US 4,029,341 AGranted

Printed form having removable label

AssigneeFederal Business Products, Inc.

InventorsJimmie D. Neill, Lester V. Wise

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Abstract

A printed form to be filled out and submitted to a receiving party for processing, the form including as a removable component thereof a label assembly on which the submitter inserts his name and address, whereby the receiving party is then able to mail material to the submitter in an envelope having the removed label applied thereto. The label assembly is constituted by a face sheet having an address block printed thereon which is to be filled out with the name and address of the submitter, the underside of the face sheet having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer thereon protectively covered by a backing sheet. The backing sheet is severed into two short end sections and a long intermediate section, the underside of the intermediate section having a carbon copy coating thereon. In attaching the label assembly to the form to overlie an address block printed thereon, the end sections of the backing are adhered to the corresponding ends of the form block. Since the intermediate section is not adhered to the form block, the margins thereof are free and one can, therefore, detach the face sheet label from the form and then peel off the carbonized intermediate section and adhesively apply the label to the envelope.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A printed form having an address block thereon for the entry of name and address data regarding the submitter of the form, said form having a label assembly component overlying the address block, making it possible to send material to the submitter in an envelope addressed by a label detached from the assembly, said assembly comprising:

A. a face sheet having an address block thereon corresponding to the block printed on the form, the underside of the face sheet being covered by a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer;
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B. a protective cover sheet laminated to said face sheet by said adhesive layer, said cover sheet being severed into two end section tabs which are adhered to and remain permanently attached to the corresponding end portions of the address block on the form and a relatively long intermediate section having a pressure-responsive duplicating back surface whereby when said data is inserted in the address block on the face sheet, it is reproduced on the printed form, said intermediate section laminated to said face sheet completely covering the adhesive on the underside of the face sheet to form an intermediate laminated portion having adhesive-free edges between said tabs and being readily removable from said form, said intermediate section being thereafter peelable from said face sheet which may then be applied to said envelope.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.