Small things makes big difference. You hardly notice a pen in your hand. a Notebook. A Binder. The small is changing our lives and we do not even notice. What would I use 50 years ago? 100? Quite often we do not see the small things busy with ongoing life.
and Here it is…
Ringless Binder is one of this things. More legend than real product, since many users dissatisfied with Sticking out rings and discs looked for alternative. The obvious one was a “Ring-less Binder” And after 180 years of Ring binder dominance here it is. The small , tiny, slim and unobtrusive RING-LESS.
Among many Ring Binder alternatives, there is one you probably do not know about: Ringless Binder. Searching for the beast, you are going to encounter a bunch of pretenders in a few shapes, like, for example, boxes posing as binders, clamps in every style and shape, trying your patience and fingers. So-called Data Binders, consisting of covers embellished with metal rails and armed with steel wires to clamp and keep. And a few others. Some, like, for example, strip binders, reside only in the EU. Some are in Japan and elsewhere.
The Ringless binder was born in Chicago, like the known to adepts, Chicago Screws, and is vying for our attention. It is a mind-boggling contraption consisting of simply a sheet of material with some cuts in both covers, forming two sets of flexible ties. No sign of metal clamps, prongs, or rings. You use it, you bind the sheet of paper, and then you forget about its existence. It is unobtrusive, thin like a piece of tear-resistant paper, and flexible. And it works, keeping in its basic version up to 350 pages, or 800 in its spineless version. No pretenses, just work.
Is it popular among its peers? As a newcomer sporting a thin, muscular silhouette, he is not welcomed among the heavyweights, fatso’s dominating the market. After investing 133 years of his life, The 3 Ring Binder certainly is not happy.
Ringless Binder openRingless Binder in Spineless Version 0-800 pages
Ringless Binder is looking for work. It may be a perfect match for you.
This is not the end of the story, The family is growing. Let me introduce two new members of the family.
Below new Spineless binder. This time adds more possibilities, two ways to bind your pages. Is more capable and earth friendly comparing with data binders sporting steel cables, nylon posts and metal rails to keep the same amount of pages.
A ring binder has no place among notebooks. My notebook is quite unusual.
It is not a notebook per se.
It is a binder, but without the rings.
The designer replaced rings with ties.
In addition, since the ties are flat and really unobtrusive, he managed to add a second set of ties to the front page. With this unique arrangement, I can divide the paperwork into sections.
Ring-less Multi-binder with two sets of paperwork inside
Since there are no rings, the designer calls it a “Ringless Binder.”
One of the ringless binder fans. Mrs. Page likes it so much that she dedicated a song. She doesn’t care about Tablets, since, as she says:
No Tablet shall last as long as Papyrus or Leonardo’s drawing done on paper.
Paper shall outlast anything. No fumbling with switches, no battery or software problems.
No energy expended.
No difficulties with eyesight after prolonged use.
Why we bother with Binders? Regardless of the digitizing effort, we see around, paper documents are irreplaceable. No iPad will last for decades. We went already through the CD-era, and most of the discs you still store are inaccessible. Same with hard drives. People recognize the drawbacks of new technologies.
Let’s compare: Ring Binder. Heap of vinyl combined with a complicated metal mechanism vs. Ringless Binder, a sheet of paper with a simple arrangement of flexible ties.
In the below illustration, the Ring Binder is empty but still takes more space than full ringless binders using adjustable ties instead of rings. Who needs the Rings?
Ring binder vs. Spineless Bind Books
Ring Binder
Ringless Binder
Misaligned Rings
Ties replace rings
Rings are always in the way of the hand trying to reach the opposite page,
Hard to notice Ties. Ties are flexible and low profile.
No way to flip through the pages quickly,
A breeze to Flip through the pages
Hard to store. Empty or full, Big Spine takes the same space.
Never exceeds the thickness of the bonded documents more than the thickness of the paper it is made from.
Brick-like handling comfort
Flexible
Hard inflexible covers
Cut from a sheet of paper.
You must specify the thickness and choose one from several sizes.
A basic Bind-book takes up to 350 pages, or you use a Spineless bind book to bind any amount of pages from 0 to 800.
In the Bindbook, You may divide your paperwork into separate sections.
Replacing the vinyl cover with a craft paper finish doesn’t make the product eco-friendly.
Eco-friendly. Requires only 20% of the weight of material needed to produce a comparable ring binder.
Please notice sets of ties by the left edges of the respective covers. You may divide the papers.
Can you imagine a simpler binder? A plain sheet of paper with few invisible cuts. Cut imaginatively. No rings. No complicated metal mechanism, and it binds hole-punched documents anyway. Of course, we do not show detail in this illustration for obvious reasons.
You may think I am talking about a ghost since no product is available to fit this description. But you may be wrong.
There is one using ties instead of rings.
Recently I read an article hailing the advantages of 2 rings binders over three rings binders. According to the author, with two rings is easier to flip through the pages. The author also extensively discusses the benefits of the ” light-touch lever-arch mechanism with an easy-grip rubber handle.” There is also “A unique ball-and-socket ring closure” and “locking bar mechanism” The description is long and complicated enough to fall asleep before you finish the sentence.
You may skip all this boredom and go straight to the no doubt more sexy “NO RING BINDER.“
It is SIMPLE. Cover with a couple of ties cut into it.
IT IS EASY TO FLIP THROUGH THE PAGES like a notebook since it has no sticking-out rings.
As an additional benefit, I should mention that the basic version of the NO RING or RINGLESS Binder comes with two sets of ties, each assigned to the left edge of the respective cover. It is possible because the FLAT ties don’t stick out of the cover plane, even one millimeter/fraction of an inch. So, You may divide your paperwork. For example, Your calendar/organizer on the left and your notes on the right.
Ringless binder used in a folio cover to provide flat binding solution for a notebook
It is a unique solution, Notebook, and Binder in ONE.
If you are in doubt, check the video below.
The Binder shown in this video is a “Single Spine” (single set of ties) capable of handling up to 150 pages.
Two spines (two sets of ties) Binder’s main purpose is to handle up to 350 pages of your paperwork. And then there is the Spineless version, capable of handling from 1-800 pages. One sizes takes all without the ring binder headache forcing you to choose one of the several sizes (1/2″,1″,1.5″, etc.)
O, I almost forget to mention two more versions coming out:
1) Ringless Binder with two additional ties to allow binding of two holes punched paper
2) Spineless Binder attempting to do the same adding two hole top punched pages to the three.
The two holes top punched pages are Eco friendly alternative to known Data Binders sporting nylon post, steel cables and metal rails. Spineless Binder can do the same at much lower cost due to its simpler Eco friendly setup.
Have you ever received a dirty look from a fellow you just handed a collection of papers kept together with staples?
The wire not flattened enough by the stapler hurts. Bloody fingers do not add to the positive impression of your offer. It seems stingy. Didn’t it? But being serious, how many of us were forced to use ring binders as early as in school and hate the brick-like contraptions? The rings are always in the way of your hand reaching the opposite page and the spine. The spine sticks out like a mountain, blocking the view and taking up your storage space even if it’s half empty.
You may collect the full display of negative emotions toward Ring Binders here and there when searching the internet and blogs dealing with organizers. Teachers and students share their solutions to avoid and replace the infamousRing-binder. They discuss: the disc-bound notebooks, Chicago screws, metal prongs, and a variety of other solutions designed with one goal in mind: to make it FLAT.
The rest of the adult population seems to have given up their hopes, seeing no solutions.
But there is a Ring-less binder developed in Chicago. It contains no metal parts of any sort visible among competing solutions. Cut from a flat sheet of reinforced paper. No sticking out pieces, rings, or prongs. Nothing can hurt your fingers, and it binds any number of leaflets effortlessly. One universal size replaces the usual selection of ring binders designed for a specific number of sheets.
Ringless Binder with two spines and 350 leaflets capacity
When I asked the designer why he spent his time designing solutions for the office supply industry when every CEO is eyeing electronic files and computers as replacements for paper documents, he said:
Spineless Binder for two or three hole punched leaflets.
A piece of paper can last for hundreds of years without a power source. Can you find a similar hard drive? You print your family pictures to preserve them on paper. How many have you lost when kept in memory of your electronic devices? Of course, electronics have their role, but they are not solutions for everything.
We all use tons of paper. We need a hard copy here and there. Where would I keep my records when all my hard drives for the last ten years are gone? I do not have to worry about compatibility or power supply with paper. Plus the cost. It is just a fraction of a penny per page.
There is a future for paper, but not everybody see it. Certainly, it is time to offer something better than the museum quality 133year-old contraption (ring binder) created at the time the first steam engines entered the world. For those paying attention, it is clear that the public is searching for a replacement.
The big behemoths of industry in the US have no interest in upending their already existing sales and offer a simpler, less expensive, and very competitive to their offer product. As you probably know, competition in the US died under several decisions of the Supreme Courtpromoting the interest of Big tech. Infringers who have no interest in promoting competition to their well-established offerings. That is why many new products already available elsewhere will never have any chance of showing up in the US. As an inventor, I have bigger hopes in the EU since there is no anti-patent Big Tech lobby and no PTABinvalidating84% of all nationally issued patents. In the US, small companiesare quickly extinguished by big tech moneyed competition and domestic or Chinese infringers. At a certain point, when you see all roadblocks in the US, you start to think: What we inventors do here is out of desperation, not hope, knowing full well that we should look to have a startup and hope to survive elsewhere outside the US.
I know well the plight of independent inventors in the US.
The Supreme Court has made several inventions: “Patent ineligible” in direct defiance of Congress-made statutes and the U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. Plus, there is PTAB. Established by the 2011 Leahy Smith American invention Act, patent review board is known as the “Patents Killer squad.” PTAB is invalidating 84% of issued USPTO patents at the request of the competition. For people looking for more info, you should start searching for information about “Efficient Infringement,” describing how big US and Chinese corporations kill competitive startups in the US.
Suppose you wonder why you can have patents for certain types of technology abroad when, in the US, it is forbidden. I think the answer is clear. Big Tech doesn’t want competition.
We wish the designers good luck finding their future – butAbroad?
Do we wonder why 50% of foreign fillers in the German Patent office are from the US? With the EU unitary patent court and a pan-European patenton the horizon, the outflow from the US may only increase.
It would help if you considered it your patriotic duty to support HR 5874, Senator Massie’s RALIA bill, by tossing away all the misgivings of the Supreme Court into the US patent law and creating conditions to restore US competitiveness.
Sorry, I should write about the Fellow with a bleeding finger handling my paperwork, but… More blood comes from other directions.
Their brick-like quality, rings terrorizing fingers, and sticking out like a mountain spine don’t make it a favorable item on our shelf, especially when they are half empty. Every time you buy one, you have to choose from one of the available sizes, and of course, if you end up using them, they are always too big or too small, and in the end, the rings misalign.
2 Spine Binder – notebook in one
But there is hope on the horizon. The 133-year-old reign of the Ring binder may end. Do you see the picture here? The yellow page with a couple of round cutouts? Itis a binder made from a piece of paper using flexible ties instead of rings. It stays flat regardless of the amount of paper you put in. Furthermore, it can bind just a few 120-150 pages, but his cousin’s 2-spine ringless Binder can gobble up to 350 pages. All of it without the unique Spine dominating the Ring-binder. And there is one more member of the same (Insane) family: “Spine-Less Binder.” This fellow has an appetite. It can devour up to 800 pages and has one more quality. Singlehandedly replaces all sizes of ring binders. No more headaches about which one we should choose.
Spineless binder with a tag
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But there is a Ring-less binder developed in Chicago. It contains no metal parts of any sort visible among competing solutions. Cut from a flat sheet of reinforced paper. No sticking out pieces, rings, or prongs. Nothing can hurt your fingers, and it binds any number of leaflets effortlessly. One universal size replaces the usual selection of ring binders designed for a specific number of sheets.
I know well the plight of independent inventors in the US. 
