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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7326164 | Apparatus for making window envelopes Disclosed are a method and an apparatus designed to make a window envelope rapidly using a water-soluble clarifying agent without causing an inconvenience in its window area. Upstream of an envelope making stage wherein a continuous paper while traveling along a con... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7115086 | Queue-based bag forming system and method A method of forming a series of bags for bulky articles from rolled thermoplastic film and padding element includes arranging a linear, longitudinally traveling queue of layers of film and padding element according to a set of desired bag dimensions and characterist... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6634403 | Window bonding station In an apparatus for bonding window pieces to envelope blanks having window cut-outs, window pieces are cut from a transparent material web and then the window pieces and envelope blanks are brought together by a suction roller serving as a bonding cylinde... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6071367 | Method for forming a mailpiece A method for forming and using a mailpiece requiring special services is provided. The method includes providing a mailpiece having an integral document section requiring special service mailing that includes folding the sheet along fold lines and sealing... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5468563 | Reflection-reduced, bondable stretched film as window film for envelopes The present invention relates to a stretched, multilayer, transparent film which is reflection-reduced on at least one side, consists predominantly of polypropylene and is very suitable as window film for envelopes.... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5294042 | Exteriorly controlled addressing system for window mailers A mailer for use with computer printing techniques. The mailer utilizes die-cut window envelopes provided with a transparent window web an undersurface of which is coated with a chemical composition. A sheet contained in the envelope and visible through t... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5076489 | Multi-ply mailer form and method A multi-ply mailer and method of making wherein the top sheet has a CB coating, the next adjacent intermediate ply has a CF coating and the top sheet has a localized area coated with transparentizing material with image developing properties whereby impre... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4726802 | Mailing cover with reply envelope and response device from integral web A composite mailing wrapper suitable for use with a catalog or magazine is produced from an integral web and comprises front and rear cover sheets joined along a longitudinal fold line to which is detachably connected at least one preformed reply envelope... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4668211 | Method for preparing a returnable self-mailer A mailer is prepared using laser electronic printing with variable data and digitally stored data. The sheet fed Xerox 8700 and 9700 laser printer, for instance, is limited to a width of 11" which necessitates a prefolding of the mailer blank to a length ... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4642085 | Apparatus for making window patches Apparatus for severing window patches from a web of patch material includes a mechanism for applying adhesive to selective portions of the web, a pair of cooperating rolls to feed the web to the adhesive applying mechanism, a vacuum roll engaging successi... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4543082 | Method of making direct mail article with reply envelope and detachable reply devices visible within reply envelope Direct mail articles comprise an outer envelope containing a pre-formed reply envelope, detachable reply devices, such as coupons and a reply card, and optionally, one or more separate enclosure sheets. The reply envelope is provided with a plurality of a... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4413984 | Method and apparatus for making window envelopes A method and apparatus for manufacturing window envelopes is provided. After an opening has been cut in an envelope blank and glue applied around the opening, a window patch is secured over the opening and a panel secured behind the window patch. The pane... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4173922 | Method for making side seam envelopes from a web A paper web is unwound and conveyed through an envelope making machine where a side flap cutting device forms side flaps in the side edges of the web. Scorer rollers form longitudinal scores in the side flaps and the side flaps are thereafter folded along... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4012268 | Continuous business form or the like adapted for subsequent processing into original indicia bearing lottery tickets, envelopes or the like A continuous business form define a series of connected blanks adapted to be subsequently processed into multi-ply lottery tickets, envelopes or like articles, wherein each blank is developed from a plurality of contiguous longitudinal panels which collec... | 03/15/1977 |
| 3974748 | Apparatus for collating sheet like elements Apparatus for collating sheet like elements that includes initially feeding the sheet elements by a first conveyor in a spaced tandom relation at a high linear velocity into a spiral carrier. The spiral carrier includes a plurality of arcuate fingers havi... | 08/17/1976 |
