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.
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.
This is a question we should not ask. Unfortunately, Ever present Ring Binders do not offer the utility most students are looking for. Blogs are full of discussions about the most comfortable arrangement everybody is looking for. On the TOP of their Wish List is No doubt a “Ring-less Binder”. The ribs, Pardon, Rings of the Dinosaurs Rex of the office world are always in the way of fingers trying to write or reach the opposite page and everybody wants to get rid of them.
We think we have a solution to their dreams. In the form of a real Ringless Binder.
What we would like to recommend? Shamelessly our own design. Ringless Binder.
Ring-less Multi binder with two spines and up to 350 pages
Rings are replaced with flexible ties. The spine is eliminated. As well as 80% of the material used to assemble the Ring-binder. The poisonous Vinyl Covers are gone. Finally, you can use an Eco-friendly binder.
Binder Notebook opened
It is a simple sheet of tear-proof paper with ties cut from the covers. It keeps together almost any number of pages. If You need a zippered portfolio you may use this binder and insert it like any notebook.
Friedrich Soennecken inventor of the Ring Binder should certainly wake up from his well-deserved final rest knowing that finally there is something/ somebody good enough to challenge his invention “Ring-binder” 133 years long reign in every office on the earth.
To my surprise, the new solution comes not in form of a complicated mechanism but as a single, flexible sheet of material cut a certain way. All rings and metal parts are eliminated. And it works.
There is no sticking-out spine always taking the same space on the shelf even if empty. The New Ring-Less Binder is flexible and quite pleasant to handle, the same as the rest of this new family serving the same binding functions.
The Challenger says he has ambitions to improve range of products currently on the market. Eliminating the Rings, Spines, prongs etc. His solution simply is simpler. It means less expensive. It means Not welcomed by competition.
This is not the first time the Reign of the Ringis challenged. There are numerous challenges to its rule sponsored by many companies. None of them were successful, lingering on the fringe of the Office market mostly due to the fact that they introduce their own sets of problems.
In the U.S. there is an additional problem with the office market dominated by very few big players. Players with immense financial resources not taking any risks when it comes to the introduction of a product competing with their well-established offerings.
To make things more palatable for inventors the 2011 Leahy–Smith America Invents Act effectively makes U.S. patents worthless and unenforceable by a small player not having financial resources to finance legal challenges.
Leahy-Smith’s act (2011 America Invention act) sponsored by Big Tech effectively enables “Efficient Infringement”practiced by already established companies barring entry to the market for eventual startups/competition. Introduced by this legislation PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board ) enjoys well-deserved fame as a ” Patent killing squad” invalidating by own admission 84% of all challenged patents. The effect: Invention exodus to more promising lands already caught politicians’ attention in Congress.
So far, there is no real action to fix things except proposed bills released with misleading titles and preambles and opposite in effect, the rest of the text. Under “Save The Inventor”false flag trying to cement the current situation, benefiting no one except the BIG TECH.
Empty Ring binders. Please notice the space needed to store even the empty one.
If we add the long string of anti-patent rulings by the US Supreme Court, there is no wonder why the US public do not see the latest fruits of technological development we can easily spot in other countries. To learn more about the plight of US inventors please check https://innovationgadfly.com/ & https://usinventor.org/
5 Ring-Less binders by Alfac.uscompare Ring-Less with empty Ring binder
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. 
List is No doubt a “Ring-less Binder”. The ribs, Pardon, Rings of the Dinosaurs Rex of the office world are always in the way of fingers trying to write or reach the opposite page and everybody wants to get rid of them.
