EP0250124B1 - Sealed documents - Google Patents
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- EP0250124B1 EP0250124B1 EP87304889A EP87304889A EP0250124B1 EP 0250124 B1 EP0250124 B1 EP 0250124B1 EP 87304889 A EP87304889 A EP 87304889A EP 87304889 A EP87304889 A EP 87304889A EP 0250124 B1 EP0250124 B1 EP 0250124B1
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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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- This invention pertains to sealed documents.
- the invention pertains to sheets constituting a message or other information recording sheet which sheet may be folded and sealed to form a sealed document. It is known to provide a construction of letter paper capable of being folded and sealed to provide a foldable mailer containing a combined message sheet and envelope to enable the foldable mailer to be despatched by post. Such constructions are shown in British Specification no 753 929, US Specifications Nos 3 523 638, and 1 307 421 and German Specification no 67 753.
- US Specification No 4 576 399 discloses a three panel code sheet with one of the panels having extended edges with adhesive and protective covering strips.
- US Specification No 3 143 279 discloses a combined envelope and statement form but the document does not refer to reusable adhesive but the form includes three transverse foldlines for folding the sheet into four substantially equal parts in addition to the fold line adjacent a sealing flap and the adhesive is positioned for securing the four parts.
- reference character 10 designates a sheet of paper or like material on the surface 12 of which a message or other information may be recorded.
- Sheet 10 has top edge 14, bottom edge 16, right side edge 18 and left side edge 20.
- Side 12 also has indicia marks 22 for a purpose described below.
- FIG. 2 The opposite side 24 of sheet 10 is shown in FIG. 2.
- a strip of reusable or releasable adhesive 26 (hereafter, "reusable") is provided along edge 14 of side 24.
- Reusable adhesives are well known in the art. Spaces also are provided for "To” and “From” information at positions 28 and 30 on side 24.
- the user For purposes of creating a sealed document the user, facing side 12, folds the document along fold line 32 (FIG. 3) which could be perforated to facilitate folding at the proper place.
- fold line 32 FIG. 3
- edge 14 is placed at the indicia marks 22.
- the user then folds the document along fold line 34 (FIG. 4) at the indicia marks to place the area between the fold line 34 and edge 16 over the adhesive strip 26. Pressing the parts together secures the folded document.
- a perforation line 35 may be located at the inner edge of the adhesive strip at allow the user to remove the adhesive or fold the adhesive strip over to eliminate the exposed adhesive surface. The exposed strip would not be desirable if the document was filed.
- FIG. 5 may be used.
- side 24 of sheet 10 not only has strip 26 but also strips 36, 38, 40 and 42 of reusable adhesive.
- “To” and “From” spaces also are provided at the locations 44 and 46.
- Adhesive may exist along all of the edges as shown in FIG. 6 to bring adhesive on two surfaces together for added strength. However, one coat of adhesive will do, in which case only one-half of strips 40 and 42 need by used, and only one of strips 36 and 38. Indeed, if the manufacturer feels it can save on adhesive and remain competitive, only spots of adhesive are necessary.
- the sheet 10 may be one of a number of such sheets, with carbon paper (not shown) or carbonless transfer materials between them for making multiple copies of a given message.
- carbon paper not shown
- carbonless transfer materials between them for making multiple copies of a given message.
- these could be of the "To/From/Reply" memo format.
- the sheets would be held together by the adhesive strips 26.
- a set of three such sheets, here 10a, 10b and 10c, are shown in FIG. 8, already once folded as the single sheet as shown in FIG. 3 has been folded.
- the multiple sheet set of FIG. 9 may also be provided with the additional adhesive area (FIGS. 5-7) and again folded, as explained in connection with FIGS. 6 and 7.
Abstract
Description
- This invention pertains to sealed documents. In particular the invention pertains to sheets constituting a message or other information recording sheet which sheet may be folded and sealed to form a sealed document. It is known to provide a construction of letter paper capable of being folded and sealed to provide a foldable mailer containing a combined message sheet and envelope to enable the foldable mailer to be despatched by post. Such constructions are shown in British Specification no 753 929, US Specifications Nos 3 523 638, and 1 307 421 and German Specification no 67 753.
- It is also known to provide record keeping systems (US Specification No 4 153 277) including a master ledger sheet and a multiple sheet label assembly with adhesive backing and the label assembly includes a flap so that the flap can be secured to the back of the master ledger sheet.
- Also US Specification No 4 576 399 discloses a three panel code sheet with one of the panels having extended edges with adhesive and protective covering strips.
- Also US Specification No 3 143 279 discloses a combined envelope and statement form but the document does not refer to reusable adhesive but the form includes three transverse foldlines for folding the sheet into four substantially equal parts in addition to the fold line adjacent a sealing flap and the adhesive is positioned for securing the four parts.
- It is often desirable to provide a way to provide information on a simple sheet of paper or the like and have a self-contained means to seal the document without having a letter construction including envelope parts. Moreover, it is also desirable to have the sheets readily available, as in the form of a pad of the sheets.
- Therefore, it is an object of this invention to provide a sheet, and a pad of sheets, that may be rapidly sealed by self-contained means to be sealed along at least one edge, or along all edges.
- The invention may be best understood by reference to illustrative embodiments, which will be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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- Fig 1 shows one surface of a sheet of material for the invention.
- Fig 2 shows the reverse side of the sheet of Fig 1.
- Fig 3 shows the sheet of Fig 1 after a first fold.
- Fig 4 shows the sheet of Fig 1 after a second fold.
- FIG. 5 shows a sheet prepared for a second embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 6 shows the sheet of FIG. 5 after a first fold.
- FIG. 7 shows the sheet of FIG. 6 after a second fold.
- . FIG. 8 shows a set of sheets prepared for still another embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 9 shows the sheets of FIG. 8 after an initial folding operation.
- In FIG. 1
reference character 10 designates a sheet of paper or like material on the surface 12 of which a message or other information may be recorded.Sheet 10 hastop edge 14,bottom edge 16,right side edge 18 andleft side edge 20. Side 12 also hasindicia marks 22 for a purpose described below. - The
opposite side 24 ofsheet 10 is shown in FIG. 2. A strip of reusable or releasable adhesive 26 (hereafter, "reusable") is provided alongedge 14 ofside 24. Reusable adhesives are well known in the art. Spaces also are provided for "To" and "From" information atpositions side 24. - For purposes of creating a sealed document the user, facing side 12, folds the document along fold line 32 (FIG. 3) which could be perforated to facilitate folding at the proper place. When folded,
edge 14 is placed at theindicia marks 22. The user then folds the document along fold line 34 (FIG. 4) at the indicia marks to place the area between the fold line 34 andedge 16 over theadhesive strip 26. Pressing the parts together secures the folded document. - The document may be opened simply by peeling apart the areas held by the reusable adhesive. A perforation line 35 (FIGS. 1-3) may be located at the inner edge of the adhesive strip at allow the user to remove the adhesive or fold the adhesive strip over to eliminate the exposed adhesive surface. The exposed strip would not be desirable if the document was filed.
- If more security is desired the configuration of reusable adhesive areas shown in FIG. 5 may be used. Here
side 24 ofsheet 10 not only hasstrip 26 but also strips 36, 38, 40 and 42 of reusable adhesive. "To" and "From" spaces also are provided at thelocations - In use the
sheet 10 of FIG. 5, which has a side 12 like that of FIG. 1, is folded over and secured bystrip 26 of adhesive as was the case in FIGS. 1-4.Adhesive strip 26 is now covered, but the otheradhesive strips chain line 48, to bring the adhesive strips together, and provide the document shown in FIG. 7. In this way the document is sealed slong all four edges. It may be opened by peeling the sealed areas apart. - Adhesive may exist along all of the edges as shown in FIG. 6 to bring adhesive on two surfaces together for added strength. However, one coat of adhesive will do, in which case only one-half of
strips strips - In another embodiment of the invention the
sheet 10 may be one of a number of such sheets, with carbon paper (not shown) or carbonless transfer materials between them for making multiple copies of a given message. For example, these could be of the "To/From/Reply" memo format. The sheets would be held together by theadhesive strips 26. A set of three such sheets, here 10a, 10b and 10c, are shown in FIG. 8, already once folded as the single sheet as shown in FIG. 3 has been folded. - In order to seal the set of sheets (FIG. 8) the
bottom edges 16 of sheets 1 Oa and 10b are folded underedges 14 of the three sheets as shown in FIG. 9, leaving theedge 16 of sheet 10c to be folded over to be secured to theadhesive strip 26 of sheet 10c, in the manner shown in FIG. 4. - The multiple sheet set of FIG. 9 may also be provided with the additional adhesive area (FIGS. 5-7) and again folded, as explained in connection with FIGS. 6 and 7.
- Upon reading the foregoing descriptions of illustrative embodiments many other embodiments will occur to the reader. Therefore, the scope of the invention is to be determined from the appended claims.
Claims (4)
characterised in that the strip of adhesive (26) is of the reusable adhesive kind and is positioned along the top edge (14) of the sheet (10) and in that indica (22) is placed on the said other side and adjacent the bottom edge (16) of the sheet (10) opposite from the edge bearing the strip of adhesive (26), the indica (22) being placed from the edge (16) of the sheet a distance substantially equal to the width of the strip of adhesive (26) and defining the fold line (22) whereby the second part of the sheet may be folded to place the side beaing the message or other information inside the second fold and the edge (14) at which the adhesive is applied is brought to the indica (22) whereupon the second part of the sheet may be folded over the adhesive to close the folded sheet.
Priority Applications (1)
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AT87304889T ATE56183T1 (en) | 1986-06-17 | 1987-06-03 | SEALED DOCUMENTS. |
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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US87520886A | 1986-06-17 | 1986-06-17 | |
US875208 | 1986-06-17 |
Publications (3)
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EP0250124A2 EP0250124A2 (en) | 1987-12-23 |
EP0250124A3 EP0250124A3 (en) | 1989-03-22 |
EP0250124B1 true EP0250124B1 (en) | 1990-09-05 |
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EP87304889A Expired - Lifetime EP0250124B1 (en) | 1986-06-17 | 1987-06-03 | Sealed documents |
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EP (1) | EP0250124B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JPS6317094A (en) |
AT (1) | ATE56183T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU7425887A (en) |
CA (1) | CA1310305C (en) |
DE (1) | DE3764723D1 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2016973B3 (en) |
GR (1) | GR3001043T3 (en) |
MW (1) | MW3787A1 (en) |
MX (1) | MX170642B (en) |
NZ (1) | NZ220720A (en) |
PT (1) | PT85096B (en) |
ZA (1) | ZA873925B (en) |
ZM (1) | ZM4287A1 (en) |
ZW (1) | ZW9487A1 (en) |
Cited By (2)
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US5575574A (en) * | 1994-04-06 | 1996-11-19 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Sheet composite adapted to be printed |
US5776591A (en) * | 1995-07-20 | 1998-07-07 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Elongate printable sheet composite |
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AU599156B2 (en) * | 1985-01-17 | 1990-07-12 | Michael John Sinnott | Greeting card |
JPH0438471U (en) * | 1990-07-31 | 1992-03-31 |
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DE67753C (en) * | F. M. MERRIDEW in Boulogne sur Mer, Frankreich, 60 rue Victor Hugo | Postcard with reply card | ||
GB753929A (en) * | 1954-05-28 | 1956-08-01 | Manuel Musulen Fajardo | Improvements in or relating to stationery |
US3143279A (en) * | 1962-02-07 | 1964-08-04 | Sydney J Black | Combined envelope and statement form |
US3532638A (en) * | 1967-04-28 | 1970-10-06 | Eastman Kodak Co | Phototropic compositions |
JPS5130531A (en) * | 1974-09-09 | 1976-03-15 | Kubota Ltd | TOGATAHOHO |
JPS5334993U (en) * | 1976-09-01 | 1978-03-27 | ||
US4153277A (en) * | 1978-02-24 | 1979-05-08 | Wright Line Inc. | Record keeping system |
US4576399A (en) * | 1983-11-07 | 1986-03-18 | The Upjohn Company | Blinded code sheet format and method for its use |
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- 1987-06-02 ZA ZA873925A patent/ZA873925B/en unknown
- 1987-06-03 ES ES87304889T patent/ES2016973B3/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1987-06-03 MW MW37/87A patent/MW3787A1/en unknown
- 1987-06-03 EP EP87304889A patent/EP0250124B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1987-06-03 DE DE8787304889T patent/DE3764723D1/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1987-06-03 AT AT87304889T patent/ATE56183T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1987-06-08 ZM ZM42/87A patent/ZM4287A1/en unknown
- 1987-06-16 CA CA000539846A patent/CA1310305C/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1987-06-16 JP JP62150035A patent/JPS6317094A/en active Pending
- 1987-06-16 AU AU74258/87A patent/AU7425887A/en not_active Abandoned
- 1987-06-16 NZ NZ220720A patent/NZ220720A/en unknown
- 1987-06-16 PT PT85096A patent/PT85096B/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1987-06-17 MX MX006967A patent/MX170642B/en unknown
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Cited By (2)
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US5575574A (en) * | 1994-04-06 | 1996-11-19 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Sheet composite adapted to be printed |
US5776591A (en) * | 1995-07-20 | 1998-07-07 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Elongate printable sheet composite |
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MW3787A1 (en) | 1987-12-09 |
DE3764723D1 (en) | 1990-10-11 |
CA1310305C (en) | 1992-11-17 |
PT85096B (en) | 1993-07-30 |
GR3001043T3 (en) | 1992-01-20 |
NZ220720A (en) | 1990-07-26 |
PT85096A (en) | 1988-07-01 |
ES2016973B3 (en) | 1990-12-16 |
MX170642B (en) | 1993-09-03 |
ZW9487A1 (en) | 1989-01-04 |
ZM4287A1 (en) | 1988-04-29 |
ZA873925B (en) | 1988-04-27 |
ATE56183T1 (en) | 1990-09-15 |
JPS6317094A (en) | 1988-01-25 |
EP0250124A2 (en) | 1987-12-23 |
AU7425887A (en) | 1987-12-24 |
EP0250124A3 (en) | 1989-03-22 |
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