Patent ID: 6142696
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: B42D

Abstract:
A book system with pages for the removable receipt of photographs and like image-bearing documents for maximized convenience and aesthetic appearance with minimized cost comprising, in combination:a spine having a pair of facing long walls including a front wall and a rear wall in essentially parallel relationship, the front wall and the rear wall each having a top and a bottom the spine also having a pair of facing short walls including a top wall and a bottom wall in parallel relationship and with the top wall and bottom wall being at essentially right angles with respect to the front wall and rear wall and with the top wall located between the top of the front wall and the top of the rear wall, and with the bottom wall located between the bottom of the front wall and the bottom of the rear wall, the long walls and short walls being in a generally rectilinear configuration with an open face from which pages may extend and an opposed curved closed face opposite from the open face having a fixed radius of curvature;a plurality of elongated retainers, each retainer essentially spanning the space between the front wall and the rear wall and adapted to receive and retain pages, each retainer having opposed ends including a fixed end fixedly attached to one long wall and a free end spaced a short distance from the other long wall to form a space, each retainer being curved with a radius of curvature essentially equal to the radius of curvature of the closed face and essentially equally spaced from the closed face along its length; anda plurality of pages, each page having an interior edge positioned within the spine with apertures received and retained by the retainers, each page also having an exterior edge extending outwardly from the spine in a direction away from the closed face and terminating in a curved exterior surface with a radius of curvature essentially equal to the radii of curvature of the retainers and the closed face.