Combinational book for both normal reading and panoramic display

Claim 1

A normally readable, panoramic displayable book comprising a stiff book front cover; a stiff book back cover; means defining a book spine, said book spine having front and back folds, said stiff book front cover foldably engaged at said front book spine fold, said stiff back book cover foldably engaged at said back book spine fold; a plurality of leaves; means flexibly joining said leaves at a plurality of transverse folds in an elongated continuous strip, said flexible joining means accordion folded in the normally readable condition of said book whereby in said condition and front to back said leaves extend from their front left margins alternately inwardly towards and outwardly away from said spine, said strip combining an even number of said leaves with an odd number of said flexible joining means whereby the last of said leaves extends from its left front margin outwardly away from said spine; means engaging said strip to said front book cover at the back of the first of said strip leaves; means detachably engaging said last of said strip leaves to said back cover of said book, the proportioning of said first and last strip leaves, and the engaging of them to said front and back book covers, being such as to position their respective right and left margins substantially against said spine; said spine approximately equalling in its front-to-back fold width the accordion folded bulk between said front and back book covers of said strip leaves and the leaf joining means that are flexibly joining left to right the odd to the even numbered of said strip leaves, said spine operable to retain said right and left hand margins respectively of said first and last strip leaves substantially engaged thereaginast upon the opening of said front and back book covers, whereby, when said book is held by said opened covers in vertical and inclined as well as horizontal reading positions, all said strip leaves will in all said positions be enabled to be turned and read as a book while held within said covers and against fallout from said spine; the bottom margin of said strip substantially aligned with the bottom margin of said front cover whereby when said last of said strip leaves is detached from said back cover said strip may be pulled out and extended with said cover and strip freestanding on their said bottom margins in the vertical of said reading positions; continuous text and illustration matter printed on the fronts of said strip leaves, said text matter arranged lengthwise of said strip and to be read sequentially from one to the next of said leaves, said illustration matter continuous across the length of said strip with the illustration portion on each leaf mated with the illustration portions on the leaves adjacent thereto; and means stiffening said strip so as to impart to said leaves a sufficient resistance to twisting out of plane to stand unsupported when said strip is pulled out of said covers and extended sufficiently to order said leaves to present at their front sides a continuously viewable, panoramic display of said lengthwise-printed, adjacent-leafmated, text and illustration matter.