Abstract: An easy opening envelope comprising a front panel (38) and a rear panel (20), each having an upper edge, a lower edge and opposing side edges; a sealing flap (26) connected to the upper edge (22) of the front panel (38); an adhesive strip (28) extending longitudinally across the envelope on one of the sealing flap (26) or the rear panel (20) of the envelope. A continuing line of perforations (32), (34), (36) extending across a corner of the sealing flap (30), the front panel (38) and a side fold line on the side edge (24). Whereby, once the envelope is sealed, by pulling on an edge of the corner section of the sealing flap (30) and following the continuing line of perforations (32), (34), (36) the envelope can be easily opened and the content of the envelope can be conveniently removed.

Abstract: A pocket assembly for a shipping container, a shipping container assembly, and a method of manufacturing a pocket assembly for a shipping container are disclosed herein.

Abstract: A quick open envelope comprises one polygonal hollow envelope body and one flap wherein the envelope body has one surface and one opening edge as well as plural seal edges which constitute the surface's one opening edge, and the flap connected to the envelope body is used for closing the opening edge. One tearing line prepared on the surface has both ends connected to one identical seal edge or different seal edges and surrounds an area on the surface being lifted to develop the envelope body's opening from which a letter receiver is able to take articles held inside an envelope with the tearing line torn down.

Abstract: A mailer intermediate includes a generally rectangular sheet of printable, postcard stock having first and second side edges, first and second end edges, and first and second faces. A fold line extends substantially transverse to the side edges and substantially bisects them, whereby the sheet is divided by the fold line into first and second postcard portions. An adhesive pattern is provided on the first face of the sheet, adjacent at least one of the first and second end edges, for securing the first and second postcard portions together adjacent the first and second end edges. Adhesive patterns on the first face of the sheet adjacent the first and second side edges are provided only near the fold line, whereby the first face of the first and second postcard portions are not adhered together along a substantial majority of the extent of the first and second side edges of the first and second postcard portions. The fold line may be defined by a line of weakness, such as for example a perforation line.

Abstract: An envelope is disclosed herein which comprises a perforated line 1 formed parallel in proximity to the edge of an envelope 10 preferably at the shorter edge 2 intersecting the closed flap 5 from one edge 3 to the opposite edge 4. The sealed envelope can be opened by tearing along the perforated line 1 until the two parts 6 and 7 are completed separated.

Abstract: An envelope is recognized from its appearance as an envelope not provided with perforations and is easy and infallible to open without use of a cutting tool, such as scissors. In an envelop (F1) with an opening-side flap (15) folded to cover an opening (8), perforations (M1) are formed along the opening (8), and an adhesive part (10A) for sealing is formed in the vicinity of the perforations (M1) to adhere the opening-side flap (15) to the back wall of the envelope. The opening-side flap (15) is folded and adhered so as to cover the perforations (M1).

Abstract: A new pouch for laundry products and the combination of pouch and laundry product. The pouch includes a tearing notch or a length of weakness, which may comprise a tear tape, permitting manual opening of the pouch prior to tossing the pouch into the washing machine. By tearing open the pouch it is possible to direct liquid or gelled detergent onto clothes for pretreating stains. The remainder of the product, in a second chamber, e.g. liquid, gel or solid, eg, a powder, is retained in the pouch until release during wash. In this respect, it is preferred that at least part of the pouch is a water soluble film to promote release of product during washing in the washing machine and to minimize residue left from the pouch at the conclusion of the wash. The pouch of the invention preferably comprises at least two chambers, one of the chambers being openable by manual tearing along a tearing notch or a line of weakness.

Abstract: An envelope comprising a tear strip that functions as an efficient opening means for access to the envelope contents.

Abstract: A postal envelope system has an outgoing envelope containing a billing statement and a reply envelope. The reply envelope has a flap for closing the envelope. The outgoing envelope has a tab for opening it. The tab has a portion which is held and pulled in order to open the envelope. The flap of the return envelope and a small portion of the billing statement is directly under the tab of the outgoing envelope. The flap and the billing statement are positioned and have a shape, which keeps them outside of the paths of a finger and thumb that are moving into a position for grasping said tab portion so that the billing statement and flap are not grabbed and pulled along with the tab portion and tab.

Abstract: A reusable envelope has a front address panel and a rear panel joined along three edges to form a pocket with an open top. A first extended sealing flap joined to the top edge of the address panel is provided with a tear strip formed by a line of perforations extending across the top edge of the envelope and through the flap. A second sealing flap is provided which is foldably connected to the top edge of the rear panel and is initially either folded and retained inside the envelope pocket or against the exterior of the rear panel for the first mailing, and is folded over and onto the first panel for the second use. The second flap has an adhesive area securing means for sealing the envelope when the flap is positioned on the address panel for a further mailing. The address panel is provided with an area for postage indicia and, is optionally provided with a first return address area adjacent the top edge of the address panel.

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 two-panel easy-opening reusable envelope for use in an outward journey from a sender to a receiver followed by a return journey from the receiver to the sender or some other person includes a first panel, a second panel, and a reuse flap, the reuse flap being connected to the first panel along a first foldline. The reuse flap has a free outer edge and a first attachment portion for sealing the envelope during the outward journey, a second attachment portion for sealing the envelope during the return journey, and means enabling separation of the first attachment portion and the second attachment portion. The reuse flap includes a first adhesive strip located on one of the second panel and the first attachment portion between the means enabling separation and the outer edge of the reuse flap for sealing the reuse flap to the second panel before the outward journey of the envelope.

Abstract: The frangible card with a sealed compartment has a top sheet and a bottom sheet made from a synthetic, polymeric, plastic material, both sheets being substantially rigid and being sized and shaped substantially in the form of a conventional credit card, and thus being adapted for transport on or about the person in a wallet or billfold. An information storage medium, such as paper, film, or magnetic storage media, is interleaved between the top and bottom sheets. The top and bottom sheets are sealed around their periphery, preferably by ultrasonic welding, defining a sealed compartment. The top and bottom sheets are opaque in order to preserve the information stored in the sealed compartment in privacy. The top and bottom sheets are scored along one edge, so that access to the compartment is gained by breaking the card along the scored edge. Paper money or other flat valuables may be stored in the compartment with the information storage medium.

Abstract: Specialized sheets, for example, in the construction of business forms, having patterns of pressure activated cohesive are constructed so that all the sheets can be identical yet when the sheets are in a stack blocking of the pressure activated cohesive, and subsequent feeding problems, are eliminated by making the cohesive patterns offset a dimension "d" perpendicular to the direction of feed of the forms from a feed bin through an imaging device to an output tray. Either the feed bin, or an edge guide of the output tray, can be shifted at least the dimension "d" to automatically align the pressure activated cohesive patterns on cooperating first and second sheets, and after proper alignment of the cohesive patterns the sheets may be fed through a conventional pressure sealer.

Abstract: A blank for use in making an envelope has areas 6, 7 and 8 for forming a front panel, a rear panel and an intermediate panel of the envelope. The area 6 is formed with a window 20 through which an address, on the area 8, for a second use of the envelope can be seen. In a first use of the envelope, a piece of paper bearing an address for the first mailing is interposed between the window and the area 8, whereby the address thereon is obscured and the address on the piece of paper can be seen through the window 20. At one end of one of the areas 6 and 7, there is joined to that area, along a line of weakness 21, a tear-off strip 11 and at the corresponding end of the other of the areas 6 and 7 there is joined to that area, but not along a line of substantial weakness, a fold-over area 10 which can be used to seal the envelope, for its second use, after the tear-off strip 11 has been removed.

Abstract: A child-resistant package is resistant to being opened by a child because the package challenges the cognitive skills of a child. However, the package can be easily opened by the elderly or the physically impaired. The package includes either one or a plurality of fold lines, and a tear notch extends across only one of the fold lines. The package can be opened by folding along the fold line with the tear notch and then tearing the package along the tear notch. The package may also include a tear strip which extends between the tear notch and the contents of the package. If a child tears the package along the tear strip, the tear notch is removed and the package is disarmed and prevented from being opened.

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: A reply mail envelope to facilitate both as an outgoing and reply mailer. A front ply is affixed to a back ply so as to form a sealed envelope. Lines of perforations in each ply define an end portion of the envelope which is removable. The perforation lines in the front ply are offset relative to those in the back ply to provide an exposed marginal portion of the back ply. A return address flap loosely disposed intermediate the front and back plies has a first side edge affixed to the exposed marginal portion of the back ply. An insert is interposed between the front ply and the reply address flap. A second side edge of the return address flap opposite the first side edge is releasably attached to an undersurface of the insert. Upon removal of the removable end portion of the envelope, the insert is exposed so as to be easily grasped by a recipient. Upon removal of the insert from the envelope, the reply address flap releasably attached thereto follows.

Abstract: A multi-part mailing assembly includes a single-layer form of detachable parts related to each other. The assembly is combined with an envelope that both exposes and secures the parts and other contents for specialized mail handling. Spaced horizontal and vertical tear lines separate the form into multiple related parts. In addition, opposite marginal edges are also perforated for continuous pin or sprocket feeding of the stock through printing equipment. Additional vertical tear lines remove the margins after printing, and transverse tear lines separate the forms from each other. The envelope secures the parts after being detached from each other into position within compartments of the envelope along with other inserted materials. Open or transparent areas allow printed information on the appropriate portion of the related part to be seen from the outside of the envelope after it is sealed for mailing.

Abstract: The reusable mailing envelope is constructed from a blank comprising a front panel having an inner surface and an outer surface and a rear panel having an inner surface and an outer surface and being connected to the front panel along a first fold line. A seal flap formation is coupled to one of the panels along a second line spaced from the first fold line and includes a seal flap having adhesive on an inner surface thereof for adhering the seal flap to one of the panels in a first mailing condition. The seal flap formation further includes a first seal flap section having an inner surface and an outer surface and being connected along a third line to the seal flap and a second seal flap section having an inner surface and an outer surface and being connected along a fourth fold line to the first seal flap section and being coupled along the second line to one of the panels. Structure is provided for securing the front and rear panels together along adjacent side edges thereof.

Abstract: A package for a stack of X-ray film sheets has a pouch and a leader secured to the pouch. Heat seals secure side edge portions of the leader to edges of outer faces of sheets forming the pouch. Rows of perforations and slits in the leader adjacent the heat seals enables tearing of the leader from the pouch edges.

Abstract: A reusable mailing envelope including: a panel including a front panel, a seal flap, a rear panel opposite the seal flap and first and second side panels, connected to the body section by fold lines; and reusable structure for allowing the envelope to be reused as a mailing envelope connected to the rear flap along another fold line including a foldable panel and a reusable closure flap, the reusable structure having a first condition inside the envelope when initially mailed and a second condition wherein a portion is outside the envelope when subsequently mailed.

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 combined envelope and greeting card is provided which consists of a greeting card configuration, a mechanism for sealing the greeting card configuration, so that it can be transformed into an envelope configuration to be properly addressed by an addresser and then mailed to an addressee and a mechanism for breaking the sealing mechanism, so that the envelope configuration can be transformed back into the greeting card configuration by the addressee.

Abstract: A multi-panel mailer assembly includes a single sheet having multiple adjoining panels separated by transverse fold lines. The mailer assembly is folded into an outgoing mailer unit along the transverse fold lines in an alternating or "fan fold" arrangement. First and second bands of adhesive secure the mailer unit together such that its information panels are contained between a mailer cover and mailer back panel.

Abstract: A multi-purpose mailer for sending a message to an addressee for which a response is desired via a reply envelope which is provided by the sender of the mailer. The mailer has two sheets so that the mailer is of a uniformed thickness. When folded, one of the sheets acts as a transmittal envelope portion which may be used to send the mailer to the addressee. One end of the mailer detaches from the remaining portion of the mailer and comprises a reply envelope which the addressee may send back to the sender of the mailer in response to a message printed on the second sheet opposite the transmittal envelope portion.