FR2667268A1 - Selfadhesive binding, optionally precut to size - Google Patents

Abstract

Selfadhesive binding, fully or partly precut to size, for covering books and other objects. The invention is particularly intended for covering books and other volumes according to standard book binding practice, but requiring no special tools or knowledge, and in a very short period of time. It comprises a selfadhesive spine cover with a centering system to provide a spine reinforcement of adjustable dimensions, a gauge for the spacing when mounting on the cover, on either side of the reinforcement, for two selfadhesive boards that can be cut to size. Depending on whether or not the H x L dimensions of the volume are to be standard, the complete binding, except for the reinforcement which can be cut to width, can be precut to size during manufacture or left to the user to cut all its dimensions H x L x D. The boards are made adhesive by means of a transfer sheet which is partly affixed during manufacture. The invention is particularly intended for binding books of standard or nonstandard dimensions and any comparable volume.

Description

The present invention relates to a rigid binding making it possible to cover, at the aesthetic standards of traditional binding, a book with already assembled sheets, whether or not provided with a cover of the same format as the sheets.

 The manufacture and assembly of a book cover traditionally requires many cutting, gluing and assembly works, long drying times, know-how and important tools.

 The binding according to the invention overcomes these drawbacks.

It has indeed, in addition to decorative accessories, four main parts; namely, a back cover, a preformatted back reinforcement that can be resized in height and width and two modular self-adhesive flat plates, all preformatted to immediately adapt to the dimensional standards of art binding, to collections of books or large objects standardized in H x L for which the binding is intended. If the binding has to be adapted to a volume having a height, width, thickness or several dimensions less than the maximum provided, the user resizes using scissors or another tool, the part or parts to be adapted by following thereon one or more of the vertical and horizontal parallel cutting lines which are printed there and each labeled according to the volume dimension to which it corresponds. These possible cutting work being done, it suffices to remove the adhesive protections from the self-adhesive parts and to assemble them before mounting the assembly on the volume.

 The back cover is intended to receive over the width of its internal face, the back reinforcement in the center and on either side of this reinforcement, each of the two plates on the lateral zones called jaws-skin. It gives their cohesion to these three pieces and serves as their hinge. Its width is at least equal to that of the back reinforcement taken in its initial width, more on either side of it, a centimeter and a half at least to fix an edge of each dish. Its height is equal to that of the reinforcement taken in its initial height plus about three centimeters, corresponding to a lower filling and an upper filling. The cover is self-adhesive on all its internal face. It can also be self-adhesive at the upper and lower border of its external face over the entire surface of the fillings intended for direct contact with the volume to be bound. These filled stickers are especially useful for preformatted bindings in height in order to adapt to collections standardized height volumes.

 In its center, the protective sheet of adhesive on the inside is cut into vertical strips over a width equal to the initial width of the back reinforcement. The strips are, in width and in number, such that by detaching them successively on either side of the central strip strip, there is stripped a sufficient width of adhesive to stick the back reinforcement, cut or not, suitably centered in width.

 Each strip can be kept to determine, by its width, the space to be left between the reinforcement and each dish when these parts are assembled on the cover. They will also help to obtain a well parallel positioning of the three parts on the cover by using them as intermediate templates.

 The protective sheet of the internal face of the cover or the cover itself, is printed with horizontal markings indicating the upper and lower limits of centering in height of a back reinforcement having retained its initial height or been resized to any lower dimension .

The back reinforcement is preformatted in height to suit the height of the different collections of books for which the binding is intended. I1
can however be resized in height along horizontal parallel lines, printed on one of the faces, each for example labeled; "cutting line for a book high by X mm", or any other formula.

The initial width of the back reinforcement is sufficient to suit books or objects of maximum thickness from the collection for which the binding is intended. The back reinforcement can however be cut in width along vertical parallel lines which are printed there and, for example captioned; "cutting line for a book thick of X mm"
The external face of the dishes is provided with a decorative sheet folded and glued on at least one centimeter on the back of one of the top or bottom sides and on a lateral side. The lateral side intended to take place on the cover has no filling. According to a particular embodiment, the binding, therefore the dishes, can be resized to adapt to volumes of height and width less than the maximum provided. In this case, the decorative sheet is self-adhesive and only secured, by partial removal of adhesive, to one of the upper or lower regions of the dish, the filling corresponding to this region being alone secured to the back of the dish. The filling of the opposite region and the lateral filling keep the adhesive protection. In this way, it is possible to resize the dish in height after having released the adhesive decorative sheet from the passage of the cutting tool and, in a second step, to resize said sheet in height so that one obtains a filled with approximately at least a centimeter.

 The internal face of the dishes is self-adhesive over its entire surface intended for direct contact with the volume to be connected. In the case of a binding intended for a volume of standard height and width, the dishes which do not have to be resized are adhesive-bonded directly over the entire surface previously mentioned.

 According to a particular embodiment, the binding can be resized to adapt to volumes of height and width less than the maximums provided. In this case the dishes are provided with an adhesive sheet on the front and back, partially secured to them on the internal face so that a case of cutting the dish can be reshuffled at least a cen meter and a half filled of cover and decorative sheet, themselves cut for this purpose, between the dish and the double-sided adhesive sheet.

 The adhesive is secured to the dish on the same upper or lower half as the decorative sheet. The other half is printed with horizontal parallel cutting lines for the height adjustment of the dish to the volume. The horizontal cutting lines can be printed directly on the plate.

 It should be noted that if the dish and the decorative sheet are cut in height, the adhesive sheet must be cut so that it suffices and suffices only to cover the volume to be bound. This generally assumes that a horizontal margin of dish and filled remains free of adhesive. The vertical cutting lines are printed on the dish or on the double-sided adhesive, this on the side which will take place on the cover, so that the decorative sheet, the dish and the double-sided adhesive can be resized in one single operation.

 These four parts are assembled on the back cover. By way of nonlimiting example, a preformatted binding for a volume with standardized high and wide dimensions presents dishes that are entirely preformatted and adhesive-coated during manufacturing. It is only necessary to measure the non-standardized thickness of the structure. If it is less than the maximum thickness foreseen, the back reinforcement is cut in width following the line of cut corresponding to the thickness of the book.

 The back cover is stripped, successively on either side of the central strip and starting with the latter, with a sufficient and only sufficient quantity of strips to fully stick the reinforcement there.

the reinforcement is previously centered in height according to the marks which are printed on the covering or the adhesive protection.

 The strips are kept as a template. The adhesive on the inside of the cover is removed. A strip is placed on each side of the reinforcement. The dishes are glued on both sides of the reinforcement and strips. The strips are removed. The dishes are stripped of their adhesive protection. The top and bottom fillings of cover brought back on the internal face of the flat-reinforcement-cover assembly. The binding is ready to install.

For this, the lateral limit of adhesive of one of the dishes is superposed at the edge of the lateral edge of the volume, the upper and lower limits of the adhesive and of the volume facing each other.

 The dish is pressed onto the volume. The second dish is fixed in the same way.

 According to another example, itself nonlimiting, the binding is intended for a volume of width, height and thickness that is not standardized but that is less than the maximums provided. According to this variant the filled with cover are not adhesive and the dishes are provided with a decorative sheet and a double-sided adhesive sheet partially fixed thereto.

 After measuring the height of the volume, the back reinforcement is cut there in height, following the cutting line adapted to the height of the volume. If necessary, the back reinforcement is cut across its width using the same method. The dishes, if they have to be cut in width, are made using the same method.

If it is necessary to resize the dishes in height, the adhesive and the decorative sheet are folded away from the passage of the cutting tool. The dish is then cut to the height adapted to the volume to be bound according to the method indicated above. The decorative sheet is cut in order to find a filled
about a centimeter at least. The double-sided adhesive sheet is cut in height to correspond exactly to the height of the volume to be bound. The decorative sheet is stripped of its adhesive protection and fully secured to the outside of the dish. The sides of double-sided adhesive sheets on the internal side of the dishes are raised to free up the passage to fill with decorative sheet. The fillings are then glued to the internal face of the dishes.

 The assembly is then done on the cover; The back reinforcement is glued to the cover as described in the first example. The dishes are glued to the cover as it is said in the first example. The fillings of blanket are cut to present two horizontal bands of about a centimeter and a half. The upper and lower sides of the double-sided adhesive of the dishes are lifted. The filled with self-adhesive covers are brought and fixed on the dishes. For each dish, the side of the double-sided adhesives partially secured to the dishes is stripped of its adhesive protection and fixed to the dish assembly-filled with decorative sheet-filled with blanket. The side of the double-sided adhesives of the dishes still provided with its protection is stripped. The binding is fixed to the volume as it is said in the first example.

 The parts of the binding are produced by cutting, coating of adhesive, printing and assembly. Depending on their destination, they are made of leather, plastic, cardboard or any other material.

The binding according to the invention is particularly intended to cover books or any other object of comparable shape and dimensions
H x W standardized or, in its modular flat version, books and objects of comparable shape, with any H x W x D dimensions but less than the H x W x D dimensions of the self-adhesive binding.

 According to another variant, the binding can be pre-assembled in the workshop and be intended for volumes of standardized dimensions in height, width and thickness such as the boxes of magnetic cassettes, without this example being limiting.

Claims (1)

 l) Decorative binding to cover books and all objects of comparable shape, characterized in that it includes a fully self-adhesive back cover, on its internal face, with a protective sheet of adhesive cut into vertical strips and printed with centering marks. in height for a back reinforcement, partially self-adhesive on its reverse side in an arrangement in horizontal bands at each of its upper and lower ends, a preformatted back reinforcement but resizable in height and width according to parallel horizontal and vertical cutting lines printed on the latter and taking place in the center of the internal face of the cover and two preformatted self-adhesive flat sheets which can be resized in height and width intended to take place on either side of the back reinforcement.  2) Binding according to claim 1 characterized in that the height and width of the cover are equal to the initial height and width of the back reinforcement plus a centimeter and a half at least on each side.  3) Binding according to claims 1 or 2 characterized in that the cover is self-adhesive over the entire internal face and on the part of the filled intended for direct contact with the book to be bound.  4) Binding according to claims 1 or 2 or 3 characterized in that in its center, the adhesive protective sheet of the inner face of the cover is cut into vertical strips over a width equal to the initial width of the back reinforcement.  5) Binding according to claims 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 characterized in that the protective adhesive sheet of the inner face of the cover, or the inner face itself, is printed with centering marks in height of the back reinforcement resized or not.  6) Binding according to claims 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 characterized in that excluding the central strip, the width of each strip makes use of a template and indicates the space to be left for mounting between the reinforcement back and dishes.  7) Binding according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the protective sheet of adhesive of the dishes, or the dishes themselves, and the back reinforcement are marked with parallel vertical and horizontal lines indicating a cutting situation to adapt each of these pieces with dimensions of the volume for which the binding is intended.  8) Binding according to claim. 1 characterized in that the internal face of the dishes is self-adhesive over the entire surface intended for direct contact with the volume to be connected.  9) Binding according to claims 1 or 8 characterized in that the external face of the dishes is provided with a self-adhesive decorative sheet with filled with at least one centimeter at each of the upper and lower ends and on one of the sides, secured to the dish and its reverse side in only one of its high or low regions, by lack of adhesive protection in this same and only region.  10) Binding according to claim 1 or 7 or 8 or 9 characterized in that the internal side of the flat is provided, over its entire surface intended for direct contact with the volume to be bound, with an adhesive sheet on the front and back secured to the flat by lack of adhesive protection in the same high or low region as the decorative sheet, excluding a margin of at least two centimeters retaining its protection on the sides corresponding to the folded and foldable areas of the decorative sheet .