Embossed paper
AssigneeMeadWestvaco Corporation
InventorsJ. Michael Tims, Catherine Ayres, Sandra L. Cashman
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Abstract
A sheet of embossed paper including a sheet-like body portion, at least one embossed or depressed line located on the body portion, and at least one printed line located on and extending at least partially along the embossed or depressed line. The invention may also include notebook including a plurality of sheets of paper, each sheet including a sheet-like body portion, at least one embossed or depressed line located on the body portion, and at least one printed line located on and extending at least partially along the embossed or depressed line. The notebook may include binding means binding the plurality of sheets together.
Claims13
A sheet of embossed material comprising:
- a sheet-like body portion of cellular based or pulp based material having an outer perimeter with at least a pair of opposed outer edges defining a dimension therebetween;
- at least one preformed straight embossed or depressed line located on said body portion extending an entire distance of said dimension between said opposed outer edges, wherein said at least one embossed or depressed line is defined by a deformation of said body portion and includes a bead portion that is raised relative to one side of said body portion and depressed relative to the other side of said body portion;
- at least one pre-printed straight line located on and extending at least partially along said preformed embossed or depressed line, said preformed embossed or depressed line and said pre-printed line being provided to guide the writing of a user on said body portion;
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- a back side pre-printed line located on said other side of said body portion on and along said embossed or depressed line.
A sheet of embossed material comprising:
- a sheet-like body portion of cellular based or pulp based material having an outer perimeter with at least a pair of opposed outer edges defining a dimension therebetween, said body portion having first and second opposed sides;
- at least one embossed or depressed line located on said body portion and extending generally an entire distance of said dimension between said opposed outer edges;
- a front side printed line located said first side of said body portion and extending at least partially along said embossed or depressed line;
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- a back side printed line located on said second side of said body portion and extending at least partially along said embossed or depressed line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.