Abstract: A medical test form having a biological sample receiving material mounted thereto. In one embodiment, the sample receiving material is incorporated in a sample receiving sub-assembly that is secured to a multi-panel carrier substrate that has instructions and/or patient information printed thereon. In another embodiment, the sample receiving material provided on one panel of a V-fold mailer. If necessary or desirable one or more additional panels can be secured to the panels of the V-fold mailer.

Abstract: A laser printable sheet with vehicular registration and permitting decals and/or stickers is produced in a manner that insures the sheet lays-flat, rather than being crooked, so that it does not cause significant jamming problems in laser printers. Adhesive-release material is spot coated on a web back surface, including a first patch, the back surface is imaged with static indicia, and a substantially transparent plastic pressure sensitive adhesive laminate is applied over the back surface, including over the adhesive release material patch and first static indicia. The face is die cut at the first patch within the parameter of the patch to form the first die cut portion, which is then sucked off the substrate to provide an open area with exposed transparent plastic and pressure sensitive adhesive, and then a piggy back decal is blown onto the open area. The decal is preferably a license plate decal having a reflective visible surface in vehicular registration and permitting indicia.

Abstract: A mailer type business form is constructed from an intermediate having a plurality of pressure activated cohesive cooperating patterns, and a card is mounted on or with the intermediate. Despite the fact that a card is included, because of the provision of surface manifestations in the intermediate, and/or because of the relative thicknesses of the card and the intermediate, the mailer may be sealed by steam rolling rather than requiring selective edge sealing. A surface manifestation may comprise a cutout with a patch, or a folded over portion of the intermediate, retaining the card with the intermediate during processing. Alternatively, first and second thinned portions of the sheet of paper, disposed on opposite sides of a fold line so as to cooperate and hold the card when the sheet is folded about the fold line, may be provided, the thinned portions provided by embossing, for example.

Abstract: An intermediate for a mailer type business form is provided that is Z-folded to produce a mailer type business form with built-in reply envelope. The mailer type business form is adapted to be used either as a mailing label or as a one-piece mailer. The mailer is of compact size, for example, about 7 inches×4 inches so as to facilitate its use as a mailing label on relatively small packages. First and second panels of the mailer define a reply envelope when the mailer is Z-folded. The third panel of the mailer is adapted to include invoice and/or remittance advice and may include a line of weakness to define a stub that can be inserted in the reply envelope with a check. The intermediate is printed in a rotated format to provide two forms about fourteen inches and also has rewettable glue and additional cohesive to create a postal compatible reply envelope.

Abstract: An on-demand exact registration form web perforating apparatus is simple yet effective, and can operate at high speed and has a long life. A form web is moved in a predetermined path past first and second rotatable continuous circumferential perforator wheels mounted on substantially stationary axes and spaced from each other along the predetermined path and in alignment with each other along the path. First and second anvil cylinders are spaced from each other along the path for cooperation with the wheels, each cylinder having an interrupted circumference including a raised portion and a depressed portion, and a movable axis about which the cylinder rotates.

Abstract: Radio frequency identification labels are made in a high speed and effective manner in a variety of different ways utilizing a number of different sources of RFID inlets, each inlet including an antenna and a chip. A plurality of webs are matched together and RFID labels are die cut from the webs, to produce lined RFID labels. Alternatively linerless RFID labels are produced from a composite web with a release material on one face and pressure sensitive adhesive on the other, the labels formed by perforations in the web.

Abstract: A simplified pressure sealing apparatus for acting on business forms having pressure activated cohesive to seal the cohesive has only two or three pressure-seal rollers for effecting proper sealing. The pressure seal rollers may receive a folded business form substantially immediately from the output of a folder, or one of the pressure-seal rollers may function to both assist in folding the form, and then pressure sealing it. The form may be held in a flip plate above the nip between first and second pressure-seal rollers, or a separate set of idler nip wheels may hold the form in position once it has passed completely through the sealing nip. In either case the form may pass completely through the sealing nip yet be moved through the sealing nip in the opposite direction, and then diverted to a stack.

Abstract: A mailer type business form intermediate, and method of producing a mailer from the intermediate, effect folding in a novel manner in order to produce a business form that is particularly advantageous for providing a negotiable instrument, such as a bank check or money order. The intermediate has conventional components, but with first, second and third fold lines defining a sheet of paper comprising the intermediate into first through fourth panels. The fourth panel has indicia defining the negotiable instrument and at least one line of weakness separating the negotiable instrument from the rest of the fourth panel. Tacking adhesive patterns may be disposed substantially parallel to the top and bottom edges of the intermediate to hold the first panel second face to the second panel second face adjacent the top edge and second fold line, and to hold the fourth panel second face to the second panel first face adjacent the first and third fold lines, when the intermediate is folded about the fold lines.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fold out, two panel card having a pop-out portion supporting a prepaid card. The two panel card includes an outer two panel portion and an inner two panel portion in registry with the outer portion. The inner two panel portion further includes the pop-out portion supporting the prepaid card. The pop-out portion comprises a first and second pop-out panels extending from the respective panels of the inner two panel portion. The prepaid card is secured to a major portion of one of the pop-out panels and a tongue cut out of the other pop-out panel. The pop-out portion and prepaid card of the inner two panel portion are received inside the outer two panel portion when the inner and outer two panel portions, in registry with each other, are folded together.

Abstract: An intermediate for a mailer type business form is provided that is C-Z folded to produce a mailer type business form with built-in reply envelope. An area is provided for printing statement, remittance and/or other information and yet the reply envelope produced accepts a conventional size personal check without folding. This is accomplished by providing a four panel from having two panels that define the reply envelope, one panel that defines invoicing and/or remittance stubs and one panel for defining the outgoing mailer top face.

Abstract: An intermediate for a mailer type business form is provided that is Z-folded to produce a mailer type business form with built-in reply envelope. A large area is provided for printing statement, remittance and/or other information and yet the reply envelope produced accepts a conventional size personal check without folding. Outgoing address indicia is imaged on the top face of the first ply and a first line of demarcation passes through that indicia, so that the indicia can be removed and/or covered when the return envelope flap is folded over to seal the reply envelope. Adhesive patterns for defining the Z-folded mailer and reply envelope are offset to avoid blocking on stacking and are aligned with raised areas of conventional sealing mechanisms.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive/cohesive exhibits excellent cohesive body properties, and other desirable features, even when exposed to heat and polysiloxane based lubricants, such as in a laser printer. The formulation comprises 100 parts by weight natural rubber (e.g. electrosterically stabilized natural rubber graft and block terpolymer), and expressed as percentages by weight of the rubber the following components: about 5-35% (e.g. about 28%) acrylate monomer or monomers (such as methyl methacrylate, cyclohexyl methacrylate, benzyl methacrylate, and/or isobornyl methacrylate); about 0.5-8% acrylic acid and/or about 1-10% 4-acetoxystyrene; about 0-20% ethyl hexyl acrylate; about 1-50% (e.g.

Abstract: An accumulator system for foldable sheet-like material. The system includes an accumulator bin having a pair of sidewalls, a pair of end walls, a bottom wall, and an open top. An infeed mechanism conveys the material to the accumulator bin. A chute receives the material from the infeed mechanism and guides the material inside the chute. In a first state, the chute is stationary and the system operates in a steady-state condition with a loop in the material between the infeed mechanism and an outfeed mechanism. In a second state, the outfeed mechanism is shut off and the chute is capable of reciprocating such that the material is guided toward the bottom wall of the bin. The reciprocating motion of the chute causes the material to be folded endwise in alternating fashion.

Abstract: A simplified pressure sealing apparatus for acting on business forms having pressure activated cohesive to seal the cohesive has only two or three pressure-seal rollers for effecting proper sealing. The pressure seal rollers may receive a folded business form substantially immediately from the output of a folder, or one of the pressure-seal rollers may function to both assist in folding the form, and then pressure sealing it. The form may be held in a flip plate above the nip between first and second pressure-seal rollers, or a separate set of idler nip wheels may hold the form in position once it has passed completely through the sealing nip. In either case the form may pass completely through the sealing nip yet be moved through the sealing nip in the opposite direction, and then diverted to a stack.

Abstract: A multi-direction transfer conveyor for off-loading a stack of paper from a first work station or conveyor, rotating the stack 90 degrees left or right and aligning the stack with a second conveyor, for example. Guide components which may be ball casters are provided on a bottom surface of the transfer conveyor cart to move within U-shaped channels that together form an L-shaped or U-shaped track. Drive wheels actuate the transfer conveyor to move along and/or relative to the shaped track. By suitable motor control and/or suitably placed or actuated stops and guide structures, travel of the guide components down the shaped track is controlled to cause the cart to rotate and align with the respective conveyors.

Abstract: The present invention broadly comprises a disposable funnel. The disposable funnel is comprised of a planar annular-segment substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface. A first radial edge and a second radial edge bound the substrate. The substrate has a strip of repositionable adhesive disposed on the bottom surface proximate the first radial edge. The substrate is operatively arranged to be formed into a conical-shaped funnel, where the repositionable adhesive disposed on the bottom surface proximate the first radial edge is detachably secured to the top surface proximate the second radial edge. The invention also includes a pad of disposable funnels.

Abstract: A combination shipping label and packing slip/label form which comprises a first ply having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a second release liner ply detachably secured to the bottom surface of the first ply. The first ply comprises a detachable shipping label and a corresponding packing slip. The packing slip is detachably secured to the combination shipping label and packing slip form by a substantial die cut through the first ply and the second release liner ply. The packing slip comprises a border section and a bill of materials section separated by a perforation that perforates the first ply and the second release liner ply. The bottom surface of the border section is coated with an adhesive.

Abstract: A card package is provided with a viewing window covered by a transparent, plastic window sheet or patch allowing a viewer to see the entire card or a portion thereof while the plastic window patch protects the card against damage. The card package may be in the form of a “C”-folded package assembly having an integral interior end panel, an exterior end panel, and intermediate end panel with the card positioned interiorly between the exterior panel and the intermediate panel. Also, the card package may have an “A,” “V” or “Z”-folded configuration. A transfer tracking strip may be releasably mounted on a panel for removal where the card is a phone package card. A transfer tracking strip may be releasably mounted on a panel for removal where the card is a phone package card.

Abstract: A business form has a first paper portion with multiple plies and a second portion which is a release liner and has a number of distinct labels disposed on it. At least one of the labels is dimensioned and configured to hold a removable cap on a medical container to indicate if the container cap has been tampered with, and preferably that label has a length of between about 10-11 inches so that it can be wrapped completely around a 90 ml plastic specimen vial, or other medical container, so that portions of the label are in contact with each other, enhancing the tamper evident functionality of the label. A second label on the release liner may be a box seal, and other labels may be provided to facilitate tamper evident functionality of the form.

Abstract: A simplified pressure sealing apparatus for acting on business forms having pressure activated cohesive to seal the cohesive has only two or three pressure-seal rollers for effecting proper sealing. The pressure seal rollers may receive a folded business form substantially immediately from the output of a folder, or one of the pressure-seal rollers may function to both assist in folding the form, and then pressure sealing it. The form may be held in a flip plate above the nip between first and second pressure-seal rollers, or a separate set of idler nip wheels may hold the form in position once it has passed completely through the sealing nip. In either case the form may pass completely through the sealing nip yet be moved through the sealing nip in the opposite direction, and then diverted to a stack.