Avery Dennison Corporation

Russell D Pollman

Ghanshyam H Popat

Ronald Ugolick

Norman Curtis Yamamoto

Dale E Loree

Gustav Allen Ray

Tamara L MacEwen

Manish M Bhakta

A paper assembly is formed having an envelope and a carrier portion, such that the overall assembly is a generally flat paper assembly having a length and width of a standard paper size such as 8&frac12; in.&times;11 in. or A-4 size. The assembly, having a footprint equal to a standard paper size, may be fed into a standard size paper tray of a printer such as a laser printer or an ink jet printer, with the printer printing on the front face of the envelop. After printing the envelope may be stuffed with material to be mailed, and the envelope separated from the carrier portion and sealed for mailing. In a first embodiment the carrier is an L-shaped piece of paper that is formed separately from the envelope and releasably adhered to the backside thereof, the L-cut having an acute angle and a rounded corner. In another embodiment the L-shaped carrier is releasably adhered to the front side of the envelope. In another embodiment the entire assembly including the carrier portion and the envelope is formed from a single oversized die cut sheet of paper, folded and glued to create an envelope releasably connected by cuts and ties to the remainder of the assembly to form an assembly having a footprint equal to a standard size sheet of paper, and then loaded into a standard size printer tray for printing on the envelope. After being printed upon the envelope is separated from the carrier portion and sealed for mailing.

Printable envelope with L-shaped addition

Generally speaking, a method for forming custom-printed, three dimensional structures using a computer and a computer-controlled printer, has several steps. A flexible rectangular sheet is perforated to form a removable portion. Lines of weakness are formed on the removable portion, to serve as fold lines that ultimately folding the two-dimensional removable portion into a three-dimensional structure. A user instructs a computer program to command a computer-controlled printer to print particular information onto the printing surface of said removable portion. After printing, the user removes the removable portion from the sheet along the perforations and then folds the removable portion along the lines of weakness and secures the folded sheet into a three dimensional structure. The removable portion may be provided with a pressure-sensitive, water-activated, cohesive or other type of adhesive for adhering securing the folded sheet into the three-dimensional structure. The computer program enables the user to design the custom-printing for the structure, and optionally to preview the ultimate appearance of the three-dimensional structure.

Method for custom printing and forming three-dimensional structures

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El Paso, TX, United States of America

Russell D Pollman