CA1219015A - Die cut window - Google Patents

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CA1219015A
CA1219015A CA000451227A CA451227A CA1219015A CA 1219015 A CA1219015 A CA 1219015A CA 000451227 A CA000451227 A CA 000451227A CA 451227 A CA451227 A CA 451227A CA 1219015 A CA1219015 A CA 1219015A
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window
trailing
edge
web
edges
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Edmund G. Van Malderghem
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Moore Business Forms Inc
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Moore Business Forms Inc
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D27/00Envelopes or like essentially-rectangular containers for postal or other purposes having no structural provision for thickness of contents
    • B65D27/04Envelopes or like essentially-rectangular containers for postal or other purposes having no structural provision for thickness of contents with apertures or windows for viewing contents
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42DBOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D5/00Sheets united without binding to form pads or blocks
    • B42D5/02Form sets
    • B42D5/023Continuous form sets
    • B42D5/025Mailer assemblies

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  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Handling Of Sheets (AREA)
  • Window Of Vehicle (AREA)
  • Preliminary Treatment Of Fibers (AREA)
  • Unwinding Webs (AREA)
  • Undergarments, Swaddling Clothes, Handkerchiefs Or Underwear Materials (AREA)
  • Diaphragms For Electromechanical Transducers (AREA)
  • Refuse Collection And Transfer (AREA)
  • Heterocyclic Carbon Compounds Containing A Hetero Ring Having Oxygen Or Sulfur (AREA)
  • Pharmaceuticals Containing Other Organic And Inorganic Compounds (AREA)
  • Wing Frames And Configurations (AREA)
  • Sheet Holders (AREA)
  • Woven Fabrics (AREA)
  • Polysaccharides And Polysaccharide Derivatives (AREA)
  • Absorbent Articles And Supports Therefor (AREA)
  • Magnetic Heads (AREA)
  • Containers And Plastic Fillers For Packaging (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Management, Administration, Business Operations System, And Electronic Commerce (AREA)
  • Crystals, And After-Treatments Of Crystals (AREA)
  • Nonmetallic Welding Materials (AREA)
  • Outside Dividers And Delivering Mechanisms For Harvesters (AREA)
  • Image-Pickup Tubes, Image-Amplification Tubes, And Storage Tubes (AREA)
  • Glass Compositions (AREA)
  • Advancing Webs (AREA)
  • Controlling Rewinding, Feeding, Winding, Or Abnormalities Of Webs (AREA)
  • Accessory Devices And Overall Control Thereof (AREA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
An improvement in a continuous business form assembly with a window eliminates window edge snagging on high speed printers and form handling equipment. The improvement is of the window having a trailing edge bowed in the trailing direction.

Description

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This invention relates to continuous buslness form assemblies and webs for the same having windows for address infor-mation and the like.
susiness forms, including envelopes and continuous bus-iness form assemblies, have long had address windows. Examples )~ 9 are found in u.S. Patent Nos. 91,728, June 22, ~ - Eastmen, (envelope with oval cut window and transparent cover, or uncut with portion made transpar~nt); 835,~50, November 13, 1906 - Cohn, (envelope with portion made transparent by paraffin-oil or grease);
1,438,122, December 5, 1922 - McCoy, (envelope wi-th generally rec-tangular cut window); 3,136,476, June 9, 1964 - Berkowitz, (env-elope with yenerally rectangular cut window); and Re. 25,872, October 5, 196~ - O'Gorman, (envelope with generally triangular cut window). As shown in these patents, oval and triangular win-dows in single envelopes have been disclosed. However, at present, windows, in continuous business form assemblies are consistently rectangular with small rounded corners. he art of continuous business form assemblies with windows has developed and become focused upon such windows for a variety of reasons, including cost savings and aesthetic appearance. Window shape has become so stan-dardized as to be ignored, and considered unchangeable.
In certain high speed impact printers and other continu-ous business form assembly processing equipment, continuous assem-blies and assembly webs with windows are fed through slits in equipment shields and the like. The assemblies and webs are pos-itioned by air vacuums, and travel at speeds from about 9.6 feet per minute (fpm) and less to about 25 fpm and more. With a paper lZ19015 weight of about 32 pounas, the assemblies and webs travel well.
However, with lower paper weights, such as 28 pounds, the windows frequently snag the shields adjacent the slits, and are frequently torn. The equipment is sometimes jammed.
Such form damage and jamming can be extremely costly.
Where the forms are sequentially marked with serial numbers, as with payroll chec~s, damage to a single form may re~uire that the equipment be stopped, the torn form removed, the machine adjusted and restarted, and manual or computer bookkeeping entries made to avoid the torn form.
A principal object of this invention was to overcome the problems caused by such form damage.
While equipment changes and window panel gluing changes are obvious possibilities for attempting to eliminate the problems of window snagging and equipment jamming, this invention proceeds with the discovery that a mere change of window shape substantially eliminates the problems. Thus, in a principal aspect, the inven-tion is an improvement in a web, the web (a) being continuous in both of two longitudinal directions along a longitudinal axis, (b) having a series of business forms thereon, the series being continuous in the longitudinal direction~, (c) defining a series of cut windows in -the web on the forms, the series of windows being continuous in the longitudinal directions, and (d) being adapted to be fed and high speed impact printed in a first of the two longitudinal directions, the first longitudinal direction thereby being a direction of travel of the web during feeding and printing. The improvement is of the web having at least two dis-~19V15 tinct window edges along each window extending generally trans-verse to the longitudinal axis, one of the at least two window edges being a leading window edge and the other of the two window edges being a trailing window edge trailiny the leading window edge when the web is moved in the direction of travel. The trail-ing window edge has trailing edge sides and a trailing edge center, the trailing window edge being bowed away from the direction of travel such that the trailing edge center trails the trailing edge sides when the web is moved in the direction of travel.
The preferred embodiment of the invention will be des-cribed in relation to the accompanying drawing consisting of twofigures as follows:
FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a preferred continuous busin-ess form assembly web; and FIGURE 2 is an enlarged plan view of the area encircled by line 2 in FIGURE 1.
Referring to FIGURE 1, the preferred embodiment of the invention is an improvement in a continuous business form assembly of a web 10 being continuous in both directions along a longitu-dinal axis 12. The assembly 10 has a continuous series of busin-ess forms 14 which extend transversely across the assembly 10 andare joined longitudinally end-to-end across a series of perfor-ation lines 16. The assembly 10 has feed strips 18, 20 along transversely opposite edges 22, 24. The strips 18, 20 include continuous rows 26, 28, respectively, of spaced tractor holes.
Each form 14 defines a window 30 for displaying address information tnot shown) to be printed on the form 14 at a location s 31. The location 31 is equidis-tant with the window 30 ~rom a continuous, longitudinal fold line 32.
The assembly 10 is fed and printed in a first longitud-inal direction 34 along the axis 12, away from the second longit-udinal direction 35. By definition, the direction 34 is the dir-ection of travel, and components of the assembly 10 which precede other components in the direc~ion of tr~el 34 lead such other components, or are, in relation to the other components, leading components. The other components are, then, trailing components.
Each window 30 is an area cut from a form 14. The area is covered with a transparent sheet 36 as in FIGURE 2. The sheet 36 is adhered to the form 14 by an encircling adhesive 38. The web 10 and each form 14 have, along each window 30, four distinct window edges 40, 42, 44, 46. Two of -the edyes 40, 42 extend gen-erally transversely across the form 14. The other two edges 44, 46 extend generally longitudinally along the form 14. The first transverse edge 40 is the leading edge of the window, while the opposite transverse edge 42 is the trailing edge. The two edges 44, 46 are opposed side edges of -the window.
The edges 40, 44, 46 are substanti~lly completely straigh-t, geometrically. The edge 40 is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis 12, while the edges 44, 46 are parallel to the axis 12. Thus, the edges 44, 46 are perpendicular to the edge 40.
Small, rounded, or partially circular corners 50, 52 join the edges 44, 46 to the edge 40 in a smooth transition thereform.
The edge 42 is unique. The edge 42 is bowed in the trailing direction. The center 54 of the edge 42 trails the sides 56, 58 of the edge 42. The edge 42 is nowhere straight, but con-tinuously curved throughout its extent. The degree, rate or amount of curvature of the edge 42 does not substantially vary across its extent; the degree of curvature i5 substantially uniform. The sides 56, 58 are longitudinally even with each other, and lead the center 54 by about one-eighth inch. Small, rounded corners 60, 62 join the edge 42 to the edges 44, 46 in smooth transitions.
With such an edge 42, the problem of printer snagging and jamming is substantially eliminated. This is the only known solution to the problem.
It is believed that so long as no points are loca-ted along the edge ~2, -the bow (longitudinal distance from the sides 44, 46 to the center 54~ of the edge 42 could be greater or less than one-eighth inch without affect on freedom from snagging or otherwise. It is also believed a bow of less than one-sixteenth inch would not be any more free of snagging than no bow. Points along the edge 42, as with a V~cut edge, are disfavoured due to die wear.
The preferred embodiment is now described. To partic-ularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter regarded as invention, the following claims conclude this specification.

Claims (3)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. In a web (a) being continuous in both of two longitud-inal directions along a longitudinal axis, (b) having a series of business forms thereon, the series being continuous in the longi-tudinal directions, (c) defining a series of cut windows in the web on the forms, the series of windows being continuous in the longitudinal directions, and (d) being adapted to be fed and high speed impact printed in a first of the two longitudinal directions, the first longitudinal direction thereby being a direction of travel of the web during feeding and printing, the improvement of the web having at least two distinct window edges along each window extending generally transverse to the longitudinal axis, one of the at least two window edges being a leading window edge and the other of the two window edges being a trailing window edge trailing the leading window edge when the web is moved in the direction of travel, the trailing window edge having tailing edge sides and a trailing edge center, the trailing window edge being bowed away from the direction of travel such that the trailing edge center trails the trailing edge sides when the web is moved in the direction of travel.
2. The improvement as in claim 1 in which the web has four window edges, two of the window edges being opposed side window edges extending generally in the longitudinal directions from the leading window edge to the trailing window edge, the leading win-dow edge and the side window edges being substantially completely geometrically straight.
3. The improvement as in claim 2 in which the side window edges join the trailing window edges at opposed trailing corners, the trailing corners being rounded and the trailing edge center trailing the trailing corners about one-eighth inch.
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AT (1) ATE28610T1 (en)
AU (1) AU2374884A (en)
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DK (1) DK88484A (en)
ES (1) ES289502Y (en)
FI (1) FI842594A (en)
GR (1) GR81809B (en)
IE (1) IE54853B1 (en)
MX (1) MX158685A (en)
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