Patent ID: 7975904
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. An intermediate form for forming a Z-fold business mailer comprising: a single sheet of paper having a top end edge, a bottom end edge opposite and parallel to the top end edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge opposite and parallel to the first side edge, the edges defining a square or a rectangular configuration; a first and a second line of weakness extending longitudinally from the top end edge to the bottom end edge and being substantially parallel to the side edges, the first line of weakness being closest to the first side edge, a first tear-off strip defined between the first line of weakness and the first side edge, and the second line of weakness being closest to the second side edge, a second tear-off strip defined between the second line of weakness and the second side edge; a first fold line extending horizontally between the first and the second side edges to define a first panel between the bottom end edge and the first fold line, and a second fold line extending horizontally between the first and the second side edges to define a second panel between the first and the second fold lines and to define a third panel between the top end edge and the second fold line; only a first vertical linear pattern of cohesive disposed on a first surface of the sheet extending from the top end edge to the first fold line along the first tear-off strip of the third and second panels immediately adjacent the first side edge, and only a second vertical linear pattern of cohesive disposed on the first surface of the sheet extending from the top end edge to the first fold line along the second tear-off strip of the third and second panels immediately adjacent the second line of weakness; a third vertical linear pattern of cohesive disposed on a second surface of the sheet extending from the second fold line to the bottom end edge along the second tear-off strip of the second and first panels immediately adjacent the second side edge, and a fourth vertical linear pattern of cohesive disposed on the second surface of the sheet extending from the second fold line to the bottom end edge along the first tear-off strip of the second and first panels immediately adjacent the first line of weakness; a first and a second horizontal pattern of cohesive disposed along the first surface, the first horizontal pattern disposed adjacent the top end edge and the second horizontal pattern disposed above the first fold line; a third and a fourth horizontal pattern of cohesive disposed along the second surface, the third horizontal pattern disposed immediately adjacent the bottom end edge and the fourth horizontal pattern disposed below the second fold line; and the first and the second vertical linear patterns of cohesive being sized and disposed along the first surface, and the third and the fourth vertical linear patterns of cohesive being sized and disposed along the second surface such that, when the sheet is stacked upon the first surface of a second identical intermediate form, the fourth and the third vertical patterns along the second surface do not touch or overlap the first and the second vertical patterns, respectively, along the first surface of the second intermediate form.