Checkbook cover
US4153275A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 31, 1978 |
| Grant date | May 8, 1979 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 31, 1998 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/2462
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
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.
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