Adhesive-backed Label (e.g., Postage Or Revenue Stamp) Patents (Class 40/638)
  • Patent number: 8671602
    Abstract: An identification label for a cylindrical vessel has a first label portion with an underside coated with adhesive, an opaque second label portion with a non-adhesive underside and a transparent third label portion with an underside coated with adhesive. The transition from a first outside edge of the first label portion and a second outside edge of the third label portion has a rounded line profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Seidl
  • Publication number: 20140070008
    Abstract: A method for personalized labeling of decal decorated item at a point of sale for consumer by laminating a personal label on or adjacent a preexisting decal applied to the item. The personal label may comprise an access code to a secure information source, identification information or a greeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Personalized Gifts, Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Kane
  • Publication number: 20140068982
    Abstract: A system and method for labeling containers requiring information to be printed thereon using an improved dosage label having a shutter window. The dosage label has a first edge, a base layer extending from the first edge, and a top layer positioned above the base layer and extending from the first edge. The base layer includes a rear surface having substantially permanent pressure sensitive adhesive coating for adhering to the outside surface of the container and a front surface having a release coating. The top layer has a rear surface having substantially permanent pressure sensitive adhesive coating and a front surface. The top layer is applied on top of the base layer from the first edge to a first position covering the base layer and includes a break defining a tab. The shutter window of the top layer is peeled back by the tab from the base layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas J. Silvano
  • Publication number: 20140068981
    Abstract: The device described herein includes self-adhering graphics presented in a multiple perspectives so that when applied to structural containers, such as cardboard boxes, the containers are transformed, child playthings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: David Cheng, Jocelynn Cheng
  • Publication number: 20140059905
    Abstract: A system for providing a shipping label and a packing list on a container is provided which enables rapid and automated sequential application of a packing list and a shipping label to the container. The shipping label is configured complemental to the packing list whereby the packing list may first be adhered directly to the container and then the shipping label may be placed thereover. The shipping label may be applied over the packing list while the container moves continuously down a conveyor. The invention further includes an apparatus for sequentially applying the packing list and then the shipping label, and a method for applying the packing list and shipping label in registry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Premier Print & Services Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce A. Raming
  • Patent number: 8628848
    Abstract: A filmic label including a face material having a front side, a reverse side and an adhesive layer including pressure sensitive adhesive on the reverse side of the face material. The face material includes at least one surface layer on at least one side of at least one central layer. The at least one central layer includes cavities that have been initiated at initiation sites by stretching the face material in a longitudinal direction and in a cross direction. The cavities have been expanded in a thickness direction of the face material by allowing a gaseous substance to have an effect on the at least one central layer. Also a method for forming a plastic film for a filmic label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: UPM Raflatac Oy
    Inventors: Håkan Saxen, Martti Vähälä, Tom Saxberg
  • Publication number: 20140008441
    Abstract: A label having a region or layer of luminescent ink is described. The label includes a generally transparent facestock layer and a layer of an adhesive. The luminescent ink is disposed between the facestock layer and the adhesive layer. Upon exposure to ultraviolet light, the luminescent ink emits visible light. The label can be used to provide an indication as to the authenticity or genuineness of a product to which the label is attached. Also described are various methods of using the label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventor: Dieu Dai Huynh
  • Patent number: 8590193
    Abstract: A label with a raised structural feature is for an injection device and includes a flexible support layer which, on one face, is provided at least partially with one or more of the raised structural element. The raised structural element is designed in such a way that, when the label is applied to a container of the injection device, the raised structural element is directed away from the container, and the raised structural element is able to establish a form-fit connection with another structural element, for example another structural element of the injection device. The label is formed by a method including steps of providing the flexible support layer and applying at least one raised structural element onto the flexible support layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Robert Licha
  • Publication number: 20130298435
    Abstract: A system and method for labeling containers requiring large amounts of information to be printed thereon using an improved nested label that is reduced in length. The nested label has a first edge, a base layer extending from the first edge, and a top layer positioned above the base layer and extending from the first edge. The base layer includes a rear surface having a substantially permanent pressure sensitive adhesive coating for adhering to the outside surface of the container and a front surface having a release coating. The top layer has a rear surface having a substantially permanent pressure sensitive adhesive coating and a front surface. The top layer is wrapped on top of the base layer from the first edge to a first position covering the base layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventor: THOMAS J. SILVANO
  • Publication number: 20130291417
    Abstract: A peelable label for a container includes a fixed label and a removable label removably attached to at least a portion of the fixed label. A first securement feature is formed along a first side of the removable label and a second securement feature is formed along a second side of the removable label opposite the first side. The first and second securement features cooperate to retain the removable label in a shape of a frustoconical funnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Aylin Candan Erenguc, Charles Ryan Veers
  • Publication number: 20130278948
    Abstract: A method and system of printing a pharmaceutical label is disclosed. The method and system includes a mechanism for receiving patient prescription information, with is entered into a prescription entry system. The vial size may be calculated based on the patient prescription information. Spacing for printing dosing indicia on a pharmaceutical label is calculated and printed on the pharmaceutical label. The pharmaceutical label may then be applied to a vial, which may include an indexing mechanism to aid tracking of doses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventor: Mark H. Miller
  • Patent number: 8544669
    Abstract: This disclosure pertains to containers and, more specifically, to containers with a releasable protection sheet applied to an exterior surface. The containers described herein are particularly suitable for use with liquid (e.g., paint) spraying devices or spray guns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: John I. Escoto, Jr., Stephen C. P. Joseph
  • Patent number: 8539704
    Abstract: A linerless, preferably price reduction, continuous label which easily separates a price reduction indication region (11) and a bar-code cover-up region (12) of a single piece label (10) from a bar-code cover-up piece. There is a bar-code cover-up region (12). There are different separation strengths of the perforations including a first notch (15) and a second notch (16) of a price reduction region (11) that is capable of indicating price reduction information of an original price of a merchandise and a bar-code cover-up region (12) capable of covering-up the bar-code relating to the price information of the original price. A region separation line (13) is configured or a first perforation including a first notch (15) formed widthwise laterally inwardly from both lateral end portions of the label base member, and a unit joining line (14) configured of a second perforation including a second notch (16) formed widthwise laterally inwardly from both lateral end portions of the label base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Honda, Mitsutaka Hanyuu, Masashi Kosuda
  • Publication number: 20130240134
    Abstract: A self-adhesive label for application to an object as a hang tab, without the need for a separate application device. The label includes a printable surface, a fold line dividing the label into two portions, and two matching hanger opening shapes, one on each of the two label portions. The matching hanger openings are reversely positioned with respect to each other to provide corresponding alignment upon folding the label about the object to align the matching hanger opening shapes to form a hanger opening. The label is particularly suited for use with retail product packaging used in hanging retail displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Timothy J. Flynn, Geoffrey T. Brossard
  • Publication number: 20130205629
    Abstract: An inherently ink printable multi-layer labelstock film having a substrate core layer comprising a polymeric material and at least one skin layer which is ink printable, the ink printable skin layer comprising a copolyester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Fiona Hird, Shalendra Singh
  • Publication number: 20130205628
    Abstract: In order to better aid consumers of prescription medicine and the like in efficient and rapid identification of the correct pill to be taken from among multiple containers, a novel group of articles of manufacture adapted for use with end-use prescription medicine containers at least includes a plurality of predetermined medicine purpose types corresponding to different types of medical or vitality purposes that underlying medicines are targeted to treat or address. Each article of manufacture is adapted to be coupled to an end-use, target prescription medicine container by an end-user or pharmacy function, and each article of manufacture at least includes an ideogram adapted to encourage a psychological association with, and identification of, the medicine expected to be placed in the target prescription medicine container to which the article of manufacture is adapted, and each article of manufacture is associated with a particular medicine purpose type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: Robert A. Nance
  • Publication number: 20130192112
    Abstract: A label and a label manufacturing method for securely curing an adhesive. The label includes a substrate sheet 11, an adhesive layer 12 formed on the substrate sheet 11, and a cured layer 13 formed on part of the adhesive layer 12, in which the cured layer 13 is formed by curing an acrylic-base bonding adhesive. Manufacturing includes applying an adhesive on the substrate sheet 11 to form the adhesive layer 12, applying the bonding adhesive on the adhesive layer 12, and forming a cured layer by irradiating the adhesive layer 12 and the bonding adhesive with an active energy ray to cure the adhesive layer 12 and the bonding adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Hiromi Yamamuro, Yoshihito Fujii
  • Publication number: 20130192111
    Abstract: Advertising media for application to a substrate includes a release liner and a multi-part label. The multi-part label has a base label and a top label, both of which are coupled with an adhesive. A first adhesive has properties that allow the base label to be removed from the release liner and applied to a substrate or product packaging in a stable manner. The second adhesive has properties such that a sticky residue is not present when the top label is removed from the base label. A perforation pattern is provided. A method of advertising is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: THE KENNEDY GROUP INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Michael R. Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20130185972
    Abstract: A tab assembly includes a body having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes indicium. The second portion is oppositely disposed from the first portion and includes a first tab and a second tab. The first tab includes an outer surface and an oppositely disposed inner surface. The second tab includes an exterior surface and an oppositely disposed interior surface. The inner surface of the first tab faces toward the interior surface of the second tab. An adhesive layer is disposed on the inner surface of the first tab of the body and the interior surface of the second tab. A release liner is disposed over the adhesive layer on at least one of the inner surface of the first tab and the interior surface of the second tab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventor: Amber Annette Lemna
  • Publication number: 20130174455
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and kits for temporarily marking a plurality of separate objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventor: Michael Kaperst
  • Patent number: 8467192
    Abstract: A method for producing a rollable web with successive antennas, where an electronic chip is attached to an antenna in a predetermined position. The position of an electronic chip changes with respect to the antenna when compared to at least some of the chips within individual and successive antennas. A rollable web includes successive antennas, where electronic chips are attached to antennas in a predetermined position. In the rollable web, the position of a chip changes with respect to the antenna compared to at least some of the chips within individual and successive antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventor: Samuli Strömberg
  • Publication number: 20130145665
    Abstract: The invention relates to removable labels having a facestock layer, wherein another side of the facestock layer is overlaminated by a plastic film layer including regenerated cellulose. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such labels and to a method of labelling recyclable or re-usable containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: UPM RAFLATAC OY
    Inventors: Noel Mitchell, Markus Kivelä
  • Publication number: 20130145664
    Abstract: The invention relates to a label for a thermally insulating item which comprises material formed by using a gaseous expansion agent. The label comprises a face material and an adhesive layer, wherein at least one component of the adhesive layer is capable of dealing with the expansion agent escaping from the material of said item. The invention further relates to a labelled thermally insulating item and a method for attaching a label to an item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: UPM RAFLATAC OY
    Inventor: Noel Mitchell
  • Patent number: 8458941
    Abstract: Shipment labels and related methods are described. An example method includes printing a return address on a first label layer of the label and printing a delivery address on a second label layer of the label adjacent the first label layer. The example method also includes coupling the first label layer and the second label layer on at least a portion of a container. The second label layer releasably covers at least a portion of the first label layer so that the return address is not fully visible when the second label layer is releasably coupled to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Moore Wallace North America, Inc.
    Inventor: James Harrison Pagones
  • Patent number: 8458940
    Abstract: A garment tag is provided that includes a band having a first opening for attaching to a first fastener of a garment and a second opening for attaching to a second fastener of the garment, the band having a first display portion that displays printed information regarding the garment at a fold in the garment when the garment is in a folded state. The first and second fasteners may be buttons and the first and second openings may be slots. The first display portion may be defined by two creases in the band, the creases being spaced apart by the approximate width of the garment fold. The band may also be pre-folded at the creases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: PVH Corp.
    Inventors: Tyrone Dupree Davidson, Youngju Kim Hampton
  • Patent number: 8455073
    Abstract: A label sheet construction including a liner sheet and a facestock sheet releasably adhered to the liner sheet. A plurality of labels and fold lines are die cut in the facestock sheet but not the liner sheet. The fold lines extend between the labels. After the sheet construction has been passed through a printer or copier and the desired indicia printed on the labels, the construction (an upper portion thereof) is bent back along one of the fold lines. This separates a(n) (upper) portion of the label from the underlying liner sheet. The user then easily grasps the upper portion and peels the label off of the liner sheet without tearing the label. When the label has a burst design, it is preferable to have a pair of fold lines for folding the liner sheet away from a portion of the label. The burst design preferably has alternating long and short points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry G. Hodsdon, Jennifer Lynn Dean
  • Publication number: 20130067781
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous calendaring systems that include a calendar and a plurality of alert tags. The alert tags are transferable to a second calendar and are also customizable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventor: Mary Beth Martin
  • Patent number: 8390452
    Abstract: Color coding tape having one or more RFID tags are attached to surgical instruments or other medical devices. Information relating to the medical devices can be written to and/or read from the RFID tags. The medical devices can be usually identified by the color coding tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Scanlan International, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Blake, Timothy M. Scanlan
  • Patent number: 8382717
    Abstract: A drug administration safety device having a label configured to be attached to a drug container such as a syringe or IV bag, an adhesive on the back face of the label, and a backing or substrate for holding the label and protecting the adhesive prior to the application of the label to the drug container. In one embodiment, the label includes a first drug name section in a first orientation, a second drug name section in a second orientation, a third drug name section in a third orientation, a drug concentration section, a variable information section, and a gradiation viewing section. The first orientation, second orientation, and third orientation are different from each other to enable a user to readily see the drug name regardless of the position and orientation of the drug container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Pharmedium Services, LLC
    Inventors: Amy Elizabeth Langan, Richard John Kruzynski, John Anton Kollar, III, Patricia Lynn Miyake, Monique LaSayre Kruk, Mark Francis Wagner
  • Publication number: 20130036641
    Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods for a rotating advertising label for a container. One or more advertisements may be displayed on a base label. A portion of the base label may be visible through a transparent window in an opaque rotating top label. Rotation of the top label may cause the transparent window to display any combination or the advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventor: Stephen M. Key
  • Patent number: 8365451
    Abstract: A multi-layer label (1) for affixing to a curved surface, particularly to a cylindrical surface, of an object has at least the following: a support foil (2) and at least one spare label (20; 20a, 20b, 20c), which is affixed to the support foil (2) in such a way that it is removable from the support foil (2), wherein the at least one spare label (20), in at least a first partial area (21) of its total area (25), is connected to the support foil (2), whereas at least a second partial area (22) of the total area (25) of the at least one spare label (20), which second partial area (22) includes a first edge (24) of the spare label (20), is free from any fixed connection to the support foil (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Seidl
  • Patent number: 8322061
    Abstract: A distribution marketing piece is designed to be adhered to and carried by a substrate and includes a top ply selectively adhered to a liner ply. A transverse line of separation divides the top ply into first and second sections, each section having side strips and the first section having *a central portion and the second section having a center section. Removal of the liner before application of the top ply to the substrate results in removal of the side strips along the second section which are carried with the liner ply; a portion of the liner ply remains adhered **to the first and second sections to connecting them. By folding the liner ply and the connected part of the first and second sections, the first section adheres to the substrate surrounding the center section and the central portion to define a pocket free of adhesive connection to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Ward-Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger E. Kraft
  • Patent number: 8312655
    Abstract: A sticker includes a backing layer, a sticker body including a top layer and an adhesive layer, and a security arrangement cutting through the top layer only and being stopped at an adhesive layer to ensure the sticker body being completely removed from the backing layer without tearing the top layer apart. The security arrangement includes a plurality of lead edge notches evenly provided along the outer flange of the top layer, and a cutting line structure formed at the top layer. After the sticker body is completely removed from the backing layer and is applied for sticking on an object surface, the sticker body becomes a self-destructive layer by the security arrangement to be torn apart at the time when the sticker body is removed from the object surface so as to ensure the sticker body being unable to be removed completely from the object surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventors: An-Hsia Liu, Wen-Shueh M. Liu, Victor D. Liu, Alexander D. Liu
  • Publication number: 20120283688
    Abstract: A special label is adapted for labeling of infusion bags containing a liquid. The bag is labeled only in a small partial area, which does not contain any liquid. For safe labeling capable of being automated, the label consists of a special film composite, which makes it possible to form a flap with special hinge properties. By virtue of the special fastening options, accidental detachment of the label from the infusion bag is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: SCHREINER GROUP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Peter SEIDL
  • Publication number: 20120279103
    Abstract: An identification label for a cylindrical vessel has a first label portion with an underside coated with adhesive, an opaque second label portion with a non-adhesive underside and a transparent third label portion with an underside coated with adhesive. The transition from a first outside edge of the first label portion and a second outside edge of the third label portion has a rounded line profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: SCHREINER GROUP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Peter SEIDL
  • Patent number: 8302338
    Abstract: A marketing sign is constructed of a sheet material. The sheet material includes a free portion, a base portion and a connecting portion that couples the base portion to the free portion. The base portion includes an engaging piece and a support piece. The engaging piece is coupled to the support piece at a base bend line and configured to engage with a portion of a product display structure having a price holder. The connecting portion is defined between a first connecting bend line spaced apart from a second connecting bend line by a first distance. The first connecting bend line is adjacent the support piece of the base portion and the second connecting bend line is adjacent the free portion. The first distance substantially corresponds with a top edge thickness of the price holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Engelby, Christopher H. Kaye, Hans F. Case
  • Patent number: 8304073
    Abstract: A label for removable application to an article such as a beverage bottle includes a backing layer (2) comprising a laminate of a bi-axially oriented polyester such as PET (12) and a bi-axially oriented polypropylene (14). The polyester film (12) has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the polypropylene film (14). Consequently, when the label is heated, it will tend to curl and this effect can be used to assist in the removal of the label from the article in a hot washing bath during recycling of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Spear Group Holdings Limited
    Inventors: David J. Davies, Darren Hammonds
  • Publication number: 20120246986
    Abstract: A self attaching tag made essentially of self adhesive printable plastic to be attached to a fragile and easily deformable object characterized in that the tag is covered with a plurality of varnishes which allow for the protection of pre-printing and for printing and writing on at the moment of use. The tags are delivered on large rolls where perforations allow for easy separation of the tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Paul Anthony Brennan, Michael David Moorehouse
  • Patent number: 8273436
    Abstract: A label assembly including a face sheet, a back sheet, and a layer of an adhesive positioned between the face sheet and the back sheet. A separation line divides the label assembly into at least two portions. The separation line is formed by a first tearable line of separation extending across the back sheet and a second tearable line of separation extending across the face sheet. The first tearable line of separation is offset with respect to the second tearable line of separation, and at least one of the first and second tearable lines of separation includes an angled portion extending at an angle to an other of the at least one of the first and second tearable lines of separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Inventor: Timothy J. Flynn
  • Patent number: 8273434
    Abstract: Resealable multi-ply labels include a base label ply and an overlaminate for capturing onserts between them. The base label plies carry an adhesive layer on the bottom surface for mounting the resealable multi-ply labels to articles. The base plies each include a hinge area, an attachment area, a tab area, and an intermediate area separating the hinge area from the attachment area. The overlaminates form permanent bonds with both the hinge areas and the tab areas of the base plies and form reusable bonds with the attachment areas of the base plies. The permanently bonded tab areas of the base plies provide access for releasing the overlaminates from the attachment areas of the base plies and exposing the onserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: WS Packaging Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Zietlow, Patrick A. Young
  • Patent number: 8266832
    Abstract: A label system including a label having a first portion which has a protective coating thereon and a second portion on a same side thereof which does not have the protective coating. The label further includes a generally transparent window, wherein the window is configured to overlie the second portion when the label is wrapped around a body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Wisconsin Pharmacal Company, LLC
    Inventor: James K. Markee
  • Patent number: 8261474
    Abstract: Packaged decorative thin-film appliqués for the exterior surface of toilet seat lids have a backer panel with a back side and an opposing release side, the release side having a release layer opposite the back side, the decorative thin-film appliqué having an application side facing and in contact with the release layer of the backer card, and a decorative side opposite the application side, the decorative side bearing printed images or indicia, and an appliqué frame substantially surround the decorative thin-film plastic appliqué and in contact with the release layer of the backer panel, the appliqué frame bearing printed images or indicia different from the decorative thin-film appliqué, and a separation between the decorative thin-film appliqué and the appliqué frame at which the decorative thin-film appliqué is separable from the backer panel with the appliqué frame remaining on the backer panel. A pre-packaged appliqué for hygienic and decorative use on a toilet set lid is thus provided for retail sales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Inventor: Celeste Massullo
  • Patent number: 8261477
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to labeling, and particularly to retail shelf labels and methods of making the same. A sheet having a retail shelf label according to an embodiment includes a liner, a transparent face layer, and a cover layer having graphics printed thereon. Adhesive couples the face layer atop the liner, and adhesive couples the cover layer atop the face layer. Cut lines in the face and cover layers define a perimeter of the label, and a cut line in the cover layer separates the cover layer into two distinct portions respectively separable from the face layer. At least a portion of the adhesive coupled to the face layer inside the label perimeter releases from the liner to removably couple the label to a shelf edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Vestcom New Century LLC
    Inventors: Mike Wilkinson, Corey Deters, Thomas Paul Eversole
  • Publication number: 20120226638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security container formed to receive a cassette which visually indicates to a user what type or style of good is contained therein. The cassette may be of a general solid block type in one color or having one visual characteristic, or the cassette may have multiple inserts or slides which may be moved within the cassette to change the outwardly facing color or visible characteristic. The invention furthermore relates to a merchandising system and method for paring the appropriate security device with the correct high-theft piece of merchandise and for return of a previously used security device to the correct department of a retail establishment. In some configurations, a scan device can be used to scan a product and then display a color label associated with a security device to be used with that product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Adam Mark Will, William R. Beatty, Matthew R. Shute, Deidra Leigh Grier, Donna Marie Licari Gudridge
  • Publication number: 20120222982
    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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: KAO GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Peter Lamboy
  • Publication number: 20120193413
    Abstract: A method of utilizing a unique identifier to identify a child and a parent and associating the child with the parent is provided. Furthermore, a method identifying a first person using a first unique identifier, wherein the first unique identifier remains in possession of the first person while the first person is present at a location, identifying a second person using a second unique identifier, wherein the second unique identifier remains in possession of the second person, comparing the first unique identifier possessed by the first person with the second unique identifier possessed by the second person prior to the first person departing the location, and verifying a match between the first unique identifier and the second unique identifier based on the comparison of the first unique identifier with the second unique identifier is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventor: Michelle Brandriss
  • Publication number: 20120175424
    Abstract: A sheet assembly including a face sheet. The face sheet can have a top surface, and the top surface of the face sheet can have a finish suitable for substantially permanent reception of printed indicia thereon. Also, the face sheet can include at least one cut formed therein that defines at least one identification item. The at least one identification item can be at least one identification band, at least one identification card, or at least one identification label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Andre M. Saint, Stanley J. Serwon, Rosalyn R. Ben-Chitrit, Anne M. Dehlinger, William Becker, Anne Shim
  • Patent number: 8209893
    Abstract: An improved label assembly for a customizable gift box has a face sheet including a carrier portion, a label, and a tearable line of separation between the carrier portion and the label, and a back sheet removably joined to the face sheet. At least one removable appendage present in the carrier portion includes a first relatively narrow edge, a second relatively wider edge, and S-shaped side edges joining the first and second edges. The removal appendage can be applied to the sidewalls of a box blank to maintain the edges of the sidewalls on an adjacent position during installation of the label. The back sheet can also be provided with one or more foldable index tabs to help position the box relative to the label assembly during installation of the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Inventor: Timothy J. Flynn
  • Patent number: 8196324
    Abstract: A layered assembly includes a first adhesive layer and a protective top layer affixed permanently on all sides to the first adhesive layer. The assembly also includes a first image layer onserted between the first adhesive layer and the protective top layer, wherein the protective top layer is provided over the first image layer and at least a portion of the protective top layer can be removed to reveal the first image layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Action Wobble Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Sullivan, Jeffrey Stanley Samson, Robert F. Morton
  • Patent number: 8181370
    Abstract: A labeling and a method of labeling adapted for pharmaceutical containers having multiple printed indicia locations varying in size and containing information for a user of varying sized pharmaceutical containers. The labeling includes a single substrate having several labeling options and can be designed with multiple main die cut portions separating various sections of the label such that various size labels can be produced from the single substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Tri State Distribution, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Miceli, Joseph A. Miceli