Patents Assigned to ELR, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5613349
    Abstract: A process of manufacturing product packages having a multilayer backing member, a plastic product enclosure adhered to a front layer of the backing member, and a removable panel in a back layer for enclosing ancillary materials. The process includes the steps of printing a plurality of backing member patterns on a sheet of backing member material, applying a heat-resistant coating to back layer portions of the backing members, applying a heat-seal coating to front layer portions of the backing members, cutting the sheet to define individual backing members and the removable panel, and applying adhesive to and folding together the front and back layer portions with the ancillary materials therebetween so as to form individual backing members. A plastic product enclosure and the product may then be heat-sealed to the backing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: ELR, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald L. Brown
  • Patent number: 5605230
    Abstract: A container, such as the type having a base portion, and an upper neck portion, a shoulder portion between the neck and base portion and a removable closure applied to the neck portion in a sealed relation therewith, is provided with an anti-counterfeit multi-layer label construction. The multi-layer construction includes a label which is adhesively applied to the back side of a container. A printed indicia is provided on the front side of the label so as to be readable by the customer upon removal of an overlying sleeve which is placed over the label. The sleeve is in the form of a protective film which is heat shrunk into a conforming, sealed relationship around the container and which covers at least a portion of the label. A release coat is provided over the underlying printing. A background coat is provided over the release coat so as to cover the underlying printing. Top indicia is provided on the background coat with a varnish thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: ELR, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Marino, Jr., John L. Gordon, Jr., Richard J. St. Hilaire
  • Patent number: 5439721
    Abstract: A label for packaged products about which information is to be provided with the package includes a bottom layer of imprintable material having an adhesive coating on one surface thereof and indicia pre-printed on the other surface thereof, and an upper layer of clear plastic film laminated to the bottom layer at opposite end portions thereof and substantially covering the printed surface of said bottom layer, the upper layer having a window die cut therein to expose a portion of the surface of the bottom layer through the plastic film for the imprinting of additional indicia at the time of the label application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: ELR, Inc.
    Inventors: John L. Pedroli, Larry Feldmann, Henry P. Littleton, Richard L. Walton, James W. Littleton, Kelly E. Haley