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US 5,328,206 AGranted
Board book with easily-turned pages
OwnerKatherine J. Scottinventor
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Abstract
An improved stiff-paged board book uses spacing structures between adjacent leaves to form small gaps which provide convenient finger holds that facilitate turning of individual pages by young children. The gaps allow single pages to be turned easily irrespective of where they are grasped by a reader and reduce the tendency of pages to stick to one another. Spacing structures are formed by affixing a solid block to a leaf, by impressing a protrusion into the leaf, or by embedding magnets in the leaf with like polarizations facing adjacent pages.
Claims10
A board book comprising:
- a plurality of stiff pages, each of said pages having a first and a second relatively flat surface on opposite sides thereof, and peripheral edge which at least partially surrounds said first and second relatively flat surfaces;
- and,
- at least one spacer means coupled to at least one first relatively flat surface, said spacer means located substantially completely inside of said peripheral edge,
- wherein said spacer means produces a gap between adjacent pages that runs substantially the length of said peripheral edge of said page in order to facilitate the turning of said page from any point along said peripheral edge.
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A book which comprises:
- a plurality of pages, each of said pages having a first and a second relatively flat surface on opposite sides thereof and a peripheral edge which at least partially surrounds said first and second relatively flat surfaces;
- a first magnetic spacer means imbedded in a first page;
- and,
- a second magnetic spacer means imbedded in a second page,
- wherein said first magnetic spacer means is located adjacent to said second magnetic spacer means, and said first and second magnetic spacer means are oriented so that facing magnetic poles are the same for providing magnetic repulsion between adjacent pages.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.