Continuous business form having discrete pockets
AssigneeWard Kraft, Inc.
InventorsRoger E. Kraft, Merlin F. Mercer, Roy A. Johnson
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Abstract
A business form having a base sheet and a web adhered thereto forming a discrete pocket is provided. The web is applied and adhered to the base sheet whereby the surrounding margin of the web is recessed from the circumscribing edge of the base sheet. The continuous form can be fan-folded without binding or interference as the fold lines of the base sheet are free from interference by the web, The base sheet may be coated with carbonless transfer media as may be an insert ply positioned between the web and the base sheet to permit inscriptions on the base sheet to be transferred to a ply which may be subsequently removed.
Claims11
A continuously produced business form comprising:
- at least first, second and third consecutive and interconnected base sheets, at least said second base sheet being separable from said first and third base sheets along a transversely extending line of weakness, each of said base sheets having a first side, a second side, and a circumscribing edge defining therewithin a web-receiving area substantially free of lines of weakening;
- a plurality of discrete webs constructed from synthetic resin film and each presenting a surrounding margin;
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- a quantity of adhesive applied to said first side of each of said base sheets for securing a respective one of said discrete webs thereto in substantially coplanar relationship to a corresponding one of said base sheets, with the entire surrounding margin of each web positioned inwardly and in recessed relationship relative to the circumscribing edge of the web-receiving area of the corresponding base sheet to which said web is adhered to present a web-free zone on each corresponding base sheet between each respective surrounding margin and corresponding circumscribing edge to thereby locate the entire surrounding margin of the web adhered to the corresponding base sheet in discrete spaced relationship relative to a web adhered to a sequential, adjacent one of said sheets, said adhesive being applied to secure less than the entire surrounding margin of each respective web to the web-receiving area of the corresponding base sheet to thereby present an opening between a portion of said web and the corresponding base sheet and for thereby defining a pocket between each respective web and the web-receiving area of its corresponding base sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.