Mailing assembly
US4184628A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 13, 1977 |
| Grant date | Jan 22, 1980 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 13, 1997 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T24/1408
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Two or more initially independent mailable items, each containing or carrying separate and usually different communications are banded, or otherwise held together, for mailing as a single mailing piece. One of the independent mailable items may carry postage in stamp or in printed postage indicia form as well as address information on one of its exposed faces. Alternatively such postage and address information may be carried by a band, or other means, utilized for holding the otherwise independent items together. The assembly is intended primarily but not exclusively, for use in mailing third class mailing material and allows plural, independent communications items to be mailed, under existing United States government postal rate schedules, at less total cost than if each independent communications item were to be mailed separately.
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