Abstract
Two book covers are connected to a single spine that is both magnetic and expandable in order to encase a plurality of sections, each of which is composed of a plurality of pages that are grouped by a single magnetic binding strip. The magnetic strip allows for the section to be removed from its original book and collected into a unique organization of several sections, all of which may come from different books and may be securely kept inside a single pair of book covers that has a magnetic spine.
Claims
1. A modular book system comprising: two to ten thousand pages per book; one to ten thousand groups of pages into which the pages of the book are divided; magnetic material at the binding edge of each group of pages to which the pages of the group adhere by means of stitching, wire, glue, case binding or any variation thereof, oversewing, sewing through the fold, double-fan adhesive binding, perfect binding, or any other means of bookbinding; a front and back cover that partially or wholly consists of magnetic material; a spine that is expandable and may or may not consist of magnetic material; the aforementioned magnetic material comprising permanent magnets, Neodymium Iron Boron, Samarium Cobalt, ferromagnetic material, Alnico, Ceramic, or Ferrite;
2. The groups of pages in claim 1 wherein the groups may consist of one to ten thousand pages.
3. The book covers in claim 1 wherein said covers have rounded corners.
4. The book covers in claim 1 wherein said covers are relatively inflexible.
5. The spine in claim 1 is connected to the front and back covers described in claim 1 such that they are not intended to separate.
6. The book covers and spine in claim 1 wherein said covers and spine may attach or detach from the binding edge of the pages because the connection between the covers and pages is by means of magnetic attraction.
7. The spine in claim I wherein the material is of an expandable and compressible nature between the front and back covers, such expandable material comprising leather, aluminum, copper, mesh, rayon, knit chevron, cotton, satin, lace, silk, fabric, spandex, latex, two-way stretch fabrics, synthetic fabric, elastane fibers, neoprene, elastomers, wire, steel, or twine.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0020] FIG. 1 shows an above perspective view of four sections that come from different books of apparently different sizes. These sections are composed of a plurality of pages and are contained between two bard book covers.
[0021] FIG. 2 shows an above perspective view of the standard design of the book covers, which have magnetic strips near the spine. The book covers are shown to be opened and there are no sections between them in this diagram.
[0022] FIG. 3 shows an above perspective view of the standard design of the book covers and spine. The covers appear closed and there are no sections between the book covers in this diagram
[0023] FIG. 4 shows an above perspective view of the standard design of the book covers and spine. The covers appear closed and there are several sections between the book covers in this diagram
[0024] FIG. 5 shows an above perspective view of a standard representation of a single section of a book. The section is composed of a plurality of pages that are bound to a strip of magnetic material.
[0025] FIG. 6 shows an above perspective view of all the pages of a book divided into ten individual sections, which are each composed of a plurality of pages and a strip of magnetic material. The left edge of each section, which is where the strip of magnetic material is bound, is shown fanned out to represent the individual sections comprising all the pages in a book.
[0026] FIGS. 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e, & 7f show four sections taken from four different books, stacked on top of one another, and put between two book covers.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0027] FIG. 1 shows four different-sized sections 18, each of which is composed of a plurality of pages bound to respective strips 11 of magnetic material. These four sections are shown resting atop the inside of the back cover 15, which has curved corners 25, as does the front cover 14. The magnetic strips 12 that are a part of the book cover magnetically attract the magnetic strips 11 of the sections. These two magnetic strips 12 on the covers 14 & 15 are located at the inside edges of the front and back covers. They are near the spine 16 & 17, which is composed of expandable 16 and magnetic 17 materials to allow for more magnetic attraction to the sections as well as the ability to expand and compress in order to contain various different quantities of paper. The spine 16 & 17 may be made up of two separate entities as shown in FIG. 1, wherein one entity is expandable 16 and the other is magnetic 17, or the spine may be a single entity that is either expandable and not magnetic or both expandable and magnetic.
[0028] FIG. 2 shows the front and back book covers 14 & 15 and the spine 16 & 17. Connecting the book covers to the spine are the magnetic strips 12 and the thin hinge-like strips 13, which allow the covers to fold back and forth in order to open and close the book. The corners 25 of the cover are curved as a safety measure because the corners of traditional hard cover textbooks may rip the insides of backpacks.
[0029] FIG. 3 is similar to FIG. 2 in that they share common aspects, however FIG. 3 shows the front cover 14 above the back cover 15 to illustrate a closed book. The magnetic strip 21. when looking at it from the outside of the book (that is, the same side as the top of the front cover 20), may be of the same material as the material on the inside portion of the strip 12, of the same material as the outside of the front cover 20, or of its own material. The outside of the hinge-like strips 23 will likely be of the same material as the covers 14 & 15. The outside of the spine 22 will be adjustable in size as according to the space required by the sections 18 that are kept between the book covers 14 & 15 at a single instance.
[0030] FIG. 4 is similar to FIG. 3 in that they show a closed book cover, however FIG. 4 includes several sections 18 kept in between the book covers to show a filled book in a closed position. The magnetic strips 12 of the covers 14 &15 attract the magnetic strips 11 of the sections 18.
[0031] FIG. 5 is a simple representation of a section 18, which includes a plurality of pages and a magnetic strip 11. The pages and magnetic strip 11 adhere to each other by the aid of glue, threading, molding, or any other means of adherence 24.
[0032] FIG. 6 is a diagram of ten sections 18 stacked up as a complete book, but without the book covers and spine included. All pages 19 are lined up and the sections attract each other through their magnetic strips 11. Only the three sections at the bottom of FIG. 6, however, are shown attracting one another. The magnetic edges 11 of each of the other seven sections are fanned out to illustrate the ability of each section to separate from one another.
[0033] FIGS. 7a, 7b, 7c, & 7d show all of the pages of four textbooks of different subjects and all of their pages divided into individual sections 18. A section 26, 27, 28, & 29 from each book is removed and stacked upon one another in FIG. 7e to show their ability to be put together into a collection of several sections that come from different books. The selected sections are placed between the front 14 and back 15 book covers in FIG. 7f.
[0034] Having described this invention in detail and through reference to the pictured embodiments, it is assumed that alterations and modifications are possible without abandoning the scope of the invention.
