Hard cover product with concealed security device

• US 7,557,717 B2
• Filed: 06/12/2007
• Issued: 07/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Smartguard LLC
• Original Assignee: Smartguard LLC
• Inventors: Nichols, Dale Hunt Sr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Hung T.
• Application Number:
  US11/761,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20080143537A1
• Time in Patent Office: 756 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.8, 340/572.1, 340/572.3, 340/539.1, 340/540, 340/541, 340/825.69, 340/693.9, 340/693.5, 340/693.12, 340/825.72, 235/380, 235/382, 235/487, 235/492
• US Class Current: 340/572.8
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 3/12 combined with other articles loose leaf-binders combined with other articles B42F13/40
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2445 Tag integrated into item to be protected, e.g. source tagging

Abstract

A hard cover product with a pair of cover boards attached to an outer liner in spaced-relation to define a spine, with a thin-film security device positioned on a laydown area of one of the cover boards, and on inner liner. In one aspect, the one cover board is a laminate of a pair of opposing sheets for sandwiching the thin-film security device without a surface indication of the presence of the thin-film security device therein. In another aspect, the thin-film security device attached to a surface of the cover board is concealingly covered by the inner or the outer liner

Claims

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.

2. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the outer liner defines a coded indicia that is displayed on a portion thereof in alignment with the laydown area of the one of the pair of sheets.

3. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the security device is a sheet that includes an electronic response device.

4. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the interior body is configured to receive a compact disc.

5. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the interior body comprises a plurality of pages bonded together along a side edge to define a book.

6. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the interior body comprises a ring member for receiving sheets.

7. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the security device is an RFID device.

8. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the rigid cover boards are chipboard.

9. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the rigid cover boards are cardboard.

10. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the rigid cover boards are fibreboard.

11. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the laydown area comprises a recess.

12. The hard cover product as recited in claim 1, wherein the laydown area comprises a debossment.

13. A hard cover product manufactured by a bindery, comprising:

an outer liner;

a pair of 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 first respective major surface to a major surface of the outer liner;

at least one of the cover boards comprising a sheet having opposing planar surfaces with a length and width exceeding a thickness, a first one of the opposing planar surfaces defining in a selected portion a laydown area thereof; and

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;

an inner liner attached in overlying relation to the respective second major surfaces of the cover boards, the inner liner and the one of the cover boards laminated together to sandwich the thin-film security device concealingly there between, whereby the security device enclosed therein 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;

a spine member received in the spine; and

an interior body cooperatively supported within the hard cover product, whereby the opposing cover boards define a front cover and back cover that move together foldably along lines defined by opposing sides of the spine for supporting and enclosing the interior body within the hard cover product.

14. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the outer liner defines a coded indicia that is displayed on a portion thereof in alignment with the laydown area of the one of the cover boards.

15. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the security device is a sheet that includes an electronic response device.

16. The hard cover product as recited in an claim 13, wherein the interior body is configured to receive a compact disc.

17. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the interior body comprises a plurality of pages bonded together along a side edge to define a book.

18. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the interior body comprises a ring member for receiving sheets.

19. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the security device is an RFID device.

20. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the cover boards are chip board.

21. The hard cover product as recited in claim 20, wherein the security device is an RFID device.

22. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the cover boards are cardboard.

23. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the cover boards are fibreboard.

24. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the laydown area comprises a recess.

25. The hard cover product as recited in claim 13, wherein the laydown area comprises a debossment.

26. A hard cover product manufactured by a bindery, comprising:

an outer liner;

a pair of chipboard cover boards pre-cut to a selected size and disposed in spaced-apart relation to define a gap that receives a spine for a hard cover product while defining opposing front cover and back cover therefor and each attached on a respective first major surface to a major surface of the outer liner;

at least one of the chipboard cover boards comprising a sheet having opposing planar surfaces with a length and width exceeding a thickness, the first major surface thereof defining in a selected portion a laydown area; and

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

an inner liner attached in overlying relation to the respective second major surfaces of the chipboard cover boards, the inner liner and the cover boards laminated together;

the outer liner and the one of the chipboard cover boards laminated together to sandwich the thin-film security device concealingly there between, whereby the security device enclosed therein 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 interior body cooperatively supported within the hard cover product, whereby the opposing chipboard cover boards define a front cover and back cover that move together foldably along lines defined by opposing sides of the spine for supporting and enclosing the interior body within the hard cover product.

27. The hard cover product as recited in claim 26, wherein the outer liner defines a coded indicia that is displayed on a portion thereof in alignment with the laydown area of the one of the chipboard cover boards.

28. The hard cover product as recited in claim 26, wherein the security device is a sheet that includes an electronic response device.

29. The hard cover product as recited in claim 28, further comprising an interior body configured to receive a compact disc.

30. The hard cover product as recited in claim 28, wherein the interior body comprises a plurality of pages bonded together along a side edge to define a book.

31. The hard cover product as recited in claim 28, wherein the interior body comprises a ring member for receiving sheets.

32. The hard cover product as recited in claim 26, wherein the laydown area comprises a recess.

33. The hard cover product as recited in claim 26, wherein the laydown area comprises a debossment.