JP2950477B2 - Sending printed matter and sent printed matter sealing tape - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printed matter which can be sent without enclosing a printed matter body such as a catalog or pamphlet folded at least in a booklet form or a machine-folded form into an envelope, and a printed matter used therefor. The present invention relates to a sealing tape and a continuous body thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, from the viewpoint of reducing the labor of enclosing in an envelope when sending a catalog or the like and saving resources, a printed matter which can be directly sealed and sent as it is has been proposed. ing. Examples of such printed materials include, for example, JP-A-48-37266,
Nos. 24317 and 62-126974 are known.

In these publications, one of the front covers of the printed matter is integrally formed to be wider in the lateral direction than the other, and a folded part is provided, and the small part of the printed matter is sealed by the folded part. In addition, destination information such as the address of the destination as the recipient, and sending type information consisting of characters such as "post-payment mail" and "send catalog by home delivery" are directly described on the cover.

However, if the cover or the like is integrally formed in a wide width in the horizontal direction, the size of the cover becomes a special order product such as A plate, B plate or chrysanthemum plate which is out of the standard size, and the work such as printing and cutting becomes expensive. Therefore, despite being an invention proposed for a long time, it has not been put to practical use yet.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of such a conventional situation, an object of the present invention is to provide a printed printed material which can be manufactured at low cost using ordinary standard printed materials and which can be sent without using an envelope. It is an object of the present invention to provide a printed printed matter sealing tape and the like used for the above.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a first feature of the sent printed matter according to the present invention is to seal a booklet-shaped or at least two-folded printed matter main body and a small edge of the printed matter main body. And a sending type information section, wherein the sealing tape has a strip-shaped tape body extending over the front and back of the cover of the printed matter main body along the fore edge, and the tape body is peelably adhered to the cover. The adhesive tape for the entire back surface of the tape body, the sealing tape is a first sealing portion to be attached to one cover side of the cover from the second sealing portion to be attached to the other cover side Also, the transmission type information section is provided on the first sealing section side in such a manner that the transmission type information section is formed wider in the horizontal direction intersecting the direction along the fore edge.

According to a first characteristic of the printed matter, the sealing tape extends over the front and back of the cover of the printed matter body along the fore edge. Then, this sealing tape is adhered to the cover of the printed matter main body by the adhesive material provided on the back surface of the tape body, and closes the fore end of the printed matter main body. Since the adhesive is releasably adhered, it can be removed from the printed matter main body when the printed matter is opened.

A second feature of the printout according to the present invention is that a transmission destination information entry column for inputting a destination address or the like is further provided on the first sealing section side.

A third feature of the printed printed matter according to the present invention is that the material of the tape body is paper.

A fourth feature of the printed printed matter according to the present invention is that the length of the tape body is shorter than the length of the printed body in the fore-edge longitudinal direction.

A fifth feature of the printed matter sent according to the present invention is that the printed matter body is folded, such as a brochure, a brochure or the like folded in two, four, or eight, and folded or double folded. It is to be. That is, the present invention can be applied to a case where a simply folded printed matter is sent other than a case where a closed booklet-like printed matter is sent as it is.

[0012] On the other hand, the feature of the printed printed matter sealing tape used for the printed printed matter according to the present invention is that, in the configuration for sealing the booklet-shaped or at least the folded part of the printed matter main body, the sending type information section and the address of the sending destination are included. And a destination information entry field for entering the information, etc., and a strip-shaped tape body extending over the front and back of the front cover of the printed matter main body along the fore edge, and the tape body is detachably adhered to the cover. Has a pressure-sensitive adhesive material on the back surface of the tape body, and the first sealing portion attached to one cover side of the cover intersects in a direction along the fore edge more than the second sealing portion attached to the other cover side. The transmission type information part and the destination information entry column are provided on the first sealing part side, and the material of the tape body is paper.

[0013]

[0014]

[0015]

As described above, according to the above-mentioned features of the sent printed matter and the sent printed matter sealing tape according to the present invention, a sealing tape separate from the printed matter main body is used. It can be manufactured inexpensively using ordinary standard printed matter without any special provision. Moreover, it is possible to remove the sealing tape itself which is a hindrance to the recycling of used paper at the time of opening,
After peeling, the aesthetic appearance of the printed matter is not impaired. As a result, the sending of printed materials without the use of envelopes can be promoted for the first time as a real problem in existing facilities such as the printing and paper recycling industry, which can significantly contribute to environmental conservation by saving paper resources and promoting waste paper recycling. .

Further, according to the first feature of the sent printed matter and the feature of the sent printed matter sealing tape, the sending type information can be determined separately from the printing plan of the printed matter main body without using an envelope or the like. Therefore, it is possible to secure a time margin for ordering / ordering the printed matter main body, and it is also possible to send out the common printed matter main body by various different sending means such as mailing and home delivery. In particular, by providing the sending type information section on the wide sealing section side, the wide sealing section can be effectively used.

[0017]

[0018]

[0019]

According to the fourth feature of the sent printed matter, since the end of the tape body does not protrude above and below the printed matter body, it is possible to avoid a situation in which the end of the tape is accidentally caught and peeled off. In particular, it is possible to protect a non-adhesive portion that easily becomes a peeling opening.

[0021]

[0022]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a sent printed matter 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention is a catalog body 2 which is an example of a printed matter body.
And a sealing tape 10. Catalog body 2
Are standard printed materials such as B5 and A4 plates, but are configured as so-called non-standard-size mail. A plurality of pages of text 4 are provided between a pair of front cover (a front cover) 3a and a back cover 3b, and are stapled in a booklet shape by a stapler on the back 6 side as described later. That is, the paper forming the cover 3 and the body 4 is folded at least on the back 6 side.

As shown in FIG. 2, the sealing tape 10 adheres from the front cover 3a to the back cover 3b on the side of the fore edge 5 opposite to the back 6, and seals the fore edge 5 of the catalog body 2. In the present embodiment, the sealing tape 10
Are from the upper end 7a to the lower end 7b in the catalog body 2.
Is sealed over almost the entire width of the small box.

The tape body 10a of the sealing tape 10
It is possible to use so-called OPP, CPP, polyethylene, cloth, or paper as the material of. In particular, when a cut tape as described later is provided, it is desirable to use OPP or CPP that can be easily torn. on the other hand,
It is desirable to use a so-called weak adhesive having good releasability using ethyl acetate or normal hexane as the adhesive 10b. That is, the adhesive material 10b can be detachably adhered to the object to be adhered, and if possible, it is desirable that the adhesive material 10b can withstand several times of adhesion and detachment operations.

On the surface of the first sealing portion 11 to be attached to the front cover 3a side of the sealing tape 10, the sending type information 8
a and a destination information entry column 8b. For this reason, the first sealing portion 11 is provided with the second sealing portion 12 on the back cover 3b side.
It is formed wider than in the lateral direction. In the present embodiment, the adhesive 10b is provided on the entire back surface of the sealing tape 10. However, the adhesive 10b is sufficient at the first sealing portion 11 and the second sealing portion 12, and as described later, the edge is small. It is not always necessary to provide the adhesive 10b on the back surface of the sealing portion 13.

Here, the sending type information 8a is information in which character information such as "post-payment mail" and "catalog parcel" is described in advance by printing, and the sender's name and the like are printed on the second sealing section 12 side. It does not matter. The content of the sending type information 8a is changed by the sending means, and when using a distribution channel of a courier other than the postal service, the character information is replaced by "This catalog is delivered by a courier service." The character information corresponding to the sending means such as is described.

The destination information entry field 8b in the present embodiment
Is an address label formed separately from the sealing tape 10. The address label as the destination information entry field 8b may be attached on the sealing tape 10 after the sealing tape 10 is provided on the catalog body 2, but the destination information entry field in which the address is entered for the sealing tape 10 It is also possible to attach this sealing tape 10 to the catalog main body 2 with the 8b address label attached. In addition, a destination information entry field 8b is printed with white ink or the like on the surface of the tape main body 10a together with the transmission type information 8a, and before and after the sealing tape 10 is attached to the catalog main body 2,
The destination address or the like may be entered in the destination information entry column 8b on a line or in a separate process using an inkjet printer or the like.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In addition, in each embodiment after this embodiment, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same member as the above-mentioned 1st embodiment unless there is particular notice.

A tape roll 100 shown in FIG. 3 is a roll-shaped continuous body in which a number of sealing tapes 10 are continuous in the longitudinal direction, and forms one pitch P for each phototube mark 101. The sending type information 8a is printed in advance. The tape roll 100 senses each phototube mark 101 with a phototube and cuts it at every pitch to form a single sealing tape 10.
Affixed to Such a configuration is similarly employed in the first embodiment, but in the present embodiment, the tape body 10
It is characterized in that a band-shaped non-adhesive portion 10e is provided in the width direction intermediate portion of the tape main body 10a on the back surface of a.

As shown in FIG. 3 to FIG.
Among them, the width Wc of the first adhesive portion 10c on the first sealing portion 11 side provided with the sending type information 8a is formed wider than the width Wd of the second adhesive portion 10d on the second sealing portion 12 side. In the present embodiment, the first adhesive portion 10c and the second adhesive portion 1
The non-adhesive portion 10e between 0d is formed in a band shape by not applying the adhesive material 10b. The width W of the non-adhesive portion 10e in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the tape roll 100
e, that is, the first boundary line H1 between the first adhesive portion 10c and the non-adhesive portion 10e, and the second adhesive portion 10d and the non-adhesive portion 10e.
Is formed larger than the width of the fore-edge 5, that is, the distance between the first corner E1 and the second corner E2 on the fore-edge 5 side of the catalog body 2. In such a case, it is particularly desirable that the first corner portion E1 and the first boundary line H1 be close to each other. Then, the non-adhesive portion 10e, which can be hooked by the fingernail or the like of the hand without adhering to the back cover 3b, is located between the second corner portion E2 and the second boundary line H2, and has a narrow width. This is because the second adhesive portion 10d is easier to peel than the wider first adhesive portion 10c. Sealing tape 1
The pitch P of 0 is shorter than the height of the catalog body 2 as a distance between the upper end 7a and the lower end 7b by a minute distance d, d above and below the catalog body 2 as a whole. Thus, it is possible to prevent the sealing tape 10 from being caught from the upper end 7a and the lower end 7b and accidentally peeled off.

In attaching the present sealing tape 10 to the catalog main body 2, as shown in FIG. 6, first, the first adhesive section 10 on the first sealing section 11 side provided with the sending type information 8a.
c is attached to the cover 3a, for example. At this time, as described above, the first boundary line H1 is made to approach the first corner E1. Next, the second sealing portion 12 side of the sealing tape 10 is bent in the direction of arrow BD from the non-adhesive portion 10e, and the second adhesive portion 10d is attached to the back cover 3b. Thereafter, if necessary, the label serving as the destination information entry column 8b is attached to the surface of the first sealing unit 11.

As described above, the sealing tape 10 shown in FIG.
To form a long tape roll 100 by printing. At the time of printing, the first adhesive part 10c and the second adhesive part 10e are provided on the left and right sides of the non-adhesive part 10e by providing a plate for applying the adhesive 10b on the left and right without applying the adhesive 10b to the non-adhesive part 10e. The adhesive portion 10d can be easily created. At this time, the printing plate for applying the adhesive material 10b may be a printing plate having no pattern, so that the printing cost is reduced accordingly.
Further, the first adhesive portion 10c and the second adhesive portion 10d are relatively thick and are located at the upper and lower ends of the cylindrical tape roll 100, respectively, so that the tape roll 100 can be easily wound without being inclined. Blocking due to partial overpressure hardly occurs, and slitting is easily performed.

The third embodiment shown in FIG. 7 uses the same sealing tape 10 as the second embodiment shown in FIGS. The thickness of the catalog body 2 is thicker than in the second embodiment, and the distance between the first boundary line H1 and the second boundary line H2, which is the width of the non-adhesive portion 10e, The thickness is very close to the distance between the first corner E1 and the second corner E2. However, since the width of the facing portion between the fore-edge 5 and the non-adhesive portion 10e, that is, the fore-edge sealing portion 13 is relatively large, a nail or the like of a hand is hooked on this portion to seal the sealing tape 10
Is easily peeled off.

[0034]

The catalog body 2 according to the fourth embodiment shown in FIGS. 8 to 10 is a booklet-shaped printed matter saddle-stitched by a stapler on the side of the saddle-stitched back 6 similarly to the previous embodiment. Is 14 ~ 23.5cm × 9
This is a so-called fixed-size mail that fits within 12 cm. Also,
Front cover 3 at upper end 7a and lower end 7b of catalog body 2
The upper end 7a and the lower end 7b are sealed by a pair of second sealing tapes 30 provided from a to the back cover 3b, respectively. These second sealing tapes 30
Is that the first sealing tape 10 is attached to the cover 3 in advance, and then attached to the cover. Therefore, perforation 1
6, following the peeling of the sealing tape 10 by the opening means such as 6,
The second sealing tape 30 can also be easily peeled off. The second sealing tape 30 has a portion facing the upper end 7a and the lower end 7b of the catalog body 2 having the non-adhesive portion 10e.
You may comprise so that it may have the same non-adhesive part.

Also in this embodiment, the first and second boundary lines H1,
The width of the non-adhesive portion 10e, which is the interval between H2, is formed to be larger than the width of the fore edge 5, so that the space between the second boundary line H2 and the second corner E2 does not adhere to the back cover 3b. In the present embodiment, the catalog body 2 is attached to the second sealing portion 12 on the back cover 3b side of the catalog body 2 between H2 and E2.
Is provided along the longitudinal direction of the tape body, that is, along the longitudinal direction of the tape body. After the perforation 16 is cut, the non-adhesive portions 10 e located on both sides of the perforation 16 serve as knobs for removing the sealing tape 10. The perforations 16 can be easily formed in the winding direction of the tape roll 100 when printing or slitting the sealing tape 10.

Finally, the possibility of another embodiment of the present invention will be enumerated. Of course, it is possible to carry out the above embodiments and the following other embodiments in combination with each other.

In the second embodiment, the non-adhesive portion 10e is constituted by not providing the adhesive material 10b partially on the back surface of the tape body 10a. The non-adhesive portion 10e may be provided with an adhesive material 10b on the entire back surface of the tape main body 10a as in the fifth embodiment shown in FIG. I do not care.
In that case, the thick part is located in the middle part of the tape main body 10a in the width direction. Therefore, blocking can be prevented without causing excessive pressure in the left and right adhesive portions, and the inclination at the time of winding is relatively small, so that slitter processing or the like can be easily performed. The same operation and effect can be obtained by sending the sending type information 8 to the non-adhesive portion 10e to which the adhesive material 10b is not applied in the second embodiment.
a) It can be achieved even when printing ink or the like is imprinted thickly. The non-adhesive material 17 can be made of a very fragile resin layer or a tape that can be easily torn. The interposition of the non-adhesive material 17 allows the adhesive material 10b to partially adhere to the back surface of the tape body 10a. It is possible to avoid unnecessary non-coating processing.

In the fourth embodiment shown in FIG. 10, the perforation 16 is provided as the opening means, but a so-called cut tape 15 may be provided as the opening means as in the sixth embodiment in FIG. The cut tape 15 may be provided along the longitudinal direction of the sealing tape 10 as in the case of the perforations 16 in FIG.

In each of the above embodiments, the means for sealing the catalog main body 2 stapled by a stapler has been described. However, the catalog main body 2 may be of a flat stapling type or a perfect binding type. In addition, the printed matter of the present invention includes leaflets, roll-folded, double-folded catalogs, pamphlets, and the like that are folded in two, four, or eight. The edge in the case of these four folds and the like corresponds to the part corresponding to the fold at the time of the last folding, and corresponds to the back 6.
Is defined as a portion corresponding to the fore edge 5 at the end opposite to the portion opposite to.

In the above embodiments, when the sealing tape 10 is adhered to the cover 3, a so-called weakly-adhesive adhesive material having low adhesiveness is used, but the contact portions between the sealing tape 10 and the cover 3 are made of resin. The contact portions may be detachably bonded by thermocompression bonding. In this case, the adhesive may have lost its tackiness before and after the sealing tape 10 is peeled off. However, re-adhesion after peeling, prevention of adhesion of dust and the like to the portion of the sealing tape 10 facing the fore-edge, adhesion to the fore-edge The function and effect of preventing contamination by transfer of the material and the ease of sticking are not exhibited. Further, these bondings may be performed in a planar shape as described above, or may be performed in a scattered point shape.

Although the present invention has been described as a sent print,
The present invention can also be implemented for sealing printed materials other than sending. In particular, it is also suitable for applications such as preventing browsing of books and attaching a folding appendix.

It should be noted that the reference numerals described in the claims are merely for convenience of comparison with the drawings, and the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the attached drawings by the description. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a first embodiment of a sent printed matter according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a tape roll which is a continuous body of a sealing tape according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 1, showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line BB in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a procedure for attaching a sealing tape in a second embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 5, showing a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of a front surface side of a sent printout showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a rear view of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken along line CC of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 10 showing a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a view corresponding to FIG. 10 showing a sixth embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A printed matter body (2) folded in a booklet or folded at least in two, and a fore edge (5) of the printed matter body (2)
And a sending type information section (8a). The sealing tape (10) is provided along the edge (5) of the cover (3) of the printed matter body (2). It has a strip-shaped tape body (10a) straddling the front and back, and an adhesive (10b) for releasably bonding the tape body (10a) to the cover (3) is provided on the entire back surface of the tape body (10a). The sealing tape (10) further includes a first sealing portion (11) attached to one cover (3a) side of the cover (3) and a second sealing portion attached to the other cover (3b) side. A printed printed matter formed wider in a lateral direction intersecting in a direction along the fore edge than the part (12), and the transmission type information part (8a) is provided on the first sealing part (11) side. 2. The printed printed matter according to claim 1, further comprising a destination information entry column (8b) for entering a destination address or the like on the first sealing part (11) side. 3. The printed printed matter according to claim 2, wherein the material of the tape body 10a is paper. 4. The printed printed matter according to claim 1, wherein the length of the tape body (10a) is shorter than the length of the printed body (2) in the longitudinal direction of the fore edge (5). . 5. The printed matter body (2) according to claim 1, wherein the printed matter body is a folded printed matter such as a brochure, brochure, or the like folded in two, four, or eight. Printed matter described in. 6. A sending printed matter sealing tape for sealing a small edge (5) of a printed matter body (2) folded in a booklet form or at least folded in two, wherein a sending type information section (8a) and an address of a sending destination are stored. A destination information entry column to fill in (8b)
A belt-shaped tape body (10a) extending over the front and back of the cover (3) of the printed matter body (2) along the fore edge (5), and the tape body (10a).
Is provided on the back surface of the tape body (10a) for peelably adhering to the cover (3), and is attached to one of the cover (3a) sides of the cover (3). The first sealing portion (11) to be attached is formed wider in the lateral direction crossing the direction along the fore edge than the second sealing portion (12) attached to the other cover (3b) side, and the transmission type information portion (8a) and the destination information entry column (8b) are provided on the first sealing part (11) side, and the tape body (10a) is made of paper and the material of the transmission printed matter sealing tape.