CA2251871A1 - Tearable and re-usable document folder - Google Patents
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- CA2251871A1 CA2251871A1 CA 2251871 CA2251871A CA2251871A1 CA 2251871 A1 CA2251871 A1 CA 2251871A1 CA 2251871 CA2251871 CA 2251871 CA 2251871 A CA2251871 A CA 2251871A CA 2251871 A1 CA2251871 A1 CA 2251871A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
- A45C—PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
- A45C11/00—Receptacles for purposes not provided for in groups A45C1/00-A45C9/00
- A45C11/18—Ticket-holders or the like
- A45C11/182—Credit card holders
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS 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
- B65D27/00—Envelopes or like essentially-rectangular containers for postal or other purposes having no structural provision for thickness of contents
- B65D27/32—Opening devices incorporated during envelope manufacture
- B65D27/34—Lines of weakness
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02W—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Y02W30/00—Technologies for solid waste management
- Y02W30/50—Reuse, recycling or recovery technologies
- Y02W30/80—Packaging reuse or recycling, e.g. of multilayer packaging
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Abstract
A document folder has a front side (10) and a back side (20) joined at their edges (12-18, 22-28) to receive therebetween a document to be protected. At least one of the sides (10, 20) has a perforation (30, 40) for tearing the folder and removing the document therefrom. The perforation (30, 40) is located next to one of the edges (14, 24) and has a recessed section (32, 42) which extends towards the opposite edge (18, 28) and forms a recessed grip (46) when the folder is torn.
Description
CA 022~1871 1998-10-16 A tearable and re-usable document folder.
The invention relates to a document folder having a front and a back which are interconnected along their edges and serve to receive between them a document to be protected and further having a perforation in at least one of the front and back faces for tearing the folder and withdrawing the document.
In a known document folder of this kind (EP-A-0 001 180) having a rectangular outline with longitudinal and transverse edges, the perforation runs in the middle between the trans-verse edges and parallel to the same through the front and back. When the document folder is torn to open it along this perforation the two resulting halves are alike. They can be withdrawn, parallel to the longitudinal edges, from a document or a set of documents contained in the document folder and they can be used again in order to return the document once it has been folded accordingly. It is not possible to make use of one of the halves resulting from the tearing of the original document folder so as to keep a document, which cannot or must not be folded, in such a way that it will be largely protected and yet remain readily accessible.
The need for both extended protection and ready accessibility exists with many documents which normally cannot or should not be folded, such as identity cards, credit-cards, cheque cards, or telephone cards, in particular when they contain a magnetic strip which must be protected from scratches and contamina-tion. Protective envelopes for keeping such documents are known from numerous publications (e.g. US-A-489 125, DE-A-39 00 165, DE-A-39 24 706, DE-U-84 06 865, and DE-U-87 13 212).
Yet none of these document folders are readily suitable for use as mailing pouches nor do they reveal whether or not the document contained in them already had been removed once before. In many cases, however, the recipient of a document wants to be sure that the document has not been read or used CA 022~1871 1998-10-16 previously by an unauthorized person. It is obvious that this applies to personal documents of the most diverse character, such as identity cards, credit cards, and cheque cards but it also applies to documents which are available to be purchased by anyone. Someone buying a telephone card, for example, wishes to know for sure that the card holds in store the full value of the purchase price he or she paid for it. And even to prevent one's own confusion, it may be useful to keep a tele-phone card or the like in a closed document folder until the need arises for its use because the previous one is spent.
It is the object of the invention to design a document folder such that, when closed, it will offer protection of a document or set of documents it contains against external influences as well as unauthorized or inadvertent usage and that, upon opening, it will continue to be a protective envelope against external influences and, at the same time, permit ready re-moval of the document or set of documents when the need arlses .
Starting from a document folder of the kind specified initi-ally, this object is met, in accordance with the invention, by having the perforation placed near one of the edges and formed with a recessed section which faces in the direction of the opposite edge and, upon tearing, presents a recessed grip.
When opened for the first time, the document folder according to the invention thus is converted into a-protective envelope which can be used for the whole duration of the document or set of documents it encloses. If the front and back are pro-vided with a perforation each, it is convenient to tear both perforations at the same time and to discard the strip re-leased by this opening action. Yet the invention also embraces document folders wherein only one of the two faces mentioned has a perforation. Such a document folder may be opend by tearing along the perforation provided in the front, for in-stance. This is accomplished by bending backwards the marginal .. . ,~ , CA 022~1871 1998-10-16 strip which is defined the perforation and which stays linked to the back of the document folder.
The document folder according to the invention may be develop-ed further in that its front and back each include a marginal strip extending beyond the perforation and not being divided by the same and that the front comprises an adhesive flap which is contiguous with and set off against its marginal strip by a folded edge and glued to the marginal strip of the back when the folder is closed.
Documents within the meaning of the invention are understood to be articles of different nature which normally are placed in a flat pouch or folder. That includes not only cards of the kind mentioned but also such things as compact discs.
Document folders according to the invention preferably are made of thin cardboard or of paper which will resist tearing.
They may also consist, for instance, of transparent film ma-terial.
Embodiments of the invention will be described in greater de-tail below. In the drawings:
~ig. 1 shows the developed projection of a first document folder according to the invention;
Fig. 2 shows the same document folder in closed condition;
Fig. 3 shows the same document folder when opened by tear-ing;
Fig. 4 shows the developed projection of another document folder according to the invention.
The document folder as shown in figs. 1 to 3 comprises a front 10 with a left longitudinally oriented edge 12, in the select-ed presentation, an upper transversely oriented edge 14, a right longitudinally oriented edge 16, and a lower trans-versely oriented edge 18 as well as a back 20 with a longi-tudinally oriented edge 22 which coincides with the right lon-CA 022~1871 1998-10-16 gitudinally oriented edge 16 of the front 10, an upper trans-versely oriented edge 24, another longitudinally oriented edge 26, and a lower transversely oriented edge 28.
A perforation 30 formed in the middle with an approximately semicircular section 32 recessed towards the lower transverse edge 18 extends between the two longitudinal edges 12 and 16 of the front 10, spaced from and below the upper transverse edge 14 to which it is essentially parallel. This perforation 30 partitions a main portion of the front 10 from an upper marginal strip 34. The upper transverse edge 14 is folded and links the upper marginal strip 34 to an upper adhesive flap 36. The front 10 is formed with two more adhesive flaps 38 which are contiguous with the left longitudinal edge 36 and the lower transverse edge 18, respectively, in the embodiment illustrated in figs. 1 to 3.
The back 20 has a perforation 40 the arrangement of which cor-responds with the perforation 30, and it includes a recessed section 42 like the former. By this perforation 40, also the back 20 thus is provided with an upper marginal strip 44.
The front 10, including its adhesive flaps 36 and 38 as well as the back 20 are punched in one piece from cardboard, they are connected along their coinciding longitudinal edges 16 and 22 which present a fold. It is along this fold that the front 10 and back 20 are folded together. Subsequently, also the ad-hesive flaps 38 are bent over along the edges 12 and 18, like-wise presenting a fold, and then they are bonded to the back 20. The resulting document folder which continues to be open only at the top may now receive a document which is to be pre-served or mailed in closed state. Such a document is slipped from the top into the document folder. And, finally, the upper adhesive flap 36 is folded over and likewise bonded to the back 20. In this manner the completely closed document folder is obtained, as demonstrated in fig. 2.
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When the document folder is to be opened, one holds the main portions of the front 10 and back 20 by one hand and, with the other hand, one pulls at the marginal strips 34 and 44 which form a rather stiff upper border together with the upper ad-hesive flap 36 which was folded over, the thickness now being three times that of the cardboard or the like from which they are made. Due to the stiffness of this border, it is easy to tear the document folder simultaneously along both perfora-tions 30 and 40 so as to open it, the two perforations being congruent in the embodiment shown. Tearing not only will open the document folder but also provide a recessed grip 46 at which the document contained in the document folder may be grasped and pulled out.
Fig. 4 illustrates another blank of material from which a document folder of the same size as shown in figs. 1 to 3 may be obtained by folding and bonding. As shown in fig. 4, the front 10 is joined to and formed in one piece with the back 20 along the lower longitudinal edge 18. Accordingly, each of the two longitudinal edges 12 and 16 of the front 10 has its own associated adhesive flap 38. These adhesive flaps are glued to the back 20 as soon as the latter has been bent over along the lower transverse edge 18 of the front 10 and folded together with the front.
Both embodiments shown may be varied by first placing the document to be wrapped on the blank of material as illustrated in fig. 1 or fig. 4 and then folding over all the adhesive flaps 36 and 38 and finally positioning the back 20 on top so that the adhesive flaps 36 and 38 will come to lie within the resulting document folder which already is closed.
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The invention relates to a document folder having a front and a back which are interconnected along their edges and serve to receive between them a document to be protected and further having a perforation in at least one of the front and back faces for tearing the folder and withdrawing the document.
In a known document folder of this kind (EP-A-0 001 180) having a rectangular outline with longitudinal and transverse edges, the perforation runs in the middle between the trans-verse edges and parallel to the same through the front and back. When the document folder is torn to open it along this perforation the two resulting halves are alike. They can be withdrawn, parallel to the longitudinal edges, from a document or a set of documents contained in the document folder and they can be used again in order to return the document once it has been folded accordingly. It is not possible to make use of one of the halves resulting from the tearing of the original document folder so as to keep a document, which cannot or must not be folded, in such a way that it will be largely protected and yet remain readily accessible.
The need for both extended protection and ready accessibility exists with many documents which normally cannot or should not be folded, such as identity cards, credit-cards, cheque cards, or telephone cards, in particular when they contain a magnetic strip which must be protected from scratches and contamina-tion. Protective envelopes for keeping such documents are known from numerous publications (e.g. US-A-489 125, DE-A-39 00 165, DE-A-39 24 706, DE-U-84 06 865, and DE-U-87 13 212).
Yet none of these document folders are readily suitable for use as mailing pouches nor do they reveal whether or not the document contained in them already had been removed once before. In many cases, however, the recipient of a document wants to be sure that the document has not been read or used CA 022~1871 1998-10-16 previously by an unauthorized person. It is obvious that this applies to personal documents of the most diverse character, such as identity cards, credit cards, and cheque cards but it also applies to documents which are available to be purchased by anyone. Someone buying a telephone card, for example, wishes to know for sure that the card holds in store the full value of the purchase price he or she paid for it. And even to prevent one's own confusion, it may be useful to keep a tele-phone card or the like in a closed document folder until the need arises for its use because the previous one is spent.
It is the object of the invention to design a document folder such that, when closed, it will offer protection of a document or set of documents it contains against external influences as well as unauthorized or inadvertent usage and that, upon opening, it will continue to be a protective envelope against external influences and, at the same time, permit ready re-moval of the document or set of documents when the need arlses .
Starting from a document folder of the kind specified initi-ally, this object is met, in accordance with the invention, by having the perforation placed near one of the edges and formed with a recessed section which faces in the direction of the opposite edge and, upon tearing, presents a recessed grip.
When opened for the first time, the document folder according to the invention thus is converted into a-protective envelope which can be used for the whole duration of the document or set of documents it encloses. If the front and back are pro-vided with a perforation each, it is convenient to tear both perforations at the same time and to discard the strip re-leased by this opening action. Yet the invention also embraces document folders wherein only one of the two faces mentioned has a perforation. Such a document folder may be opend by tearing along the perforation provided in the front, for in-stance. This is accomplished by bending backwards the marginal .. . ,~ , CA 022~1871 1998-10-16 strip which is defined the perforation and which stays linked to the back of the document folder.
The document folder according to the invention may be develop-ed further in that its front and back each include a marginal strip extending beyond the perforation and not being divided by the same and that the front comprises an adhesive flap which is contiguous with and set off against its marginal strip by a folded edge and glued to the marginal strip of the back when the folder is closed.
Documents within the meaning of the invention are understood to be articles of different nature which normally are placed in a flat pouch or folder. That includes not only cards of the kind mentioned but also such things as compact discs.
Document folders according to the invention preferably are made of thin cardboard or of paper which will resist tearing.
They may also consist, for instance, of transparent film ma-terial.
Embodiments of the invention will be described in greater de-tail below. In the drawings:
~ig. 1 shows the developed projection of a first document folder according to the invention;
Fig. 2 shows the same document folder in closed condition;
Fig. 3 shows the same document folder when opened by tear-ing;
Fig. 4 shows the developed projection of another document folder according to the invention.
The document folder as shown in figs. 1 to 3 comprises a front 10 with a left longitudinally oriented edge 12, in the select-ed presentation, an upper transversely oriented edge 14, a right longitudinally oriented edge 16, and a lower trans-versely oriented edge 18 as well as a back 20 with a longi-tudinally oriented edge 22 which coincides with the right lon-CA 022~1871 1998-10-16 gitudinally oriented edge 16 of the front 10, an upper trans-versely oriented edge 24, another longitudinally oriented edge 26, and a lower transversely oriented edge 28.
A perforation 30 formed in the middle with an approximately semicircular section 32 recessed towards the lower transverse edge 18 extends between the two longitudinal edges 12 and 16 of the front 10, spaced from and below the upper transverse edge 14 to which it is essentially parallel. This perforation 30 partitions a main portion of the front 10 from an upper marginal strip 34. The upper transverse edge 14 is folded and links the upper marginal strip 34 to an upper adhesive flap 36. The front 10 is formed with two more adhesive flaps 38 which are contiguous with the left longitudinal edge 36 and the lower transverse edge 18, respectively, in the embodiment illustrated in figs. 1 to 3.
The back 20 has a perforation 40 the arrangement of which cor-responds with the perforation 30, and it includes a recessed section 42 like the former. By this perforation 40, also the back 20 thus is provided with an upper marginal strip 44.
The front 10, including its adhesive flaps 36 and 38 as well as the back 20 are punched in one piece from cardboard, they are connected along their coinciding longitudinal edges 16 and 22 which present a fold. It is along this fold that the front 10 and back 20 are folded together. Subsequently, also the ad-hesive flaps 38 are bent over along the edges 12 and 18, like-wise presenting a fold, and then they are bonded to the back 20. The resulting document folder which continues to be open only at the top may now receive a document which is to be pre-served or mailed in closed state. Such a document is slipped from the top into the document folder. And, finally, the upper adhesive flap 36 is folded over and likewise bonded to the back 20. In this manner the completely closed document folder is obtained, as demonstrated in fig. 2.
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When the document folder is to be opened, one holds the main portions of the front 10 and back 20 by one hand and, with the other hand, one pulls at the marginal strips 34 and 44 which form a rather stiff upper border together with the upper ad-hesive flap 36 which was folded over, the thickness now being three times that of the cardboard or the like from which they are made. Due to the stiffness of this border, it is easy to tear the document folder simultaneously along both perfora-tions 30 and 40 so as to open it, the two perforations being congruent in the embodiment shown. Tearing not only will open the document folder but also provide a recessed grip 46 at which the document contained in the document folder may be grasped and pulled out.
Fig. 4 illustrates another blank of material from which a document folder of the same size as shown in figs. 1 to 3 may be obtained by folding and bonding. As shown in fig. 4, the front 10 is joined to and formed in one piece with the back 20 along the lower longitudinal edge 18. Accordingly, each of the two longitudinal edges 12 and 16 of the front 10 has its own associated adhesive flap 38. These adhesive flaps are glued to the back 20 as soon as the latter has been bent over along the lower transverse edge 18 of the front 10 and folded together with the front.
Both embodiments shown may be varied by first placing the document to be wrapped on the blank of material as illustrated in fig. 1 or fig. 4 and then folding over all the adhesive flaps 36 and 38 and finally positioning the back 20 on top so that the adhesive flaps 36 and 38 will come to lie within the resulting document folder which already is closed.
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Claims
CLAIM
A document folder made of cardboard or the like, having a front (10) and a back (20) interconnected along their edges (12-18, 22-28) and serving to receive between them a document to be protected, and including a perforation (30, 40) each for tearing the folder and removing the document, the perforations (30, 40) being located near one each of the edges (14, 24) together with which they each delimit a non-divided marginal strip (34, 44) and each comprising a recessed section (32, 42) which extends towards the opposite edge (18, 28) and forms a recessed grip (46) upon tearing, characterized in that the front (10) comprises an adhesive flap (36) which is contiguous with and set off against its marginal strip (34) by a folded edge (14) and folded over and glued to the marginal strip (44) of the back (20) when the document folder is closed so that the marginal strips (34, 44) defined by the perforations (30, 40) form a rather stiff tearing border, together with the adhesive flap (36), having three times the thickness of the cardboard or the like used.
A document folder made of cardboard or the like, having a front (10) and a back (20) interconnected along their edges (12-18, 22-28) and serving to receive between them a document to be protected, and including a perforation (30, 40) each for tearing the folder and removing the document, the perforations (30, 40) being located near one each of the edges (14, 24) together with which they each delimit a non-divided marginal strip (34, 44) and each comprising a recessed section (32, 42) which extends towards the opposite edge (18, 28) and forms a recessed grip (46) upon tearing, characterized in that the front (10) comprises an adhesive flap (36) which is contiguous with and set off against its marginal strip (34) by a folded edge (14) and folded over and glued to the marginal strip (44) of the back (20) when the document folder is closed so that the marginal strips (34, 44) defined by the perforations (30, 40) form a rather stiff tearing border, together with the adhesive flap (36), having three times the thickness of the cardboard or the like used.
Applications Claiming Priority (5)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| DE29607472 | 1996-04-24 | ||
| DE29607468.3 | 1996-04-24 | ||
| DE29607468 | 1996-04-24 | ||
| DE29607472.1 | 1996-04-24 | ||
| PCT/EP1997/002120 WO1997039957A1 (en) | 1996-04-24 | 1997-04-24 | Tearable and re-usable document folder |
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| CA2251871A1 true CA2251871A1 (en) | 1997-10-30 |
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| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| CA 2251871 Abandoned CA2251871A1 (en) | 1996-04-24 | 1997-04-24 | Tearable and re-usable document folder |
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| EP (1) | EP0907570A1 (en) |
| AU (1) | AU2701497A (en) |
| CA (1) | CA2251871A1 (en) |
| WO (1) | WO1997039957A1 (en) |
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| DE102011112348B3 (en) * | 2011-09-06 | 2012-10-25 | PBH PrintBrokerHouse GmbH | Packaging for cards, particularly chip cards or subscriber identity module card, has receiver for receiving card in interior of packaging, where lower surface and upper surface are also provided in a vehicle door |
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| US1411077A (en) * | 1920-12-03 | 1922-03-28 | Frank O Balogh | Envelope |
| US1803348A (en) * | 1929-05-13 | 1931-05-05 | Pasurka Charles | Envelope |
| US3294313A (en) * | 1966-05-18 | 1966-12-27 | New England Envelope Mfg Compa | Envelope |
| FR2209697A1 (en) * | 1972-12-07 | 1974-07-05 | Galey Paul | |
| IE70428B1 (en) * | 1992-04-22 | 1996-11-27 | Conor Kavanagh | Improvements in mailers |
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- 1997-04-24 EP EP97920750A patent/EP0907570A1/en not_active Withdrawn
- 1997-04-24 CA CA 2251871 patent/CA2251871A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1997-04-24 WO PCT/EP1997/002120 patent/WO1997039957A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1997-04-24 AU AU27014/97A patent/AU2701497A/en not_active Abandoned
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| WO1997039957A1 (en) | 1997-10-30 |
| EP0907570A1 (en) | 1999-04-14 |
| AU2701497A (en) | 1997-11-12 |
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