US 5,452,920 AGranted

Adhesive binding strip and method of making the same

OwnerKevin P. Parkerinventor

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Abstract

An adhesive binding strip for binding pages in the form of a book. The adhesive binding strip includes an elongated substrate made of a formable material. A band of heat-activated adhesive runs down the central portion of the substrate. A matrix of heat-activated adhesive is placed on the substrate around all edges of the adhesive band. The adhesive band, which has a low viscosity under activation conditions, binds the pages of a book to each other and to the substrate. The adhesive matrix, which has a high viscosity under activation conditions, serves to bind the entire substrate to the book, while preventing the adhesive band from running out from under the substrate during the binding process. The adhesive matrix also increases overall strength of the binding, especially with respect to the front and back cover pages of the book.

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Dependent claims

An adhesive binding strip for binding pages together comprising:

an elongated substrate comprising formable material, said substrate including first and second edges which extend along a longitudinal axis of said substrate and third and fourth edges which extend normal to said longitudinal axis;
an adhesive band, having a thickness, disposed over said substrate along the longitudinal axis;
an adhesive matrix disposed over said substrate and extending around said adhesive band;
with said adhesive matrix having a thickness which is at least one-half the thickness of said adhesive band and wherein said adhesive matrix extends completely around said adhesive band and includes a first segment which extends between said adhesive band and said first substrate edge and is displaced from said first substrate edge so as to form a first gap and a second segment which extends between said adhesive band and said second substrate edge and is displaced from said second substrate edge so as to form a second gap;
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with said adhesive band and said adhesive matrix comprising heat-activated adhesives having respective viscosities when activated, with said adhesive matrix viscosity being greater than said adhesive band viscosity.

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A method of making an adhesive strip for binding pages together, which comprises:

supplying an elongated substrate comprising formable material;
depositing an adhesive band, having a thickness, over said substrate along a longitudinal axis of said substrate, said adhesive band having first and second edges which extend along said longitudinal axis and third and fourth edges which extend normal to said longitudinal axis;
depositing an adhesive matrix over said substrate;
with said adhesive matrix including a first, second, third and a fourth segment which extend around the first, second, third and fourth adhesive band edges respectively;
with said adhesive matrix having a thickness which is at least one-half the thickness of said adhesive band;
with said adhesive band and said adhesive matrix comprising heat-activated adhesives having respective viscosities when activated, with said adhesive matrix viscosity being greater than said adhesive band viscosity;
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wherein said substrate is supplied by feeding a continuous roll of the substrate material past two or more locations where said depositions of materials takes place, with the first and second matrix segments being deposited at a different location than said third and fourth adhesive matrix segments and wherein, subsequent to said feeding of the substrate roll past one or more of said locations for deposition of adhesive, said substrate roll is cooled to a temperature below the activation temperature of the adhesives comprising said adhesive matrix.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.