Abstract: This peel-back overlapping label has excess label panels that overlap the portion of the label adhered to the bottle. It uses a “breakaway” system rather than a “release” system to keep the excess label panels from adhering to the portions adhered to the bottle surface. The label is first run in standard fashion with pressure sensitive adhesive on the reverse/back side and a normal printed message on the outward/front side. Then, the printed surfaces to be overlapped receive an additional impress/coating of transparent extender “printed” over the already printed surface. This extender coat can form a full or partial breakaway surface, effectively neutralizing all or almost all of the tackiness of the adhesive on the overlapping label portions. The breakaway surface can be printed so as to leave a peripheral area free to adhere, leave an edge portion free from adhesive so as to provide a grab and peel edge for the user, and to have some interior unprinted portions to aid in maintaining open-and-shut adhesion.

Abstract: A label for identifying contents of intravenous feeding bottles has formed as an integral part thereof a hanging ring for suspending the bottle from an intravenous stand. The label is built up from at least one layer of film, a layer of printing ink, and a layer of adhesive. The handle is defined in the label by a pair of die cut lines that penetrate at least the one layer of film in the label. A release coating is applied between the layer of film and the bottle in a portion of the label defined by the handle to permit the handle to be peeled away from the bottle and the remaining portion of the label.

Abstract: A recording tape carrier is attachable to a card or photograph and carries a magnetic recording tape that is usable in the recording slot of a magnetic recorder. A support card has a linear reference edge, and an abutment card is secured to a face surface of the support card to have an abutment edge extending along a mid-region of the support card and parallel with the reference edge. Adhesive covered by a release sheet is coated on the face surface of the support card in a region not occupied by the abutment card, and a strip of magnetic recording tape is secured to the support card or the abutment card to extend parallel with the reference edge. The release sheet is removable for securing the assembly to a card or photograph by means of the adhesive with the abutment edge engaging an edge of the card or photograph, and the magnetic tape is prerecordable and can be played back or recorded while secured to a card or photograph.

Abstract: A drive reducer for a tape recorder accomplishes a large reduction from the surface speed of a motor-driven shaft to the surface speed of a drive element for advancing a tape media such as a magnetic recording tape on a flat card. A cup-shaped element is fixed to a reducer shaft and positioned so that the inner surface of a cylindrical outer wall engages the motor-driven shaft. An idler wheel freely rotatable on the reducer shaft is positioned radially inside the cup-shaped element and is formed of compressible material with a diameter large enough for compressibly engaging the motor-driven shaft and pressing it against the inner surface of the outer wall of the cup-shaped element. Rotation of the reducer shaft is transferred to the driven element preferably by a friction sleeve on the reducer shaft and a friction disk engaging the sleeve and turning a shaft supporting the driven element.

Abstract: Electric circuitry for an accessory for a host tape recorder and player automatically operates the accessory in the same mode selected for the host. The circuitry includes a recording amplifier for amplifying an information signal and means for generating a recording bias signal and applying both the information signal and the recording bias signal to a magnetic head in the accessory for tape recording. A playback amplifier receives a playback signal from the magnetic head in the accessory, amplifies this and transmits it to the host via the transducer. The circuitry also includes a switching circuitry for switching the accessory into the same mode of operation set for the host, and the switching circuitry is responsive to a bias portion of a recording signal from the host received via the transducer for switching the accessory to the record mode in response to presence of the bias portion of the recording signal and for otherwise switching the accessory into the playback mode.

Abstract: A recording tape applicator has a card with an edge forming an abutment surface, a release sheet secured to the card and extending outward beyond the abutment surface, and a strip of magnetic recording tape adhesively supported by the release sheet on the side opposite the card. The recording tape is spaced from and accurately parallel with the abutment surface of the card, and the release sheet has a slit extending longitudinally along the middle of the recording tape so that an outer portion of the release sheet can be removed to expose about half of the tape. The card is then abutted against an object, and the tape is pressed against a face surface of the object to align the tape accurately with the edge of the object. Then the card and the remaining release sheet is pulled away from the tape, and the whole tape is pressed against the object and trimmed if necessary.

Abstract: A laminate having particular characteristics is used in securing a protective sheet over the emulsion surface of a photographic element such as negatives, positives, slides, glass plates, microfilm, movie film, etc. The optical and mechanical characteristics of the laminate include a protective sheet of transparent, wear-resistant plastic coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive so that the total thickness of the protective sheet and the adhesive is less than 0.004 inches. The adhesive transmits a major portion of incident ultra violet light and is non-degradable in ultra violet light, and a release sheet of resin material covers the adhesive coating until application to the photographic element when the release sheet is stripped away. Both the protective sheet and the release sheet have a surface finish of less than 10-millionths of an inch RMS so that both the adhesive surface and the protective sheet surface are very smooth when the release sheet is stripped away.

Abstract: A system prevents erasure of audio material pre-recorded on a magnetic recording strip on a card or photograph. Erasure of any selected portion of the recording strip is prevented by securing material to the card or photograph to thicken the card or photograph along the length of the magnetic strip that is not to be erased. The thickened portion of the card cannot be inserted into or moved along a slot in a magnetic eraser, and the thickened portion of the card is detected in a recording machine for disabling the record mode of the recorder to prevent recording over the portion of the magnetic strip that should not be erased. The material thickening the card is preferably secured to the face of the card opposite the face bearing the magnetic strip.