JP2002284178A - Envelope for sending card-type cd - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inexpensively send a card-type CD in such a manner as to prevent the card-type CD from being cracked or broken when an envelope, in which the card-type CD is enclosed, passes through a mail sorting machine. SOLUTION: In the one side opening type envelope, an envelope feeding direction of an envelope sorting device is taken as a long side direction of the envelope, and one of a pair of opposed long sides of the envelope is opened. The envelope has a card inserting part 10 where the card-type CD 11 is disposed in such a manner that a long side 12 of a card is orthogonal to the long side direction of the envelope, and the inserting part 10 is provided near a center between short sides 14 of the envelope.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a card type CD sending envelope.

[0002]

In recent years, business card-sized card-type CDs have become widespread as applied products of CDs, and various types of information are recorded and the recorded contents are displayed through a personal computer having a CD-ROM reader. It is becoming possible. For this reason, if notification information such as catalog information is recorded on the card-type CD, the notification information composed of many characters, images, and the like is provided on the personal computer on the side provided with the card-type CD. A new information notification means of browsing can be constructed. As a method of distributing a card-type CD on which information is recorded from an information provider to a required customer or the like, it is conceivable to send the card using an envelope in the same manner as when sending a conventional credit card or the like. Have been.

[0003] By the way, in the current postal system, postal sorting machines have been introduced in order to rationalize the sorting of fixed postal items, but the flexibility and the overall thickness of the envelope contents have not reached certain conditions. In such a case, it is not possible to use the postal sorting machine. Particularly, when an envelope having a required size and containing a plate material thicker than the credit card is hung on a postal sorting machine, the envelope conveyed by a conveying belt constituting a conveying path of the postal sorting machine is a roller. When passing through the bent portion of the envelope, the envelope is pressed against the roller by the conveyor belt. When the inner plate material is curved to some extent by this pressing, and cracks or breaks depending on the enclosing position of the plate material, or when an envelope in which the plate material is arranged at an offset position hits the sorting box. Problems such as the envelope itself being torn. From such a point, a low-cost sending method of sending using a standard mail is used for the distribution of the card-type CD, and the card-type CD is not cracked or broken.
It has become desirable to avoid envelope damage. In view of the above, in the present invention, when the envelope enclosing the card-type CD is passed through the postal sorting machine, the card-type CD is not cracked or broken, and the envelope is not damaged. It is an object to send a card type CD at a low cost.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-mentioned problems, and has an arrangement in which an envelope feeding direction of an envelope sorting apparatus is set to an envelope long side direction, and one of a pair of opposed envelope long sides is used. A card-type envelope having a one-sided opening type having an open long side, wherein a card insertion portion in which a card-type CD is arranged so that the card long side is orthogonal to the envelope long side direction. An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problem by providing a CD sending envelope. In the present invention, it is preferable that the card insertion portion is provided at a position near the center between the short sides of the envelope.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the illustrated embodiments. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 denotes an envelope for sending a card-type CD. The envelope 1 for sending a card-type CD has an envelope lower paper 2 and an envelope upper paper 3 overlapped with each other. One of the long sides 4 (upper side in the figure) of the envelope is opened as an inlet / outlet 5, and a sealing piece 7 is connected to the upper edge of the envelope paper 3 at the inlet / outlet 5 via a folded portion 6. It is. As shown in the drawing, the sealing piece 7 is provided with an opening portion 8 formed of two perforations along the direction of the envelope long side 4, and is folded from the folding portion 6 toward the envelope lower paper 2 side. After bonding by the bonding means 9 located on the upper edge side of the sealing piece 7, the envelope can be opened by removing the portion 8 to be opened on the side receiving the envelope.

[0006] A card insertion section 10 is provided on the inner surface of the envelope upper paper 3. The card insertion part 10 is set so that the side of the slot 5 is opened,
The card insertion portion 10 has a storage space in which the card-type CD 11 can be inserted and removed. The card-type CD 11 is folded by inserting the card-type CD 11 into the card insertion portion 10. The card-type CD sending envelope 1 can be securely accommodated in the envelope 1 without involving the unit 6. The open part of the card insertion part 10 is close to the folding part 6, and when the sealing piece 7 is folded from the folding part 6 and sealed, the opening part of the card insertion part 10 is closed and the card type CD 11 comes out. Preventing. The card type CD 11 itself is a standard product, the length of the card long side 12 is 86 mm, and the length of the card short side 13 is 58 m
m, which corresponds to the size of the card type CD 11 in the card insertion section 10,
The card-type CD 11 is arranged such that the card long sides 12 are orthogonal to the direction of.

The card insertion section 10 is provided at a substantially central position between the short sides 14 of the envelope. If the card type CD 11 is inserted into the card insertion section 10 and sealed, the card type CD sending envelope is provided. 1, the card long side 12 of the card type CD 11 is perpendicular to the direction of the envelope long side 4, and the card type CD 11 is
Are arranged at a substantially central position between them, and are provided so as not to move from that position.

The card-type CD sending envelope 1 having the above-described structure, in which the card-type CD 11 is housed and sealed, does not cause cracks or cracks in the card-type CD 11, even when the envelope is put on a postal sorting machine. It has been confirmed that no damage occurs. For example, in a mail sorting machine, a large roller 15 having a diameter of 280 mm is provided in the transport path (FIG. 2), and a transport path in which the envelope 1 is largely bent at the location is constituted by the transport belt 16. is there. However, when the card-type CD sending envelope 1 having the above structure was passed through a mail sorting machine, no damage was found on the internal card-type CD and the envelope. Also, the amount of outward protrusion 17 of the card type CD 11 on the peripheral surface of the large roller 15 was small, and it was confirmed that the load on the drive source side of the transport belt 16 and the large roller 15 was small. The transfer direction A of the envelope 1 for sending a card-type CD and the direction of the long side 4 of the envelope are parallel to each other, and are the same as the direction of the envelope in a normal transport operation.

As shown in FIG. 3, an envelope 18 in which a card-type CD 11 is arranged closer to one of the shorter sides 14 of an envelope of the same shape as shown in FIG. , The card long side 12 of the card type CD 11 at the substantially central position between the envelope short sides 14
The envelopes 19 were arranged so as to be parallel to each other, and these were put on a mail sorting machine. The card-shaped CD 11 in the envelope was cracked. Due to the small distance, when hitting the inner surface of the sorting box, card type CD1 with momentum
It was confirmed that the envelope was pushed by 1 and bent at the tip of the envelope. In the above mail sorting machine, there is a place where a conveyor belt is hung on a roller having a small diameter, but the roller having a small diameter is provided at a place where a conveyance path is substantially linear, and a small diameter roller is provided. At the position of the roller, the conveying path is not bent deeply, and the product of the present invention, and the envelope in which the card type CD is moved to the short side of the envelope,
In any of the envelopes in which the long sides of the card were aligned in the direction of the long side of the envelope at substantially the center, not only the envelope was damaged, but no cracks or cracks occurred in the stored card-type CD.

In the envelope 1 for sending a card-type CD, an envelope lower paper 2 and an envelope upper paper 3 are overlapped and three opposing sides are sealed to form an open side. And the envelope upper paper 3 are connected in advance, and the envelope lower paper 2 and the envelope upper paper 3 are folded to seal two opposing sides (the envelope shorter side 14 side) to form a one-sided opening type. Alternatively, the method of manufacturing the envelope itself is not particularly limited.

In the above-described embodiment, an example is shown in which the card-type CD is arranged at a substantially central position between the short sides of the envelope in the envelope. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
The above-described cracking and bending of the leading end of the envelope during the transport of the CD can be dealt with, for example, by changing the configuration of the sorting machine.

[0012]

As described above, the card type C of the present invention is used.
According to the envelope for D sending, in the one-sided opening type envelope in which the envelope feeding direction of the envelope sorting device is set to the envelope long side direction and one of the pair of opposed envelope long sides is opened. It has a card insertion part in which a card type CD is arranged so that the long sides of the card are orthogonal to the long side direction. With this configuration, if the envelope is sent out in a state where the longer side of the envelope, which is usually performed for the mail sorting machine, is set to the transport direction, the short side of the card is always orthogonal to the transport direction, and the peripheral surface of the transport roller Card type CD
Is reduced, and no load is applied to the drive source side of the transport roller or the transport belt. Furthermore, if the card-type CD is positioned closer to the center between the short sides of the envelope, the impact when the envelope sent out in the long side direction of the envelope enters the sorting box will be reduced, and changes in the sorting and transporting equipment will be required. Without necessity, it is possible to prevent the envelope material from being bent or torn, etc., thereby achieving an effect with excellent practicality.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a card-type CD sending envelope according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating conveyance of an envelope.

FIGS. 3A and 3B show an envelope to be compared with the envelope of the present invention. FIG. 3A is an explanatory view showing an envelope in which a card type CD is moved to the short side of the envelope, and FIG. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an envelope in which the long sides of the card are aligned in the direction of the long side of the envelope.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Card type CD 4 ... Envelope long side 5 ... Slot 10 ... Card insertion part 11 ... Card type CD 12 ... Card long side 13 ... Card short side 14 ... Envelope short side 15 ... Large roller

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A one-sided opening type envelope in which an envelope feeding direction of an envelope sorting device is set to an envelope long side direction and one of a pair of opposed envelope long sides is opened. A card-type CD sending envelope, wherein a card-type CD is arranged such that the long sides of the card are orthogonal to each other. 2. The card type CD according to claim 1, wherein the card insertion portion is provided at a position near the center between the short sides of the envelope.
Envelope for sending.