Patents Assigned to Innovia Films Limited
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Patent number: 8173234Abstract: There is described a label comprising a self supporting sheet of a biopolymer, preferably cellulose (e.g. regenerated cellulose, cellulose acetate and/or PLA), said sheet being substantially transparent to visible light when uncoated, wherein said sheet comprises: (a) a first coating on at least one surface thereof to aid printability thereon; (b) a second coating comprising an adhesive dispersible in an aqueous medium; and (c) optionally a third coating to modify water permeability through the sheet. The labels are to be applied to articles such as glass containers. Preferred labels are wet glue cellulose labels, for example where the first coating also comprises a copolymer of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate to aid water permeability and hence rapid drying of the label on an article.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Innovia Films LimitedInventors: Thierry Gavel, Wayne Middleton, Veli Nasib, Gianpaolo Faletti
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Publication number: 20120045604Abstract: A multi-layer, biodegradable film is disclosed. The multi-layer, biodegradable film contains a biodegradable core layer and a biodegradable pressure sensitive adhesive layer. The film may further contain a biodegradable, printable layer and a release liner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Thierry Gavel, Wayne Middleton, Veli Nasib, Gianpaolo Faletti
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Publication number: 20120040123Abstract: There is described a label comprising a self supporting sheet of a biopolymer, preferably cellulose (e.g. regenerated cellulose, cellulose acetate and/or PLA) said sheet being substantially transparent to visible light when uncoated characterized in that the sheet comprises: (a) a first coating on at least one surface thereof to aid printability thereon; (b) a second coating comprising an adhesive dispersible in an aqueous medium; and (c) optionally a third coating to modify water permeability through the sheet. The labels are to be applied to articles such as glass containers. Preferred labels are wet glue cellulose labels for example where the first coating also comprises a copolymer of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate to aid water permeability and hence rapid drying of the label on an article.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Thierry Gavel, Wayne Middleton, Veli Nasib, Gianpaolo Faletti
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Publication number: 20120040153Abstract: A primer-less coating composition for facestock comprises: a binder being a water-dispersible polymer; an ethylenically unsaturated compound which is aqueous-dispersible and miscible with or bonded to said water-dispersible polymer, wherein said ethylenically unsaturated compound is able to form a covalent bond with an ink; and a crosslinker, wherein said crosslinker is suitable for binding the coating to the facestock. The coating composition may be applied to a substrate to form a printable film. A printed film in accordance with the invention may be used in a label, for example for use on a container such as a bottle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Alastair Hugh SERVANTE, Simon James Read
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Publication number: 20120024939Abstract: A ream wrap package formed by wrapping a sheet of polymeric film (21) around a stack of paper, the sheet having been severed from a web polymeric film having at least one line of weakness formed therein in the machine direction (MD) and within a region of the transverse direction (TD), to form a rectangular tube with sides overlapping, sealing one side to the other to form a girth seal (24), closing the tube at each end to form an envelope seal with tucked in ends and overlapping flaps (25, 25?, 26, 26?), at least one of which is trapezoidal, so that in the formed package there is at least one line of weakness (27) extending along the whole length of a surface of the package outside the girth seal, positioned so that it terminates at each end of the package within a region of the TD defined by that portion of the overlapping flaps where there are only two layers of the overlapping filmType: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Amaia COWAN, Jonathan Hewitt, Leo Fröhlich
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Publication number: 20120015168Abstract: The invention generally relates to a tactile, peelable, sealable multi-layer film comprising at least a polyolefinic core and a block copolymeric skin layer, wherein the skin layer, or each skin layer, has a thickness of from 2.8 microns to 4.5 microns.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventor: Shalendra Singh
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Patent number: 8088848Abstract: Transparent polypropylene film comprising at least two UV-absorbing additives, a first additive being a non-aggregated inorganic material present in the film composition in an amount of from 0.1 to 5.0% by weight, and a second additive comprising an organic material selected from triazines, hindered amines, oxanilides, cyanoacrylates, benzotriazoles and/or benzophenones and present in the film in an amount of less than 2.0% by weight and wherein when both benzotriazole(s) and benzophenone(s) are present in the film, the ratio of benzotriazole(s) to benzophenone(s) is above 0.5.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Innovia Films LimitedInventor: Celine Denecker
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Publication number: 20110311803Abstract: The present invention concerns a substrate carrying a delayed-tack formulation, wherein said delayed-tack formulation becomes tacky on heat activation to allow sealing between the substrate and itself or between the substrate and a further material, so that the resultant seal can be pealed open mechanically without damaging or destroying said substrate or said further material, and so that said formulation possesses re-tack properties to allow subsequent resealing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventor: Martin Cockroft
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Publication number: 20110300349Abstract: A primer-less coating composition for facestock comprises: a binder being a water-dispersible polymer; an ethylenically unsaturated compound which is aqueous-dispersible and miscible with or bonded to said water-dispersible polymer, wherein said ethylenically unsaturated compound is able to form a covalent bond with an ink; and a crosslinker, wherein said crosslinker is suitable for binding the coating to the facestock. The coating composition may be applied to a substrate to form a printable film. A printed film in accordance with the invention may be used in a label, for example for use on a container such as a bottle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Alastair Hugh SERVANTE, Simon James Read
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Publication number: 20110284534Abstract: A naked collation package comprising a plurality of individual units laid end-to-end or side-by-side to form a unit row comprising at least one interface between a neighbouring pair of individual units in the unit row; the unit row being overwrapped with a sheet of polymeric film having a length and a width; the length of the sheet being sufficient to envelop the unit row with sufficient overlap between the ends of the sheet to provide an overlap region for providing a girth seal along at least part of the length of the unit row, the sheet being sealed to itself in that region to provide the girth seal; the width of the sheet being: longer than the unit row to provide an envelope seal region in at least one end of the unit row so that the wrapped and girth-sealed sheet is able to fold over and seal to itself at the at least one end of the unit row to provide an envelope seal, the sheet being folded and sealed to itself in that region to provide the envelope seal; or not substantially longer than the unit rowType: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: Innovia Films LimitedInventors: Barry Frizell, Wolfgang Zimmerer, John Fell
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Patent number: 8062723Abstract: The present invention concerns a sealed package formed from a polymer film comprising a block copolymeric substrate and a heat sealable coating and/or skin layer on the substrate, the package being formed by wrapping the film around an article to be packaged in a manner to obtain at least one region of film overlap, and heat sealing the resulting overlapped film sections to each other to provide at least one sealed region of the package, the sealed region being subsequently openable by manually separating the overlapped film sections, effective without substantial tearing of the film at or around the sealed region.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Innovia Films LimitedInventor: Shalendra Singh
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Patent number: 8048501Abstract: The present invention concerns a sealed package formed from a polymer film comprising a block copolymeric substrate and a heat sealable coating and/or skin layer on the substrate, the package being formed by wrapping the film around an article to be packaged in a manner to obtain at least one region of film overlap, and heat sealing the resulting overlapped film sections to each other to provide at least one sealed region of the package, the sealed region being subsequently openable by manually separating the overlapped film sections, effective without substantial tearing of the film at or around the sealed region.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Innovia Films LimitedInventor: Shalendra Singh
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Publication number: 20110236611Abstract: A primer-less coating composition for facestock comprises: a binder being a water-dispersible polymer; an ethylenically unsaturated compound which is aqueous-dispersible and miscible, with or bonded to said water-dispersible polymer, wherein said ethylenically unsaturated compound is able to form a covalent bond with an ink; and a crosslinker, wherein said crosslinker is suitable for binding the coating to the facestock. The coating composition may be applied to a substrate to form a printable film. A printed film in accordance with the invention may be used in a label, for example for use on a container such as a bottle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Alastair Hugh Servante, Simon James Read
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Publication number: 20110201736Abstract: The invention relates to printable films comprising a substrate and at least a surface layer, said layer covering at least one face of said substrate and comprising a water-dispersible polymer and an ethylenically unsaturated compound; to a process for the manufacture of such films; to printed films and especially to printed labels obtained from such printable films.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Alastair Hugh Servante, Gary Power, Colin Marshall
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Publication number: 20110189397Abstract: There is disclosed a process for manufacturing an in-mould labelled article, the process comprising the steps of: placing a label comprising a polyvinylidene chloride coated film (15) into a mould for injection moulding, thermoforming, or blow moulding; holding the label in position; injecting a polymeric melt into, or thermoforming or blowing a polymeric preform in said mould so as to bind with the label; and removing the article from the mould. A process of in-mould labelling using a label comprising a polyvinylidene chloride coated film is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Stephen LANGSTAFF, Richard WANING
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Publication number: 20110165388Abstract: There is described a multi-layer film. The film comprises a first biodegradable layer and a second biodegradable layer, wherein the first and second biodegradable layers each comprises a biopolymer selected from the group consisting of carbohydrates, polysaccharides, gums, proteins, colloids, polyorganic acids and mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Thierry Gavel, Wayne Middleton, Veli Nasib, Gianpaolo Faletti
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Publication number: 20110165417Abstract: There is described a multi-layer film. The film comprises a first biodegradable layer, a second biodegradable layer and a metallised layer. Also described is a multi-layer film comprising a first cellulose layer, a second cellulose layer, an adhesive layer between the first and second cellulose layer and a metallised layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Thierry GAVEL, Wayne Middleton, Veli Nasib, Gianpaolo Faletti
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Publication number: 20110151213Abstract: There is described a multi-layer film. The film comprises a biodegradable layer and a metallised layer, wherein the biodegradable layer comprises a biopolymer selected from the group consisting of carbohydrates, polysaccharides, gums, proteins, colloids, polyorganic acids and mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Thierry GAVEL, Wayne MIDDLETON, Veli NASIB, Gianpaolo FALETTI
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Publication number: 20110100386Abstract: The present invention concerns an at least partially transparent cigarette filter tipping film comprising a biodegradable substrate, and softener in an amount of less than 25% by weight of the biodegradable substrate, and a cigarette filter comprising a filtration material encased in a cylinder of the said tipping film.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: Innovia Films LimitedInventors: Paul WATTERS, Colin Marshall
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Publication number: 20110094526Abstract: The present invention concerns a biodegradable cigarette filter tow comprising composite filaments of cellulose and cellulose acetate, and a process for making such a filter tow comprising providing a solution dope comprising a blend of cellulose and cellulose acetate in an ionic liquid or in N-methylmorphilone-N-oxide (NMMO), and spinning casting the blend into a protic solvent to generate fibres or films, and converting the fibres or films into cigarette filter tow. The invention also concerns cigarette filters and cigarettes made from such a filter tow.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITEDInventors: Colin MARSHALL, Jamie MOFFAT