Promotional form with detachable element

• US 6,948,742 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2002
• Issued: 09/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ward Kraft, Inc. (W/K Holding Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Ward Kraft, Inc. (W/K Holding Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Buck, Roger
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks, Derris
• Assistant Examiner(s): HENDERSON, MARK T
• Application Number:
  US10/154,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20030218329A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,222 Days
• Field of Search: 229/70, 229/71, 229/72, 229/92, 229/92.1, 229/92.8, 229/300, 229/303, 283/98, 283/101, 283/106, 283/56, 283/109, 283/105, 493/405, 493/413, 428/41.7, 428/41.8, 428/41.9, 428/42.3, 403/41, 462/8, 462/18, 462/25, 462/26, 462/900
• US Class Current: 283/56
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/025 with peel-away layer hiding information tickets for lottos or bingo games A63F3/065
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 462/90 Adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1471 Protective layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1476 Release layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1481 Dissimilar adhesives

Abstract

A promotional form is provided which includes a detachable element received within the surrounding margin of a base sheet, the base sheet being folded and sealed around one side of the detachable element to initially conceal a message, question or other indicia hidden until the detachable element is at least partially removed. The promotional form may include a plurality of detachable elements having correlated indicia printed on an exposed side and either on the concealed side of the element or in a portion of the opposing form section in registry with the detachable element. A game or educational piece may be inexpensively provided by correlating different indicia messages corresponding to respective detachable elements, so that in response to an initial query or instruction, a plurality of possible results may be revealed, leading in turn to an outcome revealed by removal of a further detachable element. Tampering with the form is revealed when multiple detachable elements corresponding to alternate results are removed, or the adhesive bonding the facing form sections is disturbed.

Claims

1. A form comprising:

a base sheet having a first side and a second side and a surrounding margin, said base sheet further including at least one transverse fold line dividing said base sheet into at least first and second sections;

a line of weakness in one of said first and second sections of said base sheet defining an element which is initially integral with the base sheet but may be at least partially separated from the base sheet along said line of weakness;

a pattern of adhesive positioned on the second side of at least one of said first and second sections, said base sheet being folded along said one transverse fold line whereby said the first and second sections arc adhesively bonded with said pattern substantially surrounding said line of weakness on said second side of said base sheet; and

first indicia printed on one of the second side of at least one of said detachable element and the second side of other of said first and second sections opposite and in registry with the detachable element, whereby said first indicia is initially hidden from direct viewing after the adhesive bonding of said first and second sides but is directly viewable upon at least partial separation of said detachable element from said base sheet.

wherein said line of weakness is positioned on said base sheet inside of the surrounding margin so as to be discrete therefrom,

wherein said pattern of adhesive bonds said first and second sections to present a pocket distinct from a portion of the pattern surrounding said detachable element.

2. A form comprising:

a base sheet having a first side and a second side and a surrounding margin, said base sheet further including at least transverse fold line dividing said base sheet into at least first and second sections;

a line of weakness in one of said first and second sections of said base sheet defining an element which is initially integral with the base sheet but may be at least partially separated from the base sheet along said line of weakness;

a pattern of adhesive positioned on the second side of at least one of said first and second sections, said base sheet being folded along said one transverse fold line whereby said the first and second sections are adhesively bonded with said pattern substantially surrounding said line of weakness on said second side of said base sheet;

first indicia printed on at least one of the second side of said detachable element and the second side of the section opposite and in registry with the detachable element, whereby said first indicia is initially hidden from direct viewing after the adhesive bonding of said first and second sections but is directly viewable upon at least partial separation of said detachable element from said base sheet,

said detachable element being accessible from said first side so as to be detachable when said first and second sections are adhesively bonded,

wherein said line of weakness is positioned on said base sheet inside of the surrounding margin so as to be discrete therefrom; and

a transparent film window adhesively coupled to said base sheet on said second side in covering relationship to said detachable element.

3. A form as set forth in claim 2, wherein said window is provided of a pen writable synthetic resin material.

4. A form as set forth in claim 2, wherein said window is provided of a laminate having a top ply adjacent said detachable element and base sheet and a bottom ply.

5. A form as set forth in claim 2, including second indicia printed on said first side of said base sheet interior to said detachable element and correlated to said first indicia.

6. A form as set forth in claim 4, wherein said line of weakness in said base sheet further extends into said top ply, whereby upon separation of said detachable element along said line of weakness, said top ply positioned in registry with said detachable element is removed therewith.

7. A form as set forth in claim 6, wherein upon separation of said detachable element, said bottom ply remains with said base sheet.

8. A form comprising:

a base sheet having a first side and a second side and a surrounding margin, said base sheet further including at least one transverse fold line dividing said base sheet into at least first and second sections;

a line of weakness in one of said first and second sections of said base sheet defining an element which is initially integral with the base sheet but may be at least partially separated from the base sheet along said line of weakness;

a pattern of adhesive positioned on the second side of at least one of said first and second sections, said base sheet being folded along said one transverse fold line whereby said the first and second sections are adhesively bonded with said pattern substantially surrounding said line of weakness on said second side of said base sheet;

first indicia printed on at least one of the second side of said detachable element and the second side of the section opposite and in registry with the detachable element, whereby said first indicia is initially hidden from direct viewing after the adhesive bonding of said first and second sections but is directly viewable upon at least partial separation of said detachable element from said base sheet,

said detachable element being accessible from said first side so as to be detachable when said first and second sections are adhesively bonded;

second indicia printed on said first side of said base sheet interior to said detachable element and correlated to said first indicia; and

masking indicia printed on said second side of the other of said first and second sections for inhibiting viewing of said first indicia prior to at least partial detachment of said detachable element.

9. A form as set forth in claim 8, wherein said line of weakness is positioned on said base sheet inside of the surrounding margin so as to be discrete therefrom.

10. A form comprising:

a base sheet having a first side and a second side and a surrounding margin, said base sheet further including at least one transverse fold line dividing said base sheet into at least first and second sections;

a line of weakness in one of said first and second sections of said base sheet defining an element which is initially integral with the base sheet but may be at least partially separated from the base sheet along said line of weakness;

a pattern of adhesive positioned on the second side of at least one of said first and second sections, said base sheet being folded along said one transverse fold line whereby said the first and second sections are adhesively bonded with said pattern substantially surrounding said line of weakness on said second side of said base sheet; and

first indicia printed on at least one of the second side of said detachable element and the second side of the section opposite and in registry with the detachable element, whereby said first indicia is initially hidden from direct viewing after the adhesive bonding of said first and second sections but is directly viewable upon at least partial separation of said detachable element from said base sheet,

said detachable element being accessible from said first side so as to be detachable when said first and second sections are adhesively bonded,

said base sheet including a plurality of detachable elements unitary therewith, each said detachable elements defined by a respective line of weakness in said base sheet, said first indicia including respective and discrete indicia printed on one of the second side of at each of said plurality of detachable elements and the second side of other of said first and second sections opposite and in registry with each of the plurality of detachable elements, whereby each respective and discrete indicia of said first indicia is initially hidden from direct viewing after the adhesive bonding of said first and second sides but is directly viewable upon at least partial separation of each respective one of said detachable elements from said base sheet.

11. A form as set forth in claim 10, including a transparent film window adhesively coupled to said second side of said base sheet in covering relationship to said plurality of detachable elements.

12. A form as set forth in claim 10, said first indicia including respectively at least query or instruction indicia corresponding to a first one of said detachable elements, a plurality of separate and discrete result indicia correlated to said query or instruction indicia and corresponding to respective second and third detachable elements, and at least one outcomes indicia correlated to one of said result indicia and corresponding to a respective forth detachable element.

13. A form as set forth in claim 11, said transparent film window being provided of a pen writable synthetic resin material.

14. A form as set forth in claim 13, wherein said window is provided of a laminate having a top ply adjacent each of said detachable elements and said base sheet and a bottom ply, wherein each of said lines of weakness in said base sheet further extends into said top ply, whereby upon separation of each respective one of said plurality of detachable elements along its respective line of weakness, said top ply positioned in registry with the respective detachable element is removed therewith and wherein upon separation of said detachable element, said bottom ply remains with said base sheet.

15. A form comprising:

a base sheet having a first side and a second side and a surrounding margin, said base sheet further including at least one transverse fold line dividing said base sheet into at least first and second sections;

a line of weakness in one of said first and second sections of said base sheet defining an element which is initially integral with the base sheet but may be at least partially separated from the base sheet along said line of weakness;

a pattern of adhesive positioned on the second side of at least one of said first and second sections, said base sheet being folded along said one transverse fold line whereby said the first and second sections are adhesively bonded with said pattern substantially surrounding said line of weakness on said second side of said base sheet; and

first indicia printed on at least one of the second side of said detachable element and the second side of the section opposite and in registry with the detachable element, whereby said first indicia in initially hidden from direct viewing after the adhesive bonding of said first and second sections but is directly viewable upon at least partial separation of said detachable element from said base sheet,

said detachable element being accessible from said first side so as to be detachable when said first and second sections are adhesively bonded,

wherein said adhesive is a contact adhesive applied to each of said first and second sections in complemental mirror-image pattern segments, each of said pattern segments being bondable when mated to the other of said pattern segments.