Abstract: A continuous ream or web of computer paper having detachable longitudinal marginal strips with tractor feed holes, and having adjacent pair of detachable lateral strips longitudinally spaced along the web for separating the continuous web of paper into a plurality of sheets. A fold of reduced folding resistance for encouraging folding of the web thereat in disposed between the pair of detachable lateral strips to facilitate fan-folding of the web along a fold line disposed between the adjacent pairs of lateral strips rather than at the detachable portion of the lateral strips. The longitudinal and lateral marginal strips are formed so that they can be readily removed while the continuous web of paper is fan-folded to form a stack separated and individual sheets of paper.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of storing sheets of film-like material has a substrate which is wound and unwound from two rollers. An exposed portion of the substrate extends between the two rollers. A sheet to be stored is placed on the exposed portion of the substrate. The substrate is then further wound onto one of the rollers and unwound from the other roller. A counter determines the portion of the substrate upon which the sheet is stored by counting the revolutions of a counting roller and accumulating a storage count. To retrieve a stored sheet, the substrate is unwound from the roller upon which it was wound when the sheet was stored until the portion of the substrate upon which the stored sheet was placed is exposed. A counter counts the revolutions of the counting roller and causes the unwinding to cease when the storage count determined when the sheet was stored is reached. A bed is urged upwardly against the rollers to maintain tension on the substrate as it is wound and unwound.

Abstract: A continuous business form assembly comprises, first, a longitudinally continuously extending carrier web. The carrier web has a longitudinally spaced series of carrier form stubs thereon. The assembly comprises, second, a longitudinally spaced series of form sets attached to the carrier form stubs. The carrier web further includes spacer sheets alternating with the carrier form stubs. The spacer sheets provide leaders for printer feed tractors, for small quantity computer printer users.

Abstract: A business form includes a first sheet 16 of label stock having one side 24 coated with a first pressure sensitive adhesive 22, a first sheet 18 of release liner stock engaged with the first adhesive 22 with the release liner 18 and the label stock 16 being laterally offset from one another so that a narrow strip "N" of the first adhesive that is unengaged with the release liner 18 exists. A second sheet 36 of label stock is provided and is coated on one side 38 with a second pressure sensitive adhesive 40. A second sheet 42 of release liner stock is adhered at one edge to the first label stock sheet 16 at the narrow strip "N" of first adhesive 24 as well as to the second sheet 36 of label stock by the second adhesive 40. The characteristics of the two label stock or the characteristics of the two adhesives, or both may be varied to achieve various purposes.

Abstract: A system is disclosed for locating a label on the spine of a bound work. An elongate leader extends through a slot formed when an overlay cover is placed on and sealed to the spine of the bound work, and out each end of the slot. The leader includes an adhesive portion in the vicinity of one end onto which a label can be affixed. The leader is pulled longitudinally through the slot, causing the label to enter the slot through one transverse edge. Pressure is then applied to the label via the overlay cover, and the force on the leader is continued until the leader separates from the label, leaving the label at a desired position along the spine of the bound work. The label can be removed from the spine in a similar fashion by sliding the adhesive portion of the leader through one transverse edge of the slot until it adheres to the label. The leader and label are then withdrawn from the slot.

Abstract: An information device comprises a relatively rigid support portion suitable for attachment to a person, animal or object, and a relatively flexible information label secured to the relatively rigid support portion. The secured label is extendable in use into an open state and also storable into a closed state either adjacent to or around the support portion. A cover member is provided to contain said secured label when stored relative the support portion.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a unique and attractive coupon mailer. The mailer includes an inner web having a pocket-forming panel and an outer web having a pocket-forming panel, a foldable panel and an adhesive tab. Adhesive is provided on the webs so that the pocket-forming panels can be adhered to each other to form a coupon-receiving pocket, and the foldable panel and adhesive tab folded over the pocket to close the mailer. The inner web also includes a plurality of advertizing-carrying panels or pages. Transverse perforations in the foldable panel are constructed to be torn to open the mailer. In another embodiment, there is provided an outer web which forms a cover for the mailer and includes a pocket-forming panel and a foldable second panel. An inner pocket-forming panel adheres to the outer web to form a coupon book-receiving pocket and fan-folded pages are saddle-stitched to the outer web to provide advertizing-carrying pages.

Abstract: An opaque or transparent drafting paper assembly includes a drafting paper sheet having edges, the paper sheet having holes formed in a given region thereof for hanging the paper sheet in a hanging file system, and at least one synthetic foil strip applied on the paper sheet by a formed lamination process, the foil strip covering at least the given region of the paper sheet and reinforcing at least one of the edges thereof.

Abstract: A reinforcement tape for a loose leaf sheet comprises a strip of plastic tape coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive and includes a plurality of holes configured for alignment with different standard mounting hole configurations and is sized to fit within the confines of the sheet.

Abstract: A sample pack comprises a piece of sheet material (1) folded to reduce its width by half along its longitudinal axis and then folded again about one or more axes transverse to the longitudinal axis before being rolled about a transverse axis. The longitudinal fold line (2) is slitted at intervals to release pressure in the material to promote folding and rolling. The material is advantageously wallpaper and the sample provides a viable alternative to cumbersome pattern books.

Abstract: A folder wherein a strip of paper is folded upon itself about a transverse crease line to form elongate overlying leaves of different lengths, the strip being wound with the longer leaf outward to form a spiral of numerous ovaloid convolutions each having its entire outer surface in facing engagement with the inner surface of the next outer convolution, the convolutions having arcuate end portions and side portions extending between the end portions with each end portion in reinforcing abutting engagement with the convolution end portion of the next outer convolution, and the outer leaf end being detachably secured to the nether convolution, for releasably retaining the strip in its spiral configuration.

Abstract: Flexible non-distortable handcraft sheet materials, including needlework fabrics, adaptable for receiving printed designs, patterns, photographs and craft instructional information and the methodology for producing the materials with the designs, patterns and photographs and instructional information printed thereon. Material alignment and feed features are located along the parallel edges of the materials for moving same through a computer-directed printer. In accordance with the methodology visual information in the form of designs, patterns, photographs, flat art work, still objects, live objects, etc. is converted into digital information through a digitizer with the digitized image information thereafter fed to a computer for manipulation and editing by software and keyboard direction and for conversion to visual image information for CRT display and for utilization by a computer printer as imprinted graphic information.

Abstract: A label in the form of a sheet (e.g. a sheet of printed instructions) and an envelope therefor, both formed from a single folded sheet e.g. of paper, wherein the single sheet is divided into at least two parallel rows of three rectilinear panels each, the panels of the first row being separated from the corresponding panels of the next row by a line of perforations and each of the two outer panels of the first row of panels having a portion cut away inwardly from the respective outer edge of the sheet adjacent the line of perforations so that the line of perforations stops short of the outer edges of the sheet, the single sheet being so folded that the panels of the first row form the envelope, and the sheet is composed of the panels of the next row and of any further rows which are folded to lie adjacent one face of the corresponding panels of the first row, whereby the sheet is enclosed in the envelope but can be removed and detached therefrom by tearing along the line of perforations.

Abstract: An automatically foldable and unfoldable album assembly includes a front cover and a rear cover hingedly joined together and a plurality of foldable sheets joined together in strip fashion. Each sheet contains four panels which are joined together along diagonal fold lines. A pair of opposed inner panels are provided with central vertical folds. The outer panels of adjacent sheets are joined together and are joined to the front and rear cover to form a strip. When one sheet is closed, a sheet adjacent thereto will automatically be opened.

Abstract: An elongated sheet of printed material for a roll stamp dispenser having formed flaps serving as driving sprockets and also having perforated score lines for tearing the stamp from the dispenser. A plurality of partially cut spaced apart flap groups formed of flaps along transverse lines mate with driving pins on the roll stamp dispenser. The flaps remain in tact with the stamp roll so as not to destroy the printed appearance of the stamp roll. Perforated transverse continuous score lines are formed at predetermined positions along the longitudinal length of the roll for use in separating adjacent sections of the roll as desired.

Abstract: An arrangement of lines of perforation on computer paper is disclosed. Horizontal lines of fine perforations are placed at intervals of 2.75 inches throughout the entire length of a single length of computer paper, and three vertical lines of fine perforations run the entire length of the paper, one each at a one-half inch distance from each edge of the paper, and the third line at 9.00 inches from the left edge of the paper. By virtue of such arrangement, a single length of computer paper can produce at least three standard sizes of page rather than only one size as in the prior art, obviating the need to change the paper each time that a different size page is desired. Also, there is a substantial reduction in the amount of each length of computer paper that is wasted when a sheet is torn from the printer and printing is commenced on the next available sheet.

Abstract: A sheet 20 on which a map is printed is attached to and folded within a matchbook-like cover 11. Sheet 20 is then folded in a first plurality of accordion folds (30-34) from side-to-side to expose a free, unfolded corner (21) for being grasped between the thumb and forefinger. Sheet 20 is then folded in a second plurality of accordion folds (23, 34). The folds are made in such a manner as to maintain the free, unfolded corner (21) in position to be grasped by the thumb and forefinger and pulled in a continuous movement diagonally against the direction of both the side-to-side folds (30-34) and the top-to-bottom folds (23, 24) simultaneously while holding the cover (11) in the other hand. To close the map, the sheet 20 is moved with the thumb and forefinger diagonally towards cover 11 to aid the sheet in reassuming its side-to-side folds (30-34) and top-to-bottom folds (23, 24) for storage within cover 11.

Abstract: A reversible book is provided having a front cover and a back cover and having pages in the form of a sheet in an accordian fold, the sheet affixed at one end to the front cover and at the other end to the back cover, and having a ribbon-like element anchored at one end to the front cover and anchored at its other end to the back cover, the ribbon passing through vertical slots in each fold of the sheet. The book has no spine, but is held together by the sheet and the ribbon element, on both sides of each of which may appear illustrations and/or a story. The reader proceeds through the book from front cover to back cover, reading material on the front of the sheet and ribbon, and then pulls the back cover around toward him and reads on with the same story or a new story, proceeding from back cover to front cover, reading material which was originally not in view being on the back of the sheet and ribbon first read.

Abstract: A magnetic covered folio case is formed of a pair of magnetizable sheet members forming the covers with oppositely polarized areas on these cover members, so that they will be attracted one to the other when in facing proximity. Arranged between the cover members are a plurality of hingedly attached folio sheets in an accordian folded configuration, with each end folio sheet secured to a cover. Separating the cover members extends the accordian folded folio sheets, exposing the faces of the folio sheets, which may be formed to accommodate writing. There may be secured to the faces of the accordian folded folio sheets one or more pocket forming members to retain articles on said sheets. Sheet and cover member shape may be rectangular, triangular, circular, or of a variety of polygonal shapes.

Abstract: An information folder wherein a strip of paper or like sheet material is subdivided by a plurality of generally equally spaced parallel scores into a plurality of generally rectangular panels having informative indicia marked thereon, and folds are provided along the scores defining hinge connections between panels, the strip being wound about one end panel into a flattened spiral with all the panels in generally congruent overlying relation with each other.

Abstract: This invention relates to a leader for use in processing lengthy strips of continuous business forms assemblies. The leader includes feeding means complemental to that of the forms assemblies and one or more transverse areas of pressure-sensitive adhesive for temporary positive attachment, one edge portion being applicable to detachment and application over the leading edge of the endmost portion of the form assembly and the other to a major body portion of the assembly. The leader may also have several other embodiments such as a folded portion for attachment to the forms leader edge. The leader is especially applicable to initiating data processing operations of forms assemblies on printers of various feeding types.

Abstract: A binding tape for binding the shingled edges of sheets has a supple tough and flexible nonwoven fibrous backing coated on one surface with a pressure-sensitive adhesive and with a barrier coat to seal the backing on the other surface. A low adhesion backsize is coated on the backing to permit winding or stacking strips of tape. Tabs adhered to the ends of the strips aid in locating the strips in relation to the shingled edges.

Abstract: An improved continuous sheet having tear-off perforated edge portions for use with toothed driving wheels (tractor drive transfer mechanism) adapted to mesh with the perforations to advance the continuous sheet in accordance with word processing and printing equipment, said sheet having a recessed, reinforced inner edge portion adjacent to the tear-off line of the perforated edge portion.

Abstract: A publication, capable of being read in a manner similar to a magazine, is formed of a single rectangular sheet of material. A plurality of creases in the sheet of material cooperate to define first and second series of panels. The sheet is folded along a longitudinal crease so that the two series of panels face in opposite directions. The sheet is then folded along transverse creases to form a series of accordion of zig-zag folds. When publication is in a closed condition, it can be opened by turning the top panel in the same manner as in which the cover of a magazine is turned to open the magazine. The panels on the viewer's right are then sequentially turned to sequentially expose pairs of panels until the panels are again stacked with the panel which was originally on the bottom of the stack disposed at the top of the stack. The stack is then openable from the closed condition in the same manner as which a magazine is opened. A poster or additional indicia may be on the back sides of the panels.

Abstract: An airline ticket holder is provided with a first ticket holder attached to one panel of a common page and a second ticket holder attached to a second panel of the common page. The common page contains an order form and prepaid addressed post card which may be separated from the common page and deposited in the mail.

Abstract: An improved method for using a calculator tape (12) in a roll (10) and redemption coupons (16) in combination is described. The method uses a novel tape roll (10) for a calculator or cash register (20), including a dried, moisture sensitive, adhesive (13) on one side of the tape which accepts printing from the calculator or cash register and including the coupons (16) provided on the other side (17) of the tape roll opposite the adhesive (13). The coupons can be pasted in a redemption booklet (23) by moistening the adhesive.

Abstract: A series of four slips is used for the payment of a tax, etc. Intermediate slips are equal in width to each other. Another pair of side slips provided opposite to each other with the intermediate slips interposed therebetween are likewise equal in width to each other, but the width of these two side slips is larger than that of the intermediate slips. A slip disposed at an end of the series is provided with a transparent panel through which the name and address of a taxpayer, etc. typed on the adjacent slip are visible when the series is folded. The series of the four slips serves also as an envelope.

Abstract: A continuous form paper has a plurality of sheets which are bifolded along perforated fold lines. At the top of each sheet and at the bottom of each sheet and in parallel with the fold lines are perforated tear lines. These tear lines create a pull tab when the sheets are bifolded into a stack. The pull tabs facilitate the separation of a relatively large stack of sheets into individual sheets by tearing along the perforated bottom tear line of a preceding sheet which is in parallel alignment with the top tear line of a following sheet.

Abstract: In conjunction with folding a sheet with center cross folds offset from the diagonals of the sheet, upper and lower lateral folds, a central vertical reverse fold, a pair of vertical side folds defining an inner pleat and a pair of outer pleats, and at the ends of each outer pleat an outer lateral reverse fold and a vertical fold, an improved sheet folding method uses a pair of tuck folds to fold the outer ends under the outer pleats. The tuck folds allow the sheet to return automatically to its folded state which is smaller than a conventional folded sheet.

Abstract: A calender structure includes linking apparatus for displaying, in a linked and continuing fashion, time sequences shown on separate pages thereof. The individual pages are provided with specific hinging structures to permit simultaneous viewing of the last portion of one month and the first portion of a next month, for example, so that a continuing display is provided for linked time sequences notwithstanding the fact that such sequences are provided on separate pages. A single hinging operation results in the continuing display, thus avoiding the necessity for repeatedly turning between two calander pages at periods approaching an end of the month.

Abstract: This invention relates to looseleaf binder sheets, and more particularly to looseleaf binder sheets having the capability of being both securely retained in the binder from removal in response to forces acting in one direction, while also being easily removed against the binder when withdrawn in an alternate direction.

Abstract: A continuous form for a printer, suitable for office automation, consists of: (A) a plurality of contiguous sheets identified by reference marks regularly spaced along the form length having sheets of a first type with a preprinted heading being followed at a preestablished frequency in the form by sheets of a second type, without such preprinted heading, so that, when used in a printer provided with a cutter, by printing on selected sheets of the form and by cutting the printed sheets from the form and by collecting the printed sheets, letters, circulars and similar paper on several sheets of equal size and different type can be automatically obtained, or (B) in an alternative embodiment, a plurality of identical contiguous sheets each comprising a preprinted head zone and a tail zone, both zones having the same height, the length of the sheets exceeding a desired final sheet length by the height of the tail zone, so that letters, circulars and similar papers on several sheets of equal size and different typ

Abstract: A packing assembly for form or sheet packages intended for data processing centers, comprising a box-like container having a front wing panel for the picking up of the last form or sheet of the package and a form package, wherein at least the bottom or last form is sideways positioned with respect to the lie plane of forms or sheets within the package.

Abstract: A method and continuous form adaptively structured and arranged so as to facilitate the manufacture of book processing kits containing pocket-part books, circulation cards and binding labels. The method comprising printing the multi-part form on a paperstock that is compatible with a computer controlled printer, printing the requisite data in the appropriately allotted positions, and disassembling the form into its appurtenent parts. The continuous form is printed in a multi-color format and contains four book processing kits per sheet, and which kits are arranged and bounded by perforations therethrough.

Abstract: A staple-supporting strip for use with staples when binding documents together which affords removal and retention of the staples. The staple-supporting strip comprises a narrow elongate strip of tough polymeric material between 0.1 and 0.15 mm thick. The strip may be colored or printed with a window identifying the area for reception of the staples. A narrow coating of a low-tack pressure-sensitive adhesive facilitates positioning of the strip on the uppermost sheet of the documents to be stapled together.

Abstract: A multiple set particularly a multiple set as used on computers or the like includes a plurality of sheets wherein at the margin of at least some of the sheets there are provided recesses in which an adhesive is applied to thereby detachably secure the sheets together.

Abstract: A wallet-sized checkbook particularly suited for use in conjunction with a one-write check record keeping system wherein an entry is made on a journal page simultaneously with the writing of a check. The checkbook enables records of checks written in the field to be subsequently transferred directly on to a one-write journal page. The book comprises a cover having an interior pocket and a writing surface fastened at one end to the inside of the cover. A data sheet of coated release paper overlies the writing surface and releasably carries a series of ink-receptive strips adapted to receive ink from a carbon strip extending along the reverse side of a one-write check. A check is positioned on top of a selected strip on the data sheet by a series of pins which project through pre-punched holes in a widthwise margin of the check. Indicia on the opposite margin of the release paper cooperate with the pins to assist in the check-positioning function.

Abstract: A method and form suitable for airline ticketing wherein interior plies are transversely cut while the exterior plies are only weakened so that advantageously handleable ticket assembly is readily developed by removing the top ply and a portion of the bottom ply to yield a ticket packet.

Abstract: The map of this invention is permanently folded and attached to the cover which is folded along a front hinge and a rear hinge. A cover flap is attached to the rear hinge. The map is folded laterally so that is comprises a bottom strip and a lateral strip which are attached to the cover, a lateral pleat therebetween which can be flipped upwardly or downwardly, and a top lateral flap which can be flipped downwardly upon the lateral pleat or upwardly.The map is further folded longitudinally and alternately along seven longitudinal fold lines to provide three longitudinal leaves between the outer sections which are attached to the cover. The central leaf is adhesively secured together along the bottom strip and the lateral strip. The three leaves are slit along their outwardly folded fold lines, except along the bottom strip and the lateral strip thereof. The central leaf can be pulled outwardly to create a centerfold that is pivotable to the right or to the left.

Abstract: A binding strip is disclosed for use with continuous paper forms having punched marginal portions and printout pages therebetween, and thereby being adapted for handling by spoked ratchets of paper-advance mechanisms, the binding strip comprises a flat web of material having an adhesive coating on one side thereof; at least two spaced apertures therethrough dimensioned to accept successive spokes of the paper advance mechanism; and a perforation along a line between the spaced apertures so that upon adherence of the binding strip to the continuous paper form, the perforation is adapted to coincide with the printout page edge. A form of the disclosed device is also shown wherein the adhesive coating is barred from a portion of the web adjacent the perforation for facilitating bursting of the form.

Abstract: Tombola or bingo tickets and booklets of tickets are manufactured in continuous strip form which is concertinaed or fan-folded at intervals of every six or twelve tickets; the strips form caters for the differing ticket or booklet requirements of different players and reduces the high wastage rate which arises when the common demand of three or four tickets or booklets is met by suppliers whose stock is in the form of tablets containing strips of six interconnected tickets or booklets. The continuous strip is weakened transversely between every ticket or booklet to aid detachment thereof from the strip. The number combinations are printed on tickets which are so organized that all the numbers which may be called during a game will be found once, twice, thrice or four times in the tickets located between each pair of adjacent folds in the strip.

Abstract: A multiple set particularly a multiple set as used on computers or the like includes a plurality of sheets wherein at the margin of at least some of the sheets there are provided recesses in which an adhesive is applied to thereby detachably secure the sheets together.

Abstract: There is disclosed a web of record assemblies and a method of using same. The web is a composite web constructed by using both a longitudinally extending web of supporting material and a web of label material releasably adhered to the supporting material by means of pressure sensitive adhesive. The composite web is formed into a plurality of record assemblies by means of a plurality of transversely spaced-apart lines of partial severing in the supporting material and by either butt cutting or die cutting the label material. The label material of each record assembly is, according to one embodiment, partially severed along a longitudinal line and the supporting material is completely severed along the same longitudinal line. The label material on one side of the longitudinal line is divided into record sections containing one or more labels.