EP0097421A2 - Zweiwegbriefumschlageinheit - Google Patents

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EP0097421A2
EP0097421A2 EP83302582A EP83302582A EP0097421A2 EP 0097421 A2 EP0097421 A2 EP 0097421A2 EP 83302582 A EP83302582 A EP 83302582A EP 83302582 A EP83302582 A EP 83302582A EP 0097421 A2 EP0097421 A2 EP 0097421A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; 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
    • B42D15/00—Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for
    • B42D15/02—Postcards; Greeting, menu, business or like cards; Letter cards or letter-sheets
    • B42D15/04—Foldable or multi-part cards or sheets
    • B42D15/08—Letter-cards or letter-sheets, i.e. cards or sheets each of which is to be folded with the message inside and to serve as its own envelope for mailing
    • 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
    • B65D27/06—Envelopes or like essentially-rectangular containers for postal or other purposes having no structural provision for thickness of contents with provisions for repeated re-use

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  • This invention relates generally to a combined mailer and return envelope unit, or two-way envelope, which is adapted to be utilized in continuous form formatting and in high speed processing.
  • continuous form formatting is meant that the individual mailer and return envelope units are detachably secured together to form a strip of such units which may be stored in the form of rolls or other conventional means.
  • the margins of the strip which may be detachable, are provided with a row of aligned apertures (commonly referred to as line-holes) which allow the strip to be drawn through a printer or other processing equipment, preferably at high speed.
  • Mailer and return envelope units, or two-way envelopes of this type are frequently employed in business for the purpose of collecting accounts, obtaining information, soliciting funds, seeking orders, etc.
  • the object of a mailer and return envelope unit of the type contemplated is to create, in as simple a manner as possible, a folded mailer which forms a sealed envelope to be used for the transmission of data or the like to a primary addressee, and which, when opened by the primary addressee, provides both a ready to use return envelope component for return to a secondary addressee (usually the original sender), as well as data bearing surfaces which may be retained, if desired, by the primary addressee and/or returned in conjunction with a cheque, additional data or the like, to the secondary addressee.
  • a secondary addressee usually the original sender
  • This patent relates to a continuous form mailer with integral detachable insert material and return envelope comprised of two overlying sheets of material secured together along peripheral side edges and including an integral return envelope portion and a detachably removable invoice-receipt portion and an insertable return stub material portion.
  • the complete assembly serves as a primary envelope which is capable of being snapped apart by the primary addressee to open the primary envelope and to separate the return envelope portion from the invoice-receipt and return stub portions.
  • the Cone United States Patent No. 2,895,664 dated July 21, 1959 shows a mailer and return envelope assembly which does not require the use of transfer material on an internal surface of the primary assembly for the transfer of data to another internal surface, but contemplates that the data will be printed on one surface which will be covered by a folded over portion which is then appropriately adhesively secured to form the primary envelope.
  • the folded over portion when the primary envelope is opened, is utilized as the return envelope, and, for this purpose, the folded over portion comprises two layers of material which must be appropriately aligned and secured together before the primary envelope is formed. Again, this involves a separate processing step which tends to increase the cost of the assembly and also increase its complexity.
  • the Drake United States Patent No. 4,148,430 dated April 10, 1979 discloses a modified form of mailer and return envelope assembly -which is somewhat similar to that disclosed in United States Patent No. 2,895,664, in that it contemplates folding a single sheet upon itself to form the primary envelope, although one portion of the sheet so folded over is itself provided with an overlying layer of material which forms an internally disposed returned envelope portion when the main sheet is folded upon itself to produce the primary envelope. Accordingly, this construction is subject to the same disadvantages as those inherent in the construction of United States Patent 2,895,664.
  • the Henry et al United States Patent No. 3,497,132 discloses a mailer and return envelope assembly which is formed of a single sheet of material appropriately shaped, folded, and folded upon itself so as to provide a primary envelope and, when opened in the correct manner by the primary addressee, may also be used to form a return envelope.
  • this envelope is intended to be utilized with separate contents (as opposed to the envelope assembly itself bearing the data to be communicated to the primary addressee) and the assembly blank is of complex shape with the production of the envelope involving rather complex folding and sealing operations.
  • An envelope of this type is not suited to utilization with high speed processing equipment, and, indeed, the assembly disclosed in the patent is not adapted for use with a high speed printer in its combined mailer and return envelope format.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages of known prior art assemblies by providing a primary and return envelope unit, or two-way envelope, which is produced from a single sheet of material and which may be adapted to continuous form formatting, to which data to be communicated to a primary addressee may be applied in a high speed printer, and which may then be folded upon itself and sealed to form a primary and return envelope assembly.
  • the assembly appropriately carries all relevant data to be communicated to the primary addressee as well as preprinted and appropriately located primary and return addresses, and the assembly may be opened by tearing, or by a snap apart action to leave a discrete and readily usable return envelope as well as a data bearing sheet or sheets, part of which may be retained by the primary addressee, and part of which may be returned to the secondary addressee in the return envelope.
  • the invention resides in a two-way envelope unit suitable for use in continuous form formatting, comprising a single rectangular sheet having a transverse central line of weakness, separable linehole bearing side margins, parallel to said central line of weakness, and a top and bottom margin, a data receiving panel and a return envelope panel disposed between the said central line of weakness and each of said side margins, each data receiving panel being adjoined to each return envelope panel along a line of separation parallel to said central line of weakness, sealing means disposed along the top margin of at least one of said data receiving panels and at least one of said return envelope panels, and along the bottom margin of at least one of said data receiving panels and at least one of said return envelope panels, and along a side edge of at least one of the panels adjacent one of said side margins whereby, when folded about said central line of weakness, said data receiving panels overlie one another and said return envelope panels overlie one another, and said lines of separation are offset to define an adhesive bearing return envelope flap, said top and bottom margins being free of sealing means
  • the invention resides in a two-way envelope having a -front and rear surface formed of a single rectangular sheet folded upon itself about a central transverse fold line, comprising overlying front and rear return envelope panels, overlying front and rear data bearing panels, front and rear transverse lines of separation parallel to said central transverse fold line and separating said return envelope panels from said data bearing panels, said transverse lines of separation being offset to define on one surface a return envelope flap adjoining one of said return envelope panels by a line of weakness, adhesive disposed on the inner surface of said return envelope flap, and sealing means securing the three free edges of said two-way envelope about said central foldline except those portions of the edges coincident with said return envelope flap.
  • a mailer and return envelope unit blank 1 is shown as part of a continuous strip, separable from the remainder of the strip along perforated lines of separation 2.
  • Each unit comprises separable line-hole margins 3 and 4 bearing a plurality of aligned apertures or line-holes 5 which permit the unit, and the continuous strip of which it is a part, to be drawn through processing equipment such as a printer.
  • the unit also comprises a return envelope rear panel 10, data receiving panels 11 and 12 and a return envelope front panel 13 which has connected thereto, along a perforated line of weakness or fold line 14, an adhesive bearing return envelope closure flap 13a.
  • the closure flap may carry a gum type of adhesive which must be moistened to activate it, or a pressure sensitive adhesive covered by release paper in the conventional manner to prevent the adhesive from adhering to other parts of the mailer before the return envelope portion is detached and ready for use.
  • the data receiving panels 11 and 12 and the return envelope panels 10 and 13 are disposed substantially symmetrically about a central transverse perforated line of weakness or fold line 20, and the data bearing panel 12 includes a rectangular window 14, which may be open, but which is preferably covered with transparent material, whereby, when the right hand half of the unit as seen in Figure 1 is folded about the transverse central fold line 20, as illustrated in Figure 2, a primary address printed on panel 11 at 15 will be visible through window 14.
  • Sealing means such as heat activated adhesive 30 is disposed along the upper, lower and outer side margins of return envelope panel 13, and may also be disposed along the outer side margin of return envelope panel 10 to facilitate production of a more secure seal.
  • heat activated adhesive 30 is disposed along the upper and lower margins of data receiving panel 11 ensuring that that portion of the upper and lower margin which will be covered by return envelope flap 13a, when the blank is folded upon itself about center line 20, is free of the heat activated adhesive, so that the return envelope flap will not adhere to the upper and lower margins of the data receiving panel 11.
  • a heat activated adhesive could be applied to the upper and lower margins of return envelope rear panel 10 either instead of or in addition to the upper and lower margins of return envelope front panel 13, and that the heat activated adhesive could be applied to the upper and lower margins of data receiving panel 12 instead of, or in addition to, the upper and lower margins of data receiving panel 11.
  • the heat activated adhesive is applied to data receiving panel 12 the need to ensure that the adhesive does not overlap return envelope 13a would be eliminated since the outer margin of the data receiving panel 12 terminates at the return envelope flap 13a.
  • the return envelope rear panel 10 is separated from data receiving panel 11 by a perforated line of separation or tear line 40 and the data receiving panel 12 is separated from the return envelope closure flap 13a by a perforated line of separation or tear line 41.
  • perforated lines of separation or tear lines 42 and 43 are spaced inwardly from the upper and lower margins respectively of data receiving panels 11 and 12 a distance slightly greater than the width of the heat activated adhesive band 30 and data receiving panel 12 is separated into upper and lower sections by a perforated line of separation or tear line 44.
  • the perforations defining the tear lines and fold lines are produced in a conventional and known manner which forms no part of this invention, and it will also be apparent that the adhesive is also applied in a conventional and known manner which forms no part of the invention, whether the adhesive be of the heat activated type, the gum type which is activated by moisture, or the pressure sensitive type which is protected by a strip of release paper. It will also be apparent that the mailer unit blanks may be preprinted in a conventional manner depending upon the purpose for which they are to be used, and that the window 16 may. be cut and covered with transparent material in a conventional manner. All of the foregoing is facilitated by producing the units in continuous strip form to permit continuous high speed processing.
  • a strip of such units such as that depicted in Figure 1, which have been appropriately printed to receive an arrangement of data and which have a return address (usually that of the sender) printed on the reverse side of return envelope panel 13 (as best illustrated in Figure 2), are passed through a printer to have relevant data applied thereto, as well as the name and address of the primary addressee applied to data receiving panel 11 at 15.
  • the strip of material is then passed through a folding and sealing mechanism, so that the right hand side of the strip is folded about transverse center line 20 to overlie the left hand side of the strip as shown in Figure 2, and, under the application of heat and pressure, the upper and lower margins of each unit are sealed (except for the portion of the margin overlapping return envelope closure flap 13a), and the free edge of each unit is sealed along the margin inboard of the line-hole margins 5.
  • This produces a sealed envelope such as is shown schematically in Figure 3a, the components of which are so arranged that data receiving panels 11 and 12 overly one another with the name and address of the primary addressee appearing at 15 on panel 11 being aligned with the window 16 of panel 12 so that the identity and address of the primary addressee clearly shows on the face of the envelope.
  • the return envelope panels 10 and 13, which are now sealed along the upper, lower and free side margins also overlie one another, with the perforated tear lines 40 and 41 being displaced the width of the return envelope closure flap 13a as illustrated in Figure 2 as well as Figure 3b and 4.
  • the strip of sealed envelopes may then be passed through suitable severence apparatus for removal of the line-hole margins 4 and for separation along lines 2 to form separate sealed mailer and return envelope units as illustrated generally in Figure 3a.
  • the sealed unit is now ready to be stamped and dispatched in the mails to the primary addressee.
  • the mailer Upon receipt by the primary addressee, the mailer, in accordance with instructions printed thereon, is grasped in the manner illustrated in Figure 3a and separated along tear lines 40 and 41 as illustrated in Figure 3b to produce a return envelope segment 50 as best illustrated in Figure 4 and a data bearing segment 60 also as illustrated best in Figure 4, although the data bearing section 60 as shown in Figure 4 is in a partially opened conditioned for purposes of illustration, whereas, in actual use upon opening, the upper margin would be sealed until the data bearing section is completely separated from the return envelope section and the sealed upper and lower margins are torn off along perforated tear lines 42 and 43.
  • the return envelope section 50 is formed as a pocket with an integral adhesive bearing closure flap 13a which is adapted to be folded about perforated fold line 14 for closure of the return envelope when desired.
  • the return envelope includes a preprinted address, as best illustrated in Figure 2, so that it need simply be sealed and stamped for return mailing.
  • panel 11 will have details of the outstanding account for the records of the primary addressee, whereas the upper section of panel 12 may have an indication of the amount payable, particulars of the primary addressee's account number, and perhaps a space where the primary addressee may insert the amount of its payment so that this portion may be inserted into the return envelope together with a cheque in payment of the outstanding account, the return envelope then sealed, stamped and returned to the original sender.

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CA000405735A CA1199309A (en) 1982-06-22 1982-06-22 Folded mailer

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FR2591567A1 (fr) * 1985-12-18 1987-06-19 Herve Fils Sa Enveloppe postale avec enveloppe de retour incorporee
US4724996A (en) * 1985-09-20 1988-02-16 Everett Patrick J Data carrying assembly and method and apparatus for forming same
US5052977A (en) * 1988-11-09 1991-10-01 Moore Business Forms, Inc. Multiple web business form
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US3428237A (en) * 1967-07-18 1969-02-18 Shelby Business Forms Inc Combined message and reply envelopes
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US3428237A (en) * 1967-07-18 1969-02-18 Shelby Business Forms Inc Combined message and reply envelopes
US3497132A (en) * 1968-02-12 1970-02-24 Jonne Low De Lara Envelope construction
US3952942A (en) * 1974-01-24 1976-04-27 Leary John W O Continuous form mailer with integral detachable insert material and return envelope
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US4724996A (en) * 1985-09-20 1988-02-16 Everett Patrick J Data carrying assembly and method and apparatus for forming same
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US5052977A (en) * 1988-11-09 1991-10-01 Moore Business Forms, Inc. Multiple web business form
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