Abstract: A lift-assisted entrance to provide ground-level access to an external basement entryway to a building. The lift-assisted entrance has a pivotable roof vertical, rectangular side walls, and a front face with vertically oriented, outward opening double doors, all fabricated from lightweight visco-elastic material. The roof section opens upward and tilts away from the plane of the front face and is supported by two actuators. Doors located on the front face open outward to provide full access to the basement entryway. The roof is shaped to reflect the architectural features or the style of the building to which the lift-assisted entrance is attached and may be a gabled roof The side walls and front face may also include architectural features--such as windows--that emulate those features found on the building. The visco-elastic material can be molded with a relief pattern that emulates the appearance of house shingles or clapboard siding, or roof shingles.

Abstract: A continuous mailer type business form includes a top ply, a single or multiple part insert ply, and a return envelope. The return envelope comprises first and second plies secured along three edges, with a fourth edge open, and one of the first and second plies is adapted to be folded over the open edge to close it. The second ply comprises marginal areas of adhesive adjacent at least one edge with tear off perforations disposed within the marginal areas of adhesive. The marginal areas of adhesive connect the first and second plies on one side of the perforations, and the second and top plies on the opposite side of the perforations. The insert and first plies are unconnected to the top ply by the marginal areas of adhesive. The marginal areas of adhesive may comprise longitudinally spaced diagonal strips, with the width of the marginal areas of adhesive approximately the same on the opposite sides of the perforations.