Abstract: Business forms, particularly financial instruments such as checks, money orders, bank drafts, etc., are constructed with CF and CB, or self-imaging, sheets. MICR characters may be printed on the sheets without subsequent smearing by applying a UV curable ink to a CF or self-imaging sheet so as to block the CF or self-imaging material at the selected portion to which the ink is applied, thereby rendering it incapable of functioning as a CF or self-imaging element. The ink is applied to a moving web in a continuous manner prior to printing to form a continuous strip of ink, which moves past a UV radiation source so that it is quickly cured and does not adversely affect high speed production. The ink may also be applied to a CB, CF, or self-imaging sheet as a security feature, selectively blocking the transmission of confidential indicia at the selected portion of the sheet with which it is associated.

Abstract: An easily removable label for use in connection with a container to be recycled (e.g. bottle or can). The label has first and second faces. Indicia is provided on the first face and a coating of repositionable adhesive is applied to the second face. The label is also provided with leading and trailing edges which cooperate to form an overlapping area with permanent adhesive which secures one face of the label to the other while at the same time precluding contact of the permanent adhesive with the container. The label may be provided with a perforation line adjacent the overlapping area so that the label may be conveniently separated from the container. The face of the label may be coated with permanent pressure sensitive adhesive release material, and a number of labels provided in a pad. The label provides a lasting adhesion between the container and the label but yet will not leave any significant residue of permanent adhesive once the label is removed.

Abstract: An inexpensive material dispenser for a roll or rolls of linerless labels may be in tube form, or constructed from a folded sheet blank. The tube may be removably closed at one or both ends and have an exterior peripheral surface with at least a portion of adhesive release material. A roll of linerless labels is loose in the tube interior and dispensed through an opening in the peripheral surface. A cardboard or paperboard blank may be folded so that end tabs are received within (having an interference fit with) a roll core, or a core for a plurality of label rolls. The labels of the plurality of rolls are prevented from touching each other.

Abstract: An intermediate and a mailer-type business form are provided in which at least about 50% of a sheet forming the intermediate is of label stock. Portions of the release liner of the label stock are removed to edge seal the intermediate into a mailer by folding it about one or more fold lines, and the outgoing and return address indicia are reverse printed on the release sheet in alignment with removable (e.g. die cut) portions of the paper sheet, the addresses being exposed upon removal of the die cut label stock paper sheet portion at the reverse printed address portions. Other labels may also be die cut from the label stock.

Abstract: An identification card-carrier combination is produced in a simple yet effective manner so that first and second cards are disposed side-by-side but are not directly connected to each other though positively positioned with respect to each other on a top face of the carrier, and readily releasable from the carrier. The combination includes a paper substrate having first length and width dimensions and a top face, the first and second identification cards disposed side-by-side and immediately adjacent to each other (e.g. abutting each other) and having a predetermined position with respect to each other, but unconnected directly to each other (the identification cards collectively have second width and length dimensions much less than the first dimensions), and an adhesive substrate common to the cards affixing the cards to the substrate web top face to hold the cards to the substrate web during printing and mailing while allowing removal of the cards from the substrate without damage to the cards.

Abstract: A toner composition for developing an electrostatic latent image comprising a base toner, which is a blend of a polymeric resin and a colorant, and one or more of a lubricating agent, a flowability agent, a charge-stabilizing agent, and a conductive agent, which has certain electrical characteristics. The base toner has a mean particle diameter (D.sub.50) of 7 to 18 microns, and a bulk resistivity of greater than 10.sup.12 ohm-cm. The toner composition is prepared by blending a polymeric resin with a colorant and then blending a dry powder lubricating agent, and optionally other additives, with the base toner. The toner composition is charged by being disposed in an electrostatic fluidized bed from which the toner particles are levitated by air and then subjected to field charging created by a high voltage corona generating device contained within the bed.

Abstract: Images are formed using first and second fluidized beds of non-magnetic toner having first and second, respective, single applicator rollers. A charge retentive surface such as a photoconductive belt is uniformly charged (e.g. by a corona device) to a predetermined voltage level, and at least first and second different, spaced, latent electrostatic images are formed on the surface at different locations (such as by a laser based output scanning device). The surface is then moved past the first applicator roller, and then the second applicator roller.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for evaluating business opportunities for supplying goods and services (such as business forms and services) to potential customers takes a quantative approach that allows a user to evaluate a potential customer's needs, and the user's ability to supply those needs, to see what the area of opportunity for the user to supply that need is. Calculations can also be made comparing the user's ability to fulfill the needs to some absolute standard, to also determine an area of emerging technology. A series of questions relating to the customer's level of sophistication for predefined business techniques in a number of different categories are inputted into a computer, as well as the responses, and weights and values are assigned to the question responses to indicate a level of sophistication for each possible response of each business technique for each separate category.

Abstract: A shipping envelope assembly includes first and second envelopes having aligned open sides and connected together by a perforation. The second envelope is smaller and may be folded up to cover part of a first, printed face of the first envelope, and adhesively secured to it. The back of the first envelope has alternating strips of pressure sensitive adhesive and release material, and is covered by a plurality of rectangular labels having intermeshing strips of adhesive and release material. When the rectangular labels are removed from the back of the first envelope they are applied to the sides of a shipping carton, while the back of the first envelope is applied to the top of the carton, with destination indicia readily readable.

Abstract: Linerless labels are manually dispensed by mounting a roll of the labels for take-off from a stationary shaft. A polygon-cross-section foam core is provided between the shaft and the label roll to provide a brake drag effect to prevent excess label unwind. The non-adhesive face of the labels passes from the roll around a freely rotating guide roller with a non-stick surface which ensures consistent wrap of the labels and no scuffing of the non-adhesive face as the labels are dispensed. The labels pass from the guide roller to a tear surface having a first smooth, coarse, ribbed or grooved pattern metal portion which has low adhesion to the adhesive of the labels, but will stick to the labels sufficiently to provide an anchoring force to a label greater than the force necessary to tear along a perforation of the label, and a second non-stick surface portion.

Abstract: A toner recording medium including a substrate, such as paper, containing a coating composition of particulate silica and a polyvinyl alcohol in a coating weight of less than 2.0 g/m.sup.2 per side of the substrate. The composition is preferably about 50 to less than 90 parts by dry weight of particulate silica and about 10 to 50 parts by dry weight binder. A process is also disclosed for coating a substrate, such as paper, to produce a toner recording medium.

Abstract: Interstacked longitudinally offset form sets from continuous webs are fed through upstream low speed rollers and downstream rollers, with a breaker bar disposed between the roller pairs. The upper roller of the slow roller pair is mounted eccentrically to engage the webs between the upper and lower rollers of the slow roller pair once for each revolution of the upper roller. When a leading portion of one web enters the nip of the downstream rollers, the eccentrically mounted upper low speed roller engages the webs and the downstream roller pairs are rotated at a higher speed to create sufficient tension in the form between the pairs of rollers such that the form engages against the breaker blade to burst the form from the web. Upon bursting, the eccentric low speed roller disengages or opens relative to the webs and the leading portion of a form of the other web engages in the nip of the downstream roller pair whereupon the bursting of the form from the second web is accomplished.

Abstract: A mailer type business form and intermediate are constructed from a single sheet of paper to include a reply envelope. The sheet is devoid of cut outs or windows, yet may be simplex printed with the reply and outgoing addresses formed on the same face of the intermediate and having the same orientation. The mailer is easily opened by removing tear strips along the edges, a data panel is detached from a reply envelope flap, and a ply containing the outgoing address detached from the reply envelope so that no computer printing or postal service bar code pertaining to the outgoing address is visible on the reply envelope, including the closing flap portion of the reply envelope.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a printable release composition used for pressure sensitive labels and the like. The invention is also directed to an article, such as a label, that comprises a substrate such as paper, optionally a thermal transfer primer coating coated onto the substrate and a release layer coated onto the transfer primer coating or onto the substrate. The printable release composition of the present invention may be used with labels having permanent, repositionable or removable adhesives. The particular composition of the release layer depends on the type of adhesive that is appropriate for the desired end use.

Abstract: A linerless label release coating which contains a mixture of (a) about 55 to about 95 parts by weight of a first acrylated polysiloxane having the formula I: ##STR1## wherein R is a C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 alkyl group, m is about 40 and n ranges from about 8 to about 12; (b) about 5 to about 45 parts by weight of a second acrylated polysiloxane having the formula II: ##STR2## wherein R is a C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 alkyl group, m is about 180 and n ranges from about 8 to about 12; and (c) about 2 to about 6 parts by weight of a photoinitiator.

Abstract: A high capacity conveyor assembly is utilizable with pressure sealers or other business forms manufacturing or handling equipment to efficiently handle forms that may be job separated, and provides high capacity outfeed. An infeed conveyor has a first horizontal conveyance surface and feeds forms in a first direction to a pair of nip wheels, with an outfeed conveyor downstream of the wheels for also feeding forms in the first direction and having a second horizontal conveyance surface. The nip wheels are powered and include a top nip wheel and a bottom nip wheel with a nip between them, the bottom nip wheel having a top peripheral surface closer to the outfeed conveyor than is the nip. A transition element (such as a low friction shelf) has a form supporting surface lower than the bottom nip wheel top peripheral surface, and is between the nip wheels and outfeed conveyor.

Abstract: The roll feed assembly includes a frame mounting a pair of vertical guides carrying vertically movable hoist assemblies. Each hoist assembly is motor-driven by a chain fixed at its opposite ends and disposed about a drive sprocket, and an idler sprocket carried by the frame. Each chain is also disposed about an idler sprocket and idler posts carried by the hoist assembly whereby rotary movement of the drive sprocket in opposite directions causes the hoist assembly to be raised or lowered along the vertical guide thereby raising the lowering the roll. A roll web tension and drive assembly is movable toward and away from the roll and carries a web for driving the roll. The roll web tension and drive assembly includes a roll drive movable therewith for engaging and driving the roll.

Abstract: A mailer is comprised of multiple plies of carbonless paper secured one to the other along opposite edges by hot or cold adhesive. Pressure seal adhesive is applied along longitudinally and transversely extending tear strips of the intermediate assembly such that upon folding the plies about a medial scoreline, the pressure seal adhesives register with corresponding pressure seal adhesives on the opposite parts. SpeediSealer.RTM. equipment is used to apply pressure to the margins of the folded intermediate to adhere the parts to one another to form the mailer.

Abstract: A method of packaging physical objects in a container, and a container assembly so formed, advantageously utilize a container-sealer in the general form of a double faced label. The container sealer includes a flexible strip of material comprising a substrate having first and second faces, a permanent pressure sensitive adhesive with removal release liner on the first face, and a repositional adhesive on the second face. One or more physical objects are placed in the container through an openable/closeable portion of the container, at a first location the repositional adhesive of the container-sealer is placed into contact with a surface of the container and with a packing order indicating the desired contents of the container, and at a second location the container-sealer is removed from contact with the container and the packing order and the desired contents of the container are compared with the actual contents.

Abstract: A toner recording medium including a substrate, such as paper, containing a coating composition of particulate silica and a polyvinyl alcohol in a coating weight of less than 2.0 g/m.sup.2 per side of the substrate. The composition is preferably about 50 to less than 90 parts by dry weight of particulate silica and about 10 to 50 parts by dry weight binder. A process is also disclosed for coating a substrate, such as paper, to produce a toner recording medium.