Abstract: A mailer is disclosed for distributing advertisements and invoices. The mailer provides an envelope for returning the invoices and a buck slip for displaying advertisements and incentives. The return mailer is attached to the mailer and removed from the mailer simultaneously upon the opening of the mailer.

Abstract: A folding booklet is disclosed having a booklet cover and one or more of booklet pages in which are formed a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal fold lines defining a plurality of longitudinal panels and a plurality of transverse fold lines defining a plurality of transverse panels. The longitudinal panels can be folded along the longitudinal fold lines to overlay one another and the transverse panels can be folded along the transverse fold lines to overlay one another. The cover can then be folded along a booklet cover fold line to completely contain the folded booklet pages.

Abstract: A folding booklet is disclosed having a booklet cover and one or more of booklet pages in which are formed a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal fold lines defining a plurality of longitudinal panels and a plurality of transverse fold lines defining a plurality of transverse panels. The longitudinal panels can be folded along the longitudinal fold lines to overlay one another and the transverse panels can be folded along the transverse fold lines to overlay one another. The cover can then be folded along a booklet cover fold line to completely contain the folded booklet pages.

Abstract: The instant invention provides an improved television program guide and a method of making it. The guide includes: a front cover; a back cover; and, at least n substantially rectangular pages between the front cover and the back cover; wherein n is a finite integer; wherein the first of the n pages is most proximate the front cover and the nth of the n pages is more proximate the back cover than the first page; wherein the lateral dimension of the nth page is larger than the lateral dimension of the (n-1)th page; and, wherein an area on the nth page is in view when the guide is opened to the (n-1)th page.

Abstract: The instant invention provides a television channel selection station. The station includes a substantially rectangular planar member, an arrangement for attaching a program schedule guide having a column of television station call letter designation data indicia along the at least one page edge of it, opposite the folds of the guide, to the member, a channel designator on the station but separate from the member, but designed to slidably engage relative to the member in a left or right dimensional displacement, and/or up or down dimensional displacement, positioned to the right, of an attached program schedule guide; and, a scheme for attaching a remote control to the member.

Abstract: The invention provides a generally rectangular planar television channel selection station which comprises an arrangement of three parallel slits for fixing a program schedule guide thereto. These first, second and third slits are generally parallel to, and substantially adjacent to, a first side of the station. The first slit is substantially slightly longer in length than the folded side of a program guide schedule and is spaced the nearest of the three slits to the first side. The third slit is spaced the furthest from the first side. The spacing between the first second and third slits is sufficient to enable the program schedule guide to be fixed to the station when the last page of it is folded to substantially form a triangle having a base attached to the folded side of the program guide schedule and an apex opposite the base; and the triangle is threaded, the apex first, through the first slit; then through the third slit; and, finally through the second slit.

Abstract: A plurality of booklets interconnected end to end in the form of a television guide book-strip, each booklet being printed with television program information arranged horizontally on the pages thereof, the book-strip and booklets having vertical fold lines along its center, the book-strip and booklets having free edges along its lateral sides, the booklets being connected end to end and separable by perforation lines.One of the booklets can have the television station's or channel's program information arranged on the basis of time, the other of the booklets can have the television program information arranged on the basis of the type of program.Also the program information printed on the pages of one booklet can be of a different character than the program information printed on the pages of the other booklet. The program information contained in such booklets can be combined with the above described booklets which have program information arranged on the basis of the type of program.

Abstract: The instant invention provides a television channel selection station. The station includes a first rectangular well portion generally contoured for cradling a remote control for a television set. It also includes a second substantially planar rectangular well portion adjacent and contiguous to said first well portion dimensioned for cradling a printed television program schedule guide. Finally, it includes a substantially straight rigid wire member having a two ends, each mounted in an opposing wall of said second substantially planar rectangular well portion, substantially parallel and opposite to the major dimension of said first rectangular well portion, for engaging the folds of said printed television program schedule guide sufficient to substantially fix it to said television channel selection station. The invention also contemplates a process for manufacturing the foregoing station.

Abstract: A portable organizer for information on and equipment for a home entertainment center including a portable substrate defining the foundation of the organizer. A clamping strip is attached to the substrate for receiving the spine of a magazine or booklet with entertainment programming information and for securing the magazine or booklet to the organizer. A transparent, flexible sheet is also attached to the organizer and is used for separating pages of the magazine to make information in the magazine readily available. A remote control device for a TV sat, a VCR set and/or audio equipment is also attached to the substrate, along with a clock or watch.

Abstract: Paper from a roll or other supply is processed by an in-line magazine publishing and/or assembly system. A magazine with a cover made from two sheets of paper is produced. The cover is assembled from two sheets, one of which has a pattern of adhesive material printed on one sheet, the second sheet being placed over the first sheet forming a two sheet cover. One sheet has a pattern of perforations and pattern of slits cut in its surface. The pattern of perforations and pattern of slits and part of the pattern of adhesive material combine to form a tear-out portion in the cover. The tear-out portion may be an envelope or an invoice or an order blank.

Abstract: A multi-sheet overlay is placed over a basic television programs listing. Two of the sheets of the overlay are removably adhered together, one sheet being a transparent sheet and the other being a non-transparent sheet. The non-transparent sheet is selectively kiss-cut so that select sections of the non-transparent sheet may be removed to expose corresponding sections of the transparent sheet and reveal selected sections of the television programs listing. Data is printed on a sheet of the overlay relating to a television system the differs from the basic television listing. By selectively removing kiss-cut sections on the overlay, multiple bits of data may be combined to provide a television programs listing for a television system differing from the system represented in the basic television programs listing.

Abstract: A disposable two-ply programmable rack or organizer is described along with a preferred in-line paper supply handling or manufacturing system. A preferred system, using a roll of paper for a supply source is shown and described along with several alternate systems. Paper of the supply may be pre-printed or blank so that the two-ply programmable rack or organizer may be manufactured in printed form or made in blank form.

Abstract: An in-line processing system for processing a supply of paper into a disposible programmable rack or organizer is provided. The processing system may be integrated into a publishing or assembly system for making a magazine or other booklet from a paper supply. Paper is processed into a programmable organizer by laying down a pattern of adhesive stripes on the surface of the paper and by cutting a pattern of slits in the paper and then folding the paper over itself forming a two-ply sheet held together by the adhesive stripes and defining longitudinal pockets across the two-ply sheet. The pattern of slits form openings in the pockets. A programmable rack may be made as a unit or may be integrated into a magazine.

Abstract: A plurality of sheets each being substantially the same width and length are combined in a face-to-face relationship, with common first ends of adjacent sheets offset from each other a predetermined distance. The combined sheets are folded on a common fold such that one of the sheets is folded over itself with its opposite ends offset from each other the same predetermined distance. This forms a plurality of equidistance, spaced pockets across the face of the folded sheets constituting an organizer for storing cards and/or stamps. Provision is made, in the form of adhesive stripes to limit the depth of the lateral pockets and to hold the sheets of the organizer together.

Abstract: Paper from a roll or other supply is processed by an in-line magazine publishing and/or assembly system. The processing sequence includes printing pages of the magazine in predetermined places on the paper, laying down patterns of glue in other places of the paper, cutting a pattern of perforations and slits in the paper related to the glue pattern, cutting the paper into two sections, one of which is folded forming the pages of the magazine. The other section is folded forming the magazine cover, including pockets defined by the glue pattern. One pocket takes the form of a tear-out remittance envelope, the other pocket taking the form of a tear-out invoice sheet. A window in the cover exposes and uses the name and address on the invoice for the magazine mailing address.

Abstract: A calender period is set out on one sheet which faces a second sheet. The same calender period is set out on the second sheet but in mirror image to the first sheet. A transparent sheet is disposed between the sheets and is adapted to overlay one sheet or the second sheet. The transparent sheet includes storage pockets corresponding with the calender period set out on the sheets. Data or information placed on both sides of a data or information carrying sheet may then be associated with the same calender date by flipping the transparent sheet from one calender page to the other calender page.