COMPOSITE MAILING PACKAGE AND METHOD OF PREPARING SAME

• US 3,656,684 A
• Filed: 11/19/1970
• Issued: 04/18/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Desmond Meehan
• Original Assignee: Desmond Meehan
• Inventors: Meehan, Desmond
• Primary Examiner(s): Leclair, Joseph R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Application Number:
  US05/091,074
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 229/71,92.8,70,73,74 53/31 206/DIG.16,DIG.29
• US Class Current: 229/92.8
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 27/04 with apertures or windows for viewing contents

Abstract

A composite mailing package comprising an envelope having a view window provided therein and a mountable plaque within said envelope. Said plaque having a front face including a pictorial image thereon and a rear face having a layer of pressuresensitive adhesive. A removable combined protective backing and advertising sheet is positioned over and in removable engagement with said pressure-sensitive adhesive and contains the advertising message on its outer face. The removable backing sheet may be stripped from said plaque to expose said pressuresensitive adhesive for mounting said plaque on a support surface.

Claims

1. A composite mailing package comprising:

an envelope having a front and rear face, the rear face having address and advertising indicia printed thereon and the front face including a transparent material forming a view window therethrough comprising a major portion of the area of said front face;

a mountable plaque within said envelope, said plaque having a front face including means thereon forming a pictorial image and a rear face having a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive thereon in permanent engagement therewith;

a combined adhesive-protecting and advertising-indicia-carrying backing sheet pressed over and in removable engagement with said pressure-sensitive adhesive layer;

means on said backing sheet to enable same to be grasped and stripped from said plaque to expose said pressure-sensitive adhesive for mounting said plaque on a support surface; and

, a reply card within said envelope having a front face for address and advertising indicia thereon related to the advertising indicia printed on said backing sheet.

2. Composite mailing package according to claim 1 wherein said envelope includes flap means for completely closing said envelope.

3. A method of preparing a composite mailing package of advertising material comprising the steps of:

preparing an envelope having a front and rear face, the rear face having address and advertising indicia printed thereon and the front face including transparent material forming a view window therethrough;

applying a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive material in permanent engagement with the rear face of a plaque having a pictorial image on its front face;

placing a combined adhesive-protecting and advertising-indicia-carrying backing sheet over and in removable engagement with said pressure sensitive adhesive layer;

inserting a reply card and said plaque into said envelope whereby said pictorial image is visible through said view window.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein said backing sheet includes means thereon to enable same to be grasped and stripped from said card exposing said pressure-sensitive adhesive for mounting said card on a support surface.