portion of a cover wrap and a rear adhesive disposed on a back side of the hardcover, opposite the front side, for receiving a peripheral portion of a cover wrap, with a first one of the liner sheets disposed over a first one of the hardcovers and contacting the front adhesive layer of the first hardcover and with a second one of the liner sheets disposed intermediate the first hardcover and a second one of the hardcovers and contacting the rear adhesive of the first hardcover and the front adhesive layer of the second hardcover;
- b. centering a first cover wrap on a front side of the first hardcover by aligning the orthogonal edges of the first liner sheet with respective orthogonal edges of the first cover wrap:
- and
- c. securing the first cover wrap to the first hardcover.
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A method of applying cover wraps to hardcovers comprising the following:
- a. providing a book binding assembly including
- i. a plurality of substantially identical liner sheets;
- ii. a plurality of substantially identical hardcovers, with the hardcovers comprising a front cover piece, a rear cover piece and a spine piece with the front cover, rear cover and spine pieces interconnected together, with the hardcovers including a front adhesive layer disposed on a front side of the hardcover to form a surface for receiving a central portion of a cover wrap and a rear adhesive disposed on a back side of the hardcover, opposite the front side, to receive a peripheral portion of a cover wrap, with a first one of the liner sheets disposed over a first one of the hardcovers and contacting the front adhesive layer of the first hardcover and with a second one of the liner sheets disposed intermediate the first hardcover and a second one of hardcovers and contacting the rear adhesive of the first hardcover and the front adhesive layer of the second hardcover;
- b. centering a first cover wrap on the front side of the first hardcover utilizing the first liner sheet;
- c. securing the first cover wrap to the first hardcover by way of the front adhesive layer on the front side of the first hardcover;
- d. centering a second cover wrap on the front side of the second hardcover utilizing the second liner sheet;
- and
- e. securing the second cover wrap to the second hardcover by way of the front adhesive layer on the front side of the second hardcover.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.