EP0753462B2 - Mailing envelope - Google Patents

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EP0753462B2
EP0753462B2 EP96901804A EP96901804A EP0753462B2 EP 0753462 B2 EP0753462 B2 EP 0753462B2 EP 96901804 A EP96901804 A EP 96901804A EP 96901804 A EP96901804 A EP 96901804A EP 0753462 B2 EP0753462 B2 EP 0753462B2
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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 flexible 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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  • the present invention refers to an envelope, in other words a classic paper container used to send any type of letter or document, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • envelopes are shaped as a type of rectangular container, open at one of its sides, where there is a sealing flap aided by an adhesive strip, that at times is moistenable and other times it makes contact, in such a way that once the envelope has been conveniently sealed, the opening of the same by the addressee turns out to be a bit difficult, since the envelope must be opened without damaging the contents thereof.
  • a more advanced solution consists of, after choosing which is the edge for opening the envelope, to conveniently fasten a string to the same, that emerges slightly through one of its ends, in such a way that the addressee of the envelope needs only to pull on the free end of the thread, achieving the rapid opening of the same.
  • This solution undoubtedly effective, nevertheless has the basic problem of making the envelope more expensive upon including this additional means for opening same.
  • the envelope that the invention proposed has been designed and structured in order to fully satisfactorily solve the above mentioned problem, in such a way that, without the least repercussion on the manufacturing cost of the same, the envelope offers an extremely rapid, simple and effective opening means, allowing the addressee to realize if the same has been fraudulently opened without authorization.
  • the mailing envelope comprises a body with a generally rectangular contour, provided with a mouth corresponding with one of its edges, sealable by a foldable trapezoidal closure flap, with a free edge limited between two vertexes, the closure flap being attachable to the body by means of an adhesive attachment strip, the envelope including on the reverse or back surface of its body, a plurality of aligned parallel cuts adjacent to the free edge of the closure flap when said closure flap is in its folded or sealed position, whereby said cuts remain hidden under said closure flap in said folded or sealed position, said cuts being substantially adjacent, defining together small connections being easily frangible by means of tearing when conveniently pulling on the closure flap when sealed on the envelope, for which purpose the alignment of cuts lengthwise affects and is covered by the entire attachment strip, the envelope including a special initiating cut being larger than the cuts of said plurality of cuts, whereby the special initiating cut entirely and transversally crosses the adhesive area of the attachment strip, and is situated in such a way that it remains hidden under the closure flap in the folded or
  • the cited cuts must be placed right next to the free edge of the sealing flap, in such a way that in the opening operation the gummed area of the body of the envelope remains basically fastened to the flap, thus favoring the tearing operation.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide the envelope with means to allow the addressee to know if there has been fraudulent opening thereof, for which purpose aside from the initial tearing cut cited above and larger than the cuts that form the alignment on the back of the envelope, another larger cut has been provided for in the opposite end, all in such a way that if ones tries to loosen the flap from this second end, by means of careful pulling, the uncontrolled tearing of the corresponding area of the envelope would take place and thus fraudulent or unauthorized opening of the envelope would be revealed. In other words, it makes the envelope inviolable.
  • the proposed envelope has the shape of any conventional envelope, materialized by a body (1) provided with a sealing flap (2) with a straight or trapezoidal shape, wherein a broad rectilinear edge (3) is defined, as shown in figure 1, or else materialized by a body (1') aided by a triangular shaped flap (2'), defining an angular free edge (3'), as seen in figure 5.
  • an adhesive strip (4) that may be continuous as in the example of figure 1 or made into two symmetric portions (4') as in the example in figure 5, that may be either moistenable or by contact, in the latter case helped by a protective strip of paraffin coated, silicon coated or the like, and that in any case constitutes the means for sealing the flap (2-2') to the envelope (1-1'), to achieve sealing of the same after the corresponding contents has been inserted therein.
  • the invention includes on the back of the envelope, that corresponds to reference (1) itself, a plurality of cuts (5-5') which are not very large, that form a parallel alignment very close to the imaginary line (6) of the cited body (1) receiving the free edge (3-3') of the flap (2-2') after sealing the same.
  • cuts (5-5') preferably in an oblique position, define between them easily frangible connections (7), that convert this alignment of cuts (5-5') into a line of opening by tearing, when one pulls on the flap itself (2-2') fastened to the body (1) of the envelope in the previous operation of sealing the same.
  • the starting cut (11) has an arched shape and is located opposite the free edge (3') of the flap, specifically between the two side alignments of cuts (5'), in such a way that when one pulls on the middle vertex of the flap, in accordance with the arrow referred to as (12) in figure 6, the tearing of the body (1') of the envelope takes place in a similar way as in the previous case, in this case towards both sides and symmetrically, as shown in figure 7, until the envelope is opened entirely, as shown in turn in figure 8.
  • the envelope (1) in question aside from all the features described for the envelope of figures 1 to 4, has the particularity that in the part of the gummed area (9) opposite to the cut (8) for starting the tearing, there is a second cut (8a) that is going to define an inviolability means of the envelope, since when one carefully pulls on the flap (2) by the vertex that has been represented by arrow (10a), in an attempt of fraudulent opening, then the envelope will tear as is represented in figure 11.
  • an envelope with a triangular flap is also disclosed.
  • An envelope with a triangular flap as shown in figures 12 and 13, corresponds to that which is shown in figures 5 to 8. It can also be provided with the means that will reveal a case or attempt of fraudulent or unauthorized opening.
  • the envelope (1') aside from the cut for starting tearing (11) has a pair of cuts (11') in the opposite ends of the gummed areas (9'), in such a way that if one pulls on the center area or vertex, as arrow (12) of figure 3 indicates, it will open in the exact same way as the envelope (1') of figures 5 to 8. Now then, if one pulls on the ends of the flap (2') as indicated by the arrows (12') then the tearing would take place just as it happened in envelope (1) of figures 9, 10 and 11 when one pulled on the end corresponding to the arrow indication (10a), revealing an attempt of fraudulent opening.
  • the cuts (8a) and (11') referred to for the embodiment of the envelopes corresponding to figures 9 to 11 and to figures 12 and 13, respectively, are connected to the final cut (5) and (5') of the alignments of oblique cuts made in the respective gummed areas of said envelopes.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Cartons (AREA)
  • Vessels And Coating Films For Discharge Lamps (AREA)
  • Credit Cards Or The Like (AREA)
  • Packages (AREA)
  • Bag Frames (AREA)
  • Sheets, Magazines, And Separation Thereof (AREA)
  • Packaging Of Special Articles (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Making Paper Articles (AREA)
  • Facsimile Transmission Control (AREA)
  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
  • Data Exchanges In Wide-Area Networks (AREA)
  • Soy Sauces And Products Related Thereto (AREA)
EP96901804A 1995-02-10 1996-02-06 Mailing envelope Expired - Lifetime EP0753462B2 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (5)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
ES9500385U 1995-02-10
ES9500385U ES1030146Y (es) 1995-02-10 1995-02-10 Sobre perfeccionado.
ES9600138U 1996-01-18
ES9600138U ES1034808Y (es) 1996-01-18 1996-01-18 Sobre de envio perfeccionado.
PCT/ES1996/000021 WO1996024531A1 (es) 1995-02-10 1996-02-06 Sobre de envio

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EP0753462A1 EP0753462A1 (en) 1997-01-15
EP0753462B1 EP0753462B1 (en) 1999-05-26
EP0753462B2 true EP0753462B2 (en) 2004-02-04

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AT (1) ATE180453T1 (es)
AU (1) AU4623696A (es)
BR (1) BR9605804A (es)
CA (1) CA2187509C (es)
DE (1) DE69602559T3 (es)
DK (1) DK0753462T4 (es)
ES (1) ES2136387T5 (es)
FI (1) FI118526B (es)
GR (1) GR3030909T3 (es)
NO (1) NO320673B1 (es)
RU (1) RU2113385C1 (es)
WO (1) WO1996024531A1 (es)

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ES2179736B1 (es) * 2000-03-24 2004-01-01 Trujillo Flavio Lopez Sobre perfeccionado:sistema de apertura con control de violacion.
FR2912119B1 (fr) * 2007-02-07 2012-02-03 Mail Inside Enveloppe a ouverture facilitee permettant l'acces a un canal de communication integre
US9315295B2 (en) 2012-02-15 2016-04-19 Artem Deev Easy opening envelope
JP2014240290A (ja) * 2013-06-12 2014-12-25 トッパン・フォームズ株式会社 分離構造

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR1456262A (fr) † 1965-11-29 1966-10-21 Procédé pour ouvrir une enveloppe sans avoir à faire appel à un outil et sans difficultés
US3460743A (en) † 1967-09-22 1969-08-12 Us Envelope Co Envelope with inserted coupon
EP0686569A2 (de) † 1994-06-09 1995-12-13 Curtis 1000 Europe Gmbh Briefumschlag, Versandtasche oder dergleichen

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US1336646A (en) * 1916-08-16 1920-04-13 John J Mendenhall Safety-envelop
US3464621A (en) * 1967-04-24 1969-09-02 Harold R Day Sheet material separation device
US3652008A (en) * 1970-11-27 1972-03-28 Computing & Software Inc Envelope
US4607749A (en) * 1985-04-01 1986-08-26 American Envelope Co. Easy open envelope

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR1456262A (fr) † 1965-11-29 1966-10-21 Procédé pour ouvrir une enveloppe sans avoir à faire appel à un outil et sans difficultés
US3460743A (en) † 1967-09-22 1969-08-12 Us Envelope Co Envelope with inserted coupon
EP0686569A2 (de) † 1994-06-09 1995-12-13 Curtis 1000 Europe Gmbh Briefumschlag, Versandtasche oder dergleichen

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DE69602559T2 (de) 1999-11-18
MX9604733A (es) 1998-05-31
AU4623696A (en) 1996-08-27
FI964040A0 (fi) 1996-10-09
DK0753462T4 (da) 2004-06-07
CA2187509C (en) 2002-07-16
WO1996024531A1 (es) 1996-08-15
ATE180453T1 (de) 1999-06-15
FI964040A7 (fi) 1996-12-03
CA2187509A1 (en) 1996-08-15
BR9605804A (pt) 1997-10-14
NO964289L (no) 1996-12-05
EP0753462B1 (en) 1999-05-26
DE69602559T3 (de) 2004-09-16
GR3030909T3 (en) 1999-11-30
DK0753462T3 (da) 1999-11-08
EP0753462A1 (en) 1997-01-15
RU2113385C1 (ru) 1998-06-20
ES2136387T5 (es) 2004-10-16
FI118526B (fi) 2007-12-14
NO964289D0 (no) 1996-10-09
DE69602559D1 (de) 1999-07-01
NO320673B1 (no) 2006-01-16

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