JPH0768976A - Folded forms - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a low-cost continuous form which can be sent by concealing confidential information of an arbitrary amount to a personal address, easily opened at a seal and seen at print information at a glance the same as a sheet. CONSTITUTION:Continuous forms have a plurality of form pieces 1, 2, 3,... connected through folding sew lines m1, m2, m3,... and alternately folded oppositely at the sew lines and sealed by pressurizing, and comprises corner cuts c1, c2, c3,... provided at a predetermined pitch on connected form pieces in such a manner that a repeelable adhesive area is provided at least at an outer edge of a two-page spread formed of two opposed pages of the pieces.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a continuous form capable of concealing and transmitting a large amount of confidential information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a bank, a securities company, an insurance company, etc. have concealed confidential information such as balance notification, transaction notification, and contract details to a customer and mail it to an individual as a tri-fold mail form, A4. Envelopes made by folding cut paper and using an enclosing and sealing machine have been used. The tri-fold mail form is as shown in the continuous form 31 shown in FIG.
Marginal punch 32 on both sides and 2 in the longitudinal direction at the center
Book folding perforations 33, 33 'are formed, and horizontal perforations 34 for separation are formed at regular intervals in the longitudinal direction. The area sandwiched by the horizontal perforations 34 is addressed to an individual. A necessary format is printed so as to form the form 35. The individual address form 35 includes a name area 35a and information printing areas 35b, 35 by the folding perforations 33.
It is divided into c and. The continuous form 31 is printed with address information 36a, personal information 36b, 36c, etc. by an output device of a computer, then set in an envelope forming device and folded in three to form an envelope for each individual. That is, in the envelope forming device, the continuous foam 31 is pulled out and is folded into three in a Z shape along the two folds 33 and 33 ', and the marginal punches 3 at both ends are folded.
The second portion is removed, and then cut along the horizontal perforations 34 to be cut into individual personal address sheets 35, and the pressure is applied by a press roller, so that the pressure-sensitive adhesive is applied in advance. Is activated, and as shown in FIG. 6, the personal address form 35 folded in three is firmly adhered and sealed so as not to be peeled again. Therefore, when opening the package, the three sides must be torn off.

Here, the personal information recorded in the information records 35b and 35c relates to one subject. For example, in the case of a bank, information on various subjects such as notification of maturity of time deposit, notification of deposit and withdrawal details, notification of loan payment / balance, notification of payment details by credit, etc. However, only the information regarding one of the subjects is recorded in one continuous form 31, and the information regarding another subject is recorded in another continuous form.

A continuous foam 41 shown in FIG. 7 is also known. (See, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 62-45838). This continuous form also has a predetermined format printed such that a large number of personal address forms 43 are arranged in the longitudinal direction. A vertical perforation 45 for separating is formed in the longitudinal direction as well as having the eyes 44, and each individual address form 43 is divided into a plurality of information printing areas 43a to 43f. After printing the information, the continuous form 41 is separated from the areas 43a to 43f of the individual-addressed form 43 and accumulated in a predetermined order, and one end thereof is bound to form a booklet 47 shown in FIG. This form of continuous foam 41
For example, the information recorded in the plurality of information recording areas 43a to 43f, which is used for tax payment notices, coupon books, etc., is still related to one subject.

In addition, a letter-folded A4 cut paper,
Envelopes that use the enclosing machine are also used. A4 cut paper is folded after printing, like the tri-fold mail form, and the four sides are adhesively attached so that the four sides cannot be removed again.
You have to tear off the three sides. Envelopes that use the enclosing and sealing machine are those in which the forms printed on a separately prepared envelope are gathered, bound, and then enclosed before enclosing.

[0006]

In recent years, the amount of confidential information to be transmitted to an individual for one time is increasing, and there is a problem that the space of the information printing area is insufficient in the mail form so far. In addition, tri-fold mail form and A4
There is a problem in that cut paper cannot be opened unless the three sides are torn, and dust is generated during opening. Further, the conventional one has a problem that even if it is opened, it is not possible to view the front and back in a single sheet. Envelopes using the enclosing and sealing machine can handle quite a lot of data, but there was also the problem that the process until completion was long and complicated. The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and can conceal and send any amount of confidential information from a small amount to a large amount, and it is extremely easy to open, and when opened, the print information is a sheet of paper. The purpose is to provide a low-cost folded form that can be viewed in the same manner as in.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention made to solve the above-mentioned problems is to fold back a plurality of form pieces connected by folding perforations alternately in the opposite direction, In a continuous foam which is sealed by applying pressure, at least an outer edge portion of a double-page spread formed by forming two corners of the form folded back at the folding perforations on the form pieces connected to each other with corner cuts at a constant pitch. The gist of the folding form is that the adhesive region is provided so as to be symmetrical with respect to the folding perforation line.

[0008]

According to the present invention, any amount of confidential information can be
It can be concealed and mailed or handed to each individual in a continuous form having a length corresponding to the amount. When folded alternately at the fold perforation, the adhesive layers are provided so that they are in contact with each other on the opposite surface of the form. If folded and pressed, at least four sides of the form piece will become adhesive and easily become a sealed letter. Everything is hidden except the page and the last page. Generally, the thinner the form paper and the higher the adhesive strength of the adhesive area, the more difficult it is to open the letter sealed by the above method, but there is a clue to the opening from the corner cut part provided in advance on the form piece. It can be grasped and opened very easily. Since the releasable adhesive is used in the adhesive area, it is not necessary to tear off the three sides when opening, and no dust is generated. Further, it can be opened in a long sheet-like state, and confidential information as well as general information printed in advance can be viewed. There is no need for work such as collation and binding to make a mail form for each individual, the process is simplified, no envelope is used, and encapsulation work is omitted, and manufacturing cost can be reduced. .

[0009]

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. (Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a development view of the surface of a folding form 21 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. A mail form 22 addressed to an individual is composed of four form pieces. In FIG. 1, vertical perforations and marginal punches on the left and right are omitted. Form pieces 1, 2, 3 ---- are perforated lines m
1, m2, m3 --- are connected to each other, and the central portions of the front and back of each form piece are the information printing sections 1a, 2a, 3
a --- and 1a ', 2a', 3a '--- are formed. The customer's address and the sender's name are printed on 1a and 4a, respectively, and confidential information is printed on 2a and 3a, respectively.
The same is repeated thereafter. On the back side, 1a ′ to 4a ′ may be preprinted with a description of the contract, advertisements and the like. In addition, when it is folded, the adhesive areas 2b and 3 shown by diagonal lines are provided on the outer surface of the facing page formed by 2 surfaces of the form piece, that is, 2 and 3, 4 and 5 ---, which are opposed to each other when folded.
b, 4b and 5b --- are provided respectively. Then, on the back surface, adhesive areas having the same pattern as the front surface are provided for the form pieces 1, 2, 3 and 4 ---. The adhesive area is not limited to the outer edge portion of the double-page spread as described above, and may be on the entire surface of the form piece. Further, the pattern of the adhesive layer provided in the adhesive area is not necessarily all solid,
It suffices that a thick cut line or a circular dot be provided at a symmetrical position with respect to the central folding perforation of the double-page spread. In the folding form 21 of the present embodiment, corner cuts c1, c2, c are alternately formed on the left and right ends of every other folding perforation.
3 --- is provided. In FIG. 1, four form pieces form the folding form 22 addressed to an individual, but this number may be an integral multiple of 2. That is, it is possible to cut the continuous foam into optimum lengths of 2, 4, 6, and so on according to the amount of information to be transmitted and to use the foam. In this embodiment,
After the personal information was output and printed from the computer, it was cut at the folding perforations m1 and m5 shown in FIG. 1, folded in zigzag as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, and sealed by pressure. (The individual folding form shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 relates to Example 2 described below, but the zigzag folding and sealing modes are the same.)

(Second Embodiment) FIG. 2 is a surface development view of the second embodiment. The mail form addressed to an individual in this embodiment is composed of six form pieces 1 to 6, and can handle approximately twice the amount of information as in the first embodiment. The surfaces of the form pieces 1 and 6 are printing areas 1a and 6a for printing the customer's address and the name of the sender, and the other surfaces 2a to 5a are all confidential information printing parts. General common information may be printed on the back side in advance. The adhesive areas are provided on the front and back sides, exactly as in the example. Regarding corner cuts, corner cuts c1, c2 and c3 are provided only on one side at every third folding perforations. After printing the personal information from the computer, cut the continuous form at the folding perforations m1 and m7,
As shown in FIG. 3, it was folded in zigzag and then pressed and sealed in a shape as shown in FIG. In this embodiment, FIG.
, The corner cut c2 forms a step even in the middle part. Next, regarding the opening of the sealed letter, in the present embodiment of the six-sheet construction, as shown in FIG. 4, it is possible to open using the step created by the corner cuts c1, c2, c3 as a clue. The first method is to peel off the first and last form pieces 1 and 6 using the corner cuts c1 and c3, hold the peeled form pieces 1 and 6 in both hands, and open them to the left and right to make the whole easy. Can be peeled off. The second method is to first open the surfaces of the form pieces 2, 3, 4 and 5 with the step in the middle part as a clue, hold the form pieces 2 and 5 in both hands and pull them to the left and right to form the form piece 3. The back side of 4 is peeled off, and finally the corner pieces c1 and c3 are used to cut the form pieces 1, 2 and 5,
The back surface of 6 can be peeled off, and the entire surface can be easily opened. In order to increase the reliability of concealment of confidential information, it is necessary to increase the adhesive strength of the adhesive area, but the higher the adhesive strength, the more difficult it is to grasp the opening clue. Further, even if the paper thickness is thin, the unsealing property is deteriorated. In the present invention, by providing the corner cut portion, a clue for opening can be easily obtained, and opening can be performed extremely easily.

The removable pressure-sensitive adhesive used in the present invention is characterized in that the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers adhere to each other and can be re-peeled.
Continuous foams used in the present invention typically have a thickness of 44-70.
A high-quality paper of g / m ² can be used, and a flexographic printing method using a rubber relief printing plate can be suitably used for partial coating of the adhesive layer thereon. When coating the entire surface, any coating method known so far may be used. Hereinafter, the pressure-sensitive adhesive used in the present invention will be described in detail. The releasable pressure-sensitive adhesive used in the mail form of the present invention does not stick even when the adhesive layer comes into contact with the high-quality paper of the base material, and the adhesive layers stick to each other only under pressure contact,
In addition, it is adjusted so that it can be peeled off again, and the main adhesive agent, the adhesion control agent, the additives and the like are mixed in the following proportions. Adhesive main agent 100 parts by weight Adhesion control agent In the case of needle-shaped substances 10-100 (preferably 10-50) parts by weight In the case of fine-grained substances 0-50 (preferably 5)
30) parts by weight When the above two substances are mixed 10 to 100 parts by weight Additive wax 0.01 to 20 parts by weight UV absorbers trace amount defoaming agent trace amount defoaming aid trace amount emulsifying component water 100 to 500 (preferably 200)
To 300) parts by weight emulsifier 0.5 to 2 parts by weight resin 1 to 50 parts by weight

[Adhesive Main Agent] The adhesive main agent is a natural rubber (N
R), esterified natural rubber, styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), chloroprene rubber, polyvinyl acetate, polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and the like, or a mixture thereof. In mixing these adhesive main agents, by appropriately adjusting the mixing ratio, the adhesiveness to the base material can be made higher than the adhesiveness while maintaining the self-adhesiveness between the pressure-sensitive adhesives. Preferably, a natural rubber having a high property of exhibiting self-adhesiveness between pressure-sensitive adhesives under pressure is added with polymethylmethacrylate or styrene-butadiene rubber for the purpose of enhancing the adhesiveness with a base material, that is, the anchor effect. Is mentioned. Polymethylmethacrylate is preferably used as a mixture with another adhesive main agent rather than used alone. As such an adhesive main agent, fine particles having a particle size of about 0.1 μm to 3 μm are usually used.

[Adhesive Strength Adjusting Agent] The adhesive strength adjusting agent is mixed in order to adjust the adhesive strength of the adhesive main agent, and a needle-like substance or a fine particulate substance or a mixture thereof is used. Needle-like substance As the needle-like substance, any of an inorganic substance and an organic substance may be used, as long as the shape thereof is substantially needle-like, flat, spiral,
Although it is arbitrarily selected from those having various forms such as scales, a needle-shaped substance is particularly preferable. The needle-shaped substance has an average length of 10 μm to 20 μm and an average diameter of 0.2.
It is preferably about μm to 0.5 μm. Needle-like substances
It is preferable that the pressure-sensitive adhesive be an emulsion and have an apparent specific gravity of 0.05 to 0.6 in order to reduce the sedimentation property when it is used as a coating agent. Further, in consideration of printing processing and NIP suitability, a needle-shaped substance Has an elastic modulus of 10000 kg / mm ²
It is preferably about 40,000 kg / mm ² . Examples of such needle-like substances include glass fiber, carbon fiber, P
AN-based fibers, metal crystals, metal compound crystals, and the like,
The adhesive main agent may be one that has no affinity (compatibility). A preferable acicular substance is a crystal of potassium 6-titanate (K ₂ O.6TiO ₂ ), which has no compatibility with water but an affinity and an apparent specific gravity of 0.2.
(True specific gravity = 3.3), elastic modulus 28,000 kg / mm ²
And is suitable as a pressure-sensitive adhesive component.

Fine particulate material The fine particulate material includes micro silica, synthetic zeolite, activated alumina gel, calcium carbonate, zinc oxide, titanium oxide, talc, clay, kaolin, activated clay, acrylic beads, starch, cellulose, shirasu balloon and the like. The particles having a particle size of 10 mμm to 30 μm, preferably 0.5 μm to 10 μm are suitable.
Further, by adding together with the needle-shaped substance, it is possible to reduce the addition amount of the fine-grained substance and prevent the fine-grained substance from falling off.

[Additives] As additives, waxes such as polyethylene wax and carnauba wax are used to improve handling properties, slipperiness such as NIP transport performance and blocking resistance, and ammonia for preventing deterioration. UV absorbers such as ethanolamine may be added. Further, as an antifoaming agent, a nonionic surfactant,
An anionic surfactant (mineral oil type) may be added, or silica or the like may be added as a defoaming aid.

[Emulsifying Component] The above-mentioned tackifying main agent, tackiness adjusting agent, and additives are dispersed in a medium such as water and applied to a substrate in an emulsion state. When emulsifying, an emulsifier is added if necessary. As the emulsifier, oleic acid soap, potassium castor oil soap, casein, glue, gelatin and the like can be used. Further, in order to prevent secondary aggregation of the adhesive main agent when emulsified, a resin having no affinity with the adhesive main agent can be added. As this resin, a water-dispersible polymer polyester,
Thermoplastic elastomer, low molecular weight polyethylene such as low density polyethylene, ionomer, vinyl acetate-olefin copolymer and the like can be preferably used.

The coating amount of such pressure sensitive adhesives, after drying ^{0.1g / m 2 ~10g / m 2} , preferably 1.0g
/ M ^{2 to} 3.0 g / m ² is preferable. Within this range, it is possible to print or print on the pressure-sensitive adhesive. In this case, the ink can penetrate through the pressure-sensitive adhesive and reach the base material, and transfer of the printing layer when peeled off can be prevented. In the present invention, since the printing area and the adhesive area are separated at the form design stage, printing is not performed on the adhesive layer, but in order to increase the adhesive force between the opposing form pieces to improve the hiding property. Needs to widen the adhesive area and may overlap with the print area, but as long as the adhesive is used, the trouble due to this overlap does not occur. Further, the adhesive is not limited to the above-mentioned adhesive, and any adhesive or adhesive may be used as long as the folded foam can be removably adhered.

Further, examples of information to be mailed by the folding form according to the present invention include a notice of withdrawal of money from a bank account, a repayment schedule of XX payments when purchasing goods by a credit card, and a long-term repayment of a loan. There are plans, notifications about life health business contents, guidance on life health contents, taxation certificates, etc. Furthermore, as a handed information to the person directly without mailing, educational and training record sheets, health certificate, salary details etc. Very versatile It can be used for.

[0018]

According to the folding form of the present invention, it is possible to conceal any amount of personal confidential information and mail it to the customer as one mail form.
Alternatively, it can be handed to each individual as a continuous form. The recipient can very easily open the folded foam according to the invention, with the corner cuts as clues. Further, when opening the package, it is not necessary to tear off the three sides like a tri-fold postcard, and no dust is generated. After opening, it becomes a single sheet, so it is easy to see both the front and back. Further, there is no collating and binding work, and it is not necessary to use an envelope, so that various effects such as cost reduction are exhibited.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a surface development view of Example 1 of a folded form according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a surface development view of Example 2 of a folded form according to the present invention.

[Fig. 3] Status diagram of bellows folding of folding form addressed to each individual

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a folded form for each individual who is a sealed letter.

[Figure 5] Surface development view of the tri-fold mail form

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a tri-fold mail form folded in a Z shape.

[Fig. 7] Surface development view of mail form collated in a booklet

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a mail form collated in a booklet form.

[0018]

[Explanation of symbols]

1,2,3−− Form piece 1a, 2a, 3a−− Front surface printing area 1a ′, 2a ′ −− Back surface printing area 21 Folding form 22 according to the present invention Folding form for individual c1 c2, c3 --- corner cut m1, m2, m3 --- Fold perforation 31 Continuous form of tri-fold mail form 32 Marginal punch 33 Fold perforation 33 'Fold perforation 34 Horizontal perforation 35 To each individual address form 35a Name area 35b, c Information print area 36a Address information 36b, c Individual address information 41 Continuous form collated in a booklet 42 Marginal punch 43 Individual address form 43a-f Printing area 44 Horizontal perforation 45 Vertical perforation 47 Booklet mail form

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A continuous form which is connected by folding perforations and is folded back in the opposite direction alternately at the folding perforations, and is sealed by applying pressure. In addition, a fold-up form characterized by having corner cuts at a fixed pitch. 2. An adhesive region is provided at least at an outer edge portion of a spread page formed by two facing surfaces of the form piece folded back at the folding perforation so as to be symmetrical with respect to the folding perforation. The folding form according to claim 1, wherein