Patent ID: 6196748
Filing Date: 2001-03-06
Classification: B42F

Abstract:
A folder having a front cover and a rear cover, said front and rear covers hinged together at a spine, said each of said front and rear covers each having at least one set of opposing hinged tabs, a front cover hinged tab and a rear cover hinged tab, said each of said tabs hinged at said spine, one to the other, said each of said tabs having a tab profile and an upper and lower end, where in said each of said tab profile sections is removably cut into said each of said covers so as to be able to be moved free of said covers, and where in said front cover hinged tab has a first spine extent as the distance between said front cover hinged tab upper end and said front cover hinged tab lower end, and said rear cover hinged tab has a second spine extent as the distance between said rear cover hinged tab upper end and said rear cover hinged tab lower end, such that one of said front cover hinged tab spine extent and said rear cover hinged tab spine extent has a spine extent that is larger than the other hinged tab spine extent, and where the shorter extent is positioned to lie within the larger extent leaving a landed hinge section for the longer extent above and below said shorter extent, such that each tab can hinge at the spine along said common hinged portion spine extent between the upper and lower end of the shorter of the two spine extents and where each of said front and rear cover hinged tabs can hinge freely one with respect to the other, said each of said tabs for receiving a fastener there through for joining one or more leaves at said spine of said folder, said one or more leaves to be joined by said fastener.