Books – strips – and leaves for manifolding – Strip
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-27
2001-05-08
Tsai, Henry (Department: 3722)
Books, strips, and leaves for manifolding
Strip
C462S022000, C462S024000, C462S028000, C462S039000, C283S116000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06227965
ABSTRACT:
This “Utility Patent Application” centers around an invention that consists of a single piece of paper that is designed, produced, and printed in such a manner that it can be folded and perform the same function as a multiple part form. This invention is particularly adapted for use as a 3 or 4-part form such as a 3-part receipt or a 4-part “bill of lading” currently utilized by numerous companies. The design is such that a blank piece of paper pre-perfed and coated in the proper areas with the microencapsulation Coated Front (CF) and Coated Back (CB) formulas for “No Carbon Required” (NCR) or carbonless forms; printed with the proper font rotation in the correct areas of the paper and then folded properly will function in the same manner as a 3 or 4-page multi-part form. In other words, after the finished page is printed and folded, then written on from the top, all the information from the top is also printed on each additional page of the folded form and is aligned in the proper blank or field identical to the front page.
The process and components for creating the finished product consists of cut sheet paper that can be (but not required) in standard sizes such as 8½″×11″ for the 3-part, or 11″×17″ for the 4-part. The paper would be manufactured in such a manner that certain specified areas of the page on both sides are spot coated with the specific formulas of “Coating Front” (CF) or “Coating Back” (CB) No Carbon Required (NCR) solutions. (This product is designed to utilize Mead OPAS's spot coating technology and coatings.) See
FIG. 1
for Side A or the front of the 4-part product, and
FIG. 2
or Side B of the 4-part, to see the proper location and size of the CF and CB spot coated areas.
FIGS. 4 and 5
show the proper locations and size for the CF and CB coatings for the 3-part form. These pages are also perfed at specified locations (both vertically and horizontally for the 4-part and just horizontally for the 3-part), to facilitate easy folding, and proper alignment of the printed data in each section, as part of the manufacturing process. These perfs will also be used to allow the finished product to match at all edges if desired. The perfing can be done before, after or at the same time the CF and CB coatings are applied, or even as part of the printing process. This specially manufactured paper has spot coatings in a specific pattern on the front and back, with the printed areas that make up the form, having specific rotations to allow the paper to be folded and then utilized in the same manner as a multi-part form. This specific duplex printing process with multiple font rotations could be done on a press, duplex copier, or with a duplex laser printer, and is done so all printing has the same orientation after the proper folding sequence on both forms. The finished printed page could either be folded manually or through existing finishing devices that fold in the desired manner. The process could also include the trimming of two sides of both forms, and spot glue one edge to produce a finished 3 or 4-part form that is aligned and glued as a finished product.
CROSS REFERENCED OR RELATED PATENTS
This specification acknowledges previous patents related to microencapsulation formulas (as the Mead OPAS coatings this invention is designed to utilize) and methods of applying the coatings, as well as standard NCR forms, held by companies such as Mead Corporation, RT Dodge, Moore Business Forms, and others. This application is unique in that the finished product is spot coated with both CF and CB on the same side of the paper, as well as on both sides of the single sheet of paper used to make the multi-part forms. CF and CB coatings are spot applied and printed on only one piece of paper, in such a manner as to facilitate a specific application and use, rather than multiple pieces of paper being manufactured separately and then glued together with the NCR coatings applied or carbon paper inserted to form the finished multi-part form product. The CF and CB coatings themselves, in this application, are just parts of the overall process, even though the specific layout of the areas coated is unique. Our process utilizing these coatings along with the claims made in this application, should not (to our knowledge) nor is it intended to, infringe on any current patents since we are in no way modifying the current products or processes already patented. The only patent we found even remotely related is European patent #EP0891260, but this form is only a two-part form developed for only one specific medical application. It does not utilize spot coatings but on one side of a page and is folded to form a 2 part form only.
Advantages to this invention are several. This design and the production process will result in tremendous cost savings in the ability to provide the same functional “bill of lading” with only one piece of paper, rather than 3 or 4 separate sheets, glued together with either carbon sheets or NCR coating technology. Most of the shipping companies utilize internally and provide to their customers, these forms in a continuous forms style, that are either tom apart and written by hand, or printed on a continuous forms printer such as a dot matrix. The continuous form version is even more expensive to produce than the individual or separate style “bill of lading” form. Through existing printing technology from either a laser printer or duplex press, a blank piece of CF and CB spot coated can be printed on both sides utilizing duplex printing technology with some inverted fonts and forms that result in the same multi-part form layout as the current multi-part forms in use today, after proper folding. The difference is the finished products will not only cost significantly less than the traditional 3 or 4-part forms, but can be produced much faster.
This invention is targeted to shipping or other companies who utilize 4-part “Bills of Lading” or “Airbills” that can be written or typed on and all 4-parts receive and display the same information either through carbon sheets between the top three parts, or NCR microencapsulation coating technology currently in use today in 2,3,4,5,etc- part preprinted forms. The design of this “One Page Multi-Part Form” will allow an individual or folding machine to make 2 folds of the page and have a ready to use 3 or apart form, with the same inherent advantages of the traditional 3 or 4-part form.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The current multi-part forms manufacturing process, requires numerous steps in the production process, resulting in a much more costly form in both components, as well as manpower, machinery and electrical power. The current design requires separate pages of paper, preprinting expense, cutting of the paper into appropriate sized sheets, production of carbon paper sheets made with “no carbon spots” (if utilized), inserted between the appropriate pages, and cut to the proper size (or CF & CB, NCR coated pages), alignment and assembly of all components, gluing of the edges, punching of tractor pin holes in the edges or outside borders of the continuous forms and perfing between forms. Not only does this design use more components, more labor, require more expensive and specialized machinery to manufacture, more consumption of electrical power—but is much heavier as a finished product. This single page design will also allow for “print on demand” production of personalized or sequentially numbered forms. Sequentially numbered or personalized forms currently require an additional step or pass in the printing process, or an expensive digital press, to produce these forms for companies that don't want to have to manually fill out their company's information in the shipping portion of the form. Specific offices where the shipping information is always the same for that particular location usually use these. The existing process and design is normally preprinted and then the personalized company address information or sequentially numbering or personalized accou
Thurston Alisa L
Tsai Henry
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