Patent ID: 7557717
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: B42D,G08B

Abstract:
1. A hard cover product manufactured by a bindery, comprising: an outer liner; a pair of rigid cover boards pre-cut to a selected size and disposed in spaced-apart relation to define a spine gap for a hard cover product while defining opposing front cover and back cover therefor and each attached on a respective major surface to a major surface of the outer liner; at least one of the rigid cover boards comprising: a pair of opposing sheets having opposing planar surfaces with a length and width exceeding a thickness, a first one of the pair of opposing sheets defining in a selected portion a laydown area on the planar surface thereof; a thin-film security device positioned on the laydown area and attached thereto, the security device having a thickness no greater than about a minority of the thickness of the sheet; and the pair of opposing sheets laminated together to sandwich the thin-film security device concealingly there between, with the opposing sides of the one of the rigid cover boards substantially parallel without a surface indication of the presence of the thin-film security device therein, whereby the security device enclosed and laminated in said one of the rigid cover boards is concealed from casual indication of its presence and is held after lamination safely and securely therein during manufacture of the hard cover product and during normal use thereof for hard cover product proposes; an inner liner attached in overlying relation to the opposing planar surfaces of the rigid cover boards; and an interior body cooperatively supported within the hard cover product, whereby the opposing rigid cover boards define a front cover and back cover that move together foldably along lines defined by opposing sides of the spine for containing the interior body within the hard cover product.