Pressure sensitive cohesive patterns for Z fold and C fold business forms

• US 5,950,909 A
• Filed: 01/12/1998
• Issued: 09/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Moore North America Incorporated (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Original Assignee: Moore U.S.A. Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Inventors: Chappell, Theodore Michael, Peterson, Wayne Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Application Number:
  US09/005,824
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 229/92.1, 229/92.8, 206/390
• US Class Current: 229/92.1
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/08 Letter-cards or letter-sheets, i.e. cards or sheets each of which is to be folded with the message inside and to serve as its own envelope for mailing
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 27/10 Chains of interconnected envelopes
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 27/16 using pressure-sensitive adhesive

Abstract

In the production of mailer type business forms, particularly from a web in a roll configuration having a plurality of business form intermediates, with pressure sensitive cohesive, the problem of cohesive blocking (sticking together) at inopportune times is avoided by spacing substantially linear patterns of the cohesive disposed in the detachable side edges of the intermediates so that when the intermediates are in the roll configuration the cohesive from one intermediate does not engage the cohesive from another. Preferably the cohesive patterns on one face of the intermediate are spaced from the parallel cohesive patterns on the second face of the intermediate by about 1-15 mm, preferably about one centimeter. Transversely extending patterns of cohesive also may be positioned so that they too do not engage in the roll configuration, even though engagement of the transverse patterns is much less of a problem because the potential areas for engagement are few when the intermediates are in the roll configuration.

Claims

1. A mailer type business form intermediate comprising:

a sheet or web of paper having first and second faces, and first and second substantially parallel side edges;

first and second lines of weakness formed in said web or sheet adjacent and substantially parallel to said first and second side edges, respectively to define first and second edge strips, said edge strips each having a width X, in the dimension transverse to said first and second edges;

first and second substantially linear patterns of pressure sensitive cohesive disposed on said first face in said first and second strips, respectively, adjacent said first and second lines of weakness, respectively, and substantially parallel to said first and second lines of weakness, each of said first and second substantially linear patterns having a width Y which is less than X, and substantially no pressure sensitive cohesive in said first face in said first and second strips is adjacent said first and second side edges;

third and fourth substantially linear patterns of pressure sensitive cohesive disposed on said second face in said first and second strips, respectively, adjacent said first and second edges, respectively, and substantially parallel to said first and second edges, and substantially no pressure sensitive cohesive in said second face in said first and second strips is adjacent said first and second lines of weakness;

each of said third and fourth substantially linear patterns having a width Z which is less than X, and wherein Y plus Z is less than X, so that said first and second patterns of cohesive do not overlap, respectively, said third and fourth patterns of adhesive, and so that substantially no cohesive in said first and second strips on said first face overlaps cohesive in said strips on said second face in said transverse direction; and

a plurality of fold lines disposed in said web or sheet extending substantially perpendicular to said first and second side edges.

2. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 1 wherein said web or sheet comprises a web of a plurality of said intermediates in roll configuration with said first and second faces of different portions of said web in contact with each other while said first and second edges of said web are in alignment, said first and second patterns of cohesive not engaging, respectively, said third and fourth patterns of cohesive.

3. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 1 wherein Y and Z are both less than one-half X, and Y is substantially equal to Z.

4. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 1 wherein said first and second patterns of cohesive are spaced in said transverse dimension from, respectively, said third and fourth patterns of cohesive, a distance D of at least 5 mm.

5. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 4 wherein D is about one cm.

6. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of transversely extending substantially linear patterns of pressure sensitive cohesive disposed adjacent and substantially parallel to at least some of said fold lines.

7. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 6 wherein said plurality of transversely extending patterns of cohesive comprise patterns on both said first and second faces, and wherein said cohesive on said first face is spaced from said cohesive on said second face in said transverse dimension, so that said transversely extending patterns on said first and second faces do not overlap.

8. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 7 wherein said web or sheet comprises a web of a plurality of said intermediates in roll configuration with said first and second faces of different portions of said web in contact with each other while said first and second edges of said web are in alignment, so that no cohesive on said first face is in contact with cohesive on said second face.

9. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 8 wherein a plurality of said fold lines comprise lines of weakness separating said plurality of intermediates from each other.

10. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 2 wherein a plurality of said fold lines comprise lines of weakness separating said plurality of intermediates from each other.

11. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 10 wherein said intermediates are for Z-fold or eccentric Z-fold intermediates.

12. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 10 wherein said intermediates are for C-fold or eccentric C-fold intermediates.

13. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 10 wherein said first and second patterns of cohesive are spaced in said transverse dimension from, respectively, said third and fourth patterns of cohesive, a distance D of at least 5 mm, and wherein Y and Z are substantially equal.

14. A mailer type business form intermediate as recited in claim 13 wherein D is about one cm.

15. A web of a plurality of mailer type business form intermediates comprising:

a web of paper having first and second faces, and first and second substantially parallel side edges;

first and second lines of weakness formed in said web adjacent and substantially parallel to said first and second side edges, respectively to define first and second edge strips, said edge strips each having a width X, in the dimension transverse to said first and second edges;

first and second substantially linear patterns of pressure sensitive cohesive disposed on said first face in said first and second strips, respectively, adjacent said first and second lines of weakness, respectively, and substantially parallel to said first and second lines of weakness, each of said first and second substantially linear patterns having a width Y which is less than X;

third and fourth substantially linear patterns of pressure sensitive cohesive disposed on said second face in said first and second strips, respectively, adjacent said first and second edges, respectively, and substantially parallel to said first and second edges, each of said third and fourth substantially linear patterns having a width Z which is less than X, and wherein Y plus Z is less than X, so that said first and second patterns of cohesive do not overlap, respectively, said third and fourth patterns of adhesive, and so that substantially no cohesive in said first and second strips on said first face overlaps cohesive in said strips on said second face in said transverse direction;

a plurality of fold lines disposed in said web extending substantially perpendicular to said first and second side edges;

wherein said web is in roll configuration defining a plurality of intermediates with said first and second faces of different portions of said web in contact with each other while said first and second edges of said web are in alignment, said first and second patterns of cohesive not engaging, respectively, said third and fourth patterns of cohesive; and

a plurality of transversely extending substantially linear patterns of pressure sensitive cohesive disposed adjacent and substantially parallel to at least some of said fold lines.

16. A web as recited in claim 15 wherein said plurality of transversely extending patterns of cohesive comprise patterns on said both first and second faces;

and wherein said cohesive on said first face is spaced from said cohesive on said second face in said transverse dimension so that said transversely extending patterns on said first and second faces do not overlap.