Continuous strip of detachably interconnected folded products
AssigneesMegaspirea N.V., Hersch Reich
InventorLuc Mertens
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Abstract
The invention relates to a continuous strip of detachable consecutive interconnected products manufactured by folding, such as envelopes and the like, and to a process for manufacturing the said strip, two of those consecutive products being interconnected through a joint (22) which is not part of the products themselves and links up detachably, through successive lines of demarcation, with each of those two consecutive products in such a way that, on removing this joint (22), the said two consecutive products are entirely separated.
Claims5
A method for forming a plurality of envelopes from a continuous strip of material comprising the steps of:
- programming a printer to accept a continuous strip of material;
- thereafter providing division lines on the continuous strip of material defining a plurality of consecutive areas of material to be formed as the envelopes and joint pieces respectively detachably interconnecting the consecutive areas;
- forming the joint pieces as one or more successive pages which are detachably linked together, wherein each of the joint pieces between the consecutive areas has a programmed length along a longitudinal length of the strip corresponding to a different length letter to be printed on successive joint pieces of said strip;
- simultaneously printing the consecutive areas of material and the joint pieces;
- providing folding lines on each of said consecutive areas of material to define a closing flap, a front and a back of the envelope to be formed;
- folding each of said consecutive areas of printing along the folding lines to form printed envelopes;
- separating printed joint pieces which form different length letters having separated pages from the printed envelopes;
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- inserting the letters into the printed envelopes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.