Bundle with different information leaflets and method for producing such a bundle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10793330-B2
Application number	US-201414178368-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2014
Priority date	Feb 14, 2013
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

A method for producing a bundle (2) of different information leaflets (3, 4) from a sheet of flat material having at least two different sections, and a bundle (2) of such leaflets. The information leaflets (3, 4) are folded jointly and a protruding fold (14) is cut for separation of the information leaflets (3, 4).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for producing a bundle of different information leaflets, comprising the steps of:
producing the bundle from a sheet of a flat material having at least two different sections which form the different information leaflets,
folding the sheet in at least two folding processes,
forming at least one protruding fold between sections of the sheet of flat material produced by said folding processes, wherein the protruding fold has a folded edge that protrudes beyond a folded edge of other folds formed with said sections of the sheet of flat material between which said at least one protruding fold is formed, and
separating the information leaflets and forming the bundle of different information leaflets by separating the at least one protruding fold.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein, before folding, the different sections of the sheet are provided with different information in the form of at least one of different texts and different graphics.

3. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the sheet is folded by means of parallel folding along parallel folding lines by means of one of fanfolding, coil folding and altar folding.

4. The method in accordance with claim 3 , wherein the sheet is folded first in a first direction and then the folded sheet is folded in a second direction which runs transversely to the first direction.

5. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the sheet is folded such that the at least one protruding fold protrudes at least by more than 2 mm.

6. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the protruding fold is separated by cutting off a strip from the protruding fold and thereby forming for each information leaflet at least one protruding edge region.

7. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein after folding, the folded sheet is detachably sealed using an adhesive.

8. The method in accordance with claim 7 , wherein the at least one protruding fold is separated after folding and sealing.

9. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein there is at least one item of information on the at least one protruding fold and the at least one item of information is visible after separating the at least one protruding fold.

Assignees

• Boehringer Ingelheim Int
• Eukerdruck Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Bokovza Michal Rachel
• Maegerlein Robert
• Csellner Thorsten

Classifications

• B42D15/008 Primary

  Foldable or folded sheets · CPC title

• B65H45/04

  Folding sheets · CPC title

• B42P2241/04

  Band- or strip-like fasteners, e.g. tie strings · CPC title

• B65H45/20

  Zig-zag folders {(B65H45/228 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B42P2241/02

  Fasteners; Closures · CPC title