File binder and document organizer
OwnerJeff Baker, Mark Bunker +3inventors
InventorsJeff Baker, Mark Bunker, Seth Freytag, Kelly Tran, Paul van der Pol
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an organizer comprising a unique structural configuration to house and store both non-perforated documents and perforated documents. The organizer comprises a ring binder that is associated with an expandable compartment that is arranged peripheral to the ring binder.
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1-22. (canceled)
An organizing binder comprising a compartment outer cover and a compartment inner cover, each of said compartment outer cover and compartment inner cover comprising a first end and a second end, an outer surface and an inner surface;
- a compartment bridge portion comprising a planar bridge body portion having a bridge inner surface, a bridge outer surface, a bridge inner edge and a bridge outer edge, wherein the bridge outer edge associates with the compartment inner cover first end, and wherein the bridge inner edge associates with the compartment outer cover first end;
- an expandable compartment comprising a first wall portion and a second wall portion, each of said first and second wall portions spanning between the compartment outer cover and the compartment inner cover, wherein said first and second wall portions, or a combination thereof, comprise supernumerary material so as to allow expansion of said compartment outer cover away from said compartment inner cover;
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- a binding mechanism disposed on the outer surface of the compartment inner cover.
An organizing binder comprising a first planar cover member and a second planar cover member, each said first and second planar cover member comprising an outer surface, an inner surface, proximal end, and a distal end;
- a securing member associated with said proximal end of said first planar cover member and said proximal end of said second planar cover member, said securing member provided to bind the first planar cover member and second planar cover member together at each respective proximal end;
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- an expandable compartment associated with said second planar cover member outer surface, said expandable compartment comprising a first wall portion and a second wall portion spanning between a compartment outer cover and said second planar cover member outer surface, wherein said first and second wall portions, or a combination thereof, comprise supernumerary material so as to allow expansion of said compartment outer cover away from said second planar cover member outer surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.