Creative quietbook
AssigneeMemories For Always
InventorsSusan Healton, Tamara Keller
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Abstract
This invention relates generally to a flexible photo album where the photos are printed on fabric pages and the pages bound together. More specifically, this invention relates to a unique method of collecting and arranging photographs, text and associated artwork digitally and printing that arrangement on a foldable page pair. The page pairs are cut from a soft flexible material and placed back to back with quilt batting between them, coupled together with serge type stitching around the perimeter of said page pair. Page pairs are stacked on the cover-back pair and the spine of the album is sewn in the middle and the page pairs are folded over at the spine forming the Quietbook.
Claims8
An album for an infant comprising:
- a plurality of generally rectangular sheets of a soft flexible material with a front side and a back side, with preselected art work, text and photographs printed on said front side of the material;
- a plurality of page pairs assembled by placing a selected two of said rectangular sheets of said soft flexible material back to back, coupled together with serge type stitching around the perimeter of said page pair with a sheet of batting material in between said rectangular sheets,
- a stack of said assembled page pairs beginning with said front and back cover page pair and topping off with the center of the book page pair connected at the center of the page pairs by a spine stitch from the top through the bottom of said stack and folding the page pair stack at the spine line forming the book.
A method of generating a photographic album, comprising:
- collecting the set of photographs from the customer that she wants included in said album;
- noting the names of each person in said photographs for later use as descriptive text;
- reproducing digitally said photographs on personal computer from either a scanner or digital camera;
- sizing and cropping photographs to appropriate dimensions;
- selecting appropriate art work for front and back covers, title page and other internal embellishments;
- laying out photographs, artwork and text to fit selected page size for album;
- applying color digitally and text as required;
- printing layout on front side of fabric or other media;
- cutting fabric into paired pages;
- placing batting material between two printed page pairs that are placed back to back;
- sewing said page pairs and batting sandwich together with a serge stitch around the perimeter of said page pair;
- repeating the sewing step on each of the page pair sandwiches;
- stacking page pair sandwiches in appropriate order;
- sewing the center line in the middle of the page pair to create a binding or spine;
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- folding the stack of paired page sandwiches at the binding producing a Quietbook form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.