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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1986
Charles T Groswith, III, Los Altos, CA (US);
Taurus Holdings, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A binder for a stack of punched hole paper sheets utilizes various headed fastener members with a post insertable in the punched holes from one side of the stack. A post connector is utilized on the other side of the stack. The headed fastener members, normally two or three in number corresponding to the number of punched holes in the paper sheets, are captured in recesses and post apertures, punched in a multi-fold carrier made by scoring and folding a thin flexible binder material which serves to encapsulate, capture, space and hold the series of headed fasteners. The fastener posts extend perpendicular to a resultant appreciably stiffened elongated multilayer carrier forming a unitary assembly. In a preferred embodiment, a post connector is also captured and held in a recess within an elongated multi-fold, multilayer carrier forming a second unitary assembly. The multilayer carriers in a preferred embodiment include integral front and rear covers. An integral spine flap also extends from a multi-fold carrier and functions to cover the post and post connector connection at one side edge of the paper stack after the two unitary assemblies have been mounted on the paper stack with the posts of the first assembly extending through the multiple punched holes of the paper stack.