Checkbook cover

• US 4,153,275 A
• Filed: 07/31/1978
• Issued: 05/08/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Deluxe Corp.
• Original Assignee: Deluxe Corp.
• Inventors: Phillips, John W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Norton, Donald F.
• Application Number:
  US05/929,303
• Time in Patent Office: 281 Days
• Field of Search: 150/39, 150/28 R, 150/34, 150/35, 281/17, 281/34, 281/31, 281/19 R, 281/4, 428/159, 428/173
• US Class Current: 281/17
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 3/02 made of special materials covers of loose-leaf binders made of special materials B42F13/0013
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 3/08 Ornamented covers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/904 Artificial leather
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24033 including stitching and discrete fastener[s], coating or bond
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24504 Component comprises a polymer [e.g., rubber, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2462 with partial filling of valleys on outer surface

Abstract

A simulated leather checkbook cover includes an outer cover sheet and an inner pocket-forming sheet of vinyl sheet material. The peripheral edge of the outer sheet is turned inwardly over and around the peripheral edge of the inner sheet, and the layers of the edge portion are secured to each other by a radio-frequency dielectric heat sealed vinyl-to-vinyl bond and by a line of threaded stitching extending through all three layers close to the turned over edge. The cover sheet has a flow-molded design portion in its outer surface with a depth and pattern simulating a hand-tooled leather design. The design portion includes a depressed flat area within which any selected one of a plurality of originally separate and differently ornamental inserts is adhesively secured. Each insert has a shape and thickness substantially fitting the depressed flat area and a leather-like outer surface simulating an integral tooled leather-like portion of the cover sheet design with different individual identification symbols on some of the respective inserts. The simulated hand-tooled leather design is enhanced by a selective antique coating in depressed portions of the design.

Claims

1. A simulated leather checkbook cover comprising a leather-like outer sheet of heavy gauge expanded unsupported vinyl sheet material having a peripheral edge, and an inner pocket-forming sheet of vinyl material having a peripheral edge engaging the inner surface of the outer sheet close to the peripheral edge of the outer sheet, the outer peripheral edge of the outer sheet being turned inwardly over and around the entire peripheral edge of the inner sheet as part of a three-layer folded edge portion, the layers of said edge portion being secured to each other around the entire periphery of the cover by a heat and pressure sealed vinyl-to-vinyl bond and by a line of threaded stitching extending through all three layers inwardly of and close to the fold formed by the turned over edge.

2. A checkbook cover according to claim 1 having a flow-molded relief design portion formed in an outer surface area of the outer sheet.

3. A checkbook cover according to claim 2 in which the flow-molded relief design has a depth and pattern simulating a hand-tooled leather design and extends over only a limited portion of the outer surface area of the outer sheet.

4. A checkbook cover according to claim 3 in which the simulated tooled leather design is enhanced by a selective chemical antique coating in the depressed portions of the design.

5. A checkbook cover according to claim 2 in which the design portion includes a depressed flat area of predetermined shape surrounded by relatively higher portions of the outer sheet, said cover also having an originally separate ornamental insert adhesively secured within said depressed flat area, said insert having a shape and thickness substantially fitting the depressed flat area and simulating an integral tooled leather-like portion of the outer sheet design.

6. A checkbook cover according to claim 5 in which the ornamental insert has an individual identification symbol on its outer surface.

7. A checkbook cover according to claim 6 in which the individual identification symbol includes a letter of the alphabet.

8. A plurality of checkbook covers according to claim 6 in which the ornamental inserts in the respective covers have different individual identification symbols.

9. A checkbook cover according to claim 5 in which the flow-molded relief design portion of the outer surface of the outer sheet has a depth and pattern simulating a hand-tooled leather design and in which such design is enhanced by a selective antique coating in depressed portions of the design.

10. A checkbook cover according to claim 9, in which the ornamental insert has an individual identification symbol on its outer surface.