CA2162543A1 - Mailing label and wrapper for recycling a book - Google Patents
Mailing label and wrapper for recycling a bookInfo
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Abstract
A mailing wrapper useful in the method for recycling an article such as a telephone directory comprises binder straps that are a length to sufficient to span the thickness of the telephone directory and form adhesive attachment sites with the front sheet and backing sheet of the telephone directory. The binder straps wrap about the outer edge of the directory which is opposite the binding additionally present an area containing pre-printed indica including address, shipping instructions, and payment authorization. Two other binder straps wrap about the top and bottom edges of the telephone directory. After binding the telephone directory, it is shipped in commerce by a common carrier such as the United States Postal Service to a designated collection area for use as a material for recycling.
Description
- ~162543 MAILING LABEL AND WRAPPER FOR RECYCLING A BOOK
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for recycling printed and bound articles such as a books, catalogs, magazines, telephone directories and the like which have a binding along one edge for securing pages between facing and backing sheets. More, particularly, the present invention relates to a label and wrapping construction for spanning the thickness of such printed and bound article for adherence to areas of the facing and backing sheets to establish a stabilized configuration to such an article and supply necessary information for transportation in commerce by the United States Postal Service, United Parcel Service or other common carrier.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for recycling printed and bound articles such as a books, catalogs, magazines, telephone directories and the like which have a binding along one edge for securing pages between facing and backing sheets. More, particularly, the present invention relates to a label and wrapping construction for spanning the thickness of such printed and bound article for adherence to areas of the facing and backing sheets to establish a stabilized configuration to such an article and supply necessary information for transportation in commerce by the United States Postal Service, United Parcel Service or other common carrier.
2. Description of the Prior Art: Various forms of mailing wrappers are known in the art for the shipment of articles including labeling for return shipments. While not all inclusive such shipping labeling for packages are disclosed in United States Patent Nos. 1,071,227, 1,148,929, 1,670,371, 1,710,075 and 4,201,332. These known forms of mailing wrappers are unsuitable for recycling printed and bound articles such as telephone books and particularly because of a failure to solve problems arising with the transportation and handling of such articles for a recycling process. The recycling process for waste paper, unlike many other articles suitable for recycling, is degraded when the paper is allowed to become contaminated with - ~162543 water. Also, the increased weight of the water adds to the shipping cost and depending on the particular recycling process, the water contamination may render the paper unsuitable for recycling. While the present invention is particularly useful to recycle articles having the dimensional characteristics of telephone directories having a thousand or more pages, it is equally applicable to other articles of a book-like form such as catalogues resembling telephone directories with regard to their size and multiplicity of pages.
Curbside collection of wastepaper particularly large dense articles such as telephone directories often occurs only after the article becomes saturated with rain water. Often, the article is placed at an outdoor collection site many hours and sometimes days before the collection occurs. When a water saturated collection of directories is added to a collection of dry directories, the measure content of the combined mass equalizes so that the combined mass becomes contaminated with water. Measures such as the use of the outer plastic wrap are unacceptable because the plastic is a contaminant to the recycling process even though contamination by water is prevented. Moreover local campaigns to collect telephone directories for recycling often meet with apathy of the home owners and the inability to protect the collected materials from detrimental contamination causes poor results to such collection companies. Apathy also exists in drop-off programs which are inconvenient to the customer and often the customer fails to 2162~3 deliver telephone directories for recycling at a specified time and place. Apathy often causes customers to simply conclude that it is simply too inconvenient and confusion sometimes occurs when competing people or organizations participate in a collection of the telephone directories. As a result many tons of recyclable telephone directories are not recycled but become part of garbage in landfills. Short comings of collection companies is apparent from a report in Bio Cycle, January 1993 issue wherein it is reported that in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania through the first nine months of 1992 that 8,828 tons of Bell Atlantic phone directories were distributed in Pennsylvania. In an effort to recycle the old ones, Bell, in conjunction with 27 municipalities, initiated collection programs that resulted in the recovery of 396 tons of directories, about 4.5 percent of the total distribution.
A need, therefore, exists for a more affective method and apparatus to facilitate recycling of articles such as telephone directories that will avoid user apathy to ensure participation in sufficient numbers to exceed mandates and in a manner without requiring expenditures for extensive collection at curb sites and minimize exposure of the articles to the elements such as water which otherwise contaminates and renders the articles unsuitable for recycling.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for recycling articles particularly books such as telephone directories that will -` 2162~3 overcome the shortcomings and disadvantages of known existing recycling programs as discussed herein before.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method and mailing wrapper for moving in commerce articles particularly books such as telephone directories by a common carrier to a pre-addressed designated area for collection under protected conditions provided by the common carrier suitable to maintain the paper content of the articles unsaturated with moisture and thereby facilitate processing in a recycling facility.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention there is provided a mailing wrapper for recycling an article such as a telephone directory having a binding along one edge to adhere a multiplicity of pages between cover and backing sheets, the mailing wrapper comprising a plurality of binder straps each having a length sufficient to span a thickness defined by a multiplicity of pages, the binder straps further including adhesive attachment areas at each of opposite terminal end portions thereof for adhering to the cover backing sheets of the book at each of a front edge which is opposite the binding and at top and bottom edges which extend between the binding and the front edge, at least one of the adhesive attachment areas defining a label extending along at least one of the cover and the backing sheets and having a surface capable of presenting ` ~1625~3 pre-printed indicia including addressee, shipping instructions and payment authorization.
There is also provided according to the present invention a method for recycling an article such as a telephone directory having a binding along one edge securing a multiplicity of pages between cover and backing sheets, said method including the steps of supplying a mailing wrapper having a plurality of edge binding straps each with an adhesive backing for adherence to said facing and backing sheets, said mailing wrapper further including at least one attachment area which is sufficiently large and contains a shipping address and payment authorization indica, binding a front edge portion of said article which is opposite said binding and binding each of a portion of a top and bottom edge of said article with said edge binding straps to form a dimensionally stable recyclable article, shipping the dimensionally stable recyclable article by a common carrier to a designated site for forming a recycle supply, and recycling the supply of the dimensionally stable recyclable articles arriving at said designated site.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention will be more fully understood when the following description is read in light of the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a flow diagram the use of the mailing label and wrapper for recycling telephone directory according to the present invention;
-~ 2162~3 Figure 2 is a plan view of a mailing label according a preferred embodiment of the present invention which is also useful to carry out the method of the present invention;
Figure 3 is a sectional view taken along lines III-III
of Figure 2; and Figure 4 is a plan view of the back face of the mailing wrapper shown in Figure 2 containing instructions and illustrations for the use of the mailing wrapper.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED
EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION
In Figure 1 there is illustrated by the schematic diagram as an initial step of the present invention the supply of a mailing label and wrapper to customer which can be by a separate transaction as through the postal service or by an insert with the deliver of a new telephone directory forming a replacement for the directory to undergo recycling. The customer following instructions found on the mailing label and wrapper binds the refuge telephone directory with label and wrapper for recycling. The recyclable telephone directory is notably characterized by its dimensionally stable condition. Thereafter, the bound and labeled is delivered to a common carrier which can be by placing it in the mail box when the carrier is the United States Postal Service or notifying a carrier such as United States Parcel Service of a package for pickup. The common carrier then receives the article and delivers the article in an ordinary course of commerce to the recipient identified on the label which most typically will be a recycle center. Thereafter, -~ 2162543 the collection of recycle articles at the recycle center are processed such as by bulk transfer to some distant recycle site e.g. a paper mill or other waste paper recycle facility.
In Figures 2, 3 and 4 there is illustrated a mailing wrapper 10 that is a composite of a backing sheet 12 releasably adhered to an adhesive layer 14 that is carried on a web 16.
Adhesive layer 14 is preferably pressure sensitive. Adhesive layer 14 and web 16 form a substrate that is protectively covered by the releasable backing sheet 12 which protective covers the adhesive layer to prevent unwanted adhesion with objections during the supply of the mailing label to the consumer until the time of actual usage of the label. The web 16 is severed as by die cutting along parting lines 18 and 20 to thereby define a plurality of binder straps 21, 22 and 23. The binder straps have a length sufficient to fulfill three functions which are a length, indicated by reference numeral 24, sufficient to span the thickness defined by the multiplicity of pages of a book such as a telephone directory. Typically, for example, telephone directories consist of between 800 and 900 pages per inch of thickness. The second and third functions of the length of the binder straps are to define adhesive adherence areas 25 and 26 which together with the tack and other adherence characteristics of the adhesive layer 14 are sufficient to adhere with long continued integrity the binder straps to the facing sheet and backing sheet of the book. It is to be understood that the broken lines identified by reference numerals 27 and 28 are ~162~43 arbitrary demarkation lines that have been chosen to form the transition between the book thickness and the adhesive areas on the cover and backing sheets respectively. By way of a specific example, a telephone directory measuring 9 inches wide, 10 3/4 inches high and 2 inches thick which is a length of each binder straps 21-23 of about 8 1/2 inches. The width of binder straps 21 and 23 is narrow preferably about 1 1/2 inches each as compared to a relatively wide binder strap 22 at about 11 inches.
The large width to binder strap 22 insures the presentation of a surface area bearing printed preferably pre-printed indicia including an addressee area 22A; method of payment area 22B; and payment computation area 22C and return delivery identification area 22D.
The binder straps 21-23 are installed on a telephone directory preferably by providing appropriate instructions suitably printed on the back faces of the mailing wrapper as shown typically in Figure 3. As can be seen, the instructions direct that binder straps 21 and 23 are placed so that areas 24 span the thickness of the book at its opposite edges 30 and 31 which extend between a binding at 32 along the back edge of the book and the front edge 33 of the book. Binder strap 22 is operatively adhered to the book by arranging that area 24 traverse that the thickness of the book along the front edge of the book, generally midway between the top and bottom edges of the book and with areas 25 and 26 adhesively attached to the face sheet 34 and back sheet 35. The straps operatively function to `~ ~16~543 prevent entanglement with other merchandise during shipping by a common carrier to a designated collection site for recycling of the book. Particularly, for example, in one aspect of the present invention it is convenient that the mailing wrapper as disclosed herein above will be used for the delivery of telephone books by the postal service to a designated addressee which identifies the collection site. For this purpose it is necessary to ensure that other mail cannot intermingle and become entrapped within the pages of the telephone directory. The width of bind straps 21, 22 and 23 is of critical importance for primarily unwanted interleaved relation of objects which are foreign to the telephone directory, book or other article bearing the mailing label of the present invention. The length of the exposed edges of pages of the directory exposed between binder straps must be equal for example 4 inches or less to avoid retention of objects, such as post cards which measures about 3 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches. Also it is necessary to present a dimensionally stable package to enable handling by postal employees. Telephone directories frequently are relatively thick, 2 inches or greater, thus a high unit mass per unit ratio. The top and bottom binder straps prevent the fanning of the pages of the directory which is allowed because the hinding can rotate to the plane of either of the backing sheet for facing sheet. It is to be understood that common carriers other than the United States Postal System may be utilized to receive and deliver telephone directories to a designated site for the recycling thereof. At the destination `~ 2:~62a~3 site specified to the common carrier by mailing label suitable containers or storage facilities are provided that must offer protection from contamination during inclement weather. The designated collection site can be the facility of a paper recycling center or a transfer site for bulk shipments to a recycling center or to the actual recycle facility.
While the present invention has been described in connection with the preferred embodiments of the various figures, it is to be understood that other similar embodiments may be used or modifications and additions may be made to the described embodiment for performing the same function of the present invention without deviating therefrom. Therefore, the present invention should not be limited to any single embodiment, but rather construed in breadth and scope in accordance with the recitation of the appended claims.
Curbside collection of wastepaper particularly large dense articles such as telephone directories often occurs only after the article becomes saturated with rain water. Often, the article is placed at an outdoor collection site many hours and sometimes days before the collection occurs. When a water saturated collection of directories is added to a collection of dry directories, the measure content of the combined mass equalizes so that the combined mass becomes contaminated with water. Measures such as the use of the outer plastic wrap are unacceptable because the plastic is a contaminant to the recycling process even though contamination by water is prevented. Moreover local campaigns to collect telephone directories for recycling often meet with apathy of the home owners and the inability to protect the collected materials from detrimental contamination causes poor results to such collection companies. Apathy also exists in drop-off programs which are inconvenient to the customer and often the customer fails to 2162~3 deliver telephone directories for recycling at a specified time and place. Apathy often causes customers to simply conclude that it is simply too inconvenient and confusion sometimes occurs when competing people or organizations participate in a collection of the telephone directories. As a result many tons of recyclable telephone directories are not recycled but become part of garbage in landfills. Short comings of collection companies is apparent from a report in Bio Cycle, January 1993 issue wherein it is reported that in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania through the first nine months of 1992 that 8,828 tons of Bell Atlantic phone directories were distributed in Pennsylvania. In an effort to recycle the old ones, Bell, in conjunction with 27 municipalities, initiated collection programs that resulted in the recovery of 396 tons of directories, about 4.5 percent of the total distribution.
A need, therefore, exists for a more affective method and apparatus to facilitate recycling of articles such as telephone directories that will avoid user apathy to ensure participation in sufficient numbers to exceed mandates and in a manner without requiring expenditures for extensive collection at curb sites and minimize exposure of the articles to the elements such as water which otherwise contaminates and renders the articles unsuitable for recycling.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for recycling articles particularly books such as telephone directories that will -` 2162~3 overcome the shortcomings and disadvantages of known existing recycling programs as discussed herein before.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method and mailing wrapper for moving in commerce articles particularly books such as telephone directories by a common carrier to a pre-addressed designated area for collection under protected conditions provided by the common carrier suitable to maintain the paper content of the articles unsaturated with moisture and thereby facilitate processing in a recycling facility.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention there is provided a mailing wrapper for recycling an article such as a telephone directory having a binding along one edge to adhere a multiplicity of pages between cover and backing sheets, the mailing wrapper comprising a plurality of binder straps each having a length sufficient to span a thickness defined by a multiplicity of pages, the binder straps further including adhesive attachment areas at each of opposite terminal end portions thereof for adhering to the cover backing sheets of the book at each of a front edge which is opposite the binding and at top and bottom edges which extend between the binding and the front edge, at least one of the adhesive attachment areas defining a label extending along at least one of the cover and the backing sheets and having a surface capable of presenting ` ~1625~3 pre-printed indicia including addressee, shipping instructions and payment authorization.
There is also provided according to the present invention a method for recycling an article such as a telephone directory having a binding along one edge securing a multiplicity of pages between cover and backing sheets, said method including the steps of supplying a mailing wrapper having a plurality of edge binding straps each with an adhesive backing for adherence to said facing and backing sheets, said mailing wrapper further including at least one attachment area which is sufficiently large and contains a shipping address and payment authorization indica, binding a front edge portion of said article which is opposite said binding and binding each of a portion of a top and bottom edge of said article with said edge binding straps to form a dimensionally stable recyclable article, shipping the dimensionally stable recyclable article by a common carrier to a designated site for forming a recycle supply, and recycling the supply of the dimensionally stable recyclable articles arriving at said designated site.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention will be more fully understood when the following description is read in light of the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a flow diagram the use of the mailing label and wrapper for recycling telephone directory according to the present invention;
-~ 2162~3 Figure 2 is a plan view of a mailing label according a preferred embodiment of the present invention which is also useful to carry out the method of the present invention;
Figure 3 is a sectional view taken along lines III-III
of Figure 2; and Figure 4 is a plan view of the back face of the mailing wrapper shown in Figure 2 containing instructions and illustrations for the use of the mailing wrapper.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED
EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION
In Figure 1 there is illustrated by the schematic diagram as an initial step of the present invention the supply of a mailing label and wrapper to customer which can be by a separate transaction as through the postal service or by an insert with the deliver of a new telephone directory forming a replacement for the directory to undergo recycling. The customer following instructions found on the mailing label and wrapper binds the refuge telephone directory with label and wrapper for recycling. The recyclable telephone directory is notably characterized by its dimensionally stable condition. Thereafter, the bound and labeled is delivered to a common carrier which can be by placing it in the mail box when the carrier is the United States Postal Service or notifying a carrier such as United States Parcel Service of a package for pickup. The common carrier then receives the article and delivers the article in an ordinary course of commerce to the recipient identified on the label which most typically will be a recycle center. Thereafter, -~ 2162543 the collection of recycle articles at the recycle center are processed such as by bulk transfer to some distant recycle site e.g. a paper mill or other waste paper recycle facility.
In Figures 2, 3 and 4 there is illustrated a mailing wrapper 10 that is a composite of a backing sheet 12 releasably adhered to an adhesive layer 14 that is carried on a web 16.
Adhesive layer 14 is preferably pressure sensitive. Adhesive layer 14 and web 16 form a substrate that is protectively covered by the releasable backing sheet 12 which protective covers the adhesive layer to prevent unwanted adhesion with objections during the supply of the mailing label to the consumer until the time of actual usage of the label. The web 16 is severed as by die cutting along parting lines 18 and 20 to thereby define a plurality of binder straps 21, 22 and 23. The binder straps have a length sufficient to fulfill three functions which are a length, indicated by reference numeral 24, sufficient to span the thickness defined by the multiplicity of pages of a book such as a telephone directory. Typically, for example, telephone directories consist of between 800 and 900 pages per inch of thickness. The second and third functions of the length of the binder straps are to define adhesive adherence areas 25 and 26 which together with the tack and other adherence characteristics of the adhesive layer 14 are sufficient to adhere with long continued integrity the binder straps to the facing sheet and backing sheet of the book. It is to be understood that the broken lines identified by reference numerals 27 and 28 are ~162~43 arbitrary demarkation lines that have been chosen to form the transition between the book thickness and the adhesive areas on the cover and backing sheets respectively. By way of a specific example, a telephone directory measuring 9 inches wide, 10 3/4 inches high and 2 inches thick which is a length of each binder straps 21-23 of about 8 1/2 inches. The width of binder straps 21 and 23 is narrow preferably about 1 1/2 inches each as compared to a relatively wide binder strap 22 at about 11 inches.
The large width to binder strap 22 insures the presentation of a surface area bearing printed preferably pre-printed indicia including an addressee area 22A; method of payment area 22B; and payment computation area 22C and return delivery identification area 22D.
The binder straps 21-23 are installed on a telephone directory preferably by providing appropriate instructions suitably printed on the back faces of the mailing wrapper as shown typically in Figure 3. As can be seen, the instructions direct that binder straps 21 and 23 are placed so that areas 24 span the thickness of the book at its opposite edges 30 and 31 which extend between a binding at 32 along the back edge of the book and the front edge 33 of the book. Binder strap 22 is operatively adhered to the book by arranging that area 24 traverse that the thickness of the book along the front edge of the book, generally midway between the top and bottom edges of the book and with areas 25 and 26 adhesively attached to the face sheet 34 and back sheet 35. The straps operatively function to `~ ~16~543 prevent entanglement with other merchandise during shipping by a common carrier to a designated collection site for recycling of the book. Particularly, for example, in one aspect of the present invention it is convenient that the mailing wrapper as disclosed herein above will be used for the delivery of telephone books by the postal service to a designated addressee which identifies the collection site. For this purpose it is necessary to ensure that other mail cannot intermingle and become entrapped within the pages of the telephone directory. The width of bind straps 21, 22 and 23 is of critical importance for primarily unwanted interleaved relation of objects which are foreign to the telephone directory, book or other article bearing the mailing label of the present invention. The length of the exposed edges of pages of the directory exposed between binder straps must be equal for example 4 inches or less to avoid retention of objects, such as post cards which measures about 3 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches. Also it is necessary to present a dimensionally stable package to enable handling by postal employees. Telephone directories frequently are relatively thick, 2 inches or greater, thus a high unit mass per unit ratio. The top and bottom binder straps prevent the fanning of the pages of the directory which is allowed because the hinding can rotate to the plane of either of the backing sheet for facing sheet. It is to be understood that common carriers other than the United States Postal System may be utilized to receive and deliver telephone directories to a designated site for the recycling thereof. At the destination `~ 2:~62a~3 site specified to the common carrier by mailing label suitable containers or storage facilities are provided that must offer protection from contamination during inclement weather. The designated collection site can be the facility of a paper recycling center or a transfer site for bulk shipments to a recycling center or to the actual recycle facility.
While the present invention has been described in connection with the preferred embodiments of the various figures, it is to be understood that other similar embodiments may be used or modifications and additions may be made to the described embodiment for performing the same function of the present invention without deviating therefrom. Therefore, the present invention should not be limited to any single embodiment, but rather construed in breadth and scope in accordance with the recitation of the appended claims.
Claims (11)
1. A mailing wrapper for recycling an article such as a telephone directory having a binding along one edge to adhere a multiplicity of pages between cover and backing sheets, said mailing wrapper comprising a plurality of binder straps each having a length sufficient to span a thickness defined by a multiplicity of pages, said binder straps further including adhesive attachment areas at each of opposite terminal end portions thereof for adhering to the cover backing sheets of the book at each of a front edge which is opposite said binding and at top and bottom edges which extend between the binding and the front edge, at least one of said adhesive attachment areas defining a label extending along at least one of said cover and said backing sheets and having a surface capable of presenting pre-printed indicia including addressee, shipping instructions and payment authorization.
2. The mailing wrapper according to claim 1 wherein the total width of said binder straps is such that when placed said straps are placed at the top, bottom and the front edges of said article the exposed edge length of pages is such to prevent interleaving retention of foreign objects by the pages of the article.
3. The mailing wrapper according to claim 1 wherein at least one of said binder straps has a width of 8 inches.
4. The mailing wrapper according to claim 1 wherein at least two of said binder straps has a width of 1 1/2 inches.
5. The mailing wrapper according to claim 1 wherein said binder straps are defined by die cuts on a pressure sensitive adhesive backed substrate.
6. The mailing wrapper according to claim 1 wherein said straps comprise a substrate with pressure sensitive adhesive protectively covered by a releasable backing sheet.
7. A method for recycling an article such as a telephone directory having a binding along one edge securing a multiplicity of pages between cover and backing sheets, said method including the steps of:
supplying a mailing wrapper having a plurality of edge binding straps each with an adhesive backing for adherence to said facing and backing sheets, said mailing wrapper further including at least one attachment area which is sufficiently large and contains a shipping address and payment authorization indica;
binding a front edge portion of said article which is opposite said binding and binding each of a portion of a top and bottom edge of said article with said edge binding straps to form a dimensionally stable recyclable article;
shipping the dimensionally stable recyclable article by a common carrier to a designated site for forming a recycle supply; and recycling the supply of the dimensionally stable recyclable articles arriving at said designated site.
supplying a mailing wrapper having a plurality of edge binding straps each with an adhesive backing for adherence to said facing and backing sheets, said mailing wrapper further including at least one attachment area which is sufficiently large and contains a shipping address and payment authorization indica;
binding a front edge portion of said article which is opposite said binding and binding each of a portion of a top and bottom edge of said article with said edge binding straps to form a dimensionally stable recyclable article;
shipping the dimensionally stable recyclable article by a common carrier to a designated site for forming a recycle supply; and recycling the supply of the dimensionally stable recyclable articles arriving at said designated site.
8. The method according to claim 7 wherein said step of binding includes placing said binder strips at the top, bottom and front edges of the article at sites to prevent interleaving retention of foreign objects.
9. The method according to claim 7 wherein said binder strips have a width of at least 8 inches.
10. The method according to claim 7 wherein said step of supplying a mailing wrapper includes defining binder straps by die cuts on a pressure sensitive adhesive backed substrate.
11. The method according to claim 10 wherein said pressure sensitive adhesive backed substrate is protected by a releasable backing sheet.
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