NZ207006A - Continuous business form assembly with windows;one edge bowed away from direction of travel - Google Patents
Continuous business form assembly with windows;one edge bowed away from direction of travelInfo
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- NZ207006A NZ207006A NZ207006A NZ20700684A NZ207006A NZ 207006 A NZ207006 A NZ 207006A NZ 207006 A NZ207006 A NZ 207006A NZ 20700684 A NZ20700684 A NZ 20700684A NZ 207006 A NZ207006 A NZ 207006A
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- window
- trailing
- edge
- web
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Classifications
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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 containers for postal or other purposes having no structural provision for thickness of contents
- B65D27/04—Envelopes or like essentially-rectangular containers for postal or other purposes having no structural provision for thickness of contents with apertures or windows for viewing contents
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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
- B42D5/00—Sheets united without binding to form pads or blocks
- B42D5/02—Form sets
- B42D5/023—Continuous form sets
- B42D5/025—Mailer assemblies
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- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Handling Of Sheets (AREA)
- Window Of Vehicle (AREA)
- Preliminary Treatment Of Fibers (AREA)
- Undergarments, Swaddling Clothes, Handkerchiefs Or Underwear Materials (AREA)
- Diaphragms For Electromechanical Transducers (AREA)
- Unwinding Webs (AREA)
- Sheet Holders (AREA)
- Wing Frames And Configurations (AREA)
- Pharmaceuticals Containing Other Organic And Inorganic Compounds (AREA)
- Heterocyclic Carbon Compounds Containing A Hetero Ring Having Oxygen Or Sulfur (AREA)
- Refuse Collection And Transfer (AREA)
- Glass Compositions (AREA)
- Polysaccharides And Polysaccharide Derivatives (AREA)
- Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
- Crystals, And After-Treatments Of Crystals (AREA)
- Magnetic Heads (AREA)
- Accessory Devices And Overall Control Thereof (AREA)
- Management, Administration, Business Operations System, And Electronic Commerce (AREA)
- Containers And Plastic Fillers For Packaging (AREA)
- Image-Pickup Tubes, Image-Amplification Tubes, And Storage Tubes (AREA)
- Controlling Rewinding, Feeding, Winding, Or Abnormalities Of Webs (AREA)
- Advancing Webs (AREA)
- Outside Dividers And Delivering Mechanisms For Harvesters (AREA)
- Nonmetallic Welding Materials (AREA)
- Woven Fabrics (AREA)
- Absorbent Articles And Supports Therefor (AREA)
Abstract
An imporvement in a continuous business form assembly with a window eliminates window edge snagging on high speed printers and form handling equipment. The improvement is of the window having a trailing edge bowed in the trailing direction.
Description
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Priority Date(s):
Complete Specification Filed: ?.^t.
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Publication Date: 3.
P.O. Journal, No:
Patents form No.5
NEW ZEALAND PATENTS ACT 1953 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION "IMPROVED DIE CUT WINDOW"
I-,WE MOORE BUSINESS FORMS INC. a corporation organised
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and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware U.S.A. of 300 Lang Boulevard, Grand Island, N.Y. 14072, U.S.A.
hereby declare the invention, for which I^we pray that a patent may be granted to-na/us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement
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BACKGROUND AND FIELD OF THE INVENTION
Field
This invention relates to continuous business form assemblies and webs for the same having windows for address information and the like.
Background
Business forms, including envelopes and continuous business form assemblies, have long had address windows. Examples are found in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,136,476 (envelope with generally rectangular cut window); and Re. 25,872 (envelope with generally triangular cut window). As shown in these patents, oval and triangular windows in single envelopes have been disclosed. However, at present, windows in continuous business form assemblies are consistently rectangular with small rounded corners. The art of continuous business form assemblies with windows has developed and become focused upon such windows for a variety of reasons, including cost savings and aesthetic appearance. Window shape has become so standardized as to be ignored, and considered unchangeable.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In certain high speed impact printers and other continuous business form assembly processing equipment, continuous assemblies and assembly webs with windows are fed
^through slits in equipment shields and the 2070.06 assemblies and webs are positioned by air vacuums, and travel at speeds from about 9.6 feet per minute (fpm) and less to about 25 fpm and more. With a paper weight of about 32 pounds, the assemblies and webs travel well. However, with lower paper weights, such as 28 pounds, the windows frequently snag the shields adjacent the slits, and are frequently torn. The equipment is sometimes jammed.
Such form damage and jamming can be extremely costly. Where the forms are sequentially marked with serial numbers, as with payroll checks, damage to a single form may require that the equipment be stopped, the torn form removed, the machine adjusted and restarted, and manual or computer bookkeeping entries made to void the torn form.
A principal object of this invention was to overcome the problems caused by such form damage.
While equipment changes and window panel gluing changes are obvious possibilities for attempting to eliminate the problems of window snagging and equipment jamming, this invention proceeds with the discovery that a mere change of window shape substantially eliminates the problems. Thus, in a principal aspect, the invention is an improvement in a web, the web (a) being continuous in both of two longitudinal directions along a longitudinal axis, (b) having a series of business forms thereon, the series being continuous in the longitudinal directions, (c) defining a series of cut windows in the web on the forms, the series of windows being continuous in the longitudinal directions, and (d) being adapted to be fed and high speed impact printed in a first of the two longitudinal directions, the first longitudinal direction
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^^thereby being a direction of travel of the web during feeding and printing. The improvement is of the web having at least two distinct window edges along each window extending generally transverse to the longitudinal axis, one of the at least two window edges being a leading window edge and the other of the two window edges being a trailing window edge trailing the leading window edge when the web is moved in the direction of travel. The trailing window edge has trailing edge sides and a trailing edge center, the trailing window edge being bowed away from the direction of travel such that the trailing edge center trails the trailing edge sides when the web is moved in the direction of travel.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The preferred embodiment of the invention will be described in relation to the accompanying drawing consisting of two figures or FIGS., as follows:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a preferred continuous business form assembly web; and
FIG. 2 is an enlarged plan view of the area encircled by line 2 in FIG. 1.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Referring to FIG. 1, the preferred embodiment of the invention is an improvement in a continuous business form assembly of a web 10 being continuous in both directions along a longitudinal axis 12. The assembly 10 has a continuous series of business forms 14 which extend transversely across the assembly 10 and are joined longitudinally end-to-end
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Pacross a series of perforation lines 16. The assembly 10 has feed strips 18, 20 along transversely opposite edges 22, 24. The strips 18, 20 include continuous rows 26, 28, respectively, of spaced tractor holes.
Each form 14 defines a window 30 for displaying address information (not shown) to be printed on the form 14 at a location 31. The location 31 is equidistant with the window 30 from a continuous, longitudinal fold line 32.
The assembly 10 is fed and printed in a first longitudinal direction 34 along the axis 12, away from the second longitudinal direction 35. By definition, the direction 34 is the direction of travel, and components of the assembly 10 which precede other components in the direction of travel 34 lead such other components, or are, in relation to the other components, leading components. The other components are, then, trailing components.
Each window 30 is an area cut from a form 14. The area is covered with a transparent sheet 36 as in FIG. 2. The sheet 36 is adhered to the form 14 by an encircling adhesive 38. The web 10 and each form 14 have, along each window 30,
four distinct window edges 40, 42, 44, 46. Two of the edges. 40, 42 extend generally transversely across the form 14. The other two edges 44, 46 extend generally longitudinally along the form 14. The first transverse edge 40 is the leading edge of the window, while the opposite transverse edge 42 is the trailing edge. The two edges 44, 46 are opposed side edges of the window.
The edges 40, 44, 46 are substantially completely straight, geometrically. The edge 40 is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis 12, while the edges 44, 46 are parallel to
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the.axis 12. Thus, the edges 44, 46 are perpendicular to the edge 40. Small, rounded, or partially circular corners 50, 52 join the edges 44, 46 to the edge 40 in a smooth transition therefrom.
The edge 42 is unique. The edge 42 is bowed in the trailing direction. The center 54 of the edge 42 trails the sides 56, 58 of the edge 42. The edge 42 is nowhere straight, but continuously curved throughout its extent. The degree, rate or amount of curvature of the edge 42 does not substantially vary across its extent; the degree of curvature is substantially uniform. The sides 56, 58 are longitudinally even with each other, and lead the center 54 by about one-eighth inch. Small, rounded corners 60, 62 join the edge 42 to the edges 44, 46 in smooth transitions.
With such an edge 42, the problem of printer snagging and jamming is substantially eliminated. This is the only known solution to the problem.
It is believed that so long as no points are located along the edge 42, the bow (longitudinal distance from the sides 44, 46 to the center 54) of the edge 42 could be greater or less than one-eighth inch without affect on freedom from snagging or otherwise. It is also believed a bow of less than one-sixteenth inch would not be any more free of snagging than no bow. Points along the edge 42, as with a V-cut edge, are disfavored due to die wear.
The preferred embodiment is now described. To particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter regarded as invention, the following claims conclude this specification.
Claims (4)
1. A web (a) being continuous in both of two longitudinal directions along a longitudinal axis, (b) having a series of business forms thereon, the series being continuous in the longitudinal directions, (c) defining a series of cut windows in the web on the forms, the series of windows being continuous in the longitudinal directions, and (d) being adapted to be fed and high speed impact printed in a first of the two longitudinal directions, the first longitudinal direction thereby being a direction of travel of the web during feeding and printing, the web having at least two distinct window edges along each window extending substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis, one of the at least two window edges being a leading window edge and the other of the two window edges being a trailing window edge trailing the leading window edge when the web is moved in the direction of travel, the trailing window edge having trailing edge sides and- a trailing edge center, the trailing window edge being bowed away from the direction of travel such that the trailing edge center trails the trailing edge sides when the web is moved in the direction of travel.
2. A web as claimed in Claim 1 in which the web has four window edges, two of the window edges being opposed side window edges extending substantially in the longitudinal directions from the leading window edge to the trailing window edge, the leading window edge and the side window edges being substantially completely geometrically straight. 20/GGG
3. A web as claimed in Claim 2 in which the side window edges join the trailing window edges at opposed trailing corners, the trailing corners being rounded and the trailing edge center trailing the trailing corners about one-eighth inch.
4. A web for a continuous business form assembly substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings. h I ZI3FEBI987y 207006 j ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE \ An improvement in a continuous business form assembly with a window eliminates window edge snagging on high speed printers and form handling equipment. The improvement, is of the window having a trailing edge bowed in the trailing direction. \ y
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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US50915483A | 1983-06-28 | 1983-06-28 |
Publications (1)
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NZ207006A true NZ207006A (en) | 1987-03-31 |
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Country Status (17)
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EP (1) | EP0132905B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JPS61112696A (en) |
AT (1) | ATE28610T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU2374884A (en) |
BR (1) | BR8400401A (en) |
CA (1) | CA1219015A (en) |
DE (1) | DE3465056D1 (en) |
DK (1) | DK88484A (en) |
ES (1) | ES289502Y (en) |
FI (1) | FI842594A (en) |
GR (1) | GR81809B (en) |
IE (1) | IE54853B1 (en) |
MX (1) | MX158685A (en) |
NO (1) | NO842607L (en) |
NZ (1) | NZ207006A (en) |
PT (1) | PT78352B (en) |
ZA (1) | ZA839685B (en) |
Families Citing this family (1)
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EP2123567B1 (en) * | 2008-05-22 | 2010-06-09 | Sacchettificio Monzese S.R.L. | Envelope for laser printers and process for the manufacturing of the envelope |
Family Cites Families (2)
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US3152751A (en) * | 1963-02-04 | 1964-10-13 | Tension Envelope Corp | Two-way envelope and enclosure combination |
FR2284532A1 (en) * | 1974-09-11 | 1976-04-09 | Nicham Robert | Multiple section envelope formed as part of web - has edge tear lines and adhesive sealing strips for use when folded closed |
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1983
- 1983-12-29 IE IE3084/83A patent/IE54853B1/en unknown
- 1983-12-29 ZA ZA839685A patent/ZA839685B/en unknown
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1984
- 1984-01-24 AU AU23748/84A patent/AU2374884A/en not_active Abandoned
- 1984-01-31 BR BR8400401A patent/BR8400401A/en unknown
- 1984-02-01 NZ NZ207006A patent/NZ207006A/en unknown
- 1984-02-22 DK DK88484A patent/DK88484A/en unknown
- 1984-03-07 EP EP84301500A patent/EP0132905B1/en not_active Expired
- 1984-03-07 AT AT84301500T patent/ATE28610T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1984-03-07 DE DE8484301500T patent/DE3465056D1/en not_active Expired
- 1984-03-13 JP JP59048008A patent/JPS61112696A/en active Granted
- 1984-03-22 GR GR74178A patent/GR81809B/el unknown
- 1984-03-30 PT PT78352A patent/PT78352B/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1984-04-03 CA CA000451227A patent/CA1219015A/en not_active Expired
- 1984-04-27 MX MX201155A patent/MX158685A/en unknown
- 1984-06-27 FI FI842594A patent/FI842594A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1984-06-27 NO NO842607A patent/NO842607L/en unknown
- 1984-06-28 ES ES1984289502U patent/ES289502Y/en not_active Expired
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FI842594A0 (en) | 1984-06-27 |
DK88484D0 (en) | 1984-02-22 |
BR8400401A (en) | 1985-03-05 |
PT78352A (en) | 1984-04-01 |
IE833084L (en) | 1984-12-28 |
PT78352B (en) | 1986-04-30 |
ZA839685B (en) | 1985-02-27 |
CA1219015A (en) | 1987-03-10 |
EP0132905A3 (en) | 1985-12-18 |
JPS61112696A (en) | 1986-05-30 |
ES289502U (en) | 1986-03-01 |
IE54853B1 (en) | 1990-02-28 |
ATE28610T1 (en) | 1987-08-15 |
DE3465056D1 (en) | 1987-09-03 |
JPH0238395B2 (en) | 1990-08-30 |
DK88484A (en) | 1984-12-29 |
GR81809B (en) | 1984-12-12 |
ES289502Y (en) | 1988-07-01 |
FI842594A (en) | 1984-12-29 |
MX158685A (en) | 1989-02-27 |
EP0132905A2 (en) | 1985-02-13 |
NO842607L (en) | 1985-01-02 |
EP0132905B1 (en) | 1987-07-29 |
AU2374884A (en) | 1985-01-03 |
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