Patent ID: 6732494
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: B31B,B65D

Abstract:
An envelope having:a front side and back side; a closing flap connected to the front side; a fold-back flap which can be folded from a stored state into a closed state, which in the stored state is folded against the envelope back side, and which in the closed state is bonded to the closing flap; and an adhesive closure including a contact adhesive coating, wherein in the stored state the contact adhesive coating is applied to a surface area of the envelope having separating characteristics and defining a separating area, wherein the contact adhesive coating, a surface of the contact adhesive area and the separating area are constructed so as to cooperate in such a way that the contact adhesive coating applied to the separating area is firmly bonded with its top onto the surface of the contact adhesive area of the envelope pressed onto the same, wherein the contact adhesive coating becomes separated in the closed state from the separating area, and the previous underside of the contact adhesive coating area now forms the surface of the contact adhesive coating having contact adhesive properties, and wherein on an edge of the envelope adjacent to an outer edge of the fold-back flap the contact adhesive has gripping recesses or a prebreak defining a gripping zone.