Patents Assigned to Wallace Computers Services, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5104146
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and product therefrom for making a high retention direct mail promotional booklet which includes printing a continuous web on both faces thereof with first indicia suited for recipient retention and second indicia suited for promotion, slitting the webs longitudinally to provide a plurality of webs one of which is wider than the other, combining the webs with one side edge aligned while gluing the same and subjecting the webs to static electricity, thereafter folding the webs a plurality of times to provide a booklet containing at least 16 pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc
    Inventors: Delbert H. Schulz, Thomas W. Franke
  • Patent number: 5104107
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for fold conditioning a continuous business form web having longitudinally-extending control punch margins and equally longitudinally-spaced apart lines of transverse perforation including advancing the web along a longitudinally extending path from a printer to a folder both of which operate at a predetermined normal speed and wherein the conditioning apparatus includes a plurality of offset rollers arranged in zig-zag fashion to provide a serpentine path to alternately contact opposite sides of the web and with some of the rollers being operated at a surface speed at least greater than the predetermined normal speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas E. Dash
  • Patent number: 5104148
    Abstract: An auto key ring identification tag consisting of a relatively elongated unitary paper member having an enlargement at one end, owner identification indicia on one face of the enlargement, and pressure sensitive adhesive on the other face of the enlargement whereby the enlargement is foldable on itself to capture the other end of the member to form a loop around the key ring. The tags are arranged on a sheet of release film in two tiers, with the members in one tier being reversely oriented relative to the members in the other tier to position the other ends of the members in one tier between the enlargements of the other tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher B. Neal
  • Patent number: 5095682
    Abstract: A mailer product and apparatus and method in which a first sheet is printed by a computer printer and then augmented by a second sheet prior to entering folding means, one of the sheets being twice transversely folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald J. Steidinger
  • Patent number: 5090104
    Abstract: A method of making a core lock shaft for supplying paper to a computer printer including the steps of cutting an actually elongated recess in the periphery of a cylindrical shaft midway of the shaft length and to a predetermined depth to provide a chordal bottom wall, grinding a plurality of axially extending transversely spaced slots in the bottom wall to provide a plurality of rack teeth, providing a length of pinion wire of a diameter slightly greater than the predetermined depth of the recess, drilling the ends of the pinion wire to provide axially extending bores and inserting a dowel pin in each bore with a portion of the dowel pin length projecting axially beyond the pinion wire ends, mounting the pinion wire in the recess with the pinion teeth in engagement with the rack teeth and installing clips at the ends of the recess in covering relation to the projecting portions of the dowel pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc
    Inventor: Thomas E. Dash
  • Patent number: 5076489
    Abstract: A multi-ply mailer and method of making wherein the top sheet has a CB coating, the next adjacent intermediate ply has a CF coating and the top sheet has a localized area coated with transparentizing material with image developing properties whereby impressing the localized area results in the development of an image visible through the top ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald J. Steidinger
  • Patent number: 5064115
    Abstract: A mailer product and apparatus and method in which a first sheet is printed by a computer printer and then augmented by a second sheet prior to entering folding means, one of the sheets being twice transversely folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald J. Steidinger
  • Patent number: 5056825
    Abstract: A referencing device has a corner constructed of two generally rectangular plies and closed along two adjacent sides to receive a larger generally rectangular sheet and with provision on the outer plies for informational indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Vicki Templet
  • Patent number: 5018766
    Abstract: A method of implementing travel planning and product therefor which utilizes forms having printed indicia providing space for information on transportation, accommodation, car rental and the like and which is foldable to provide a convenient envelope-type construction for the receipt of airline tickets and the like, the forms being designated for office, family and traveler use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Vicki J. Templet
  • Patent number: 5006191
    Abstract: The invention consists of a method which provides a business form with removable labels. This method produces a business form which maintains its integrity and does not jam or damage production or processing equipment. It includes providing a first web with a bottom release ply, a top label stock ply and adhesive disposed between these two plies for releasably joining the two together. It also provides a second web and places it in side-by-side laterally spaced relation with the first web. The method further includes the step of adhering a splicing strip to the first and second webs to join them together. The resulting form includes the first and second webs disposed in spaced, side-by-side relation. It also includes the splicing strip adhered to the inner edge portions of the first and second webs to connect the first and second webs together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5000373
    Abstract: A mailer having an oversized insert and method wherein an interior ply is both longitudinally and transversely folded and adhered to an unfolded interior ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4995642
    Abstract: A pocket label assembly for a shipping package and method of making the same, the label having a removable part for affixing to a delivery record or the like, the part being die cut from the label back and equipped with pressure sensitive adhesive and being secured to a portion removable from the envelope front to constitute a unit carrying identifying indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Juszak, John R. Poplawski
  • Patent number: 4993752
    Abstract: A method of producing correspondence wherein stationery is equipped at a suitable location with a transparent pressure sensitive adhesive-backed label for coincidental typing with the stationery and which is removable thereafter for application to a blank envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph J. Juszak
  • Patent number: 4986868
    Abstract: An intermediate blank for an I.D. card or the like and method of preparation in which a transparent web is equipped with a pressure sensitive adhesive on one surface thereof, half of the pressure sensitive adhesive having adhered thereto a ply of base stock such as paper for receiving printed indicia and the other half being equipped with a release liner whereby upon removal of the release liner, the now exposed adhesive equipped one half of the transparent web is foldable on itself to confine the paper ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4982894
    Abstract: A mailer I.D. product and method wherein each stuffed sealed envelope assembly is equipped with an insert ply having longitudinal and transverse lines of perforation defining an I.D. card, a pressure sensitive-equipped transparent film having a first portion attached to the insert ply and a second portion of the film being held in face-to-face relation within the envelope, the second portion of the film being equipped with a release liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4978144
    Abstract: An airline luggage tag and jacket therefor and method wherein a central claim check is removable leaving a generally U-shaped remainder, this U-shaped remainder having arm portions that are equipped with slits for capturing the remainder of the tag when the tag is looped around the handle of a piece of luggage, the check having transversely extending ears for insertion into slits in the jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Schmidt, John R. Poplawski
  • Patent number: 4971364
    Abstract: A label-log having pairs of sheets wherein the upper sheet has peelable labels and the two sheets constituting a carbonless system whereby information indicia as to sender, recipient, date and the like when entered on the upper sheet is permanently recorded on the lower sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Vicki J. Templet
  • Patent number: 4971363
    Abstract: A method of implementing travel planning and product therefor which utilizes forms for requesting and confirming information on transportation, accommodation, car rental and the like and which is foldable to provide a convenient envelope-type construction for the receipt of airline tickets and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Vicki Templet
  • Patent number: 4951863
    Abstract: Double envelope construction for facsimile handling and method including a unitary generally rectangular sheet folded on itself along two spaced apart transverse lines with complementary printed indica installed on the same face of the central and one end panel and which sandwich the other end panel which is imprinted but equipped with a closure flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Vicki Templet
  • Patent number: 4944449
    Abstract: Oversized laser mailer and return envelope and method wherein a sheet such as 17".times.11" has static information on one face and variable information on the other face, the sheet being transversely folded to provide an overlapping edge, equipped with lines of glue adjacent the folded edges as well as adhesive ribbons on the variable information face, longitudinally folded and equipped with transverse lines of perforation adjacent the edges to provide tear off strips whereby removal of the tear off strips results in two separate sheets, one of which is a return envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Schmidt