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The present invention relates to the bulk manufacture of objects, materials, or products from sheets or fabrics, which are either folded or to be folded, with designs, images, text, and raised patterns that are reconstituted strip by strip at the edge of the folds thereof, in the recessed portions, and in the edge surfaces. The novelty of the present invention is that a process for repeating designs and shapes, which are shifted relative to one another, on at least one sheet and from one sheet to the other, by reproducing, cutting, or stamping, is merged with folding operations necessitated by the design or suitable for the technical process of the machines in a predetermined manufacturing procedure. The method is mainly useful in book publishing and stationery. Said method can also lend itself to the innovation of novel shapes for books and notebooks produced in bulk, e.g. having a cylindrical or triangular-prism shape or bas-reliefs on the edge surface thereof, and to objects, games, toys, jewelry, as well as to fashion accessories, decorative objects, promotional stands, packaging, furniture, and to various novel textile materials and panels made of various materials.
1) A method for manufacturing objects in the form of sheets that are folded or intended to be folded comprising designs and raised patterns reconstituted strip by strip at the edge of their folds (FIG. 2e), characterized by an operation of reproducing designs, on the front or back, by printing and by cutting (FIG. 1 and 9a) which are repeated or which follow one another in at least one direction on one or more sheets, systematically shifted relative to one another from one sheet to another (FIG. 1a), accompanied by a series of scorings produced at regular intervals and progressively shifted relative to the designs (FIG. 1b), followed by a separation operation performed by the cutting of blocks of sheets (FIG. 1c) comprising one or more instances of the design (FIGS. 2 and 3), joined and followed by an operation of folding of each sheet.
2) The manufacturing method as claimed in the first claim, characterized by the use of a single sheet comprising an operation of scoring with parallel lines and a zig-zag folding operation. The original design is reconstituted in successive strips on the lateral surfaces of the object (FIG. 4).
7) The manufacturing method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, characterized by operating of securing the sheets by gluing, so as to obtain cellular blocks of honeycomb type. The operation consists in depositing, before the folding, lines of glue offset relative to one another from one sheet to another or from one flap to the other of the same sheet. The lines of glue can be deposited parallel to the fold (FIG. 16b), making it possible to reconstitute the design on the pleats of the object (FIG. 17g) and, after an optional guillotining operation, also parallel to the fold (FIG. 16c), restore the reconstituted design in the longitudinal cells (FIG. 17f), or at right angles to the fold (FIG. 16a) in the case of production, for example, of cellular slices (FIGS. 19 and 20).
8) The manufacturing method as claimed in the first claim, characterized by the zero offset of the designs from one sheet to another, an offset which will be obtained by an operation of folding of the blocks of sheets (FIG. 22a) followed by a second folding operation performed sheet by sheet which will make it possible to reconstitute, on the edges of pleats of a part of the design and, in the edge surface, after a guillotining operation, another part of the pattern (FIG. 22e).
10) The manufacturing method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, characterized by operations of cutting of the total or partial volume of the blocks of sheets, in any step of the process, for example by stamping (conventional or by the log), by laser cutting at right angles relative to the planes of the sheets (FIG. 18j) or oblique (FIG. 24d), an operation which allows parts of the design to be revealed in the edge surfaces (FIGS. 26h and 26i).
11) The manufacturing method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, characterized by the reproduction only of the strips of designs corresponding to the folding and cutting points, in order to free up space for texts and images corresponding to the object, for example books, notebooks, catalogs and brochures with the same result concerning the reconstitution of the designs on the pleats and optionally on the edge surface (FIG. 6, 7).
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