Series Patents (Class 229/69)
  • Patent number: 5634587
    Abstract: A computer printer or copier compatible dual envelope assembly is provided for convenience in addressing two No. 10 envelopes (41/8 inches by 91/2 inches, or about 4.times.9 inches), with the assembly being in the order of 81/2 inches wide and having a length at least equal to the length of said envelopes and with the envelopes extending in the longitudinal direction of said assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Ghanshyam H. Popat, Anahit Tataryan, Frank H. Gavrilos
  • Patent number: 5611482
    Abstract: A plurality of continuous feed storage envelopes are connected in a strip formed by a seal flap layer of glassine overlying a base layer of paper material. Connected envelopes are fed through a machine that cuts individual negative frames from a roll of developed film for insertion in the compartments of the envelopes. The envelopes are separated from one another in the series by tear lines. The lower edge of each envelope is sealed by a glue line. Extending transversely between the overlying layers are parallel spaced glue lines that form the lateral margins of each envelope. At one lateral margin the glue line extends the entire length of the envelope. At the opposite margin the glue line has a shortened length so that a portion of the overlying layers along one margin are not adhesively secured. When the envelopes are connected in the series, both lateral margins of each envelope remain sealed by the tear lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Inventor: Ralph R. Gaetano
  • Patent number: 5607100
    Abstract: A direct mail article in the form of a packet comprising a plurality of envelopes separably joined along a parting line at their longitudinal edges, as by perforations, each envelope containing at least one separate enclosure device, one or more of which envelopes and enclosure devices can be personalized, is produced from an integral web or sheet defining all of the envelopes and at least one of the separate enclosure devices. The direct mail packet is formed by folding the envelopes at the parting lines to position the envelopes one above the other. In one preferred embodiment, the direct mail article is formed from two webs, one of which defines all of the envelopes and an associated enclosure device for each envelope, and the second web defines one or more additional enclosure devices for at least one of the plurality of envelopes, the enclosures not being separated until after both have been folded into the envelope, thus ensuring that mismatching of personalized enclosures and envelopes does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Kurt H. Volk, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Stenner
  • Patent number: 5553774
    Abstract: A C-fold mailer comprises first, second and third panels foldable about a first foldline with the first and second panels in registration one with the other and a second foldline with the third panel overlying the back side of the first panel. Lines of cohesive are formed along the lateral margins and the first foldline of the first and second panels to adhere the panels one to the other, forming a return envelope. The first panel has a return flap with rewettable adhesive. A third panel has segments of cohesive adjacent its distal edge for registration and adherence to corresponding segments of adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Goodno
  • Patent number: 5544807
    Abstract: A continuous business forms assembly comprises a plurality of interconnected units stackable into an array, with each unit including a first ply and a second ply. The first ply of one of the units is connected to the first ply of an adjacent unit with a series of transversely spaced ties. The second ply of the one unit is connected to the second ply of the adjacent unit with a series of transversely spaced ties which are transversely offset with respect to the first ply ties. When the business forms assembly is folded at the interconnection of the adjacent units, the first and second plies combine to form only a single ply thickness which is required to be folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Systems, Incorporated
    Inventor: Russell L. Kreider
  • Patent number: 5487617
    Abstract: The downwardly opening hooks of the front and back upper corners of the hanging files are connected to support members slideably mounted on a flexible wire which has stops mounted thereon to position each file relative to the others. The handle mounted on the wire eases carrying the files and serves as the hanging point when the file are hung on a wall or the like. When so hung the files are vertically spaced in an overlapping manner facilitating access to the files and visual determination of the contents. The files can be supported in the usual file cabinet in the usual manner. The wire does not interfere with such use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Inventors: Josephine A. Cole, Kenneth J. Muderlak
  • Patent number: 5474229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stack of pressure sensitive adhering envelopes wherein each envelope can be easily removed from the stack and used without having to moisten the flap. The flaps of the envelopes are treated on the back side with a release coating and on the front side with a pressure sensitive adhesive so that when the envelopes are stacked with the flaps open, the adhering interface between the pressure sensitive adhesive and the release coating is not permanent. Each envelope in the stack can be easily removed from the stack and sealed by folding the flap onto the body portion of the envelope and applying a slight pressure onto the flap. No release tape is required because each adjacent envelope is treated with the release coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Inventor: Junji J. Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 5458273
    Abstract: A mailer assembly which can be supplied to a user in intermediate form and which, when assembled and sealed, has an enhanced ability to shield confidential information from unauthorized view is provided. The mailer assembly may also include an integral return envelope and also may be designed so that variable information can be printed on the sheets making up the mailer prior to assembly using nonimpact printers such as laser printers which use heat and pressure to fuse toner to paper. The mailer assembly includes first and second sheets in superimposed relation, with each of the first and second sheets having a pair of marginal side edges and a pair of end edges. The mailer further includes removable marginal side and end strips for opening the mailer. The first and second sheets are secured together parallel to their respective marginal side and end edges to form a subassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: The Standard Register Company
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Schubert, Hugh B. Skees, Thomas J. Smith
  • Patent number: 5431337
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignees: Leslie J. Bell, Avante Garde Enterprises Ltd.
    Inventor: Leslie J. Bell
  • Patent number: 5429298
    Abstract: A mailer type business form has a minimum number of insert plies by providing a remittance stub as an extension of the reply envelope. In one construction, three insert plies having lesser dimensions than the first and second main plies are sandwiched between the main plies, with the second and third insert plies defining a reply envelope front and back and with a perforation line dividing the second insert ply into a reply envelope portion and a stub portion. The first insert ply overlies the second insert ply and also has a stub portion. Image transfer is provided between the stub portions, as by a CB and a CF coating, and image transfer is also provided between the first ply and the first insert ply as by a carbonized bottom face of the first ply. A fly sheet may be provided on top of the first ply. The reply envelope can either be top or end opening. In another embodiment the second ply comprises the back of the reply envelope and includes the stub portion, so that only two insert plies are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley Chess
  • Patent number: 5427832
    Abstract: A card carrier for transport of a phone card, credit card, debit card, etc. is of paper or plastic card stock with a multi-colored design ion deposition printed on one face and a PIN and control number on the other. During production the card is part of a blow on label, attached to the rest of the label by repositional adhesive, and the blow on label is blown onto a first opaque paper carrier web inner surface, permanent adhesive affixing the label to that surface. The outer surface of the first carrier web is imaged just like the front of the card, simulating the card. A second opaque paper ply is affixed by permanent adhesive to the first ply overlying the second face of the card, but with a cutout aligned with the control number so that the control number may be viewed from exterior of the carrier. To open the carrier perforations are provided inside a permanent adhesive strip along one edge of the card, providing a tamperproof feature, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Andre G. Longtin
  • Patent number: 5405076
    Abstract: A series of connected, stuffed sealed window-equipped mailers and method of making in which the window is covered by a translucent or transparent covering and wherein this covering has a transverse edge aligned with a transverse edge of an inner ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Tamarack Products Corp.
    Inventor: Donald J. Steidinger
  • Patent number: 5398867
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a continuous envelope and letter arrangement for printing letters and envelope address information on a continuous paper web having a forward side for receiving printing and a back side, lateral edge strips with sprocket holes on the paper web, alternating envelope and letter panels disposed along the paper web, and tear-off lines disposed transversely between the edge strips for separating the envelope and letter panels, and adhesive means on the envelope panels for sealing the envelopes. According to a further feature, the continuous envelope and letter arrangement includes lateral tear-off lines on the paper web for separating the edge strips from the paper web, and further, a center crease line on the envelope panel, disposed transversely between the edge strips for dividing the envelope panels into two substantially equal size half panels, the half panels respectively forming a front and a back side of the envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Inventor: Kathleen M. Murphy
  • Patent number: 5397052
    Abstract: A continuous mailing form includes one or more sheets of individual form parts secured together along spaced transverse tear lines. The or each sheet has a designated addressee area on each form part, and, where there is more than one sheet, the sheets are secured together with the addressee areas in registry. One of the sheets has a predetermined detachable area comprising a return postcard. A blow-on label is detachably secured to the addressee area on each form part of one of the sheets, for receiving address information and reproducing it on the underlying addressee area of the underlying sheet or sheets. The label can be peeled off and attached to an item to be mailed along with the return postcard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Walz Postal Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerard F. Walz
  • Patent number: 5381947
    Abstract: A window-equipped mailer and method of making in which the window is covered by a translucent or transparent covering and wherein this covering has a transverse edge aligned with a transverse edge of an inner ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Tamarack Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald J. Steidinger
  • Patent number: 5376048
    Abstract: A business form intermediate comprises a sheet that is Z-folded first about first and second fold lines to define an outgoing mailer. The business form has first, second and third panels with an outgoing address area on the first face of the third panel, and an O.P.A.S. patch on the first face of the first panel. The patch obscures a PIN number or other confidential information underneath it. Pressure seal adhesive formed along the margins of the paper sheet of the intermediate holds the panels together once Z-folded. Masking is applied on panel faces as necessary in order to obscure all interior information of the mailer. A reply mailer may be constructed from the second and third panels using a window in the third panel overlying reply address indicia on the second panel first face and rewettable adhesive strips on the second panel first face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Whiteside
  • Patent number: 5346123
    Abstract: A mailer type business form, and intermediate, are constructed from a single sheet of paper having four virtually identically sized panels, the sheet folded about an intermediate fold line, and then two other fold lines, to form a four ply mailer. First and fourth panels of the intermediate define the third and fourth plies of the mailer, and provide a return envelope sealed along three edges and open at the fourth, with a flap provided with a rewettable adhesive strip at the open edge. The second and third panels are held together by longitudinal strips of adhesive adjacent the longitudinal edges of those panels, with perforations provided in the second and third panels (but not the first and fourth panels) to allow removal of the connecting adhesive. The fold lines connecting the first and second panels and third and fourth panels are preferably perforations, and a longitudinal perforation is provided in the second panel to form the statement and reminder portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Leo Lombardo
  • Patent number: 5341985
    Abstract: The business form assembly includes an integrated mailer and return envelope comprising first, second, third and fourth plies having first, second, third and fourth edges. The first and third edges of the four plies are adhesively secured one to the other. Additional lines of adhesive are inset from a tear strip containing the adhesive securing the first, second, third and fourth plies to one another for securing the second and third plies to one another. The second and third plies are inset along second and fourth edges to enable adhesive securement of the first and fourth plies along the first and fourth edges to one another. A return envelope flap is formed by a fold line in the third ply. A registering line of perforations in the second ply defines the back face of the return envelope and a record-keeping portion between the line of perforations and the fourth edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Peterson
  • Patent number: 5314110
    Abstract: An intermediate, and a mailer type business form constructed from the intermediate, can be imaged on both sides and easily formed into a final product having four panels. A sheet of paper has first and second faces with first and second longitudinal marginal portions formed by first and second longitudinal perforations parallel to the longitudinal edges of the sheet. Pressure seal adhesive is disposed in longitudinally elongated patterns in the first and second longitudinal marginal portions on the first face, and first, second and third fold lines formed in the sheet divide the sheet into first, second, third and fourth panels of substantially equal size. Other elongated patterns of pressure seal adhesive are disposed in the first and second longitudinal marginal portions of the second face. The sheet is devoid of adhesive extending along the ends of the sheet, or parallel to the ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Leo Lombardo
  • Patent number: 5294041
    Abstract: A business form intermediate comprises a sheet that is C-folded first about a first fold line and then a second fold line to define a mailer. The business form has first, second and third panels with an outgoing address area on the first face of the second panel, and an O.P.A.S. patch on the first face of the first panel. The patch obscures a PIN number or other confidential information underneath it. Pressure seal adhesive formed along the margins of the paper sheet of the intermediate holds the panels together once C-folded. Masking is applied on panel faces as necessary in order to obscure all interior information of the mailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Whiteside
  • Patent number: 5294042
    Abstract: A mailer for use with computer printing techniques. The mailer utilizes die-cut window envelopes provided with a transparent window web an undersurface of which is coated with a chemical composition. A sheet contained in the envelope and visible through the window is coated on its surface presented to the window with a second, different chemical composition. The coating compositions are characterized in that impression of impact printing forces against the window web and applied therethrough to the underlying coated sheet produces impact-pattern-correlated visual imprints on the envelope-housed sheet, the imprints being clearly viewable through the transparent web of the envelope window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Inventor: Dennis R. Giordano
  • Patent number: 5287128
    Abstract: Multiple part documents in which each part has common non-variable information and variable information are produced at high speed with a minimum amount of equipment. Utilizing either sequential press technology or large diameter plates, the multiple parts of the document are sequentially printed on a single web with the non-variable information. The variable information is sequentially printed on the same web in a procedure distinct from the printing of the non-variable information, typically utilizing a single ion deposition printer for each face of the web. The parts are separated and intelligently gathered and then the parts are sealed together to form a document, along one edge, by applying glue, or pressure seal adhesive. After sealing the documents may be rotated and delivered to a carrier web. Alternatively, an outer wrapper or envelope, variably imaged by another ion deposition print engine, may be provided around the multiple part documents after sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan G. Doane, Franklin L. Burket
  • Patent number: 5263637
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the forming and printing of paper products, particularly paper products such as self-mailers, made from a moving web of paper which is printed on a continuous forms press and folded and glue sealed in one pass through a folder. The disclosed self-mailer includes a return order envelope. The self-mailer is printed on stock of a size and thickness to conform to postal regulations with both sides of the stock being printed, perforated on press to enable tear-off of the return portion of the self-mailer, scored to enable folding, and provided with a mailing window as a continuous form. Laser printing is used for subsequent application of an individual's name and address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Inventor: Walter A. Simson
  • Patent number: 5253898
    Abstract: A telegram blank is described comprising a single sheet printed on only one face and sub-divided into three portions a first of which defines a telegram destination and identification field and the second consecutive to the first, defines a telegram text field After printing the three portions are folded in zig zag fashion and glued together along glue strips in such a way that the identification field remains visible from the outside and the third portion covers the text field. The first portion is provided with a delivery confirmation zone delimited by perforated lines to facilitate separation thereof, and the longitudinal edges of the blank are also provided with perforated lines to facilitate opening the telegram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Send Italia S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Mangione
  • Patent number: 5238178
    Abstract: A multi page mailer type business form is constructed by applying a first adhesive pattern to the top sheet bottom face perimeter areas, a second adhesive pattern to the bottom sheet top face perimeter areas, and applying third and fourth adhesive patterns to the middle sheet top and bottom face perimeter areas respectively. Variable information is printed on the top, bottom and middle sheets including machine readable identification information (bar code) which is common to the sheets that are to be assembled into a final multi page mailer. The set is accumulated, and verified by scanning the identification of information, and then the perimeter adhesive patterns are sealed. The adhesive is preferably pressure sensitive adhesive, and the final mailer produced has a book-like construction. The adhesive patterns are such that the top and bottom sheets can be provided in a stack without the perimeter adhesive patterns aligning, and the middle sheets can be provided in a separate stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilbur P. Hutchinson, Leo Lombardo
  • Patent number: 5238182
    Abstract: A mailer type business form having four parts is produced from two sheets, to define a mailer having top and bottom plies formed from one sheet, and first and second intermediate plies formed from another sheet. The top and first intermediate plies have aligned die cut windows in them, and the second intermediate ply forms a return envelope with the bottom ply. A combination outgoing address for the mailer, and return address for the return envelope, are printed on a portion of the second intermediate ply readily visible through the die cut windows. During production of the mailer, slugs are cut out of one of the sheets, and removed by vacuum or a blast of pressurized gas, and the first and second sheets are merged together, adhesive being applied to the sheets to attach them together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark D. Loch
  • Patent number: 5232147
    Abstract: A multi-component mailer and personalizing method therefor, achieved by sequentially passing a continuous web of plural, physically connected mailer configurations through a printing station, where each said mailer configuration includes a front sheet member having a window therein and an insert member behind said window, and applying personalized data to said front sheet and to said insert sheet of each said mailer configuration while each said mailer configuration is at said printer station during its passage therethrough. Each mailer configuration further includes left and right longitudinal marginal tear strips as part of its said front sheet, with a series of printer feed holes in each said marginal tear strip, and a back sheet member located behind said insert sheet and affixed to said front sheet, where the transverse width of said back sheet is not greater than and, preferably, is less than the transverse distance between said marginal tear strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Belknap Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Buster Weinzierl, Toby H. Hoyt
  • Patent number: 5203457
    Abstract: An improved wrapper for planar articles that are to be stacked in a dispenser and manually engaged by a tab. Several embodiments of wrappers are discussed, each having an integral tab cut from a panel of the wrapper and extended from the wrapper. In one form, alternating wrapper tabs are of alternating positions so as to reduce the possibility of one wrapper inadvertently pulling and adjacent, superimposed wrapper with it when the tab of the lower wrapper is pulled, to dispense an article from the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Inventor: Nancy C. Garcia
  • Patent number: 5190210
    Abstract: An automated system for mail preparation and record keeping includes a data processor having a memory for storing program instructions and data including postage fees for different types of mailing, and a printer connected to a supply of continuous mailing forms which are separable along transverse tear lines and which conform to postal requirements for at least one type of tracked mailing. The processor is programmed to receive and store a list of names and addresses to whcih items are to be mailed, to compute the postage fees, and to print the names and addresses successively in designated addressee areas on successive forms in the form supply. The processor also keeps a record for each prepared form of the addressee, an article number provided on the form, and the postage fee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Walz Postal Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerard F. Walz
  • Patent number: 5183436
    Abstract: Manufacturing lines are operated to produce continuously attached membership card mailers, which may be fan folded, and then packaged by a manufacturer, for delivery to an organization. The staff of the organization thereafter, upon demand, complete the entry of information on the continuously attached membership card mailers, then separate them, and thereafter deliver them to respective members. The members in turn remove the inner portion of the paper overlay area of the membership card mailer, along its perforations, exposing their respective membership cards which are then separated from their parent PVC stock by completing the separation previously started by microperforations around the periphery of the membership card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Inventor: Thomas M. Shanley
  • Patent number: 5183203
    Abstract: A continuous strip of envelope assemblies for Certified Mail. The strip comprises a continuous first paper ply having front and rear surfaces and continuous longitudinal edges. The first ply is divided long into equal length segments by transversely extending lines of perforations. Each segment is divided into first and second portions by a transversely extending fold line. Each first portion constitutes an envelope assembly front panel and each second portion comprises an envelope assembly closure flap. A second paper ply comprises discrete sheets equal to the number of front panels, and each comprising an envelope assembly rear panel. Each rear panel is affixed to a front panel along its sides and bottom with the envelope opening located along the transverse fold line. A return receipt card is removably affixed to the front of each flap. The rear surface of the return receipt card is preprinted with the sender's address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Inventor: Raymond W. Sanders
  • Patent number: 5174491
    Abstract: Intermediates for matched mailer type business forms are constructed in four and six panel formats from a single sheet. Pressure sensitive adhesive discontinuous strips are disposed in marginal portions of the intermediates to align with each other when the intermediates are folded first about a center line, and then either a single longitudinal fold line, or first and then second longitudinal fold lines. The adhesive strips may include L-shaped portions at the intersections of strips. The marginal portions are separated from four or six main panels by perforations. The marginal portions adjacent the longitudinal edges of the sheet may have tractor drive openings. Using the invention standard size mailers containing multiple plies may each be constructed from a single sheet, by running the intermediates through a non-impact printer (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Taylor, Phillip Jones, Julie Ann Zarth
  • Patent number: 5174494
    Abstract: A mailer type business form, an intermediate for the form, and a method of making the form are provided. The mailer type business form is constructed from a single ply sheet of paper and a small panel (less than one-quarter the size of the sheet) which cooperates with a quadrant of the sheet to provide a return envelope. The sheet is folded along orthogonal fold lines to provide four plies, a fifth ply being provided by the panel which cooperates with one of the plies to form the return envelope. The mailer is constructed by positively guiding the panel (preferably utilizing a tractor hole strip along one edge) into contact with predetermined adhesive strips on the single ply sheet, and then subsequently folding the sheet along the orthogonal fold lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Ashby
  • Patent number: 5172855
    Abstract: A business form has a first ply and a second ply with an insert ply therebetween. The insert ply has a cutout portion along the upper edge of a certain dimension and a cutout portion along the lower edge of a lesser dimension than the cutout portion along the upper edge, the upper cutout portion accommodating adhesive for sealing a return envelope of a mailer that uses the same ply for the back of the outgoing mailer and for the back of the return envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: James B. Coffey
  • Patent number: 5167739
    Abstract: A multi page mailer type business form is constructed by applying a first adhesive pattern to the top sheet bottom face perimeter areas, a second adhesive pattern to the bottom sheet top face perimeter areas, and applying third and fourth adhesive patterns to the middle sheet top and bottom face perimeter areas respectively. Variable information is printed on the top, bottom and middle sheets including machine readable identification information (bar code) which is common to the sheets that are to be assembled into a final multi page mailer. The set is accumulated, and verified by scanning the identification information, and then the perimeter adhesive patterns are sealed. The adhesive is preferably pressure sensitive adhesive, and the final mailer produced has a book-like construction. The adhesive patterns are such that the top and bottom sheets can be provided in a stack without the perimeter adhesive patterns aligning, and the middle sheets can be provided in a separate stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilbur P. Hutchinson, Leo Lombardo
  • Patent number: 5161735
    Abstract: A self-contained insert mailer includes at least two similarly sized and interconnected individual plies which are arranged in overlying relationship to form an outgoing mailer containing an outgoing envelope, one or more insert plies and, in some instances, a reply means. The mailer is folded along one or more outgoing envelope fold lines so that the front ply adhesively engages the back ply to define an outgoing envelope containing the insert plies therebetween. Where the mailer is folded along the outgoing envelope fold lines, the outgoing envelope has a height to length ratio which is between 1:1.3 and 1:2.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Inventor: Bruce Bendel
  • Patent number: 5138821
    Abstract: A method and appaaratus for selective high-speed insertion of sheets from a plurality of webs into envelopes provides a mechanism for folding and inserting sheets into preformed envelopes. Preformed envelopes are provided for folding and inserting from a source that may be a roll. A plurality of sheets are fed for folding and inserting into envelopes. A leading sheet from each of the webs is selectively driven and cut at a collection point for folding and inserting. The selecting of sheets for feeding and cutting may be accomplished by means of a CPU that may include a bar code detection system disposed along each of the webs. A system for widening the openings of envelopes to facilitate insertion of contents may also be included. This system may comprise a strip along each of the envelopes is a stream that includes a folded section within each opening or may comprise tabs disposed along an opening side of each envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Roll Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: H. W. Crowley
  • Patent number: 5125562
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Inventor: Bruce Bendel
  • Patent number: 5118030
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. McNamara, Cyril G. Lazarus
  • Patent number: 5108346
    Abstract: A mailer type of business form having a carbonizing bond sheet with a carbon spot on one face, and an insert, is constructed so that the carbonizing bond sheet will remain within the outgoing envelope when the insert is removed. This is accomplished even though the carbon spot goes all the way to the end of the carbonizing sheet by providing thumb notches in the outgoing envelope plies and the carbonizing bond, but not in the insert. The carbonizing bond is stream pasted to the interior top ply of the outgoing envelope to maintain it within the outgoing envelope when the insert is removed. The mailer is constructed in a continuous manner from four vertically aligned webs of paper, with the interior webs having a width less than the top and bottom webs by an amount corresponding to the width of strips of adhesive along the sides of the business forms holding the top and bottom plies together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Ashby
  • Patent number: 5092514
    Abstract: A mailer business form assembly comprises a non-adhesive bearing message sheet and one or more adhesive-bearing cover sheets prepared for printing of the message sheet, alignment and sealing to provide multiple mailers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund G. Van Malderghem, John C. Eder
  • Patent number: 5087223
    Abstract: A multiple ply assembly for use as a travel ticket folder is disclosed. A first and second ply define at least two panel sections and are connected to define a sleeve within one of the panel sections to accommodate insertion of material into the sleeve. The assembly also comprises a means for restricting transverse movement of the material from the sleeve. The assembly comprises two plies of substantially the same size which are joined along one entire side and partially joined along a parallel opposing side. A non-joined portion on the opposing side forms an opening to the ticket sleeve. The assembly has two score lines defining three adjacent panels facilitating folding of the assembly into one-third portions. Itinerary information can be printed directly onto the folder. Alternatively, additional plies can be connected to the folder and itinerary information can be printed directly onto the top additional ply and reproduced onto succeeding plies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: National Graphics Company
    Inventor: Rudolph T. Kaluza
  • Patent number: 5087238
    Abstract: A Forms Carrier is disclosed for use in securing preprinted business forms that are too small to engage laser printers or similar friction roller printing devices. The Forms Carrier includes a rectangular sheet of flexible material having a fold line dividing the sheet into a lower portion and a upper portion. The lower portion resembles a conventional size sheet of paper. A preprinted business form is placed upon the lower portion of the sheet and the upper portion folds over the form with a pressure sensitive adhesive on the surface of the upper portion that faces the form which securely holds the form to the Forms Carrier. The Forms Carrier with the secured form is then placed into a laser printing device or similar friction roller printing device in the ordinary and conventional manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: HICO Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Heidi S. Olson
  • 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: 5069384
    Abstract: The present invention provides an article of stationery defined by a continuous length of paper or other suitable material which is folded to define a plurality of envelopes. Each envelope, except for the envelopes at each end of the length of material, is partly overlapped by and attached to another adjacent envelope. The article of stationery is not more than three layers thick throughout substantially its whole length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Inventor: Laurence J. Bell
  • Patent number: 5062570
    Abstract: A business form (mailer) has top and bottom plies that are slightly larger than an insert ply. The insert ply is connected to the top and bottom plies along one lengthwise and one widthwise edge, but is free of connection at the other lengthwise and widthwise edges. Perforations in the insert ply parallel to the connected lengthwise and widthwise edges form a detachable portion, particularly a check. A check may be made of bond paper yet information printed on the check stub (between a lengthwise edge and perforation parallel to it) is transferred to the lower ply by a self-imaging spot disposed on the top surface of the bottom ply underneath the check stub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Ashby
  • Patent number: 5052977
    Abstract: A multiple web business form stock is provided for forming mailers. A base web is divided transversely by lines of weakening into envelope lengths so that it can be divided into individual mailers. The base web is foldable along a central longitudinal fold line to provide front and back sides of outgoing envelopes. All required preprinted, non-personalized and repetitive information is provided on the base web. Heat sealable adhesive and perforation lines which are necessary for sealing and opening the eventual mailers are provided on the base web. A number of inner webs (e.g. three) are secured to the base web. Each inner web extends substantially the full effective length of the base web, the upper of the inner webs is dimensioned and positioned to receive personalized printed information thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Harry Irvine
  • Patent number: 5040720
    Abstract: A continuous business form assembly includes webs defining return envelopes within originating envelopes, where the webs of the originating envelopes are joined through openings in the return envelope webs. Flaps on both of the return envelope webs are formed of the material from which the openings are cut so that the flaps and openings are simultaneously created, paper waste is reduced and return envelope size increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas G. Pennock
  • Patent number: 5039000
    Abstract: A mailer type business form is provided which includes an outgoing envelope formed by a first sheet folded along a fold line to provide first and second panels each having three marginal edge portions, and a return envelope formed by a second sheet overlying the second panel and adhesively secured to the second panel inwardly adjacent the three marginal edge portions such that the second panel forms a rear panel of both the outgoing envelope and the return envelope. A removable tear strip is incorporated in the second panel and is defined by a slit formed in the second panel parallel to and adjacent one of the marginal edge portions, and a pair of parallel lines of perforations extending perpendicularly from opposite ends of the slit toward the fold line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Ashby
  • Patent number: RE35103
    Abstract: A mailer business form assembly comprises a non-adhesive bearing message sheet and one or more adhesive-bearing cover sheets prepared for printing of the message sheet, alignment and sealing to provide multiple mailers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward G. Van Malderghem, John C. Eder