Combination shipping label/invoice form

Details Combination shipping label/invoice form Combination shipping label/invoice form

2000-04-03

2001-06-12

Fridie, Jr., Willmon (Department: 3722)

Printed matter

Accounting or listing form or sheet

C283S079000, C283S080000, C283S081000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06244629

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to business forms and, more particularly, to packing slip and shipping label forms and, even more specifically, to a combination shipping label/invoice form.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Shipping labels are commonly used to ship packages from a sender to a recipient. All shipping labels include a section for the designation of addressor/sender and a section for the designation of addressee/recipient. Usually, shipping labels are adhesive-backed in order that they may be secured to the package being sent.
An invoice is a business form used to indicate the quantity and description of products or services tendered, in combination with a request for payment of the same.
Quite often, products are shipped in packages bearing shipping labels, and invoices are mailed separately at a later time. Sometimes, an invoice in enclosed within the package being sent. Both of these methods, however, require additional printing and/or handling by the sender.
Others have created business forms having multiple parts and/or purposes. U.S. Pat. No. 5,509,694 (Laurash et al.), for example, discloses a tri-fold label or business form containing panels suitable for invoices, receipts and shipping labels. The patented form includes a Z-fold separating the three form sections.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,484,170 (Hatfield, Jr.) discloses a unitary shipping label, product information label and packing slip.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,413,383 (Laurash et al.) discloses a multipurpose tuck label/form
U.S. Pat. No. 5,071,167 (O'Brien) relates to a shipping and return mailing label. The patented form is tripartite and comprises a Z-fold.
Despite the teachings of the prior art, no one has of yet invented a simple pressure sensitive combination shipping label/invoice form which permits printing of both forms in a single operation and then adherence to a package as an integral form, displaying outwardly only the shipping label, thereby minimizing handling and expense.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention broadly comprises a combination shipping label/invoice form, having a first ply having an upper side and a lower side, the first ply comprising a shipping label section detachably secured along a dividing border to an invoice section, the shipping label section bordered at a first edge by a first marginal strip and at a second edge by a second marginal strip, the invoice section bordered by a third edge and a fourth edge, the shipping label section being wider between the first and second edges than the invoice section between the third and fourth edges, such that folding the invoice section along the dividing border and against the shipping label section results in the invoice section lying between the first and second edges of the shipping label section, where the lower side of the first and second marginal strips is coated with adhesive; and, a second ply comprising a release liner detachably secured to the adhesive-coated underside of the first and second marginal strips.
A general object of the invention is to provide a combination shipping label/invoice form which may be printed in a single operation and attached as an integral but detachably separable form to a package.


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patent: 5413383 (1995-05-01), Laurash et al.
patent: 5484170 (1996-01-01), Hatfield, Jr.
patent: 5509694 (1996-04-01), Laurash et al.
patent: 5601313 (1997-02-01), Konkol et al.

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