US 5,183,436 AGranted

Fan foldable membership card mailers

OwnerThomas M. Shanleyinventor

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Manufacturing lines are operated to produce continuously attached membership card mailers, which may be fan folded, and then packaged by a manufacturer, for delivery to an organization. The staff of the organization thereafter, upon demand, complete the entry of information on the continuously attached membership card mailers, then separate them, and thereafter deliver them to respective members. The members in turn remove the inner portion of the paper overlay area of the membership card mailer, along its perforations, exposing their respective membership cards which are then separated from their parent PVC stock by completing the separation previously started by microperforations around the periphery of the membership card.

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Fan foldable membership card mailers as supplied by a manufacturer to an organization, thereafter to be completed, separated, and delivered to respective members of the organization, comprising:

a. a roll of polyvinyl chloride stock of a designated width and designated length, having in turn:
i. pin feed spaced holes along both edges of this roll;
ii. perforations adjacent and parallel to the pin feed spaced holes along both edges of the initial roll;
iii. Perforations spaced transversely on this roll and extending between the perforations, which are adjacent and parallel to the pin feed spaced holes, and extending beyond them across the polyvinyl chloride stock, thereby determining the size of each membership card mailer;
iv. microperforations arranged in the direction of the length of this roll and in the transverse direction across this roll, within the perforated size of each membership card mailer, thereby determining the size of each membership card being created;
v. an N.C.R. type clear copy matte coating in a rectangular shape area at a selected location on each membership card being created;
and
vi. printing on each membership card mailer of this polyvinyl chloride stock roll which:
sets forth membership card usage instructions which are spaced about the area of the membership card being created;
and sets forth membership card text, design, and logo on the area of the membership card being created;
b. multiple overlay of paper stock, each one of the overlays serving as a cover for each membership card mailer and adhered to the polyvinyl chloride stock about their complementary borders by an adhesive, having in turn:
i. a printed blackout area located over the N.C.R. type clear copy matte coating on each membership card being created;
ii. a printed return address of the organization;
iii. a space for necessary postage such as a printed first class bulk mailer postal permit number of the organization, which may be printed in this space;
iv. a space for the subsequent use by the organization to enter the name and address of the member of the organization;
and
at this subsequent entry time, the member's name, member's membership number, and expiration date of the respective membership, will be imprinted by impact printing in the blackout area, resulting in printing on the polyvinyl material of the membership card being created, where the N.C.R. type clear copy matte coating has been previously distributed to receive this membership data, and this private data will therefore not be viewed by any persons during the sending functions, which are often mailing services, of this membership card mailer from the organization to a member thereof.

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A method of making fan foldable membership card mailers, as supplied by a manufacturer to an organization, thereafter to be completed, separated, and delivered to respective members, comprising the steps of:

a. operating an overall production line printing press assembly having transition locales to perform different functions;
b. feeding polyvinyl chloride stock of a designated width and designated length through this printing press assembly;
c. printing information at spaced locations on the polyvinyl chloride stock;
d. creating pin feed holes continuously along each side of the polyvinyl chloride stock;
e. creating perforations in the polyvinyl chloride stock which are spaced from the pin feed holes on each side and extend parallel to these respective pin feed holes;
f. creating perforations at spaced transverse locations on the polyvinyl chloride stock which extend between the respective perforations located along each side of the polyvinyl chloride stock and extend beyond them across the polyvinyl chloride stock, being fed through this printing press assembly, thereby determining the area size of each membership card mailer;
g. creating microperforations extending both longitudinally and transversely at spaced locations within each membership card mailer area of the polyvinyl chloride to commence the creation of a membership card;
h. coating a portion of the membership card being created with a N.C.R. type clear copy matte coating;
i. collecting the processed polyvinyl chloride stock as so modified by the printing, perforating, and matting;
j. operating an overall production line printing press assembly having transition locales to perform different functions;
k. feeding paper stock of a designated width and designated length through this printing press assembly;
l. printing information at spaced locations on the paper stock, including printing spaced blackout portions to later match the locations of the matte coating;
m. die cutting the processed paper stock into individual paper overlays containing the printed information and blackout area.
n. collecting the processed paper stock as so modified by the printing and die cutting into stacks of individual finished overlays;
o. operating a Ga-Vehren tip on machine to receive both the processed polyvinyl chloride stock and the individual paper overlays, and during operations of this machine:
i. creating spaced borders of adhesive on the processed polyvinyl chloride stock portions which are the size of the paper overlays;
and
ii. affixing paper overlays to the processed polyvinyl chloride stock portions by utilizing the spaced borders of adhesive.

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Abstract

Fan foldable membership card mailers as supplied by a manufacturer to an organization, thereafter to be completed, separated, and delivered to respective members of the organization, comprising:

a. a roll of polyvinyl chloride stock of a designated width and designated length, having in turn:
i. pin feed spaced holes along both edges of this roll;
ii. perforations adjacent and parallel to the pin feed spaced holes along both edges of the initial roll;
iii. Perforations spaced transversely on this roll and extending between the perforations, which are adjacent and parallel to the pin feed spaced holes, and extending beyond them across the polyvinyl chloride stock, thereby determining the size of each membership card mailer;
iv. microperforations arranged in the direction of the length of this roll and in the transverse direction across this roll, within the perforated size of each membership card mailer, thereby determining the size of each membership card being created;
v. an N.C.R. type clear copy matte coating in a rectangular shape area at a selected location on each membership card being created;
and
vi. printing on each membership card mailer of this polyvinyl chloride stock roll which:
sets forth membership card usage instructions which are spaced about the area of the membership card being created;
and sets forth membership card text, design, and logo on the area of the membership card being created;
b. multiple overlay of paper stock, each one of the overlays serving as a cover for each membership card mailer and adhered to the polyvinyl chloride stock about their complementary borders by an adhesive, having in turn:
i. a printed blackout area located over the N.C.R. type clear copy matte coating on each membership card being created;
ii. a printed return address of the organization;
iii. a space for necessary postage such as a printed first class bulk mailer postal permit number of the organization, which may be printed in this space;
iv. a space for the subsequent use by the organization to enter the name and address of the member of the organization;
and
at this subsequent entry time, the member's name, member's membership number, and expiration date of the respective membership, will be imprinted by impact printing in the blackout area, resulting in printing on the polyvinyl material of the membership card being created, where the N.C.R. type clear copy matte coating has been previously distributed to receive this membership data, and this private data will therefore not be viewed by any persons during the sending functions, which are often mailing services, of this membership card mailer from the organization to a member thereof.

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