Tearable Patents (Class 283/103)
  • Patent number: 10546517
    Abstract: A rolling information display system includes a heated roller grill having at least a first coated, heated roller positioned adjacent a second coated, heated roller, said at least first and second coated, heated rollers rotating together; and a tube comprising a plastic material resistant to temperatures at which the heated roller grill operates, the tube being open on both ends and further comprising rolling surfaces at opposing ends of the tube for rolling in contact with heated rolling surfaces of the heated roller grill and one or more recessed surfaces for bearing information about products provided on the heated roller grill. Information is printed in the one or more recessed surfaces, or is applied directly to or molded directly into the recessed surfaces. The rolling surface at opposing ends of the tube are integral with the tube. The products provided on the heated roller grill are food items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: 7-ELEVEN, INC.
    Inventor: Paula Sanders Fenton
  • Patent number: 10431124
    Abstract: The inventor here discloses destructive (self-destructing) documents useful for the protection of confidential information. The invention comprises a document which can be easily and instantly broken down into dozens of individual components, hence obliterating any information contained thereon. As the self-destruction of the document requires no extraneous equipment for destruction and guarantees elimination of readable data, the invention represents a vast improvement over the state of the art. Numerous embodiments of the document of the invention specialized for different applications are illustrated and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Invaluable Inventions
    Inventor: Kemaal Akber Esmail
  • Patent number: 10182673
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein a sleeve that has a peel-off appliqué or label that includes desired graphics that can be combined with a drink cup or container. The label or appliqué or “collectable” acts as a “mini-poster” that is removable and repositionable. The label may have graphics of sports starts or other things such as musical performers, super heroes, etc. Particular embodiments include interior die cut images within the main graphic as “collectibles within a collectible.” In another example embodiment, a container appliqué is applied to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Amscan Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Jacobs
  • Patent number: 10163372
    Abstract: The inventor here discloses destructive (self-destructing) documents useful for the protection of confidential information. The invention comprises a document which can be easily and instantly broken down into dozens of individual components, hence obliterating any information contained thereon. As the self-destruction of the document requires no extraneous equipment for destruction and guarantees elimination of readable data, the invention represents a vast improvement over the state of the art. Numerous embodiments of the document of the invention specialized for different applications are illustrated and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Invaluable Inventions
    Inventor: Kemaal Akber Esmail
  • Patent number: 10012607
    Abstract: A method is provided to determine a remoteness of an event of creation of a man-made object made of a cellulose-containing material or a man-made object having on its surface fragments made of a cellulose-containing material and having surface areas with no coating and areas with a coating by means of measured and calculated relative changes of the cellulose parameters in surface layer of the cellulose-containing material at some pair of said surface areas with no coating and under the coating at the moment of study starting and at the moment after a predetermined time interval sufficient for any changes of said cellulose parameters being taken place and calculate the remoteness of an event of creation of a man-made object or its surface fragments according to the time point when there were no said relative changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Inventor: Oleg Ivanovich Pleten
  • Patent number: 9959788
    Abstract: A label includes a first section and a second section that is attached to the first section. The first section includes a panel. The panel includes one or more sides that are detachable from the first section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: EMERALD CITY LABEL, INC.
    Inventors: Ted Shanley, Dan VanWaveren
  • Patent number: 9779641
    Abstract: The inventor here discloses destructive (self-destructing) documents useful for the protection of confidential information. The invention comprises a document which can be easily and instantly broken down into dozens of individual components, hence obliterating any information contained thereon. As the self-destruction of the document requires no extraneous equipment for destruction and guarantees elimination of readable data, the invention represents a vast improvement over the state of the art. Numerous embodiments of the document of the invention specialized for different applications are illustrated and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Invaluable Inventions
    Inventor: Kemaal Akber Esmail
  • Patent number: 9656156
    Abstract: A multi-game ticket assembly includes a single continuous substrate having a middle section and opposite end sections folded inwardly against the middle section. A portion of the front surface of each end section is adhered to the front surface of the middle section. Each of the end sections has a game area defined by lines of weakness in the substrate, with each game area further including a first game printed on the rear surface thereof and a second separate game printed on the front surface thereof. The first games of the end sections are adjacent and accessible to a player from a front aspect of the ticket assembly, and the second game of each end section is accessible to the player by separating the game area from its respective end section and folding the game area outwardly away from the middle section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Scientific Games International, Inc.
    Inventors: Stéphane Gratton, Mario Ebacher, Valérie Latreille, Gino Boucher, Marc Bédard, Claudia Lebrun
  • Patent number: 9543809
    Abstract: A radial vent composite heat pipe system for cooling and increasing the power density of an electrical machine is provided. The system comprises a plurality of radial vent composite heat pipe assemblies each comprising a slot portion thermally connected to a vent portion. The slot portions are disposable within respective stator slots of a stator core pack of a stator assembly of the electrical machine. The vent portions are disposable within stator vents of the stator assembly. The slot portions absorb heat from the stator coils of the stator assembly and transfer the absorbed heat to the vent portions. The vent portions reject the transferred heat into a cooling air flowing through the respective stator vent, thereby rapidly transferring heat from the respective stator coil to the cooling air flowing through stator vent, and thereby greatly increasing the power density of the electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: HPEV, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hodowanec, Timothy J. Hassett
  • Patent number: 9471868
    Abstract: A hang tag may be disclosed. The hang tag can include an RFID tag, a hole, and an upper and lower portion separated by a perforation. The hang tag can additionally be manufactured on a web whereby once the tag is removed from the web, substantially no tackiness may remain on the hang tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: AVERY DENNISON RETAIL INFORMATION SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Louis Dancausse, Randy Harry Gann
  • Patent number: 8979133
    Abstract: A data carrier provides health related information regarding a patient, and facilitates compliance with HIPAA by the obscuring the association between the name of the patient and the health related information when the data carrier is to be discarded. The data carrier includes a release liner, a health information label having an upper surface and a lower surface, the label including a first area on the upper surface for indicia specifying health related information and a second area on the upper surface for indicia specifying the identity of a patient, and a pressure sensitive adhesive coating on the lower surface of the health information label, securing the health information label to the release liner. A masking label is either integral with the health information label, or the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Standard Register Company
    Inventors: Bryan W. Vidler, Frank Lombardo, Bryce C. Waggoner, Gary M. Cairns
  • Patent number: 8973949
    Abstract: It is provided a label for attaching on a packaging, particularly for cosmetical and/or pharmaceutical products, comprising a packaging label with a machine-readable identification code, particularly an EAN-barcode, and a cover label covering at least partially the identification code for rendering the identification code machine-unreadable, wherein the cover label is adapted for irreversibly damaging the identification code. Due to the cover label the identification code is machine-unreadable, so that a scanner cash register would not accept a packaging provided with this label and a resale is prevented. Since the identification code would be irreversibly damaged by the cover label, the identification code stays machine-unreadable even when the cover label is removed. The risk for an unauthorized resale of a packaging can be reduced in a facilitated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: KAO Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Lamboy
  • Patent number: 8950783
    Abstract: A multiple-ply label roll includes end-to-end labels. Each label is operable to be adhesively applied to a substrate and includes top and bottom label plies. The bottom label ply includes an outer removable border portion defined between interior and outer ply edges and removable from the top label ply in a removal direction. The interior ply edge includes spaced apart side edges that extend along the removal direction to define a pair of spaced apart side sections of the removable portion. The interior ply edge includes a generally transverse end edge interconnecting the side edges to define an end section of the removable portion, with the end section extending between the side sections and being removed generally after the side sections when the removable portion is removed in the removal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Premier Print & Services Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce Raming
  • Patent number: 8740252
    Abstract: Labels that may selectively provide signaling are shown. In one example, a fluorescent signaling section of a label may be perforated and may be mechanically removed from the main portion of the label to selectively provide a label that does not emit a fluorescent signal. In another example, a thermal printer is used to quench a fluorescent section of a label so that it does not emit a fluorescent signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Reichelsheimer, David L. Rich, Steven M. Kaye
  • Patent number: 8678441
    Abstract: A sheet material is presented that has a first layer including first indicia and a second layer including second indicia, the second indicia being (i) the same as the first indicia and (ii) positioned directly over the first indicia. The second indicia of the second layer are removable from the first indicia of the first layer. The first layer is placed on a portion of the sheet material. The first indicia includes at least one of text, images, letters, words, designs, patterns, visual representations, photographs, logos, symbols and advertisements or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventor: Theodosios Kountotsis
  • Patent number: 8534708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a see-through security element (12), for security papers, value documents and the like, having at least one micropattern having a visual appearance that is viewing-angle dependent when looked through (26, 28). According to the present invention, the at least one micropattern is formed from an arrangement of a plurality of pattern elements (24) having a characteristic pattern spacing of 1 ?m or more, and the see-through security element (12) exhibits a total thickness of 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Heim, Marius Dichtl, Michael Rahm
  • Patent number: 8474165
    Abstract: A form assembly for removably attaching a form to a surface includes a form including a page, the page including a body, a first detachable stub attached to a first edge of the body by a first detachment line and a second detachable stub attached to a second edge of the body opposite the first edge by a second detachment line. The form also includes a first adhesive label including a lite-tac adhesive, attached to the first detachable stub by the lite-tac adhesive, where the lite-tac adhesive does not overlap the first detachment line, and a second adhesive label including a lite-tac adhesive, attached to the second detachable stub by the lite-tac adhesive, where the lite-tac adhesive does not overlap the second detachment line. The lite-tac adhesive of the first adhesive label and the lite-tac adhesive of the second adhesive label can removably secure the form assembly to a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Reynolds and Reynolds Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Agostino S. Hill, Richard E. Ipsen
  • Patent number: 8171662
    Abstract: A method for processing a separation and rupture portion of a display label is a method for forming, on the display label attached to an attachment target object, the separation and rupture portion for rupturing the display label upon separation of the display label from the attachment target object. This method includes attaching, to the attachment target object, the display label having a back side on which an adhesive layer is formed, and then forming a slit serving as the separation and rupture portion on the display label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Itoh, Katsuaki Ohnishi, Hideaki Takeuchi, Shinji Otani, Shigeru Nishiyama, Tsutomu Ashikari, Eiichi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8167336
    Abstract: Labels and methods for removing a portion of a release liner from a label are disclosed. An example labels includes a substrate, a layer of adhesive on the substrate, a layer of release coating in contact with the layer of adhesive, and a release line in contact with the release coating. The release liner includes a first edge, a second edge, and a first line of weakness. The first line of weakness includes a tapered or curved portion and extends from the first edge of the release liner to between the first edge and the second edge of the release liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Moore Wallace North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick Minor, Robert Leonard
  • Patent number: 8123255
    Abstract: This security device for confidential information, mentioned in a document (D), includes an element (1, 4) forming a data storage medium and removable element (6), masking the information (C). It includes, in addition, at least one zone of structural weakness (30, 31) provided for in the document (D) near the data storage medium element (1, 4) with this zone (30, 31) forming one piece with the removable masking element (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Page International—FZ—LLC
    Inventor: Michel Kovacevitch
  • Publication number: 20110190042
    Abstract: A method for determining a prize associated with a lottery ticket. An identifier is disposed on the lottery ticket and at least partially concealed in a substantially tamper-proof fashion. The identifier is uniquely related to the lottery ticket such that each lottery ticket of a plurality of lottery tickets has a unique identifier and is uniquely related to prize data stored in a trusted database. The prize data is indicative of the prize associated with the lottery ticket. After revealing data indicative of the identifier are provided to a trusted processor in communication with the trusted database. Using the trusted processor data indicative of the prize associated with the lottery ticket is determined in dependence upon the data indicative of the identifier and the prize data is provided for displaying in a human comprehensible fashion. Further, a lottery ticket is provided. The lottery ticket comprises a break open tab wherein an identifier is disposed in proximity to a hinged part of the tab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: David P. Connolly, Blair M. Connolly
  • Patent number: 7967340
    Abstract: Slip and protective label assemblies are provided, as well as methods of manufacture and application to a receiving face. In one case, the assembly includes a slip layer and a protective layer, with the slip layer divided into a slip portion that is printed upon, a surrounding border portion, and a tab portion. The reverse side of the slip layer is coated with a release coating such that the slip layer may be removably laminated to the protective layer using an adhesive. In another case, direct thermal stock is laminated to an intermediate layer to form a slip laminate, which is adhered to a protective layer to form the assembly. In all cases, the border portion of the slip layer or slip laminate may be removed to attach the label to a receiving face, and the protective layer may be peeled away to provide access to the printed slip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: ZIH Corp.
    Inventors: Gene A. Hofer, Michael S. Weinhammer, Michael W. Paul
  • Patent number: 7939465
    Abstract: An image destruct material comprises a release layer positioned between an image receiving layer and a base layer. The adhesion between the release layer and the base layer is greater than adhesion between the release layer and the image receiving layer. The release layer material can be used in secure documents that have an image receiving layer. After information is printed on the image receiving layer, an overlaminate is applied over it. Removal of the overlaminate destroys the printed image on the receiving layer because of the relative adhesive properties of the image receiving layer, overlaminate and release layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: L-1 Secure Credentialing
    Inventors: Daoshen Bi, Tung-Feng Yeh, Robert L. Jones, Brian C. LaBrec
  • Patent number: 7909363
    Abstract: A label is provided having three parts separated by separation lines. Two of the three parts have pull tabs to allow them to be easily removed. The third part is a narrow strip between the separation lines that does not have a pull tab. When the label parts that have pull tabs are lifted off a product, the label separates at the separation lines, leaving the third narrow strip on the product. This narrow strip is then removed with a scraping action that tends to destroy the narrow strip. This makes it difficult to reconstruct the label after it has been removed from a product. In other embodiments, the label has two parts made of material that stretches when the parts are removed from a product. The stretching distorts a barcode graphic printed on the label making the barcode unreadable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Neal Anderson
  • Publication number: 20110012336
    Abstract: A security sheet that includes an information to be exposed and a preferably fibrous substrate in which is preferably totally embedded a ribbon that has a surface A and a surface B and is strippable along the surface B thereof, the information to be exposed being carried by and/or opposite the surface B of the ribbon, a method for making said security sheet, and a security document or article including such a sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: ARJOWIGGINS SECURITY
    Inventor: Henri Rosset
  • Patent number: 7833937
    Abstract: An image destruct material comprises a release layer positioned between an image receiving layer and a base layer. The adhesion between the release layer and the base layer is greater than adhesion between the release layer and the image receiving layer. The release layer material can be used in secure documents that have an image receiving layer. After information is printed on the image receiving layer, an overlaminate is applied over it. Removal of the overlaminate destroys the printed image on the receiving layer because of the relative adhesive properties of the image receiving layer, overlaminate and release layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: L-1 Secure Credentialing, Inc.
    Inventors: Daoshen Bi, Tung-Feng Yeh, Robert L. Jones, Brian C. Labrec
  • Patent number: 7758081
    Abstract: A method of preparing documents for the transmission of secure information comprises the steps of preparing a first laminar element (13; 37) with a peripheral region (15) separable from a central region (14), printing the secure information on the central region (14) of the first laminar element (13; 37), or on a central region (19) of a second laminar element (12; 36), positioning the two laminar elements (13; 37, 12; 36) in face-to-face relation, with the face of the element bearing the information facing the said other element, and securing the element together around the peripheral regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: QTAC Solutions Ltd.
    Inventor: Peter John Prater
  • Patent number: 7744131
    Abstract: A one-piece adhesive label is provided incorporating an integral tear strip. The tear strip is formed as the user grasps one activation tab that resides on either opposite end of the label. Preferably, one tab is formed at each opposite end. Slits formed on the opposite ends of the label adjacent the tabs enable the label to be torn in a uniform manner, taking advantage of the particular material characteristics of the label sheet that has unidirectional fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Corporate Express US Inc.
    Inventor: Debra A. Urbanek
  • Publication number: 20100160024
    Abstract: Preprinted game tickets, such as pull tab tickets or instant game lottery tickets, are dispensed from a vending machine. Instead of having a fixed cost and a fixed prize amount, the game tickets may be purchased at different bet levels and credit values, both of which change the cost and prize amount. Buy-a-pay payments are also provided to buy additional symbol combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Diamond Game Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: James BRESLO
  • Publication number: 20100160026
    Abstract: A method is provided of awarding the value of winning tickets dispensed by a vending machine to patrons who purchased the winning tickets. The tickets are preprinted with game content and are associated with a deal of tickets that includes at least some predetermined winning tickets. For each winning ticket, the patron selects a ticket dispensing option provided by the vending machine to either immediately redeem the value of the winning ticket at the vending machine upon ticket dispensing, or defer immediate redemption upon ticket dispensing. Electronic records are provided in a database for each winning ticket that include an indication of whether the winning ticket was redeemed. The deferral option allows the patron to redeem the value of the winning ticket at a cashier, wherein the electronic records are used by the cashier to assist in the redemption process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: DIAMOND GAME ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventor: James BRESLO
  • Patent number: 7709417
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing a security sticker which is hard to be counterfeited, cannot be reused if being released and includes a printed image that is stable over a long period of time, and is directed to providing a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Kiwa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeo Yukawa
  • Publication number: 20100001510
    Abstract: A method for authenticating and/or identifying a security and/or valuable document comprising a sheet material, wherein the sheet material can be physically altered and comprises a substrate, at least one interlaced thread structure at least partially embedded in the substrates, the method comprising the following steps: mechanically altering the sheet material so as to expose a portion at least of the interlaced thread structure, and deducing the authenticity and/or identity of the document at least by observing the exposed portion of the interlaced thread structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: ARJOWIGGINS SECURITY
    Inventors: Sandrine Rancien, Sëbastien Charignon
  • Publication number: 20090236844
    Abstract: Tamper evident forms are provided having a transparent layer bonded to a scrambling layer. One or more coating layers may be disposed on the surface of the transparent laminar. Printed indicia on the upper surface of the form is not readable unless the transparent lamina is physically separated from the scrambling layer or if the scrambling layer is optically altered or negated. The coating layers may reveal tamper evidence if a surreptitious attempt of obtaining the printed indicia is made by physical, mechanical, electronic and/or chemical means without removing the separating the transparent lamina and the scrambling layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Documotion Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Van Boom, Peter Dronzek, Leslie U. Fernandez
  • Patent number: 7514133
    Abstract: A strip-shaped label has a transparent plastic film layer partially covered by an opaque film layer. A window area not covered by the opaque film layer remains. The film layers are bonded to one another using an adhesive layer. Before attachment, the label is positioned on a carrier. A bow-shaped suspension tab is produced through punching, on whose bottom non-adhesive areas are provided, which allow a suspension tab to be pulled out of the label plane easily for suspension of the container. Two printed voucher sections are implemented in the opaque label film. The transparent film layer has an adhesive-repellent coating, which is also transparent, below the voucher sections. In the stuck-on state, the label area in which the voucher sections are positioned overlap the transparent window area. After removal of one of the voucher sections, the window area is visible and the container contents may be viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Moosheimer, Robert Unglert
  • Patent number: 7488003
    Abstract: A supply of labels may be configured to facilitate folding. A label handling method involves initiating a label fold prior to a label completely exiting a label exit opening. A label apparatus includes a label obstructing member to promote label folding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Premark FEG L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert J. Weisz, Nigel G. Mills, Kinred Bowling, Karl S. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 7475912
    Abstract: A form containing both a pair of labels. In one configuration, the labels can be a shipping label and packing slip. The form is configured such that variable indicia can be printed on a first ply of both labels from a simplex (one-sided) printer. In one configuration, the packing slip and shipping label define a pair of labels across the front of the first ply such that the two labels are substantially coplanar with one another. Alignment of a first ply, second ply and adhesive and release layers disposed between the first and second plies, as well as placement of lines of weakness through one or more of the plies and layers facilitates formation of the shipping label and packing list that can, after accepting printed indicia on the first ply from a one-sided printer, be removed from one another such that they can be affixed to a package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: The Standard Register Company
    Inventor: Ted J. Reffett
  • Patent number: 7303212
    Abstract: A two-way shipping label construction includes a strip of release material, a first printable label, and a second printable label. The first label is adhered to the strip of release material by the first pressure sensitive adhesive coating and includes at least one customer receipt label defined by a die cut having one or more ties. The first label has a first surface with a release coating on a portion thereof, and a second surface with a first pressure sensitive adhesive coating. The second label has a first surface and a second surface with a second pressure sensitive adhesive coating. The second printable label adheres to the strip of release material by the second pressure sensitive adhesive coating adjacent the first printable label. The second printable label includes at least one manifest label defined by a die cut having one or more ties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: The Standard Register Company
    Inventors: Lawrence W. Arway, Thomas M. Chase, Bryce C. Waggoner, Brian Nicholas, Gary M. Cairns
  • Patent number: 7258368
    Abstract: An extended text wrap label includes a base ply and at least one top ply. The base ply has a first lengthwise dimension, a first widthwise dimension, a top surface that is capable of bearing graphic images, and a bottom surface that is capable of bearing graphic images and capable of being adhesively coupled to an object to be labeled. The at least one top ply has a second lengthwise dimension, a second widthwise dimension, a front surface that is capable of bearing graphic images, and a back surface that is also capable of bearing graphic images. The base ply and the at least one top ply are adhesively coupled, in a first portion of the label, to each other such that the top surface of the base ply and the back surface of the at least one top ply are in contiguous juxtaposition with each other along the first lengthwise dimension and the second lengthwise dimension, respectively, and along the first widthwise dimension and the second widthwise dimension, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Quality Assured Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph D. Franko, Sr.
  • Patent number: 7246459
    Abstract: A vehicle locator and service hang card for vehicle parking and servicing establishments includes an upper portion with a tag number and space for entering customer information and a lower portion made of synthetic paper which an ignition key tag is die cut. The key tag retains its strength when wet. The lower portion may be attached to the upper portion by an adhesive tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Marjen, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark W. Lewis
  • Patent number: 7201821
    Abstract: The present invention provides a discrimination medium A for discriminating the authenticity of an article by providing an optically discriminating mark on the article. A film 20 having a light reflecting layer of a polymer cholesteric liquid crystal having a circular polarization light selectivity for reflecting a specific circular polarization light is fixed to a part of the surface of a support 10. A printed portion is made by printing on the portions other than the film 20 of the support 10 in substantially the same color as that shown when the film 20 is viewed from the front. The discrimination medium A appears to be red at the support 10 and the film 20 when viewed from the front (although the film has a metallic luster), but at a larger viewing angle, the film 20 changes to blue by the blue-shift of the polymer cholesteric liquid crystal so as to exhibit a color different from that of the support 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hoshino, Itsuo Takeuchi, Mutsumi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7122157
    Abstract: A substrate removably attached to a container that can be linked electronically to the operating stations in a laboratory and/or removed and subsequently attached to a document or another container. More particularly, the substrate is a partitioned label with human readable information and electronically readable information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Timothy A. Stevens, Robert S. Golabek, Jr., Steven Savitz, Hugh T. Conway, Connie Hetzler, Eric Bainbridge
  • Patent number: 7063874
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a paperback rider instantly redeemable coupon (IRC) including a booklet disposed on a liner having an adhesive backing layer, a first clear film laminate disposed on the booklet, and an IRC having a second clear film laminate disposed thereon. The IRC may be releasably affixed to the first clear film laminate by perforations. The invention further includes a paperback rider instantly redeemable coupon (IRC) including, a booklet disposed on a liner having an adhesive backing layer, a clear film laminate disposed on the booklet, and an IRC releasably affixed to the first clear film laminate by clean release adhesive. The invention also provides a method of manufacturing the paperback rider instantly redeemable coupons (IRC) described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: RayPress Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas D. Ray, III, Steve A. Posey, Robert J. Alden
  • Patent number: 6998168
    Abstract: An adhesive security tape (10) includes a base layer (11) and a first adhesive layer (16) is located on a top of the base layer. A first resin layer (17) is coated to an underside of the base layer and a message layer (12) is located on an underside of the first resin layer. A second resin layer (18) is filled in gaps between protrusions on an underside of the message layer. A color layer (13) is coated on an underside of the second resin layer. An adhesive film (14) is located on an underside of the color layer. A second adhesive layer (15) is located on an underside of the adhesive film. The tape has an even color before it is peeled and a clear message is left on the tape after the tape is peeled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Inventor: Nick Yu
  • Patent number: 6976709
    Abstract: A postal mailer which comprises a postcard having in the front left top section a detachable calling card and having in the back surface left top, left bottom, right bottom and central sections map indicia designating the general area and specific location of the return address indicia on the postcard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Inventor: Po W. Yuen
  • Patent number: 6918615
    Abstract: A form is provided for printing mailpiece information relating to mail handling for attachment to a mailpiece as well as a method for preparing a mailpiece for delivery by a special service. The form may have sections that may be removably secured to a backer and may be capable of receiving printed information regarding a sender, recipient, or mailing service. In addition, the form may receive various types of electronic postage accessed via the internet, for example. After mailing information is printed on the form, the section may be removed and secured to a mailpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Inventor: Glenn Petkovsek
  • Patent number: 6908113
    Abstract: A tamper-evident label suitable for placement onto a container and cap assembly. The label may be characterized as a planar sheet having a tear strip that divides upper and lower panels. The lower panel of the label attaches to the container, while the upper panel, defined by at least one tab, and preferably two tabs, is attached to the cap. To open the container and cap assembly, the tear strip is pulled across the label to separate the two panels of the label. Thereafter, the cap may be removed from the container to reveal the contents of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Laboratories Merck Sharp and Dohme-Chibret, SNC
    Inventors: Alain Chaduc, Olivier Naudan
  • Patent number: 6863310
    Abstract: A mailing assembly for use in connection with non-domestic delivery of a mailpiece wherein the sender of the mailpiece is required to complete a sender's declaration. The assembly includes a mailing form that may be sub-divided into customs declarations forms, a dispatch notice and a backing sheet. The backing sheet may be peeled off the mailing form exposing adhesive on the backing sheet. The backing sheet may be folded in such a way as to provide an envelope to adhere to the mailpiece to be non-domestically delivered. The customs declarations forms and, dispatch notice may then be inserted into the envelope whereupon the mailpiece may be non-domestically delivered. The customs declaration forms and dispatch notice of the mailing form may be variably printed with information to aid in the non-domestic delivery of the mailpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Inventor: Glenn Petkovsek
  • Patent number: 6803084
    Abstract: Facestock is adhered with adhesive to a liner sheet. Weakened separation lines in the facestock define lines of facestock labels. And weakened separation lines in the liner sheet define liner sheet strips separable from the body of the liner sheet to expose backsides of respective lines of labels. The rest of the liner sheet can then be manipulated to position the line of labels on staggered tabs, the labels pressed into position and separated from the rest of the facestock. Another embodiment includes facestock sheet separation lines defining the perimeters of facestock labels with at least one facestock handle attached thereto. The liner sheet includes a portion attached to the handle whereby the handle, the label and the portion are removable as a unit from the liner sheet and the facestock, the handle manipulated to position the label so that its adhesive backside is positioned and applied at the desired surface location, and the handle and portion then separated from the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Do, Jerry G. Hodsdon, Galen C. Wong
  • Patent number: RE41650
    Abstract: Two pairs of parallel substantial-cut or scored lines extend the length of a card stock sheet and short through-cut lines extend between each of the pairs to define two columns of business card blanks on the sheet. The sheet is passed through a laser or ink jet printer or copier, printing the desired identifying or other indicia on the blanks. The blanks are then separated along the substantial-cut and through-cut lines and the waste sheet portions at the ends, sides, and between the columns are disposed of. The business cards separate cleanly along the substantial-cut lines, superior to the microperforated business card separation lines. Even with the substantial-cut and full-cut lines, the card stock sheets have enough integrity to reliably pass through the printer without breaking apart. To make for a cleaner break (or business card edge) along the substantial-cut lines, the substantial-cut lines can be made by scoring cutting part way into the sheet on both opposing sheet faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventor: Ghanshyam H. Popat
  • Patent number: RE42531
    Abstract: A container is made from an elongated sheet having a front surface, a rear surface, and a first end, a second end, a top edge and a bottom edge. The sheet includes a removable portion and a remainder portion. Both the removable portion and the remainder portion have identifying indicia printed thereon. The elongated sheet is preferably made of an uniaxially oriented material. The rear surface has an adhesive coating applied thereto. An adhesive reducing coating is applied to the adhesive coating adjacent to the first end of the elongated sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Brown, Craig O. Norvell, Leroy A. Jorgensen