US2300279A

US2300279A - Manifolding pack

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Publication number: US2300279A
Application number: US385610A
Authority: US
Inventors: Arthur A Johnson
Original assignee: AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER CO
Current assignee: AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Co
Priority date: 1941-03-28
Filing date: 1941-03-28
Publication date: 1942-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 1959-10-27

Description

Oct. 27, 1942'. A. A. JOHNSON MANIIFOLDING PACK Filed March 28, 1941 .612 com no LOIZ 00m 00.

INVENTOR UNlTEl) STATES PATENT OFFICE MANIFOLDING PACK Arthur A. Johnson,

Bridgeport, Conn., assignor to Autographic Register Company, Hoboken, N. J a corporation of New Jersey Application March 28, 1941, Serial No. 385,610 8 Claims. (Cl. 2, 2 11.5) This invention relates to manifolding, and,

more particularly, to the facilitating of the'strlpping of transfer sheets from record sheets of a set of sheets severd from a continuous pile of strips.

The construction shown herein is an improvement on the invention disclosed in my application Serial Number 332,063, filed January 12, 1929, now Patent No. 2,258,576, granted October 7, 1941.

According to the present invention, the weak ened line of severance in the transfer strip while it deviates from the line of severance in the record strip so as to provide gripping and gripescape portions on therecord and transfer sheets, terminates at both side edges of the pile at points substantially in registry with the respective terminals of the lines of severance of the record strips.

This permits the tearing of the record and transfer strips to be started at the same place both when the tear starts from the left and when it starts from the right, thus facilitating the severing operation.

Further, according to this invention, the weak- Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pile of manifolding material embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a part of the strip shown in Fig. I laid out flat, and showing the relation between the record and transfer strips.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the transfer strip alone.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view, showing one set of record and transfer sheets torn off with the ends of the strips from which it is torn.

Fig. 5 is a plan view showing an embodiment of this invention, with two staples to each sheet length.

Fig. 6 is a similar view, showing the staple located close to a lateral edge of the sheet.

ening line in the transfer strip is uninterrupted by abrupt turns, such as is present when a relatively small tab is formed either at an edge or between edges of the strip, and thus smooth continuous tearing will occur, and false tears are greatly avoided. I

In the illustrated embodiment of this inven-' tion, the tear line in the transfer strip is arcuate throughout and so proportioned and arranged with relation to the record weakening line that the latter forms the chord of the are. When the strips are zigzag folded at sheet length intervals, the line of fold in the transfer also forms the chord of the arc of the tear line. The finger. grip and grip-escape portions formed on the transfer sheet extend substantially the full width of the sheet, and thus may be grasped and grasped over respectively with greater ease and facility than the usual relatively small half circle tabs now commonly in use.

The strips may be fastened together by staples or stitching, and since the tab of the present invention is wide, two staples may be used on each line of severance of the records, making for security against relative movement occurring be- Fig. 7 is a plan view of a modified form of this invention.

As shown in the accompanying drawing, the.

record strips I0, of which there may be any desired number, are interleaved with transfer or carbon strips ll so that writing performed on the uppermost strip will be reproduced on the lower strips. The record strips Ill usually have printed matter I2 so as to constitute printed forms which may be filled in by hand or on the typewriter. The strips Ill are divided by transversely extending lines of weakening l3 into form or sheet lengths, and it is along these lines of weakening l3 that the record strip may be torn to produce record sheets. The pile of strips I 0 and H is usually zigzag folded along the weakening lines I3 to form a zigzag folded pack l4 shown in Fig. 1. v

In my copending application Serial No. 332,063, filed January 12, 1929, now Patent No. 2,258,573, granted October 7, 1941, I have disclosed means for facilitatingthe stripping of the carbon sheets from the record'sheets of a severed set of sheets, and, in some embodiments of said invention, the line of weakening at sheet length intervals in the carbon strip is so arranged as to deviate from the line of weakening in the superposed record strip, providinga projecting portion at one end of the carbon sheet and asp'ace at themther end of the carbon sheet, permitting the carbon and record sheets to be grasped independently and drawn apart to strip the carbons from the records,

In the usual embodiment of said invention, the line of weakening in the carbon strip is, for the most part, in depthwise registry with the line record, but deviates for a short distance so as to form a relatively small tab at one end of the carbon and a thumb notch at the other end of the carbon.

In another form of my invention disclosedin said application, the line.of weakening in the carbon is straight, but is offset longitudinally relative to the line of weakening in the record. When the strips are severed, a tab, extending for the full width of the carbon, is formed at one end, and, at the other end of the pile of sheets, the record for its full width extends beyond the adjacent edges of the carbon.

In another form of my said invention, the line of weakening in the carbon is straight and obliquely disposed with reference to the line of weakening in the record, and again there is presented a wide projecting portion on the carbon at one end of the pile of strips and a wide pro-' jocting portion on the records at the other end of the pile of sheets.

In these embodiments, however, where the wide tab is formed, the weakening lines in the records and in the carbons terminate at coinciding points at neither lateral edge of the strips in the former instance, and at only one lateral edge in the latter example.

According to the present invention, a wide tab and grip-escape space is provided on the carbon, and yet, at both side edges of the pile of strips, the terminals of the weakening lines of the record strips and the carbon strips substantially coincide.

In the form of the invention at present preferred, which is illustrated herein, the weakening lines 15 of the carbon strip are accordingly made in arcuate form so that the terminals I6 and I! of each thereof coincide with the corresponding terminals l8 and IQ of the record.

Expressed another way, the line of weakening l3 in the record l forms the chord of an arc at the end of the carbon. As shown in Fig. 4, when a set of record sheets Illa and carbon sheets Ila is torn off, at one end of the pile of sheets there are arcuate full width tabs 20 on the carbon strips and arcuate full width spaces 2| at the other end of the carbon sheets between which the superposed portions 22 of the record sheets may be grasped.

It will be seen that since the terminals l6 and ll of the lines in the carbon strip are coincident with the terminals l8 and I9 in the record strip, the operation of tearing oil" a set of sheets Illa, I la begins at the same point depthwise of the pile in both the record and the carbon strips, and this is true whether the tear is from left to right or right to left, and the diificulty attendant upon starting the tearing in the strips at points substantially out of registry is avoided.

By having the projecting transverse margin or tab in the carbon sheet extend for the entire width of the sheet, the user need not exercise any special care in grasping the records and carbons at particular points so long as the records are grasped alone and the carbons are grasped alone, and thus I obtain the advantage of the full width tab of my prior application, and, at the same time, the advantage of being able to start the tear at the same point in both the record and the carbon and from either side of the pile.

In the broader aspects of this invention, the weakening line IS in the carbon need not be arcuate as shown, for it could be made up of two straight segments as shown in Fig. 7. However, by making the line l arcuate, the tearing operation becomes continuous and smooth, and is not interrupted by an angular jog in the tear line 7 which wouldbe present with the embodiment of" the invention shown in Fig. 7.

By having the tab in the carbon wide so as toproject from edge to edge of the sheet, I am able to fasten the record strips l0 and transfer strips H together by a plurality of staples or stitches on each severance line. For instance, as shown in Fig. 5, there may be two staples 23, one near each longitudinal edge of the pile of strips, which, being substantially spaced apart, more securely hold the record and transfer strips together against relative movement.

If desired, with the full width tab of the present invention, the securing staple 23 may be located on the longitudinal center line of the pile as usual and as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, or it may be located to one side thereof as shown in Fig. 6.

When the continuous strips are zigzag folded to form a pack M, the fold line 24 in the carbon strips, as indicated in Fig. 1, forms the chord of the arcuate projecting tab.

Variations and modifications may be made within the scope of this invention and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

I claim:

1. Superposed record and transfer strips divided at equal intervals into successive superposed sheets by weakening lines, the lines in the record strips being straight and intersecting the side edges of the strips at right angles, and the lines in the transfer strips intersecting both side edges of the strips at oblique angles, the points of origin of each of said angles being substan tially coincident with the adjacent terminal of the juxtaposed weakening line in the record strip.

2. superposed record and transfer strips divided at equal intervals into successive superposed sheets by weakening lines, the lines in the record strips being straight and intersecting the side edges of the strips at right angles, the lines in the transfer strip extending arcuately from one side edge of the strip to the other sideedge thereof. and the weakening lines of the record strip forming a chord of said arc.

3. superposed record and transfer strips divided at equal intervals into successive superposed sheets by weakening lines, the lines in the record strips being straight and intersecting the side edges of the strips at right angles, the lines in the transfer strips having their terminals in registry depthwise of the pile with the terminals of the lines in the record strips, and deviating from the lines in the record strips for the full length thereof so as to form a tab extending for substantially the full width of the transfer strip.

4. superposed record and transfer strips,divided at equal intervals into successive superposed sheets by weakening lines, the lines in the transfer strips having their terminals in registry depthwise of the pile with the terminals of the lines in the record strips, and continuously deviating from the lines in the record strips so as to form a tab extending for substantially the full width of the transfer strip.

5. A continuous transfer strip divided at intervals to form a succession of transfer sheets at form lengths and of similar outline by spaced transversely disposed arcuate weakening lines, each line intersecting the opposite longitudinal edges of the strip at substantially the same oblique angle.

6. A continuous transfer strip zigzag folded at form length intervals to form a pile and divided at such intervals to form a succession of transfer sheets of similar outline by spaced transverse- 1y disposed arcuatc weakening lines extending from side edge to side edge; the folds in said strips constituting the chord of the arc of said arcuate lines.

7. superposed record and transfer strips divided at equal intervals into successive superposed sheets by weakening lines, the lines in the record strips being straight and intersecting the side edges of the strips at right angles, the lines in the transfer strip extending arcuately from one side edge of the strip to the other side edge thereof, and the weakening lines of the record strip forming a chord of said arc, and means -or.securing such stripstogether, said means being located on the chord of said are of the trans- 15 fer strips.

8. superposed record and transfer strips divided at equal intervals into successive superposed sheets by weakening lines, the lines in the record strips being straight and intersecting the side edges of the strips at right angles, the lines in the transfer strip extending .arcuately from one side edge of the strip to the other side edge thereof, and the weakening lines of the record strip forming a chord of said are, and means for securing such strips together, said means being located on the chord of said are of the transfer strips, and on both sides of the longitudinal center line of the strips.

ARTHUR A. JOHNSON.