US 5,328,092 AGranted

Reuseable mailer meeting postal requirements

AssigneeMoore Business Forms, Inc.

InventorJerry E. File

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Abstract

A reuseable mailer type business form has an initial mailing configuration addressed to an outgoing addressee, and a reply mailing configuration addressed to a reply addressee. The mailer complies with the postal requirement that no part of the outgoing address or postage (including postal service applied bar coding) appear on the mailer in the reply configuration. The mailer includes a front opaque ply with at least one cut-out, and at least one removable strip adjacent an edge, including a perforation line. Postage indicia are visible at the upper right-hand corner of the front ply. A rear opaque ply has a fold line adjacent an edge, and coincident with the perforation line of the front ply. A flap is defined between the fold line and the adjacent edge. At least one insert ply (between the front and rear plies) having outgoing address information visible through the cutout when the mailer is in the initial mailing configuration is provided. Various structures are provided for rendering non-viewable all outgoing addressee postage information when the mailer is converted between the initial and reply configurations. Such structure can be a second removable strip adjacent a different edge than the first removable strip, or a second cutout provided in the front ply for viewing the outgoing postage (on the insert ply).

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Dependent claims

A reusable mailer type business form useable in an initial mailing configuration addressed to an outgoing addressee, having top, bottom and first and second sides edges and in a reply mailing configuration addressed to a reply addressee, comprising:

a front opaque ply having a cutout, having top, bottom and first and second sides edges and a first removable strip at the bottom thereof including a top perforation line, said cutout being adjacent, and above, said first removable strip top perforation line;
a rear opaque ply of substantially the same size as said front ply having a rear face and a front face, having top, bottom and first and second sides edges and a fold line adjacent the bottom thereof substantially coincident with said top perforation line of said front ply, a flap portion defined between said fold line and the bottom of said rear ply;
address indicia indicating the reply address for the reply addressee printed on said rear face of said flap portion of said rear ply, said address indicia upside down when viewing the rear opaque ply right-side up;
flap adhesive disposed on said front face of said rear ply flap portion;
at least one insert ply having outgoing address information thereon visible through said cutout when said mailer is in said initial mailing configuration;
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a second removable strip formed in said front and rear plies adjacent the right side of said front ply, including a perforation line in each of said front and rear plies extending between the tops and bottoms thereof, said front ply having outgoing postage indicia thereon in second removable strip.

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