Portfolio construction
OwnerRobert C. Clineinventor
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Abstract
This portfolio construction can be made from a single sheet of light cardboard and it provides two covers hinged together and with each cover made with three layers of cardboard folded back on itself. Each cover has two pockets suitable for holding loose sheets. The inside panel of the back cover has a transverse slot into which the cardboard on the back of a writing pad can be inserted to retain and protect pad sheets when enclosed between the front and back covers of the portfolio; the pad sheets are exposed for ready writing when the portfolio covers are hinged open The only adhesive required is along one horizontal edge of each cover.
Claims10
A portfolio of one-piece pliant sheet construction, comprising front and back covers having spaced upper, lower and side edges, the covers being hinge-connected on a fold axis extending vertically between said upper and lower edges;
- each cover comprising an outer panel and a middle panel and an inner panel, the outer panels being connected to each other along the fold axis of hinge connection;
- the middle panel of each cover being a first extension of the associated outer panel vertically beyond one of said upper and lower edges thereof and folded along said one edge to lie in confronting outer-pocket-defining relation with the associated outer panel;
- the inner panel of each cover being a second and opposite extension of the associated outer panel vertically beyond the other of said upper and lower edges thereof and folded along said other edge to lie in confronting inner-pocket-defining relation with the associated middle panel;
- securing means fastening said inner and middle panels to each other essentially on an alignment adjacent and parallel to said one edge;
- and said side edges being unfastened to define pockets for the insertion of material between said outer, middle and inner panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.