Patent ID: 7367147

Claim:
A yard sign formed by a single pass process for forming yard signs from individual sheets of sign stock and comprising the steps of: (a) conveying each two sided sheet of a sign stock to a printing station and screen printing an image on an image side of said sheet, said sheet being coated on both sides with a fusible polymer having a first thickness on said image side and a greater second thickness on an inner side opposite said image side; (b) conveying the printed sheet to a scoring station and scoring said sheet to form a fold line along said sheet; (c) conveying the scored sheet to a folding mechanism and folding said sheet in half at said fold line to form a folded sheet with said image side on an outside of said folded sheet; said folded sheet having a folded edge, an end edge opposite said folded edge, and opposite side edges extending respectively between said folded edge and said end edge; and (d) conveying the folded sheet to a sealing device and heating each of said side edges of said folded sheet to fuse said fusible polymer on said inner side along said side edges to thereby adhere portions of said sheet at said side edges together to form a pocket within said folded sheet to receive at least a portion of a sign support member.