Title: Continuous business form assembly

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1. A continuous business forms assembly comprising:

a plurality of superimposed plies of paper each having a face and a back, the face of each ply being uppermost, there being an uppermost ply, a lowermost ply and a plurality of intermediate plies;

the uppermost ply in said assembly being wider than the remainder of said plies and having punched margins displaced from the corresponding margins of the remainder of said plies to provide feeding means for feeding the assembly thru a printing device;

a plurality of first lines of weakening extending across said plies at regular intervals to define a plurality of individual form lengths of said assembly, each said first line of weakening being defined by a plurality of aligned, but separate, slits extending across all of said plies and through the same between the margins of said remainder of said plies but not in the margins of said uppermost ply, and holes in the intermediate plies of said assembly interconnecting the ends of adjacent ones of said slits;

a plurality of second lines of weakening in all of said plies on one side of corresponding first lines of weakening and closely adjacent thereto to define first stubs on each form length at one end thereof;

means between each said first and second line of weakening for securing the plies in assembled relation;

a plurality of third lines of lines of weakening in said remainder of said plies on the sides of corresponding ones of said first lines of weakening opposite said second lines of weakening, said third lines of weakening being closely adjacent corresponding first lines of weakening to define second stubs on each form length at the end thereof opposite said first stubs, said second stubs being only in said remainder of said plies;

means between said first and third lines of weakening securing said remainder of said plies in assembled relation and to said uppermost ply;

additional feeding means extending thru the plies of said assembly in one of said first and second stubs;

indicia on the faces of at least some of said plies in each form length for receiving variable information at designated locations; and

an image transfer medium at the interfaces of said plies for transfering variable information mechanically applied to the face of said uppermost ply to at least some of the underlying plies in each of said form lengths.

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Inventors: Absler, Howard (Skokie, IL, US)
Juszak, Joseph (Crystal Lake, IL, US)
Gore, Thomas (Crystal Lake, IL, US)

Application Number: 941006
Filing Date: 1978-09-11
Publication_date: 1980-07-22
Assignee: Uarco Incorporated (Barrington, IL)
Primary Class(es): 462/2
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

3339827	Sep, 1967	Steidinger	282/11.
4109936	Aug, 1978	Steidinger	282/11.

Other Refs: 1255118856196

Nov, 1967	DE
Jun, 1940	FR

Primary Examiner: Bell, Paul A.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Wegner, Stellman, McCord, Wiles & Wood