Business forms stationery assembly

An improved business forms continuous stationery assembly for use with a data processing machine having a pin feed tractor for moving the stationery assembly through the machine and comprising:

• a plurality of continuous, longitudinal record webs, including a first record web, and at least a second record web, the record webs being disposed one on top of the other and being capable of being folded, along transverse fold lines, in zig-zag fashion, into a pack of alternate folded lengths and being unfolded so that the webs may again assume a straight line position for use in the data processing machine, with each adjacent alternate folded lengths having a common, transverse fold line therebetween and with each of the record webs having a plurality of evenly spaced pin feed apertures therein that are disposed along at least one side marginal edge of the record webs;
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• means for permitting relative movement between the record webs in each adjacent alternate folded length when the record webs are folded and unfolded about the common transverse fold line between the adjacent alternate folded length, the relative movement means including:
• a plurality of paper staple tongues in the outer one of the record webs, as the record webs are folded about the common transverse fold line in each adjacent alternate folded length, the paper staple tongues each having a free end and being arranged so that the free ends of the paper staple tongues in adjacent, alternate fold lengths face toward the transverse common fold line between the adjacent, alternate fold lengths of the stationery assembly;
• and means for securing the free ends of the paper staple tongues to the other record web so that the record webs may move relatively to one another in either direction parallel to the side marginal edge of the record webs.