Sheet item with non-circular holes

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10814663-B2
Application number	US-201916369058-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2019
Priority date	Dec 15, 2014
Publication date	Oct 27, 2020
Grant date	Oct 27, 2020

Abstract

A sheet system including a sheet having an edge and at least one generally triangular hole positioned adjacent to but spaced apart from the edge. A side of the triangle is oriented generally parallel with the edge of the sheet.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sheet system comprising a sheet having an edge and at least one generally triangular, closed-sided hole positioned adjacent to but spaced apart from the edge, wherein said hole is as an equilateral triangle having a base and two legs of a length equal to that of said base, wherein said base of said triangle is oriented generally parallel with said edge of said sheet, wherein said legs are interconnected by a rounded vertex corner positioned closer to said edge of said sheet than and opposite of said base of said triangle, and wherein said base and respective ones of said legs are interconnected by rounded base corners with said rounded vertex corner being positioned closer to said edge of said sheet than said rounded base corners, further comprising a reinforcing material coupled to at least a portion of the sheet, the reinforcing material disposed around the entire perimeter of the closed-sided hole, wherein said vertex corner of said triangle has a greater average radius of curvature than the average radius of curvature of each of said base corners of said triangle.

2. The sheet system of claim 1 wherein said reinforcing material is a polymer film.

3. The sheet system of claim 1 wherein said reinforcing material extends around an entirety of said perimeter of said hole.

4. The sheet system of claim 1 wherein the reinforcing material has a surface area less than a surface area of said sheet.

5. The sheet system of claim 1 wherein said reinforcing material extends an entire dimension of said sheet in a direction parallel to said edge of said sheet.

6. The sheet system of claim 1 wherein said hole is positioned entirely internally in said sheet such that said hole is entirely spaced away from an outer perimeter of said sheet and wherein said sheet lacks any slits, cuts, openings or other holes that extend between said edge and said hole.

7. The sheet system of claim 1 wherein the sheet has a dimension extending perpendicular to the edge, and wherein the hole is entirely positioned a distance less than about 25% of the dimension from the edge of the sheet, and wherein the sheet has a plurality of said holes positioned adjacent to the edge and spaced along a length of the sheet in a direction parallel to the edge.

8. The sheet system of claim 1 further comprising a binding extending through the hole and binding the sheet to a plurality of other sheets.

9. The sheet system of claim 1 wherein said sheet is a single stand-alone sheet that lacks any binding extending through said hole.

10. A sheet system comprising a sheet having an edge and at least one generally triangular, closed-sided hole positioned adjacent to but spaced apart from the edge, wherein said hole is shaped as an equilateral triangle having a base and two legs of a length equal to that of said base, wherein said base of said triangle is oriented generally parallel with said edge of said sheet, wherein said legs are interconnected by a rounded vertex corner positioned closer to said edge of said sheet than and opposite of said base of said triangle, and wherein said base and respective ones of said legs are interconnected by rounded base corners with said rounded vertex corner being positioned closer to said edge of said sheet than said rounded base corners wherein each of said vertex corner and said base corners of said triangle has an average radius that is at least about 5% of a length of the base of the triangle, and less than 45% of a length of the base of the triangle, further comprising a reinforcing material coupled to at least a portion of the sheet, the reinforcing material disposed around the entire perimeter of the closed-sided hole, wherein said vertex corner of said triangle has a greater average radius of curvature than the average radius of curvature of each of said base corners of said triangle.

Assignees

• Acco Brands Corp

Inventors

• Busam Edward P
• James Jr Bobby G

Classifications

• B42F3/003

  Perforated or punched sheets · CPC title

• B42B5/12

  the elements being coils · CPC title

• B42F13/16

  with claws or rings (B42F13/30 takes precedence; for permanent binding B42B5/08) · CPC title

• B42F3/006 Primary

  with edge reinforcing means · CPC title

• B42D5/001

  perforated or punched sheets (B42D5/06 takes precedence) · CPC title