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US 8,225,717 B2Granted
Hinge strips for printer paper
AssigneeTerrance A. Kurowski
InventorJohn Ratzloff
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Abstract
The present invention provides a page for binding in an album. The page includes a blank, printer paper sheet and a hinge strip mounted along an edge of the printer paper sheet, the hinge strip including a flexible line for allowing the hinge strip to bend along the flexible line and a portion for binding to an album. The paper sheet and the hinge strip are adapted to go through a printer together to provide a ready-to-bind printed page.
Claims13
A method of printing a photographic image on a photo page, comprising:
- providing a photo page for mounting in an album, the photo page including a blank sheet having a hinge strip portion extending along one side of the blank sheet, the hinge strip portion including a flexible portion allowing a mounting strip of the photo page to bend without causing bending of the blank sheet, the flexible portion including a first connecting strip formed of a flexible material adhesively attached along a first side of the photo page spanning a gap between the mounting strip and the blank sheet and a second connecting strip formed of a flexible material adhesively attached along a second side of the photo page spanning the gap between the mounting strip and the blank sheet;
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- printing a photographic image on the blank sheet by sending the photo page, including the hinge strip portion, through a printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.