| US 7,531,227 B2 | ||
| Card sheet construction | ||
| Martin Utz, München (Germany); Karl Lengfeller, Tattenhause (Germany); Michael Wilkes, Arzbach (Germany); Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Chino Hills, Calif. (US); Ramin Heydarpour, Beverly Hills, Calif. (US); Chia-Hsi Chu, Arcadia, Calif. (US); Ronald Ugolick, San Dimas, Calif. (US); and Ali R. Mehrabi, Los Angeles, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Avery Dennison Corporation, Pasadena, Calif. (US); and Avery Dennison Zweckform Office Products Europe GmbH, Oberlaindern (Germany) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 15, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/990,306. | ||
| Application 10/990306 is a continuation of application No. 10/233283, filed on Aug. 28, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0089664 A1, Apr. 28, 2005 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. B32B 3/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 428—43 [428/136] | 59 Claims |
| 1. A card sheet, comprising:
a top sheet having an inkjet or laser print-receptive front side and a back side;
a polymer carrier layer attached directly to the back side in a manner so as to prevent separation therefrom;
at least one cut line through the top sheet to form at least a portion of a perimeter of a card; and
the polymer carrier layer having stress and elongation properties such that after the card sheet has been passed through a
printer or copier and desired indicia printed on the card sheet, the card sheet is capable of snap-breaking with only a single
fold such that the polymer carrier layer snap breaks along one of the at least one cut line to form an edge of a separate
or separable printed card whose entire bottom surface is defined by a bottom surface of the card sheet.
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