Continuous business forms assembly

Claim 1

A series-connected business form adapted to be fed through the printing means of a business machine, comprising a continuous pair of superimposed outer webs, said webs each having a row of spaced feed holes extending along at least one marginal edge thereof in superimposed relationship and being arranged to engage the feed means of the business machine so that the business form is thereby advanced into and past the printing means, said outer webs being attached together by first securement means adjacent said superimposed holes, at least one intermediate web lying between said outer webs and having one marginal edge thereof spaced inwardly of said superimposed feed holes, said outer webs having spaced transverse lines of weakening in superimposed relationship, said intermediate web having cut portions presenting opposite edges spaced inwardly of said transverse lines of weakening, said form being separable into individual units along said transverse lines, said intermediate web being attached to only one of said outer webs by second securement means extending longitudinally of the form, and said one of said outer webs having a first longitudinal line of weakening thereon located between said first and second securement means, whereby upon the printing of a number of said units, the next to the last of said units so printed may be separated along said transverse lines of weakening whereafter said one of said outer webs and said intermediate web attached thereto of the last of said printed units may be separated from the other of said outer webs thereof to thereby leave said other web of said last unit available as a drive web for initiating the feed of the remaining units to be printed through the printing means.