Avery Dennison Corporation

Gustav Allen Ray

Sonia Owen

Jeffrey C Hunter

Ghanshyam H Popat

Shiaonung J Su

Fred N Miekka

Robert Valadez

H Paul Barker

Raymond G Kubit

Russell D Pollman

Stephen M Sharp

An image transfer assembly ( ) receives an image printed from an ink jet printer. The assembly ( ) provides a device to transfer the printed image onto an image-receiving surface. The assembly ( ) has a flexible substrate ( ) on one side, and an upper surface ( ) on the other side that is substantially permeable to ink jet printer ink and that is non-tacky prior to printing. The assembly ( ) has an adhesive or polymer layer ( ) in between the upper surface ( ) and the flexible substrate ( ). After printing with a water-based ink jet printer ink, the user may apply the assembly ( ) to a substrate, such as a window or other surface, and remove the flexible substrate ( ), thereby leaving the layer ( ) that bears the image on the substrate. In one of several alternative embodiments, the layer ( ) is divided into discrete zones that are separated from one another along boundaries.

Water-activated polymers and adhesive image transfer technique

Generally speaking, a method for forming custom-printed, three dimensional structures using a computer and a computer-controlled printer, has several steps. A flexible rectangular sheet is perforated to form a removable portion. Lines of weakness are formed on the removable portion, to serve as fold lines that ultimately folding the two-dimensional removable portion into a three-dimensional structure. A user instructs a computer program to command a computer-controlled printer to print particular information onto the printing surface of said removable portion. After printing, the user removes the removable portion from the sheet along the perforations and then folds the removable portion along the lines of weakness and secures the folded sheet into a three dimensional structure. The removable portion may be provided with a pressure-sensitive, water-activated, cohesive or other type of adhesive for adhering securing the folded sheet into the three-dimensional structure. The computer program enables the user to design the custom-printing for the structure, and optionally to preview the ultimate appearance of the three-dimensional structure.

Method for custom printing and forming three-dimensional structures

The tabbed edge of a divider sheet has at least one strip releasably attached thereto. The strip helps the printer (or copier) sense the sheet when being fed strip end first or last (landscape direction) into the printer or copier. When fed in the portrait direction, the strip guides the sheet along the feed tray guides thereby preventing skewing of the sheet. After the printer or copier has printed the desired indicia on the tabs and/or body of the sheet, the strip is removed from the sheet and discarded. The strip can be attached to the sheet with adhesive or by a microperforation line.

Method for printing on index divider sheet assemblies and the like

A system for rivetless attachment of a ring binder assembly to a cover wherein an attachment portion including one or more prongs adapted to imbeddingly engage a cover substrate and a surface adapted to mate in facing relation with a surface of the cover is formed unitary with a confining spring cover plate of the ring binder assembly, the ring binder assembly being attached to the cover by forcing the attachment portion against it with sufficient force to drive the prongs into the substrate and hold the surface of the attachment portion firmly against the cover.

Flanged cover with prongs for a ring binder assembly

Index divider sheet assembly and the like

Image-recording technology records images displayed on a screen onto an image sheet. An image-recording assembly has an image sheet and an associated opaque shield. The shield is slidable to expose the image sheet to the image displayed on the screen. The image sheet may be of the type which has microcapsules containing photo-hardenable chemicals coated onto a base sheet. The image-recording assembly is positioned in front of a screen displaying an image with a user exposing the image sheet by shiffing the position of the shield. The exposure time may be controlled manually by the user or automatically by software displaying the image on the screen. To develop the image sheet, unexposed microcapsules are ruptured by either applying pressure to the image sheet or forcefully sliding the image sheet across a sharp edge. The image-recording assembly may be flexible and is preferably less than 15 mils thick.

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Huntington Beach, CA, United States of America

Gustav Allen Ray