Abstract: The present invention has a good method of opening envelope and primarily having to provide a better ease of opening method. Its structure is distinctively different from the traditional envelopes or tears open envelopes with characteristics a line of perforation is set on one of the four folding lines of cover flaps. Furthermore, a 2 to 3 mm wide of tenacious tearing wire is adhered to the line of perforation having one end of it consists of an angled tearing line. To open, simply tear from the angled tearing line and lightly pull the tearing wire along the line of perforation towards the opposite end, which allows the tenacious self-adhesive tearing wire to break free from the line of perforation and effectively cutting the envelope open from the line of perforation. It has characteristics that consist of ease of manufacture, ease of use and high reliability of prevent from unintentional opening.

Abstract: A reusable business envelope having an initial mailing modality where it is initially used and a return mailing modality where it is again used. The envelope includes a front panel, a pair of side panels, a rear panel, a first detachable strip, a return flap, and a second detachable strip. The pair of side flaps and the rear panel are foldably mounted to the front panel. The first detachable strip is detachably mounted to the rear panel. The return flap is foldably mounted to the front panel. The second detachable strip is detachably mounted to the return flap.

Abstract: An envelope adapted to hold a disc such as a computer disc or a CD and being adapted to be bound into a spine of a publication. The envelope is formed from a blank and has a front face, a back face, a top edge, a bottom edge, and side edges. One of the side edges is formed from the fold in the blank. Margins are formed around the remaining side edges, the margins defining an area sized to accept the disc. Adhesive strips are provided in the side and bottom margins to glue the front and back faces of the envelope together so that the envelope will be sealed along three of the four sides and opened along the top edge. A flap is provided in the top margin in the front face. The flap can be bent away from the back face to allow for access to the area. A peel-and-seal strip is placed in the top margin to seal to opened edge once the disc has been inserted in the area. A tear strip is provided in the flap to facilitate removal of the disc from the envelope.

Abstract: An envelope has a self-opening tear strip with a pull-tab at about the middle of a side edge. The pull-tab is conveniently grasped and the contents of the envelope are readily accessible upon opening.

Abstract: A combination post card mailer and display easel formed from a die-cut blank. The card and easel have an easel portion, an address and message portion, and a display portion, the latter typically containing an attractive color photo. The address and message portion is separably attached to the display portion. The easel portion is foldable over the display portion, and the address and message portion is in turn foldable over the superposed easel portion and separably held thereon. The arrangement is such that the consumer can purchase the post card in a flat, folded condition which largely resembles the configuration of a conventional post card, but which has provision for enabling the recipient to easily tear off the message and address portion and retain the decorative display portion and attached easel portion. The latter in turn can be folded along pre-creased fold lines, to form a stand.

Abstract: The reusable mailing envelope is constructed from a blank comprising a front panel and a rear panel which are connected along a first fold line. A seal flap formation is connected to the front or rear panel along a second line and includes a seal flap having adhesive on a surface thereof for sealing to one of the panels in a first mailing condition. The seal flap formation includes first and second seal flap sections connected to each other along a fold line, which is not a tear line, and one section is connected along a tear line to the seal flap. The seal flap formation defines reusable structure which allows the envelope to be remailed. The first and second seal flap sections have adhesive on and extending at least partially across the inner surfaces thereof for forming a return sealing flap.

Abstract: A label assembly for a package sleeve accommodating a storage media disc in a sleeve cavity thereof. The label assembly includes a removable tear strip covering the sleeve cavity such that when the tear strip is detached along perforation lines, the disc can be removed from the sleeve cavity. The tear strip also has a deadened adhesive portion so that no adhesive can contact the disc. In this label assembly, a first face and a second face are positioned on opposite sides of the tear strip. The first face includes mailing identification information regarding the package sleeve and the second face includes disc identification information regarding the storage media disc accommodated within the package sleeve.

Abstract: A combination sealing and opening strip for various types of packages comprises a three-layer laminate strip having a centrally-located, high strength membrane with pressure-sensitive adhesive on both sides of the membrane. The membrane comprises a material, such as MYLAR.RTM. flexible synthetic film, polyester, other polymeric films, fiberglass, or fibrous or non-fibrous materials of various compositions with a strength greater than that of the package material. This provides for a controlled tearing of the package material. During strip manufacture, the adhesive-coated strip is laminated in precise registration onto a differentially-coated release liner. The combination strip and release liner are applied to the package material in a location such as the flap of a common overnight envelope. When sealing the package, the user peels the release liner from the strip.

Abstract: An envelope can be used as a photo stand in a stable manner. It is made up of a frame panel having a window, a retaining panel that forms, in cooperation with the frame panel, a photo-receiving portion in the shape of a bag, and a leg-forming panel connecting with the photo-receiving portion and having a sealing flap on one side thereof. The sealing flap is formed with two cut lines that extend longitudinally over the entire length of the sealing flap to define an unsealing strip therebetween. The leg-forming panel has supporting legs defined by discontinuous cuts. The photo-receiving portion is formed with slits adapted to engage the legs along its bottom edge.

Abstract: A combination envelope and greeting card having a primary panel with ancillary top, bottom and side panels foldably attached to it in a way that allows the ancillary panels to be torn away from the primary panel as desired. Permanent and releasable adhesive are all strategically located on the panels so that when the panels are folded over the primary panel and adhered to one another in a designated order, the combination becomes a compact, securely sealed unit that can be mailed. In the folded over configuration, panel surfaces containing greeting introduction indicia or a greeting message are not exposed, while a panel surface that contains address and postage aligning indicia faces outwardly.

Abstract: A one piece form is provided for Z-folding into an outgoing mailer. Upon removal of tear strips from two sides of the outgoing mailer and removable panels, the remainder of the folded form can be made into a return envelope. The composite form uses four panels to define a sealing flap for the outgoing mailer, a contiguous second panel for receiving printed information to define a back panel for the outgoing mailer, a contiguous third panel to define an insert for the outgoing mailer and the front panel of the return envelope and a contiguous fourth panel to define the front panel of the outgoing mailer and eventually the back panel for the return envelope.

Abstract: The invention is a self-reply envelope, having a front panel and a rear panel, creating a pocket therebetween. The front panel has recipient indicia and sender address indicia. The front panel has return mail indicia and a sender arrow adjacent to the return mail indicia that refers to the sender indicia. The rear panel has a main flap that is sealable to the front panel. The rear panel has an outer flap, an inner flap, and an opening tab between the outer flap and inner flap. The main flap covers the return mail indicia. The opening tab is removable to open the envelope, and to reveal the return mail indicia. The envelope is resealable by the recipient without obscuring the return mail indicia so that the envelope may be returned to the sender by re-mailing the envelope.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention a multiple use envelope for safely sending material to successive recipients is provided. The envelope broadly is a paperboard container having a generally rectangular, substantially closed body with one open edge opening into an interior cavity for receiving material. A closure flap is connected to the body adjacent the open edge and can be manipulated to close the opening. On its interior surface, the closure flap carries two parallel sealing strips and two parallel opening strips for use by first and second senders and recipients. On its exterior surface, the closure flap carries an indicia receiving security block overlying at least a portion of at least one of the two opening strips. The invention also encompasses a flat paperboard blank for forming into the envelope.

Abstract: An easy opening, tamper evident package has a package body with a mouth opening to receive materials. A closure flap extends from the package body next to the mouth opening. The closure flap has an inner surface which faces and overlaps an edge portion of the package body when the closure flap is fully extended to close mouth opening. An adhesive closure is permanently adhered to the inner surface of the flap and has an adhesive surface which adheres to the edge portion, at least when said closure flap is fully extended over said mouth opening and pressed against said package body. A break-away region is defined in the package by perforations through the package body near the mouth opening. The adhesive closure overlaps the break-away region, at least when the closure flap is fully extended over said mouth opening to close the mouth so that the overlapped break-away region is subject to tear forces applied to the package to separate the closure flap from the adhered edge portion when the package is opened.

Abstract: A mailer package is formed from a single sheet of foldable stock material and includes a pair of major planar parallel panels adjoining one another and joined together along a first fold of the material. A pair of panel tabs extending from opposing edges of one panel of the pair and are secured to opposing edge portions of the remaining panel of the pair. A closure flap extends from a fourth edge of the one panel and overlaps the remaining side of the package when closed, extending between the pair of panel tabs. The closure flap abuts the panel tab when the closure flap is closed with only pull tabs at the lateral sides of the closure flap extending above the panel tabs and the remainder of the closure flap. The closure flap extends more than halfway from the closure flap fold to the opposing first fold such that the pair of panel tabs and closure flap cover more than half of a major side of the closed mailer package.

Abstract: The envelope is of generally conventional structure and carries an integral extension which may be opened prior to opening of the envelope. The extension may carry an advertising message or the like to make a high impact on a recipient. In one embodiment, the extension is of multi-panel construction and has a tab extending from one panel to secure the extension to the back ply of the envelope. In another embodiment, one panel of the extension may be secured directly to the back ply of the envelope, for example, via a fugitive glue which permits a subsequent release of the extension from the back ply for viewing purposes.

Abstract: A mailer for disks. The mailer has first and second pockets for receiving disks, each pocket formed of front and back rectangular panel members joined at at least one pair of corresponding edges and unconnected on at least one pair of corresponding edges. The pockets are foldably attached by a spine at an edge of each of said pockets. There is a sealing member for adhering the first pocket to the second pocket to maintain the mailer in a closed conformation. At any pocket edge not retaining the received disk by the joined edges, the spine, or the sealing member, the disk is retained in the pocket by retaining means.

Abstract: A two way envelope having front and rear panels with respective integral closure flaps. The front panel is provided with a window for viewing the mailing address on the contents within the envelope. The closure flap, integrated with the rear panel, has a width only sufficient to cover the indicia of return address and postage on the front panel and is preprinted with such indicia as well as bar coding. The closure flap, integrated with the front panel, is provided with a dual perforated or serrated tear strip with a free finger-lift end, and to ensure stability and replicability of tearing, the tear strip is stiffened with a stiffening material, in particular an extension of the glue applied for sealing of the envelope. For postal bar encode window envelopes, an open slot is located at the bottom of the envelope to permit postal bar encoding and reading off the envelope contents both in the original mailing and return mailing phases.

Abstract: A method is provided for constructing a mailer type business form in a continuous manner so that an easy opening tear strip is provided in both the outgoing and return envelopes. This allows not only the addressee of the outgoing envelope to readily remove its contents, but allows the addressor of the outgoing envelope--when the return envelope is received thereby--to readily retrieve the contents of the return envelope. This substantially enhances the utility of the ultimate mailer product. Desirably, the tear strips are formed by a slit and perforation in the bottom sheet of each of the outgoing and return envelopes, and within the mailer the tear strips are parallel to each other. An insert is also typically provided between the top sheet of the outgoing envelope and the top sheet of the return envelope, and is pasted to outgoing envelope at the left and right.

Abstract: A combination greeting card and gift pouch is constructed from a single rectangular blank (10) having three panel zones (12, 14, 16) arranged side-by-side and separated by fold lines (18, 20). The first panel zone (12) at one end of blank (10) has a central portion partially enclosed by a set of perforations (22) which on separation enables folding out of the central portion. Third, panel zone (16) at the opposite end of the blank folds onto panel zone (14) and has side flaps (36, 38) that are secured to panel zone (14) forming a gift pouch (40) with access along fold line (18). The first panel zone (12) is folded about fold line (18) onto the gift pouch and for sealing is secured thereto by adhesive on panel edge margin (34).