US 6,044,490 A · Paper product and method of making

Abstract

Various sheet material blanks comprising one or a plurality of interconnected panels are fabricated so that a stand-out structure die-cut into one panel upon manipulation assumes an attention-attracting, 3-dimensional orientation. The various configurations are such that particular advantages may be obtained through mass production,and machine-assembly methods can profitably be used to construct certain configurations. A variety of methods are shown for efficiently producing such pieces via mass-production, including items having multiple stand-out structures. Flat individual blanks in sheet form are particularly adapted to be conveyed through laser printers, copy machines and other suitable imprinting equipment in order to inexpensively personalize such blanks, which can be used to create a variety of different 3-dimensional items, including novelty sunvisors.

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Dependent claims

A blank designed for fabrication into a 3-dimensional item, said blank comprising

a planar sheet of sheet material having an upper surface and an undersurface,
die-cut means in said sheet forming a stand-out structure including a main body portion having at least one line of weakness therein which forms a hinged subpanel,
said die-cut means also forming link means in said sheet, said link means being hinged to said main body portion of said stand-out structure and to the remainder of said sheet, and
bonding means for interconnecting said subpanel of said stand-out structure to another region of said sheet so that interconnection between said subpanel and said sheet causes said stand-out structure to move prominently away from the remainder of said sheet, guided by said link means, and assume an attention-attracting orientation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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