61 |
Envelope and enclosure sheet |
US733783 |
1985-06-12 |
US4630768A |
1986-12-23 |
William P. Bradley |
An improved high speed method for producing quantities of discrete envelope assemblies and an assembly produced thereby, each assembly including an envelope and separate double folded enclosure formed from the same blank of sheet material and having personalized information printed on both the envelope and enclosure that is unique to each assembly.The method provides for continuous operation of the method steps all occurring one after the other as each assembly travels in the same general direction throughout all processing operations. |
62 |
Mailing envelope and insert subassembly |
US724437 |
1985-04-18 |
US4600141A |
1986-07-15 |
William P. Bradley; Michael Herman; Robert W. Paltrow |
A method for producing quantities of discrete envelope assemblies, and assemblies produced thereby, including at least one separate enclosure for each assembly, the invention allows formation of the envelope and enclosure from the same sheet of material and allows marking of both envelope and enclosure with indicia which can be unique to each assembly. The method particularly allows continuous, high speed manufacture of assemblies personalized by name and address or the like by printing the indicia on a web of sheet material followed by formation of the web into a plurality of separate envelopes and enclosures with the envelopes and enclosures having like indicia being associated, the method including the use of a fugitive adhesive effected during manufacture, the contour cutting of the web prior to folding and the maintenance of a singular direction of travel of the web and element cut therefrom throughout manufacture. |
63 |
Envelope forming machine with envelope blank stack sensor |
US744290 |
1985-06-12 |
US4585221A |
1986-04-29 |
Harold R. Lillibridge |
A machine wherein flat blanks are fed from a stack thereof to be folded and glued into envelopes. The machine is provided with an optical sensing device which is operable to sense when the stack of blanks diminishes to a predetermined height whereupon the machine will be turned off automatically so as to prevent a plurality of blanks from being simultaneously fed into the machine from the diminished stack to jam the machine. The machine operator can then add blanks to the stack and restart the machine. The sensing device can be turned off by the operator in order to run all of the blanks in the stack through the machine at the end of a blank run or at the end of a working day. |
64 |
Envelope gumbox friction brake and safety slip clutch |
US644369 |
1984-08-27 |
US4545846A |
1985-10-08 |
Harold R. Lillibridge; Joseph D. Russo |
A friction brake and safety slip clutch is positioned between a gumbox and a hand operated pinion shaft used to raise and lower the gumbox into contact with sealant transfer rollers of an apparatus for applying sealant material to envelopes. The brake and clutch prevents the gumbox from falling from a raised elevation during rotation of the pinion shaft or after the elevation has been attained. |
65 |
Method of making direct mail article with reply envelope and detachable
reply devices visible within reply envelope |
US419224 |
1982-09-17 |
US4543082A |
1985-09-24 |
John W. Stenner |
Direct mail articles comprise an outer envelope containing a pre-formed reply envelope, detachable reply devices, such as coupons and a reply card, and optionally, one or more separate enclosure sheets. The reply envelope is provided with a plurality of apertured pockets adapted to receive at least one of the reply devices, where the apertures permit visual or machine sorting of the sealed envelopes based on the presence or absence of a particular reply device in a particular pocket. Methods of preparing personalized, finished articles from one or more integral sheets or webs are described. |
66 |
Bag and bag making apparatus |
US444899 |
1982-11-18 |
US4540089A |
1985-09-10 |
John Maloney |
A mixing bag (4) comprising a mixing chamber in the form of a compartment (45), a pocket (42) in the bag having a mouth opening (44) so that it can be filled with liquid (72) to a predetermined volume. The pocket is easily ruptured when the mouth is closed to discharge the volume of liquid into the compartment for mixing with a material (70) in the compartment. During mixing the walls (46, 47) of the pocket about to serve as a nonreturn valve in the bag. |
67 |
High speed method of making envelopes each with a double folded
removable enclosure |
US574308 |
1984-01-26 |
US4531993A |
1985-07-30 |
William P. Bradley |
An improved high speed method for producing quantities of discrete envelope assemblies, each assembly including an envelope and separate double folded enclosure formed from the same blank of sheet material and having personalized information printed on both the envelope and enclosure that is unique to each assembly.The method provides for continuous operation of the method steps all occurring one after the other as each assembly travels in the same general direction throughout all processing operations. |
68 |
Mechanism and method of making an envelope |
US324761 |
1981-11-23 |
US4464878A |
1984-08-14 |
Roman M. Golicz; William H. Gunther, Jr.; James W. Hough |
An improved machine and method of making and folding an insert and a personalized envelope therefor. |
69 |
Method of producing mailer with self contained reply envelope |
US330320 |
1981-12-14 |
US4437852A |
1984-03-20 |
Kurt E. Volk, Jr.; Everett H. Herbert; John W. Stenner |
Methods for manufacturing articles suitable for mailing, comprising an outer envelope containing at least one enclosure and a pre-formed return envelope, wherein the outer envelope, enclosure and pre-formed reply envelope are prepared from one or more integral sheets. |
70 |
Envelope gummer cylinder clutch and brake |
US288522 |
1981-07-30 |
US4416651A |
1983-11-22 |
John Sullivan; Harold R. Lillibridge |
Apparatus for applying gum to spaced portions of an envelope is provided with means for sensing the absence of an envelope on a conveyor belt feeding the envelopes to the gummer apparatus. In response to sensing the absence of an envelope on the conveyor belt, a gummer cylinder containing spaced gummer pads for applying gum to the flap and body of the envelope is precluded from rotating by disengagement of a clutch between the gummer cylinder and its drive and simultaneous contact of a brake with the cylinder. |
71 |
Double envelope and method of making same |
US233167 |
1981-02-10 |
US4411643A |
1983-10-25 |
Richard L. Higginson |
A double envelope construction comprised of one envelope inside another envelope is formed in one pass on an envelope folding machine by providing a pre-cut envelope blank and a paper blank of smaller size than the envelope blank, adhering the paper blank to the envelope blank by means of fugitive adhesive, applying remoistenable seal gum to the flap portion of the envelope blank, drying the seal gum, and scoring the adhered together envelope and paper blanks at predetermined locations and folding the scored blanks while applying adhesive to predetermined areas thereof to form an outer envelope from the envelope blank and an inner envelope inside the outer envelope from the paper blank. The envelope blank or the paper blank, or both, may be preprinted prior to being fed to the envelope folding machine or may be printed by a printer in-line with the envelope folding machine. |
72 |
Apparatus for manufacturing envelopes |
US136493 |
1980-04-03 |
US4338085A |
1982-07-06 |
John Sullivan; Harold R. Lillibridge |
Apparatus for feeding, scoring, gumming, and folding a blank into an envelope. |
73 |
Method and apparatus for coupon insertion |
US68064 |
1979-08-20 |
US4268344A |
1981-05-19 |
Elwyn D. Jones |
Method and apparatus for positioning and securing a coupon within a transparent plastic bag in visible but tamper-proof manner. During manufacture of the bag a coupon is positioned against the inner surface of one side of the bag and the coupon is then overlaid with a cover strip which is heat sealed to the side of the bag. The bag is then completed and the coupon is held within the bag by the cover strip. |
74 |
Apparatus for applying sealing material to envelopes |
US914035 |
1978-06-09 |
US4236482A |
1980-12-02 |
David L. Gingerich; Robert Cohn |
Independent conveyor belt systems each have a run overlapped with different portions of a run of a single endless belt to clamp an envelope therebetween to convey the envelope through successive sealing material applicator and drying stations. The belt systems enable feeding and removal of the envelopes from the same side of the apparatus and provide for compactness and portability of the apparatus. |
75 |
Method and device for making envelopes from a continuous web and
including the stuffing and sealing of those envelopes |
US938933 |
1978-09-01 |
US4205504A |
1980-06-03 |
Clyde G. Gregoire; James A. Hartman; Joseph M. Gregoire |
A continuous paper web is fed in a longitudinal path. Glue is applied in transverse strips at regular intervals along the longitudinally disposed continuous web over a part only of the width of the web. A first plow folds over a portion of the web having the transverse glue strips to a position above an adjacent flat portion of the web. An insert or stuffer is fed into the web between the folded over portion and the flat portion and against an inner crotch thereof formed by the fold line. The space between the folded over portion and the flat portion away from the fold is open and forms a wide mouth to readily receive the inserts delivered thereto. This first folded over portion is then closed down over the inserts lying on the flat portion causing the glue strips to seal onto the flat portion. The folded over portion and the flat portion of the web contain inserts between each of the transverse glue strips. A glue strip is applied longitudinally to the web on the flat portion thereof not having a folded over portion thereabove. A second plow acts to fold the longitudinally glued flap strip over onto the top of the folded over portion to thereby seal the top of the formed envelope. The continuous web is then sheared transversely at each transverse glue strip to thus divide the continuous web into multiple individual stuffed and sealed envelopes. |
76 |
Use of microencapsulated glue in the manufacture of envelopes |
US810264 |
1977-06-27 |
US4134322A |
1979-01-16 |
Harold R. Lillibridge |
Envelopes having moistenable gum on the seal flap and back gum adhering the sides and bottom are manufactured by a process comprising applying a back gum to either the bottom flap or the side flaps in the form of microcapsules. When the bottom and side flaps are folded and pressure is applied, the microcapsules rupture causing the back gum to adhere the bottom and side flaps. Gum in the form of microcapsules can also be applied to the seal flap allowing the end user to seal without moisture. |
77 |
Envelope drying machine |
US600933 |
1975-07-31 |
US4126948A |
1978-11-28 |
Hubert R. VerMehren |
This apparatus is used for drying the gummed flaps of envelopes and includes a drying wheel that rotates within an embracing plenum chamber from which hot air is directed across envelopes carried by the wheel. The wheel includes spaced discs having slots into which the envelopes are guided and held during the drying process, and from which the envelopes are discharged following drying. The slots are of a configuration to apply pressure to the envelopes and thereby ensure that they are retained within the slots against the action of centrifugal forces. |
78 |
Gum applicator |
US763574 |
1977-01-28 |
US4106431A |
1978-08-15 |
George Frederick Howatt |
Gum applicator having a primary roller whose lower periphery extends into the box for emersion in a body of gum and a secondary roller which contacts the primary roller at a point well about the point where it emerges from the body of gum and which has a reduced central portion of substantial length. |
79 |
Multi-panel envelope form and method of producing same |
US612709 |
1975-09-12 |
US4063398A |
1977-12-20 |
Harold W. Huffman |
The single-ply, multi-panel envelope form comprises a pair of coplanar, envelope-defining panels disposed in end-to-end, spaced relationship and at least one intermediate panel disposed between and end-connected relationship with said envelope-defining panels wherein the opposite side edges of each intermediate panel are disposed inwardly of the corresponding side edges of the envelope-defining panels. The side edges of the envelope-defining panels of each form are disposed in contacting, sealed relationship when the panels of each form are zig-zag folded into envelope-defining relationship permitting removal of the intermediate panel from the interior of the envelope through access means provided in one marginal edge thereof.The forms of the present invention are readily produced in an end-to-end connected series from a continuously advancing web of sheet material which is transversely subdivided into a plurality of end-to-end interconnected forms, each of which are adapted to be sequentially zig-zag folded into sealed, envelope-defining relationship, and thereafter severed from the series as individual forms. A stuffer-insert such as a circular or the like may be inserted in the interior of the envelope prior to sealing thereof. |
80 |
Envelope machine |
US688617 |
1976-05-21 |
US4055111A |
1977-10-25 |
George F. Howatt |
Envelope machine of the window-applicator type and means for avoiding application of gum to window when envelope blank is missing and to dispose of the window under similar circumstances. |