Books – strips – and leaves for manifolding – Strip and leaf
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-08
2001-05-08
Fridie, Jr., Willmon (Department: 3722)
Books, strips, and leaves for manifolding
Strip and leaf
C462S009000, C462S025000, C462S027000, C281S013000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06227964
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to sheets of printable media, such as paper, of special format including segmentable portions which may be separated after printing and activatable glue strips to produce an elongate sheet comprised of discrete sheets.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Certain presentations and graphs require printing on a printable media, such as a paper sheet, of a dimension that is most beneficially presented in the form of a strip, for example, presentation charts used in project management. Project management is the planning and control of many activities that must be coordinated to achieve specific goals leading to the completion of an overall given objective. The project management process frequently uses a set of tools which incorporate charts and reports to detail the project for communication within the project team and with others.
One form of project management chart is referred to as a work breakdown structure (WBS) chart. A WBS chart is an organizational diagram type of chart depicting work packages comprising all of the principal elements of a project. Another form of project management chart, used for communication with the project team and with others, is a precedent network (Network) chart, sometimes erroneously referred to as a PERT chart. The Network chart displays activities required to produce the work packages depicted in the WBS chart and shows the relationships between the activities, i.e. the precedents and dependencies between the activities as they flow towards completion of a project.
For practical project management purposes, the WBS and Network charts are usually more than one standard sized page in width. To present either chart may require many standard sized pages to be joined one to the other. As the project evolves, the project management process results in the updating, modifying, and reproducing the project charts as a consequence of project progress. Thus, the WBS and network charts will change during the course of the project, consequently requiring the WBS and network charts to be produced frequently during the course of the project. To allow the charts to be printed on standard sized paper using conventional computer printers or photocopied onto standard sized paper, requires the joining of standard sized pages together to form a completed WBS or Network chart. Joining these pages is a time consuming process and usually requires input from the project manager to lay out the pages in a proper sequence prior to cutting and pasting them together to form the chart. Each time revised charts are produced during the life of a project, several copies are required each for key team members. The page assembly process to produce the charts is a frustrating task and often results in sloppy presentations even though the computer-generated data or the images printed or photocopied on each of the individual pages may be perfect.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To address these problems of assembly and presentation of standard sized pages to form a chart which extends over several pages, the present invention provides a solution that uses standard sized paper retained by conventional computer driven printers such as laser printer, ink jet printers and the like or by photocopying using conventional photocopiers.
Frequently, the project charts are stored together in a suitable binder, such as a three-ring binder or other standard sized binder into which charts can conveniently be kept. The invention includes forming the pages to include a pre-scored fold-line to facilitate fan-folding a chart for storage in a binder.
The invention comprises standard-sized paper segmented into a removable portion and a retained portion and an activatable glue strip on the back side of the page proximal to the removable portion. The dimension of the retained portion and the width of the glue strip define an image area for the diagrams generated and printed on the page by photocopying or generated from a computer program. Typically the computer generated diagrams include vector lines and text that form images on a standard-sized page. The images or diagrams may be printed to the margin of the retained portion on one side of the retained portion of the page opposite the glue strip. Images or diagrams extending over multiple pages form overlapping portions on adjoining sheets. The overlap of images or the lines, boxes, and text of diagrams permits accurate registration of the images from one sheet to another.
The registration boundary demarking the overlap of one sheet with another may be further indicated by providing at least two registration marks on the right-hand side of each sheet, one at the top and the other on the bottom, to ensure the precise alignment of the overlapping pages along an alignment boundary.
The fan folding process is facilitated by the stiff edges on either side of the glue strip, which occur with the overlap area of one sheet to the other. The stiff edges of overlapping portions of the sheets on the glue strip automatically positions a fold between adjacent sheets so that all pages can be folded into a chart that fits into a standard binder. The computer program preferably always produces an odd number of pages so that the computer generated title page is always folded in as the top page in the binder.
In one of its aspects the invention provides a sheet of paper comprising: a pair of parallel side edges, and top and bottom edges, a segmentation boundary parallel to said side edges forming a removable portion, and a glue strip proximal to said segmentation boundary and parallel to the side edges, said glue being inactive to adhere sheets of paper together until activated.
In another of its aspects the invention provides a method of printing an image on multiple sheets of a printable media comprising the steps of providing at least two of sheets of printable media of predetermined size defining the dimensions of an image area, said sheets each having a removable portion and a retained portion. Each of the sheets having a glue strip on one face of the retained portion parallel to an edge thereof. The glue strip has means to prevent it adhering to another sheet until it is activated. Subdividing the image which it is desired to print into sub-images such that each successive sub-image has a common registration boundary, and such that each successive registration boundary is separated from the previous by a distance equal to a dimension of said image area. Printing a first sub-image on said first one of said sheets and printing a second sub-image, which second sub-image has an image boundary registerable with an image boundary of said first sub-image, on said retained portion of a second one of said sheets.
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Dawson William F.
Hollingsworth Gary R.
Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
Fisk George E.
Fridie Jr. Willmon
VisualProject Inc.
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