Patent ID: 6056492
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: B42D

Abstract:
A method of making a book having a bookmark, comprising the steps of:gathering a plurality of signatures on a collating conveyor in a predetermined order to thereby form a body of the book;providing a cover for the book including a front cover and a rear cover wherein one of the front and rear covers has a width when measured from a backbone edge generally intermediate of and integral with the front and rear covers to a foredge of the one of the front and rear covers opposite the backbone edge which is initially greater than the corresponding width of the other of the front and rear covers;applying a releasing adhesive to an inner surface of the one of the front and rear covers having the initially greater width;folding an outer portion of the one of the front and rear covers having the initially greater width inwardly toward the backbone edge along a fold line so as to be in generally confronting relation with the inner surface of at least a portion of the remainder of the one of the front and rear covers to thereby cause the width after folding to generally correspond to the width of the other of the front and rear covers;the outer portion of the one of the front and rear covers having the initially greater width being folded along the fold line so as to place the releasing adhesive in adhesive contact with confronting surfaces of both the folded outer portion and the remainder of the one of the front and rear covers to adhesively secure them together after they have been folded into confronting relation;affixing the cover to the body of the book with the backbone edge of the cover in confronting relation to backbone edges of the signatures forming the body of the book; andtrimming the book inwardly of at least the fold line of the one of the front and rear covers having the initially greater width and inwardly of the foredge of the other of the front and rear covers so as to form a finished foredge for the book while at the same time severing the folded outer portion from the remainder of the one of the front and rear covers having the initially greater width;whereby the severed folded outer portion becomes an easily separable bookmark releasably secured by the releasing adhesive to the cover of the book.