EP0237215B1 - Zweiteiliges Poststück mit Rückumschlag - Google Patents

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EP0237215B1
EP0237215B1 EP87301486A EP87301486A EP0237215B1 EP 0237215 B1 EP0237215 B1 EP 0237215B1 EP 87301486 A EP87301486 A EP 87301486A EP 87301486 A EP87301486 A EP 87301486A EP 0237215 B1 EP0237215 B1 EP 0237215B1
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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

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  • business forms have been developed which often include preprinting on the forms of fixed information (including fixed information about the sender, detailed step-by-step instructions as to how the recipient is requested to respond to reception of communication embodied in and on the form, and graphic and/or verbal highlighting of the fields, zones or areas where variable information will have been provided on the form by the business before sending it to the recipient) and/or variable information is to be placed on some part of the received form by the recipient.
  • Such forms also often include a return envelope and a remittance stub which are detachably provided for the convenience of the recipient in responding as requested by the sender.
  • variable information is applied to them by computer- contolled printing apparatus, e.g. so as to apply the recipient's name and address, account number, previous balance, payments and other credits, interest, new debits, new balance, new amount due, statement date, payment due date and the like.
  • this is facilitated by providing the business with the blank forms in two, three or more parts, each in series multiple with a series of sprocket holes running along one or both side margins.
  • the business or other institution feeds one or more of these series of form parts through printers for variable information, and through a collater or other assembler/uniter apparatus for creating assembled, individualized communications which are successively detached and dispatched to the various addresses (US-A 4 148 430).
  • non-impact printers which seem to be receiving most widespread business acceptance are ones which will not reliably accept multiple part forms (print on preassembled sheet material which is more than one sheet thick all over or in certain regions), nor on sheets which have open die-cut windows, nor on sheets with glassine patch-closed die-cut windows, nor on sheets bearing uncovered strips, patches or spots of glue (adhesive) which is intended to be later activated for use in attaching the sheets to others or to other regions of the same sheets.
  • glue adheresive
  • the business or other institution is provided with two complementary series of blank form parts.
  • One of these contains one or more elements of a form of construction (multiple ply, window, glassine-patched window, glue spots, patches or strips) which would make it incompatable for use with today's commercially predominate non-impact printers.
  • the other contains none of such elements and is suited for being run through a business computer-controlled non-impact printer for the purpose of printing of variable information thereon, and of being thereafter assembled and united increment for increment with form parts from the first series, using presently available assembling and uniting apparatus, whereupon the united forms may be successively severed into thus individualized communications and dispatched to their respective addressees.
  • FIG. 1 depicts, for convenience in understanding and convenience in illustration exploded views of a completed, individualized communication 10 provided in accordance with the principles of the present invention. Because some of the elements that are shown in these views preferably are not applied until a stage at which two of the three sheets have been attached, care should be taken to avoid misinterpreting these views, e.g. so as to gain a mistaken impression that all the features shown preferably are provided before any sheet-to-sheet assembly has taken place.)
  • the individualized communication 10 that is shown in Figures 1 and 2 is made-up of three sheets 12, 14 and 16, which for convenience of description will be respectively termed the top, intermediate and bottom sheets irrespective of their actual spatial orientation during manufacture and use. (Other terms of spatial orientation are similarly arbitrarily used herein unless otherwise indicated in context.
  • top sheet 12 has longitudinally running left and right edges 18, 20 and transversally running trailing (top) and leading (bottom) edges 22, 24.
  • intermediate sheet Corresponding edges of the intermediate sheet are shown designated 26, 28, 30 and 32; and corresponding edges of the bottom sheet are shown designated 34, 36, 38 and 40.
  • the top, intermediate and bottom sheets of the individualized communication 10 have travelled through respective successive manufacturing processes as respective longitudinally serial increments of sheets of indeterminate length, as is shown in several others of the drawing figures. And it is not until late in the whole process that these webs, after being united as a laminate are severed along coinciding transverse lines of weakness into a plurality of respective individualized communcations 10.
  • top and bottom sheets are each nominally twelve inches wide and the intermediate sheet is nominally about two-thirds that wide, and all three sheets are arranged to have one side edge e.g. their left side edges coincide.
  • the three sheets 12, 14 and 16 are made of the same type of paper as is presently used for similar but now conventional business forms made by several manufacturers, notably Moore Business Forms, Inc.
  • the webs of which the top and bottom sheets 12 and 16 are made preferably are conventionally provided with respective marginal rows 42, 44 of sprocket holes running along the left and right edges thereof, and the narrower intermediate sheet 14 is provided with a row (42) of such sprocket holes running along its edge (26) which is to coincide with respective edges (18, 34) of the top and bottom sheets.
  • the three sheets Adjacent, but located more centrally of the respective sheets than the rows of sprocket holes 42 just described, the three sheets are shown provided with coinciding longitudinally running lines of weakness 46. And adjacent, but located more centrally of the respective sheets than the rows of sprocket holes 44, the top and bottom sheets 12 and 16 are shown provided with coinciding longitudinally running lines of weakness 48.
  • the intermediate sheet 14, preferably being narrower than the sheets 12 and 16 preferably has its right edge 28 spaced to the left of, i.e. more centrally of the individualized communication 10 than, the coinciding lines of weakness 48.
  • the lines of weakness 46 and 48 in common with the other lines of weakness which are to be described herein below preferably are conventionally provided e.g. as respective lines of longitudinally discontinuous slits arranged in series, as respective lines of longitudinally spaced die cut or punched holes arranged in series, or the like.
  • the individualized communication 10 is shown further including coinciding transverse lines of weakness so formed in all three sheets 12, 14 and 16 adjacent but spaced from the top edges of these sheets.
  • the line 50 extends from the line 46 to the line 48.
  • the individualized communication 10 is shown further including coinciding transverse lines of weakness 52 formed in all three sheets 12, 14 and 16 adjacent but spaced from the bottom edges of these sheets.
  • the line 52 also extends from the line 46 to the line 48.
  • the lines of weakness 46, 48, 50 and 52 define with the correspondingly adjacent edges of the respective sheets respective left, right, top and bottom marginal strips 54, 56, 58 and 60.
  • the top sheet 12 is shown provided with a longitudinally running line of weakness 62 which at least generally coincides with the right edge 28 of the intermediate sheet 14. This line of weakness 62 is shown running the full height of the top sheet 12.
  • top sheet 12 and the intermediate sheet 14 are shown both provided with coinciding transversally running lines of weakness 64 which extend between the left marginal strips 54 and the line of weakness 62/right edge 28.
  • the region of the bottom sheet 16 that lies centrally of its marginal strips 54, 56, 58 and 60 is further subdivided e.g. by longi- tudinaly and transverse lines of weakness 66 and 68 to provide what will become a remittance stub 70 and a reminder 72.
  • the lines 66, 68 could be omitted and all of the region 70/72 could serve as a remittance stub, which in such a case would need to be folded before it could be placed in a reply envelope.
  • the smaller remittance stub 70 be provided for both in order to make proper response easier for the recipient of the individualized communication to make, easier for the return envelope to be reliably opened, without damage to contents, by automated envelope slitting and opening equipment, and easier for remittance stubs to be reliably read by automated optical character reading equipment.
  • the remittance stub 70 is located in the lower right corner of the region 70/72, contiguous with the lines of weakness 48.and 52.
  • the top sheet 12 e.g. in its lower half and near its lower right corner is provided with a die-cut window 74 of conventional size, shape and orientation.
  • a ring of adhesive 98 is provided marginally of the die-cut window 74.
  • This adhesive 98 adheres a patch 100 of the highly translucent, or transparent flexible sheet material (e.g. glassine, cellophane, acetate, polyethylene terephthalate or the like, generically termed 'flexible glazing' herein).
  • top and intermediate sheets are shown further provided with adhesive in lines, fields of dots, stripes or the like (generically termed 'bands' herein) as will now be described:
  • the rear face of the top sheet 12 is provided with squared C-shaped band of adhesive 88 on its marginal strips 58, 56 and 60, only to the right of the intermediate longitudinal line of weakness 62.
  • this adhesive is a heat-activated (heat-seal, hot-melt) adhesive.
  • this band of adhesive is a cold glue, and its opposite limbs reach up the line of weakness 64.
  • the front face of the intermediate sheet 14, on the potential flap 92 thereof which is defined between its transverse lines of weakness 50 and 64, its left longitudinal line of weakness 46 and its right edge 28, is provided with a transversally extending band of adhesive 94.
  • this band of adhesive is a dried, rewettable adhesive.
  • the rear face of the intermediate sheet 14 is provided with a square C-shaped band of adhesive 96 on its marginal strips 58, 54 and 60.
  • this adhesive is a heat-activated (heat-seal, hot-melt) adhesive.
  • the adhesive bands 88 and 96 are complementary to one another so that upon superimposition of the top and intermediate sheets, these two bands together form a complete hollow-rectangular marginal band 88/96 of adhesive.
  • the front of the top sheet is printed with non-varying verbal and non-verbal graphics, typically including a set of instructions on the four marginal strips as to how, and the order in which these strips 54-60 are to be severed from the individualized communication 10 along the respective lines of weakness 46-52, postal class statement, frank or stamp outline, marginal identification of product name and supplier, and opacification field for obscuring contents first of the individualized communication and second of the return envelope from view from exteriorly thereof.
  • the rear face of the top sheet 12 is printed with non-varying verbal and non-verbal graphics, typically including a first set of instructions, located over the patched window, e.g. to instruct the recipient to use the return envelope to make a remittance, but to detach the stub containing the patched window before mailing the return envelope; also including a second set of instructions, located on the discard strip 102 (which coincides with the potential flap 92), e.g.
  • the rear face of the top sheet 12 may contain opacification fields for obscuring contents first of the individualized communication and second of the return envelope from view from exteriorly thereof.
  • the front face of the intermediate sheet 14 is printed with non-varying verbal and non-verbal graphics, typically including a set of instructions on the potential flap 92 instructing the recipient to moisten, fold and seal this strip once its front face has become exposed by removal of the discard strip 102; and an opacification field for obscuring contents of the return envelope from view from exteriorly thereof.
  • the rear face of the intermediate sheet 14 is printed with non-varying verbal and non-verbal graphics, typically including a set of instructions on the potential flap 92 indicating that it should not be removed but how it should be used; a set of upper left corner lines for the remitter to use in providing a return address; a stamp outline in the upper right corner to remind the remitter to apply postage (or a frank where return postage is to be paid by the original business sender/remittee; and a lower/centrally located postal address for the original business sender/remittee.
  • non-varying verbal and non-verbal graphics typically including a set of instructions on the potential flap 92 indicating that it should not be removed but how it should be used; a set of upper left corner lines for the remitter to use in providing a return address; a stamp outline in the upper right corner to remind the remitter to apply postage (or a frank where return postage is to be paid by the original business sender/remitt
  • the front face of the bottom sheet 16 may be printed with non-varying verbal and non-verbal graphics typical of a blank form for an invoice, a statement of account, a solicitation of funds for a charitable or other institution or the like and typical of a remittance stub, together with sets of instructions e.g. instructing the recipient to detach the remittance stub 70 from the remainder 72 along the lines 66, 68, and to return the remittance stub in a non-folded condition with a remittance, in the return envelope, to the remittee, while retaining the remainder 72 for the remitter's records.
  • sets of instructions e.g. instructing the recipient to detach the remittance stub 70 from the remainder 72 along the lines 66, 68, and to return the remittance stub in a non-folded condition with a remittance, in the return envelope, to the remittee
  • the front face of the bottom sheet 16 includes among its preferably pre-printed non-verbal graphics various outlined zones, areas, boxes or the like (generically termed 'fields') labeled for reception of variable verbal graphics (e.g. quantities, amounts, dates, descriptions, totals, amounts due, categories, codes, intervals, due date, debits, credits, and particularly including a field on the remittance stub coincident with the window 74 for reception of the recipient's name, postal address and associated coding e.g. customer account number and/or postal carrier route presort information).
  • variable verbal graphics e.g. quantities, amounts, dates, descriptions, totals, amounts due, categories, codes, intervals, due date, debits, credits, and particularly including a field on the remittance stub coincident with the window 74 for reception of the recipient's name, postal address and associated coding e.g. customer account number and/or postal carrier route presort information.
  • Some of today's commercially important high-speed non-impact printers such as an HP Laserjet Plus Printer are capable of printing non-verbal graphics, so it is possible and within the purview of the invention that some or all of the constant information (as well as the variable information) which would be needed for the bottom sheet 16 would be applied by the business or other institution using its non-impact printer, rather than being pre-printed by the manufacturer of the form parts.
  • Part 1 of the form is a composite web made of two webs which have been laminated together.
  • a process for providing the top web of this composite is illustrated in Figure 3; a process for providing the other web of this composite (which will provide the intermediate sheet 14 of the individualized communication 10) is shown in Figure 4; and a process for laminating these two webs is shown in Figure 5.
  • Part 2 of the form is a singular web, a process for the production of which is illustrated in Figure 6.
  • a roll 104 of top sheet stock material is shown being unrolled to provide a web 106 which is advanced successively through a printing station 108 so that constant matter can be printed on one or both sides, as appropriate, a glue application station 110, e.g. for application of the glue band 88, a die-cutting station 112, e.g. for cutting of the window 74, a glue application station 114, e.g. for application of the glue band 98, and a window patching station 116, e.g. for application of the patch 100, successively to each increment of the web 106 that will later become part of a respective individualized communication 10. Then the completed top web is rolled-up at 118.
  • a glue application station 110 e.g. for application of the glue band 88
  • a die-cutting station 112 e.g. for cutting of the window 74
  • a glue application station 114 e.g. for application of the glue band 98
  • a window patching station 116 e.
  • a roll 120 of intermediate sheet stock material is shown being unrolled to provide a web 122 which is advanced successively through a printing station 124 so that constant matter can be printed on one or both sides, as appropriate and a glue application station 126, e.g. for application of the blue band 96. Then the intermediate web is rolled up at 128.
  • the top web roll is shown being unrolled at 118, and the intermediate web roll is shown being unrolled at 128 to provide respective webs.
  • the intermediate web is advanced successively through a first glue application station 130, e.g. for application of the band of rewettable adhesive 94, and a second glue application station 132, e.g. for application of the band of cold glue 90, and a laminating station 134, where the active cold glue 90 is used for adhering the top and intermediate webs together thus creating a Part 1 composite web 136.
  • the only places where the broader top web is to receive a line of weakness that does not coincide with a line of weakness that is to be received by the intermediate web are located laterally beyond the edge 28 of the intermediate web, all of the heretofore-described longitudinal and transverse line of weakness for the top web and composite web can be applied to the composite web 136, e.g. at a lines of weakness-providing station 138, whereupon the finished Part 1 composite web may be taken-up and boxed for shipment, as at 140.
  • a roll 142 of bottom sheet stock material is shown being unrolled to provide a web 144, which is advanced successively through a printing station 146 so that constant matter can be printed on one or both sides, as appropriate, and a lines of weakness-providing station 148, whereupon the finished Part 2 web may be taken-up and boxed for shipment, as at 150.
  • the product of the business form manufacturer is Part 1 and Part 2 as contained in the boxes shown at the right at 140 and 150 in Figures 5 and 6.
  • These form parts are ordered by the business or other institution in desired quantities, which may be different for the two parts, depending on anticipated usage, order size price advantages, anticipated changes needed for either Part, and so on.
  • a stock 150 of Part 2 of the form is fed to the printing station 152 of a computer-controlled non-impact printer 154 at which station respective variable information such as the recipient's address, account data and the like (as has been elaborated upon in more details hereinabove in relation to Figure 1) is applied to each successive increment of bottom sheet 16 of the web.
  • the thus- variably printed Part 2 is then fed to an assembling and uniting (collating and sealing) station 156, at which the front face of each succeeding increment 158 of Part 2 of the form is registered and juxtaposed facewise with the rear face of a respective succeeding increment 160 of Part 1 the form, locally heated to activate the complementary bands of adhesive 88 and 96.
  • a respective individualized communication upon being received by an intended recipient, a respective individualized communication initially presents a set of externally visible printed instructions to the recipient. Upon following these, the recipient severs all four marginal bands 54-60 from the individualized communication 10 causing the remaining central portion 70/72 of the bottom sheet 16 to separate from the remaining central portion of the top sheet 12/intermediate sheet 14 laminate. This exposes the other sets of instructions which have been described hereinabove in relation to Figures 1 and 2.
  • the recipient severs the remittance stub 70 from the remainder 72, fills in any information (such as amount of remittance and correction of recipient's address) on the remittance stub, writes a check 162 for the amount of the remittance, removes the discard stub and discard strip from the top sheet 12 along the lines of weakness 62 and 64 (thus freeing the return envelope 164 from the remainder of the mailer), inserts the completed check 162 and remittance stub 70 into the return envelope 164 through its upwardly opening mouth 166, moistens, bends over along the line 64 of the intermediate sheet 14 and seals to the outside face of the top sheet 12 the flap 92, thereby sealingly closing the return envelope 164, applying a stamp to the return envelope (if it is not franked), and mailing it back to the business or other institution whose name and address are pre-printed on the front 68 of the return envelope (as is described hereinabove in relation to Figure 2).
  • a main purpose of the invention is to provide a two part mailer of which one part is compatible with today's commercially predominate non-impact printers whereas the other part contains mainly or exclusively pre-printed constant information
  • a business would be within the purview of the invention for a business to apply some variable information to either or both Parts 1 and 2 of the form, before or after assembling and uniting such parts, using an impact-type printer, i.e. a printer that does not apply such heat to the forms on form parts as would prematurely and deleteriously activate an adhesive provided thereon.

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1. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück (10) mit einem Rückumschlag (164), welches einen ersten Teil umfaßt mit:
- einem oberen Blatt (12) mit einer Vorderseite (76) und einer Rückseite (86),
- einem mittleren Blatt (14) mit einer Vorderseite (78) und einer Rückseite (84),
- einem Befestigungsmittel (90), welches die Vorderseite des mittleren Blattes mit der Rückseite des oberen Blattes an einem im wesentlichen C-förmigen Band (90) so verbindet, daß ein erster Abschnitt des oberen Blattes Fläche-auf-Fläche auf einem ersten Abschnitt des mittleren Blattes aufliegt, wobei das C-förmige Band des Verbindungsmittels auf diesen Blättern den Innenumfang eines Rückumschlags (164) begrenzt, dabei eine potentiell offene Öffnung (166) dieses Rückumschlags zwischen sich gegenüberliegenden Schenkeln des C-förmigen Befestigungsmittel-Bandes begrenzt ist,
- einem zweiten Abschnitt des oberen Blattes, der sich an dessen ersten Abschnitt außerhalb des C-förmigen Befestigungsbandes anschließt und sich über einen Umfangsrand des mittleren Blattes hinaus erstreckt,
- zwei komplementären C-förmigen Bändern (88, 96) deaktivierten, aktivierbaren Klebstoffs, die auf der Rückseite des vom oberen und mittleren Blatt gebildeten ersten Teils angeordnet sind, wobei diese beiden Bänder so ausgelegt sind, daß sie ein hohles, im wesentlichen rechteckiges Muster bilden, das gemeinsam zusammen in Umfangsrichtung den genannten Rückumschlag umringt und den zweiten Abschnitt des oberen Blattes einfaßt,
- wenigstens einem Feld mit feststehenden Informationen, die auf wenigstens das obere Blatt oder das mittlere Blatt gedruckt sind, und einen zweiten Teil, der umfaßt:
- ein unteres Blatt (16) mit einer Vorderseite (80) und einer Rückseite (82),
- wobei dieses untere Blatt Abmessungen und eine Gestalt hat, die genügen, damit die beiden komplementären C-förmigen Klebstoffbänder (88, 96) Fläche-auf-Fläche auf seine Vorderseite im wesentlichen vollständig um den Umfang des im wesentlichen rechteckigen Musters aufgelegt werden können,
- dabei dieses untere Blatt (16) mit Informationen bedruckbar ist, die wenigstens ein Feld mit sich ändernden Informationen umfassen, das so angeordnet ist, daß es nach Auflegen der beiden komplementären C-förmigen Klebstoffbänder auf die Vorderseite des unteren Blattes in Deckungsstellung mit dem zweiten Abschnitt des oberen Blattes ist.
2. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach Anspruch 1, gekennzeichnet durch
- Mittel, die eine Fensteröffnung (74) im zweiten Abschnitt des oberen Blattes jenseits des Umfangsrandes (28) des mittleren Blattes begrenzen,
- und dadurch, daß das Feld mit sich ändernden Informationen so angeordnet ist, daß es nach Auflegen der beiden komplementären C-förmigen Klebstoffbänder auf die Vorderseite des unteren Blattes durch die Fensteröffnung (74) hindurch sichtbar ist.
3. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach Anspruch 2, gekennzeichnet durch ein Stück durchscheinenden Materials (100), das an der Rückseite des oberen Blattes im Randbereich der Fensteröffnung (74) befestigt ist und eine flexible Verglasung für diese Fensteröffnung bildet.
4. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das obere Blatt (12) und das untere Blatt (16) von im wesentlichen gleichen Abmessungen und gleicher Außenumfangsgestalt sind.
5. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, bei dem das obere Blatt (12), das mittlere Blatt (14) und das untere Blatt (16) von im wesentlichen rechteckiger Außenumfangsgestalt sind, wobei jedes einen linken Rand (34, 26, 18), einen rechten Rand (26, 28, 20), einen oberen Rand (38, 30, 22) und einen unteren Rand (40, 32, 24) aufweist.
6. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der obere Rand (30), der untere Rand (32) und der linke Rand (26) oder der rechte Rand (28) des mittleren Blattes (14) jeweils im wesentlichen in Deckungsstellung mit dem oberen Rand (38, 22), dem unteren Rand (40, 24), dem linken Rand (34, 18) und dem rechten Rand (36, 20) des oberen Blattes (12) und des unteren Blattes (16) sind.
7. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, bei dem der erste Teil nur einer aus einer Vielzahl von solchen im wesentlichen identischen ersten Teilen ist, die an entsprechenden quergerichteten Schwächungslinien an den oberen und unteren Rändern des oberen Blattes und des mittleren Blattes in einer längsgerichteten Reihe trennbar miteinander verbunden sind.
8. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der zweite Teil nur einer aus einer Vielzahl von solchen im wesentlichen identischen zweiten Teilen ist, die an entsprechenden quergerichteten Schwächungslinien am oberen und unteren Rand des unteren Blattes in einer längsgerichteten Reihe trennbar miteinander verbunden sind.
9. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, bei dem das die Vorderseite des mittleren Blattes mit der Rückseite des oberen Blattes an dem im wesentlichen C-förmigen Band verbindende Befestigungsmittel (90) von Kaltleim gebildet ist.
10. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, bei dem das die Vorderseite des mittleren Blattes mit der Rückseite des oberen Blattes an dem im wesentlichen C-förmigen Band verbindende Befestigungsmittel (90) zum oberen Rand (38) des oberen Blattes und zum oberen Rand (30) des mittleren Blattes hin offen ist.
11. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, ferner umfassend
- Mittel, die linke und rechte, in Längsrichtung sich erstreckende Schwächungslinien (46, 48) durch das obere und das untere Blatt und von einer linken und einer rechten Schwächungslinie eine (46) durch das mittlere Blatt im Abstand von zugehörigen linken und rechten Rändern der jeweiligen Blätter definieren, wobei zugehörige linke Schwächungslinien nach dem genannten Auflegen der beiden komplementären C-förmigen Klebstoffbänder auf die Vorderseite des unteren Blattes in Richtung der Dicke vom ersten und zweiten Teil in Deckungsstellung sind, um einen linken Randstreifen (54) zu begrenzen, und zugehörige rechte Schwächungslinien nach dem genannten Auflegen der beiden komplementären C-förmigen Klebstoffbänder auf die Vorderseite des unteren Blattes in Richtung der Dicke vom ersten und vom zweiten Teil in Deckungsstellung sind, um einen rechten Randstreifen (56) für das zweiteilige Versandstück zu begrenzen,
- Mittel, die obere und untere, in Querrichtung sich erstreckende Schwächungslinien (50, 52) durch das obere, das mittlere und das untere Blatt zwischen den linken und rechten Randstreifen und im Abstand von zugehörigen oberen und unteren Rändern der jeweiligen Blätter definieren, wobei zugehörige obere Schwächungslinien nach dem genannten Auflegen der beiden komplementären C-förmigen Klebstoffbänder auf die Vorderseite des unteren Blattes in Richtung der Dicke vom ersten und vom zweiten Teil in Deckungsstellung sind, um einen oberen Randstreifen (58) zu begrenzen, und zugehörige untere Schwächungslinien nach dem genannten Auflegen der beiden komplementären C-förmigen Klebstoffbänder auf die Vorderseite des unteren Blattes in Richtung der Dicke vom oberen und vom unteren Teil in Deckungsstellung sind, um einen unteren Randstreifen (60) für das zweiteilige Postversandstück zu begrenzen, wodurch, nach Aneinanderkleben des ersten und des zweiten Teils durch Aufeinanderlegen bei Deckungsstellung des im wesentlichen rechteckigen Musters mit den linken, rechten, oberen und unteren Randstreifen der Vorderseite des unteren Blattes und Aktivieren des aktivierbaren, deaktivierten Klebstoffs, ein verbleibender Mittelabschnitt des ersten Teils von einem verbleibenden Mittelabschnitt des zweiten Teils durch Abtrennen der linken, rechten, oberen und unteren Randstreifen von den zugehörigen Blättern an den jeweiligen linken, rechten, oberen und unteren Schwächungslinien gelöst werden kann.
12. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach Anspruch 11, gekennzeichnet durch eine weitere sich in Querrichtung erstreckende Schwächungslinie (64), die wenigstens am oberen Blatt oder am mittleren Blatt ausgebildet ist, wobei sich diese weitere Schwächungslinie zwischen dem linken oder dem rechten Randstreifen (54) des mittleren Blattes und dem zugehörigen gegenüberliegenden Rand (28) des mittleren Blattes auf einer Höhe an, jedoch im Abstand unter dem oberen Randstreifen erstreckt, dadurch einen Wegwerfstreifen (102) schafft, der nach Entfernen vom verbleibenden Mittelabschnitt des ersten Teils dadurch am mittleren Blatt oder am oberen Blatt eine mögliche Klappe (92) zum Verschließen der Öffnung des Rückumschlags freigibt.
13. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach Anspruch 12, gekennzeichnet durch ein an der möglichen Klappe (92) vorgesehenes Band wieder anfeuchtbaren Klebstoffs (94) zum dichten Verschließen der Öffnung des Rückumschlags.
14. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 13, ferner umfassend eine weitere sich in Längsrichtung erstreckende Schwächurigslinie (62) im oberen Blatt, die sich im wesentlichen mit der Stelle deckt, an der der zweite und der erste Abschnitt des oberen Blattes aneinanderstoßen, so daß der zweite Abschnitt des oberen Blattes vom Rückumschlag abgetrennt werden kann.
15. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach einem der Ansprüche 11 bis 14, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der verbleibende Mittelabschnitt des zweiten Teils an weiteren an ihm vorgesehenen Schwächungslinien (66, 68) potentiell unterteilbar ist in einen möglichen Uberweisungsabschnitt (70) und einen möglichen Adressatenbeleg (72).
16. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach Anspruch 15, bei dem der mögliche Überweisungsabschnitt (70) mit dem wenigstens einen Feld sich ändernder Informationen anschlagfrei bedruckbar ist.
17. Zweiteiliges Postversandstück nach Anspruch 16, bei dem der mögliche Adressatenbeleg (72) mit einem weiteren wenigstens einen Feld sich ändernder Informationen anschlagfrei bedruckbar ist.
18. Verfahren zur Schaffung einer individualisierten Mitteilung, umfassend
- die Bereitstellung eines ersten Formularteils, der einen Rückumschlag aufweist mit einem sich nach einer Seite davon erstreckenden Wegwerfabschnitt und vier abtrennbaren Randstreifen, die den Rückumschlag und den Wegwerfabschnitt gemeinsam einfassen, wobei der Rückumschlag auf einer seiner Seiten mit einer Rücksendeadresse voradressiert ist und die vier Randstreifen je auf einer dieser Seite entsprechenden Seite einen aktivierbaren, deaktivierten Klebstoff tragen,
- die Bereitstellung eines zweiten Formularteils, der nur ein einzelnes Blatt dick und von jedem Merkmal frei ist, welches mit seinem Bedrucktwerden mit sich ändernden Informationen unter Benutzung eines anschlagfreien Druckers inkompatibel ist,
- das Bedrucken wenigstens einer Seite des zweiten Formularteils mit sich ändernden Informationen unter Benutzung eines anschlagfreien Druckers vor dem Vereinigen des ersten mit dem zweiten Formularteils,
- das Auflegen jedes der vier Randstreifen mit der einen Seite auf die genannte eine Seite des zweiten Formularteils und, bei Beibehaltung des Aufeinanderliegens, das Aktivieren des aktivierbaren, deaktivierten Klebstoffs, dadurch lokales Befestigen des ersten und des zweiten Formularteils aneinander, so daß der zweite Formularteil die Rücksendeadresse auf dem Rückumschlag verdeckt und der erste Formularteil die sich ändernden Informationen, die anschlagfrei auf den zweiten Formularteil gedruckt worden sind, wenigstens zum Teil verdeckt.
19. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
- wenigstens bis zum Schritt des Aufeinanderlegens der erste Formularteil nur einer aus einer in Längsrichtung sich erstreckenden Reihe von gleichen ersten Formularteilen ist, die einzeln an zugehörigen quergerichteten Schwächungslinien aneinander befestigt sind,
- der zweite Formularteil nur einer aus einer Folge von gleichen zweiten Formularteilen ist, von denen jeder beim Ausführen des zugehörigen Druckes, mit einem anschlagfreien Drucker mit sich ändernden Informationen bedruckt wird, von denen wenigstens einige bei allen zweiten Formularteilen verschieden sind, und
- in Verbindung mit der Ausführung der Schritte Aufeinanderlegen und Aktivieren bei entsprechenden ersten und zweiten Formularteilen die ersten Formularteile nacheinander von den Reihen abgetrennt werden.
20. Verfahren nach Anspruch 18 oder 19, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
- der Schritt der Bereitstellung jedes ersten Formularteils die Ausbildung einer Fensteröffnung durch jeden Wegwerfabschnitt umfaßt, und
- die sich ändernden Informationen, die auf jeden zweiten Formularteil beim anschlagfreien Drucken aufgebracht werden, Namen und Anschrift eines vorgesehenen Empfängers in solcher Anordnung auf der einen Seite jedes zweiten Formularteils umfassen, daß sie nach dem Aufeinanderlegen durch die zugehörige Fensteröffnung sichtbar sind.
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