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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert N Azzato, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B42D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
281 47 ; 281 50 ; 412902 ; 412-4 ; 412-9 ;
Abstract
The invention is a cover binder including a one piece cover, a one piece plastic strip adapted to pierce the spine of a book and a means for engaging the strip to the cover, and a method and an apparatus for binding books in the cover binder as by providing a plastic strip with at least one leg, piercing the spine of the book from within by the leg of the strip, passing the leg through the cover and melting the end of the leg to form a button to secure the leg to the cover, and cooling the button by means of a heat conducting die that may simultaneously shorten the cool down of the melted plastic button and emboss a design on the button.