Abstract: A mailer having an oversized insert and method wherein an interior ply is transversely folded and adhered to an unfolded interior ply.

Abstract: A false gusset (12, 82) is positioned between bag panels (26, 28 and 98, 100) to form a bag having a handle (24, 80) at its upper end formed by upward continuations of the sides (26, 28 or 98, 100) of the bag (10, 78). This construction removes the false gusset (12, 82) and the seals (66, 68 or 114, 116) which connects the false gusset (12, 82) to the bag panels (26, 28 or 98, 100) from the forces created by the weight of the bag (10, 78).

Abstract: A portable packing bag made of plastic film for carrying flexible and/or folded products includes rectangular front and rear side panel sections which are (a) joined, one to the other, at their vertical edges to provide lateral side panel sections, (b) joined at their upper edges to provide a top cover section, and (c) initially unconnected at their lower edges to permit the bag to be filled but are thereafter joined at such edges, after filling, to form a completely closed bag. The cover section or gusset has upstanding edges that define a shallow trough at the top of the bag. The bag further includes a handle formed as a U-shaped loop which extends across the cover section and is attached to the opposite inner sides of the upstanding edges of the trough. The handle itself is formed of a pair of substantially equal sections which are joined, to form the U-shaped loop, along a seam at the apex of the loop.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for folding sheets, and more particularly, to folding sheets and adhering an outer fold to the inner fold to make "outserts" which bear information relating to the pharmaceuticals and which are inserted into the pharmaceutical packages to give instructions and warnings to the users of the pharmaceutical.

Abstract: A method for producing mass quantities of discrete envelope and letter assemblies in a continuous operation, each of which includes an envelope and a separate letter having a business-fold disposed within the envelope, both formed from the same single sheet of material, and enabling the producer to print a personalized letter upon the sheet prior to the formation of the envelope assembly. The highly desirable end result which is attained is that the completed letter is in a business-letter-fold and the sheet moves continuously forward as the assembly is formed, such that the salutory heading of the letter opens to view when the letter is withdrawn from the envelope, and the signatory panel is folded between the salutation panel and the intermediate portion of the letter. The method is capable of continuous operation inasmuch as each sheet continuously moves in the same direction throughout each of the steps of the method.

Abstract: A composite mailing wrapper suitable for use with a catalog or magazine is produced from an integral web and comprises front and rear cover sheets joined along a longitudinal fold line to which is detachably connected at least one preformed reply envelope, and optionally, at least one response device which is detachably connected to the envelope flap(s). When assembled to the catalog the envelope(s) and optional response device(s) are contained within the fold of the cover sheets. All of the elements comprising the composite wrapper can be personalized without risk of mismatching as they are produced from an integral web and are not detached from each other during manufacture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sack made of thermoplastic film, said sack having front and rear panels and an open mouth top portion, gusseted side walls wherein the innermost reach of the gusset folds overlap and at the bottom of said sack a heat seal stripe welds together all of the lay-flat layers, including the overlapped regions.

Abstract: Plastic tubular film structure for forming multiple bags. The tubular film structure has a first pair of rib elements, a second pair of diametrically opposed rib elements, a first pair of groove elements between said pairs of rib elements and a second pair of groove elements diametrically opposed to the first pair, with the elements in the pairs being closely spaced and being on the inner surface of the tube. Each of the pairs of rib elements are aligned with each adjacent pair of groove elements as the tubing is flattened to form first and second sets of the aligned pairs of rib and groove elements, so that by forming a continuous slit between the elements of one layer at one set and the elements of the other layer at the other set, and with the tube being subsequently folded so that an element adjacent the slit of the first set is folded onto the second set, and an element adjacent the slit of the second set is folded onto the first set, two continuous strips of double interlocking profile film are formed.

Abstract: An improved high speed method for producing quantities of discrete envelope assemblies, each assembly including an envelope and separate double folded enclosure formed from the same blank of sheet material and having personalized information printed on both the envelope and enclosure that is unique to each assembly.The method provides for continuous operation of the method steps all occurring one after the other as each assembly travels in the same general direction throughout all processing operations.

Abstract: An improved high speed method for producing quantities of discrete envelope assemblies, each assembly including an envelope and separate enclosure formed from the same blank of sheet material and having personalized information printed on both the envelope and enclosure that is unique to each assembly.The method provides for continuous operation of the method steps all occurring one after the other as each assembly travels in the same general direction throughout all processing operations.

Abstract: A method for producing quantities of discrete envelope assemblies including at least one separate enclosure for each assembly, the invention allows formation of the envelope and enclosure from the same sheet of material and allows marking of both envelope and enclosure with indicia which can be unique to each assembly. The method particularly allows continuous, high speed manufacture of assemblies personalized by name and address or the like by printing the indicia on a web of sheet material followed by formation of the web into a plurality of separate envelopes and enclosures with the envelopes and enclosures having like indicia being associated, the method including the use of a fugitive adhesive effected during manufacture, the contour cutting of the web prior to folding and the maintenance of a singular direction of travel of the web and elements cut therefrom throughout manufacture.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for producing handle bags made of thermoplastic web material by transporting segments of gusseted web to a cutting device that removes a generally rectangular portion of material to produce at least one style of a bag with handle portions that can be either gripped by hand or receive a forearm of a user. Moreover, there is disclosed apparatus for folding and collecting the bags so produced.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a jacket, comprising two cover sheets joined to one another, for a flexible disk for data recording, the cover sheets and the nonwoven lining being punched out in the form of blanks including the functional apertures, and the cover sheet blank and the nonwoven blank being joined to one another and then folded to form the jacket, wherein the sheet material for the cover sheets is transferred from a magazine, with the aid of mechanical, air-operated grippers provided with positioning means, to an assembly surface and is there provided, the sheet of nonwoven material from a second magazine is tacked onto the cover sheet material by spot-welding and is then joined thereto over the entire surface by thermal welding, thereafter the cover sheet material thus provided with the nonwoven covering is transferred to a holder frame and then conveyed, with this frame, to a punching device where it is punched out to form a blank provided with the functional apertures, subsequently the blank

Abstract: An apparatus for the manufacture of a jacket, comprising two cover sheets joined to one another, for a flexible disk for data recording, the cover sheets and the nonwoven lining being punched out in the form of blanks including the functional apertures, and the cover sheet blank and the nonwoven blank being joined to one another and then folded to form the jacket, wherein the sheet material for the cover sheets is transferred from a magazine, with the aid of mechanical, air-operated grippers provided with positioning means, to an assembly surface and is there positioned, the sheet of nonwoven material from a second magazine is tacked onto the cover sheet material by spot-welding and is then joined thereto over the entire surface by thermal welding, thereafter the cover sheet material thus provided with the nonwoven covering is transferred to a holder frame and then conveyed, with this frame, to a punching device where it is punched out to form a blank provided with the functional apertures, subsequently the b

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for the continuous production of packaging wrappers from cut blanks of flat material. A flap-like portion of the blank material is abraded in a particular fashion to produce an area which upon folding and gluing provides a bonded joint having a thickness in the area of the bonding essentially equal to the thickness of the flat material of the wrapper. The packaging wrapper produced possesses an interior surface completely void of protrusions or uneven areas and an overall wrapper of even thickness throughout.