Abstract: Removal of a window display sticker without partial or entire mutilation or distortion is facilitated in a business form display including a first sheet 30 of label stock having one side 32 coated with pressure sensitive adhesive 34, a second sheet 36 of release liner material having a size and shape corresponding to the first sheet 30 and with a coated surface 38 removably adhered to the adhesive 34 and an opposed surface 42 for receiving variable information to be displayed. Cuts 58, 60, 62, 64 in the sheet 36 near at least two opposed edges 50, 52, 54, 56 are provided so that parts of the sheet 36 between the opposed edges 50, 52, 54, 56 may be removed from adhesion to the first sheet 30 to expose adhesive 34 at at least two opposed edges 50, 52, 54, 56 in flanking relation to the surface 42 and any variable information that may be received thereon.

Abstract: A business form for use in shipping operations including a sheet 22 of face stock material having pressure sensitive adhesive 28 on one side thereof, a release liner 24 removably adhered to the pressure sensitive adhesive 28, a transparent sheet 16 adhered to along two spaced marginal edges to the face stock sheet 22 and having a marginal edge 60 stopping short of the corresponding edge 62 of the face stock sheet, and at least one pressure sensitive imaging data sheet 18, 20 between the transparent sheet 16 and the face stock sheet and having marginal edges 70, 72, 74, 76 inward of the two marginal edges of the transparent sheet 16 so as to be free from adhesion thereto and having a third marginal edge 64, 66 extending past the one marginal edge 60 of the transparent sheet 16.

Abstract: Mix-ups in the pricing of merchandise are avoided in a combination shipping label and price tag construction including a first ply 16 of release liner material and a second ply 24 of label stock having a pressure sensitive adhesive 26 on one side thereof releasably adhered to the release liner ply 16. The label stock ply 24 has a shipping label section 28 and a price tag section 30. The price tag section includes a plurality of individual and separable price tags 40 and has a dimension "d" that is less than the corresponding dimension "D" of the shipping label section 28 and which is closely adjacent the shipping label section and is at least nominally centered with respect to one edge 36 thereof.

Abstract: A simplified business form including a return postcard overcomes the problems of ease of use by recipient in a construction including first and second superimposed plies 10, 12 of which at least one 10 is of card stock like that employed in postcards. Glue or folds 16, 18, 24, 26; 72 join the peripheries of the plies 10, 12 to hold the same in substantial abutment with each other and a closed line of weakening 42 is located in one ply 10 and defines the periphery of return postcard 52. A franking designation or stamp receiving area 68 is located on the one ply 10 on the side thereof facing the other ply 12 within the closed line of weakening 42.

Abstract: A business form includes a carrier web 10 mounting a card 12 made up of an outer frame 40 and interior, removable, variable information removing section 38. The card 12 is adhered to the web 10 by adhesive 54 only interconnecting the frame 40 and the web 10 with the interior removable section 38 being free from adhesion to the web 10.

Abstract: An envelope construction including a pair of superimposed sheets 10, 12 having aligned opposed side edges 14, 16, a third edge 18 of one of the sheets 10 extending between the side edges 14, 16 being enlarged in comparison to the third edge 20 of the other sheet 12 and carrying an adhesive 24 to define a sealable flap 22 for the envelope. A U-shaped glue pattern 28 secures the sheets 10 and 12 together and the bight 32 of the U-shaped pattern is spaced from the third edges 18 and 20 as well as from a fourth edge 34 to define an envelope pocket as well as an envelope extension 36 between the bight 32 and the fourth edge 34. The extension 36 aids in the prevention of hang-up when the envelope is being fed, bottom first, into a stack of envelopes.

Abstract: A variable purpose business form of the multiple ply type is provided by a construction including a plurality of superimposed plies 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 including an upper ply 10 and a bottom ply 12 along with intermediate plies 14, 16 and 18. Glue lines 28 along one longitudinal edge of the plies 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and secure each of the plies 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 together and first lines of weakness 26 are located in at least some of the plies 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 just inwardly of the glue lines 28. The upper and bottom plies 10, 12 have substantially equal width and a second glue line 36 at the opposite longitudinal edges of the upper and bottom plies 10, 12 secure the upper and bottom plies 10, 12 together.

Abstract: An envelope assembly including first and second plies 10, 70 respectively defining a front and back of an envelope along with an intermediate insert ply 40 having a message section 50 and an attachment section 52 with the message section 50 being connected by a small frangible tie 56 to the attaching section 52. A U-shaped glue line 84 secures the first and second plies 10, 70 together and one of the plies 10, 70 is provided with a tab 22 firmly secured to the attaching section 52. The ties 56 provide registration during manufacture and subsequent printing and yet are easily ruptured when the tab 22 is stripped from the form, taking the attachment section 52 with it to thereby free the message section 50 for ready removal from the envelope.

Abstract: A perforating blade for creating extremely fine perforations in plural plies of a multiply ply paper construction including a perforating edge defined by a plurality of perforating elements separated by notches. Preferably there are about 50 or more of each of the elements and the notches per lineal inch with the notches having a length along the cutting edge of no more than about 0.010 inches. A relatively small number of the perforating elements, at generally uniformly spaced locations along the edge have lengths of about 0.03 inches or more with the remainder of the elements having lengths substantially less than 0.03 inches. The blade provides lines of perforation that when separated, have the appearance of the edge of a so-called cut sheet.

Abstract: A mailing piece for use in mass mailings including an envelope having insert material 26 within the envelope. An index mark 76 on the insert 26 are correlated with index openings 64, 66, 68 on the front 22 of the envelope so that, for example, the answers to questions disposed in areas 58, 60, 62 on the insert may be displayed to the recipient of the mailer through a window 56 in the front 22 of the envelope upon alignment of the index mark 76 with the index openings 64, 66 and 68 with such answers corresponding to questions located in areas 70, 72 and 74 associated with each index opening 64, 66 and 68.

Abstract: A business form includes a first sheet 16 of label stock having one side 24 coated with a first pressure sensitive adhesive 22, a first sheet 18 of release liner stock engaged with the first adhesive 22 with the release liner 18 and the label stock 16 being laterally offset from one another so that a narrow strip "N" of the first adhesive that is unengaged with the release liner 18 exists. A second sheet 36 of label stock is provided and is coated on one side 38 with a second pressure sensitive adhesive 40. A second sheet 42 of release liner stock is adhered at one edge to the first label stock sheet 16 at the narrow strip "N" of first adhesive 24 as well as to the second sheet 36 of label stock by the second adhesive 40. The characteristics of the two label stock or the characteristics of the two adhesives, or both may be varied to achieve various purposes.

Abstract: A continuous business form including an elongated ply of label stock having one side coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive and of a desired width. An elongated ply of release liner stock of the same width is engaged with the adhesive in such a way that the plies are laterally offset. Consequently, a narrow longitudinal strip of adhesive unengaged with the release liner exists on the label stock ply. An elongated ply of record or message bearing stock is adhered to such edge of the label stock at the narrow longitudinal strip of adhesive.

Abstract: A continuous business form for use in automated mailing systems including a single elongated ply having control punch margins on its longitudinal edges. Longitudinal lines of weakening are disposed inwardly of the control punch margins to define removable feed strips and a main panel. The main panel is divided by a plurality of cross lines of weakening into a mailing facilitating panel and a message bearing panel such that the mailing facilitating panel has a length that is a minor fraction of the length of the message bearing panel. Mailing facilitating devices, such as an envelope, a label, or a stencil, are carried by the mailing facilitating panel.

Abstract: A burster including spaced infeed and outfeed pairs of rollers in fixed spacial relationship with respect to each other which are driven by a system including a variable, limited lost motion connection to the infeed rollers. The connection includes a long-lived tooth and stop assembly wherein impacting surfaces of the tooth and the stop members are configured to minimize shear stresses occurring in the tangential direction in favor of readily absorbed radial stresses to thereby provide a long-lived apparatus.

Abstract: A business form including first and second superimposed plies of paper (10,12) and each having an information receiving portion (14,16). Contact adhesive (30) is disposed on one of the plies and a release liner (32) covers the same. The ply (12) having the contact adhesive (30) is completely slit (26) adjacent one edge and an easily releasable glue structure (38) secures the two plies together adjacent the slit (36). The release liner (32) is removed from the form to expose the contact adhesive simply by grasping the edges (18,20) of the plies (10,12) adjacent the slit (36) and separating the same.

Abstract: A stationery burster having substantially abutting, rotatably mounted, first and second infeed rolls, substantially abutting, rotatably mounted first and second outfeed rolls spaced from the infeed rolls along a path of stationery travel and a relief in the peripheral surface of the first infeed roll. A rotatable drive is provided for the second infeed and second outfeed rolls such that the peripheral speed of the second outfeed roll with be greater than that of the second infeed roll. The first rolls in each set are idler rolls. The spacing between the infeed and outfeed rolls may be adjusted to accommodate stationery of differing form lengths.

Abstract: A continuous business form assembly including a plurality of elongated, superimposed plies of paper each having a face and a back, the face of each ply being uppermost. Transverse lines of weakening extend across the plies at regular intervals to enable the assembly to be separated into individual form lengths and the uppermost ply in the assembly is wider than the remainder of the plies and has a pin feed structure along at least one marginal edge displaced from the corresponding marginal edge of the remainder of the plies. Glued stubs in each form length of the assembly hold the plies in assembled relation and there is indicia on the faces of at least some of the plies for receiving variable information at a designated location. Image forming transfer material such as carbon is disposed at the interface of at least some of the plies for transferring variable information received on the face of the uppermost ply to at least some of the underlying plies.

Abstract: A ribbon, adapted for use on an impact printer, is provided wherein the ribbon is impregnated with a first substantially colorless substance which acts as a color-former when reacted with a second substantially colorless substance acting as a color-developer, present on a portion of a substrate. Upon the transfer of the color-former from the ribbon to the substrate by impact, a colored image will form on those areas of the substrate which are coated or impregnated with the color-developer. Images may thus be selectively transferred to an interior ply of a multi-ply business forms assembly by the conventional transfer methods without appearing on the exterior, impact receiving ply of such an assembly.