Abstract: In a device for projecting a primary image from a transparency along an optical path and for altering the image by selectively directing a writing light source reversably along the optical path toward the transparency, a transparent recording film includes a pre-recorded primary image layer and a secondary layer annotatable by the marking light. The two layers are congruent, and in one embodiment comprise superimposed substrates which are joined mechanically. In another embodiment, the two layers are coated jointly on one substrate, and in a further embodiment the two layers are intimately mixed to form one bifunctional layer. Various means are disclosed whereby the primary image layer is unaffected by the marking light, and the annotatable secondary layer is unaffected by the projection illumination.

Abstract: A decorative laminate comprising a substrate, a foam adhered thereto and a top layer of clear film with a decoration encapsulated between the foam and the film, together with a method for manufacturing said laminate.

Abstract: A composite piece 9 comprises at least two layers 3,5 of flexible materials which may be identical or different. Adjacent layers 3,5 are bonded by multiplicities of interposed thermoplastic beads 7 which lie equally spaced along parallel lines and adhere to both adjacent layers. The piece 9 may be made by passing layers 3,5 and an interposed thermoplastic (preferably high-density polyethylene) lattice having the form of beads linked by thin threads through a heated calendar 1,2, whereby the threads are melted away and the beads 7 heat-welded to the layers 3,5. One or both external faces may be dyed or printed simultaneously with the head-welding step by including transfer paper(s) 11,12 in the "sandwich" passed through the calendar.The composite pieces 9 may be applicable to e.g., furnishings and clothing, and especially to reversible garments.

Abstract: A dry release transfer is disclosed in which a releasable layer is adhered to a carrier sheet and a stress-resisting transferable design layer is printed on the releasable layer. The releasable layer is normally pre-stressed so that when an external force is applied to the carrier sheet , e.g. by rubbing with a stylus, this force is transmitted to the releasable layer. Since the releasable layer cannot yield to the applied force by stretching, because it is held by the stress-resisting layer, the adhesive bond between the releasable layer and the carrier sheet is weakened or is ruptured or partial or complete cohesive failure occurs within the releasable layer, thereby facilitating transfer of the design layer. A method of producing such transfers is also disclosed.

Abstract: A laminated carton comprising a paper board substrate and an outer paper ply including a peelable section in the paper ply defined by a perforated tear outline providing a leading edge, said ply being bonded to the substrate by a water soluble laminant coated with a release agent in a pattern which includes voids in the coating at said leading edge, said voids being shaped to provide variable adhesive bond between said plies as peeling of said section is initiated after application of moisture to the area of said leading edge to dissolve said laminant at said voids.

Abstract: Laminar structures comprising a color diffusion transfer photographic print bonded to a vinyl sheet using an adhesive mixture of a vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer and a hydroxylated polymer, and a method for preparation thereof using an adhesive-supporting carrier sheet.

Abstract: Product and process for heat transfer labeling employing a contoured thermoplastic and resinous release layer which is desirably imprinted on a carrier and superimposed with a transfer layer containing a design print.

Abstract: Chemically-resistant adhesives formed using non-hydrolyzable hard and soft resins. Chemically-resistant labels are provided by using the adhesive to adhere an image-bearing film of polyvinyl chloride to a protective film, and to a carrier. The labels are particularly resistant to acids and have a reduced tendency to shrink or distort when affixed to battery surfaces at elevated temperatures.

Abstract: Decorated soap and method for producing the same. The decorated soap comprises a cake of soap, a synthetic resin layer formed on one side surface of said soap, a release layer having a printed layer representing a desired pattern of designs and/or characters and an adhesive layer which joins the synthetic resin layer to the release layer. The above method comprises the steps of: (a) forming a synthetic resin layer on one side surface of soap to be treated, (b) forming a release layer on a backing film, reversely printing a desired pattern to the release layer and forming an adhesive layer on the printed release layer, thereby preparing a transfer sheet, (c) bringing the adhesive layer of transfer sheet into contact with the synthetic resin layer of soap to join the transfer sheet to the synthetic resin layer under heat and pressure, and (d) peeling only the backing film of transfer sheet from the above joined product.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive coating is applied to selected regions of one face of a release web, other regions of the one face being free of the adhesive coating. A photographic print is superposed on the release web face having the adhesive and the adhesive free regions, the back surface of the print contacting the adhesive coating. The release web is slit along a line that extends the length of the print and passes over the adhesive free regions. The slit forms a pair of tabs in the release web at the adhesive free regions. The tabs facilitate removal of the release web without bending of the photographic print.

Abstract: A transfer sheet which is used for transferring designs on to the surface of articles made of polyamide resin. The transferred design on the polyamide articles are excellent in appearance, durability and adhesiveness to the polyamide surfaces. The transfer sheet is basically composed of a backing material, a design layer and an adhesive layer and the invention is characterized in that said adhesive layer contains a varnish which is composed of: (A) nitrocellulose and (B) one member or a mixture of more members selected from the group consisting of phthalic ester plasticizers, fatty acid ester plasticizers, phosphoric ester plasticizers, epoxy plasticizers, alkyd resins and maleic acid resins.

Abstract: A label for application to containers to be shipped under bottle-to-bottle contact conditions comprising a laminate structure of superposed layers of transparent film printed with indicia on the underside thereof, and adhered to an intermediate paper layer, said paper layer being adhered on its underside to a foam layer.The process for making the laminate is also disclosed.

Abstract: A peelable adhesive structure comprises a plurality of articles, including at least one metal article, bonded together through a composite coating layer. The composite coating layer comprises adjacent first and second coating layers, the first coating layer containing vinyl resin, and the second coating layer containing epoxy resin. At least one of the coating layers comprises:(a) a peeling imparter at a concentration of between about 50 and 200 parts by weight per 100 parts of resin, and(b) a substantially linear saturated polyester wetting improver at a concentration of between about 2 and 50 parts per 100 parts of resin and having a molecular weight of between about 5,000 and about 50,000.Alternatively, at least one of the coating layers comprises a hydrocarbon or natural resin having a softening point less than 180.degree. C. and having a concentration between about 50 and 200 parts per 100 parts of resin.

Abstract: A peelable bonded structure having a peel strength of 0.05 to 5 kg/cm comprises a plurality of articles, at least one of which is made of metal, bonded together through a composite coating layer. The composite coating layer is composed of adjacent first and second coating layers at least one of which comprises (A) a modified olefin resin having a carbonyl group concentration of 0.01 to 200 milliequivalents per 100 g of the olefin resin and (B) a coating film-forming base resin at an (A)/(B) weight ratio of from 0.2/99.8 to 40/60 and has a multi-layer distribution structure having resin concentration gradients in the thickness direction such that the modified olefin resin (A) is distributed predominantly in the portion contiguous to the interface between the two coating layers and the base resin (B) is distributed predominantly in the opposite portion.

Abstract: A length of thin, flexible, inexpensive adhesive-backed product has marking means on the front side. The product is affixed by the adhesive to a surface along a feature of the surface at a particular location, thus enabling a unit of material which is to be marked and cut to be put in position and pressed against the marking means thereby marking the material to match the feature of the surface.

Abstract: A label for application to containers to be shipped under bottle-to-bottle contact conditions comprising a laminate structure comprising a film layer superposed over a layer having indicia printed thereon which in turn is superposed upon a foam layer.The process of making the laminate is also disclosed.

Abstract: A novel method of releasing from one another in a press pack, a plurality of heat and pressure consolidated resin-impregnated laminates, including those pressed back-to-back, e.g. decorative laminates, metal clad laminates, veneer backs and the like, which method comprises utilizing, as a separator sheet, a web of phenol-formaldehyde resin-free paper having a water absorption of at least about 200 seconds which has been sized on at least one side thereof, from an aqueous solution, with a water-soluble, alkaline earth or earth metal salt, e.g. a calcium salt such as calcium chloride, and then coated on said sized side with a film of a salt of alginic acid, such as sodium alginate.

Abstract: A heat transfer comprising a temporary support and a label carried on the support. The label comprises a layer of a polyurethane resin system which includes a polyurethane obtained by reaction of a diphenyl isocyanate, a free glycol and a polyester either of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is an alkylene radical of 2 to 8 carbon atoms and R.sup.1 is an alkylene radical of 4 to 10 carbon atoms or of the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sup.11 is an alkylene radical of 4 to 8 carbon atoms. The polyurethane resin system further includes a cross-linking agent and a catalyst so that when the label is placed in contact with an article to be marked and subjected to heat and pressure, the resin system is converted to an inert insoluble and wear resistant form and a substantially permanent marking is produced on the article.

Abstract: A major surface of a polymeric film such as untreated polypropylene is coated with a release agent which has the capacity to effect a weak, releasable bond with the surface of the polymeric film and a stron, non-releasable bond with the surface of metal, e.g., aluminum, which has been freshly vapor deposited; precipitating a thin, coherent stratum of the desired metal upon the coated surface of the polymeric film by vapor deposition; whereupon are applied simultaneously(1) a layer of a standard laminating adhesive to the stratum of the metal, which is then bonded thereby to the non-metallic substrate by standard laminating techniques; a composite structure having the following configuration is produced as a result: polymeric film/release agent coating/vapor deposited metal stratum/laminating adhesive layer/non-metallic substrate and(2) a coating of the release agent to the free major surface of the polymeric film; from which composite structure the polymeric film is then stripped.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making camouflage from sheets of multi-colored coated fabric. The coated fabric is formed by sandwiching the base fabric between two films of fused polyvinyl chloride film; the two films are tightly bonded to the base fabric. Each film is formed by applying the different - colored plastisols to preselected portions of a carrier web, and then overcoating these colored portions of the web and any uncoated portions of the web with a plastisol of another color. After each of the two multi-colored films is created, they are bonded to the base fabric while the films are still attached to the carrier web; then each carrier web is stripped from the outsides of the finished multi-colored, coated fabric. These multi-colored coated fabrics are cut into sheets which are attached to a net to make the camouflage screen.

Abstract: Production of a magnetically and visibly detectable two-layer structure by coating a first layer including a binder with a visibly distinct magnetic material in a dispersion comprising a partial solvent for the binder and selectively applying a magnetic field to cause the magnetic material to migrate into the first layer.

Abstract: A method of joining together a sheet or sheets of an organic polymer which is not normally melt-processable, e.g. polytetrafluoroethylene, the method comprising the steps of(a) contacting a strip of melt-processable organic polymer, e.g. fluorinated ethylene/propylene copolymer, with the faces of the sheet or sheets in the region of juxtaposed edges of the sheet or sheets,(b) stitching the strip to the sheet or sheets by means of a thread, and(c) heating the strip in order to fuse the strip and/or the thread to seal the holes created by the stitching step, and, where the strip has not previously been fused to the faces of the sheet or sheets, in order to fuse the strip to the faces of the sheet or sheets.Preferably, the thread is of a melt-processable fluorine-containing polymer and a gauze is placed in contact with and stitched to the faces of the sheets opposite from the faces contacted with the strip of melt-processable organic polymer.

Abstract: A glass mirror film of layered construction is provided. The glass mirror film comprises a pliable glass film having a supporting film secured to one surface by an adhesive layer and a reflective layer disposed on an opposed glass film surface. A gummed layer may be applied over the reflective surface if desired. The glass mirror films are particularly suitable for use in concentrating solar collectors.

Abstract: A heat release type decalcomania for marking a tennis ball cover comprising a carrier sheet having on one surface thereof a clear film of thermosetting elastomer formed of a siliconized polyester composition and a blocked isocyanate composition which crosslink when heated at a temperature effecting release of the clear film from the carrier sheet and having on the clear film a composite design formed of a first color layer of a polyamide resin having a softening point of about 100.degree. F. (38.degree. C.) and a second color layer of a polyamide resin having a softening point of about 230.degree. F. (110.degree. C.) with both said layers having a low viscosity adapted to penetrate the tennis ball cover when the design is heated to a temperature at which said clear film is released from said carrier strip.

Abstract: Films, 0.5-10 mils thick, which are rapidly and completely soluble in cold water, and which are suitable for use as packaging film in automatic packaging equipment, can be prepared by conventional melt extrusion processes when prepared from a novel composition consisting essentially of 5-20 parts by weight of a polyethylene glycol (having an average molecular weight in the range between 325 and 550) in 100 parts by weight of a partially hydrolyzed low molecular weight polyvinyl alcohol.

Abstract: There is disclosed a composite label web and method of making same. The composite label web is comprised of a web supporting material and label material releasably secured to the supporting material web by a patterned coating of pressure sensitive adhesive. There are feed holes through the composite web including one or more narrow zones of the adhesive which lie inboard of two relatively wide adhesive zones.

Abstract: A self-adhering transfer material including one or more transferable design ayers, a lower adhesive layer and an intermediate layer of a polyester resin hardenable into a form-stable layer to act as a stabilizing and blocking layer.

Abstract: A layup of sheet material and flattened heat shrink tubing to be processed in a typewriter in the usual manner with said tubing releasably held in alignment by adhesive and/or removable tapes and exposed so as to be imprinted with indicia and individually cut to length and subsequently applicable to the end portions of wiring to identify the same.

Abstract: There is disclosed a composite web of pressure sensitive labels and method of making and using same. The composite web has a web of supporting material and a series of two-part labels releasably secured by pressure sensitive adhesive to the supporting material web. One part of the label is detachably connected to the other part by a line of partial severing. The adhesive is preferably coated onto only the one label part and the other label part is preferably free of adhesive. The label parts that are adhesive-free are detachably connected to each other by frangible portions which prevent the adhesive-free label parts from moving away from the supporting material web until the labels are delaminated from the supporting material. There is also disclosed method of making such composite webs and method of using such composite webs in label printing and applying machines.

Abstract: A method of producing decal transfers having the steps of printing color on a solvent-soluble separation layer on a solvent permeable backing producing a picture, applying a solvent-soluble cover to the area surrounding the picture, and applying a protective-transfer foil over the picture and the cover. The foil is insoluble in the solvent. The cover dissolves in the solvent during the course of the transfer operation thereby removing any impurities arising in the unprinted area surrounding the picture. A decal transfer consists of a solvent-permeable backing carrying a solvent-soluble separation layer thereon, a printed color picture on the separation layer, a solvent-soluble cover on the separation layer in at least the picture-free areas, and an insoluble protective-transfer foil covering the picture and the majority of the cover.

Abstract: Electrical insulating sheet material characterized by a coating of thermosetting resinous adhesive material distributed over two sides of a sheet of aramid paper, in combination with a pattern of pressure sensitive adhesive material applied to one side of the aramid paper sheet. An electrical winding insulated with the sheet material of the invention is characterized by incorporating sheets of the insulating material between facing flat sides of the turns of the winding with the sheets initially held in position on the winding during early phases of its manufacture by the pressure sensitive adhesive. In the final manufactured form of the winding its turns are compressed and baked to thermally cure the thermosetting resinous adhesive material and bond it to the sides of the winding and the aramid paper sheet.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for producing a laminated sheet wherein a thin film laminate is provided which is formed of a thin film laminating or substrate sheet with a heat reactivatible adhesive layer on one side thereof to produce a combined thickness of 11/2 to 3 mils. On the other side of the laminating or substrate sheet a paper carrier sheet is adhesively attached for stiffening the thin film laminating sheet. The thin film laminate or substrate is folded to form a pouch and the sheet to be laminated is placed therebetween. The pouch is then processed in an oven-type laminator to produce the laminated sheet with attached carrier sheet. Finally, the carrier sheet is stripped away to produce the final product. By use of an integral carrier sheet, the relatively thin film laminating sheets may be conveniently used in conventional oven laminators without the need for special supporting techniques.

Abstract: A laminate blank suitable for use in making a credit or identification card is disclosed. It consists essentially of, in order, a surface carrier film, a magnetic coating and a card substrate. The surface carrier and magnetic coating comprose a unitary transfer tape. The card substrate is bonded to the magnetic coating by means of a strong adhesive. In contrast, the carrier film and magnetic coating of the tape are relatively very weakly united. This construction facilitates application of the requisite magnetic coating to the surface of the eventual card, and permits ready access to such coating through simple mechanical removal of the tape carrier film of the blank.

Abstract: A printed product label is composed of at least two sections, at least one of which is provided with the label indicia pertinent to the product. One of the label sections is provided with an adhesive of one given type capable of affixing such label section permanently to the product. A second section is separably connected to the first section and is also provided with said given type of adhesive, but such adhesive thereon is employed to removably secure the second section to the product. The second section is additionally provided with a second adhesive of the pressure sensitive type that is masked to render it inoperative while the second label section is secured to the product, but which can readily be made operative when the second section is separated from the product and the first label section to adhere the separated second section to a backing member.

Abstract: This invention relates to switch-proof labels useful for marking objects in a manner such that, if one were to attempt to transfer the label to another object, the label would be destroyed or defaced to such an extent that its transference would be noticeable.The label comprises a laminate comprising a transparent or translucent outer sheet having an information containing pattern printed on its inner surface, said printed inner surface having a coating of pressure sensitive adhesive film coated thereon.

Abstract: A method of printing textile and other surfaces and particularly relates to a transfer sheet comprising a flexible carrier sheet having a design in a drying ink surface which design is not transferable to a receptor material by the application of heat alone and a polymer layer applied over the design so that the application of heat to the transfer sheet causes the polymer layer to adhere to the receptor material so that the carrier sheet can be removed leaving the ink design transferred to the polymer which itself is totally transferred to the receptor material. The invention also includes a method of forming a transfer and a method of decorating a material, particularly a textile material, using the transfers and methods of the invention.

Abstract: An apparatus for aiding the retail jewelry customers' visualization of what their previously owned and/or newly purchased diamonds (and/or colored faceted stones) will look like when set into a new blank jewelry setting, attaining a complete piece of new jewelry. This practice of resetting to modernize a customer's gems is a growing facet of the jewelry industry and is referred to as remounting. The apparatus consists of a catalog of blank jewelry settings, a frame for isolating one setting picture at a time and two hundred permanently silkscreen printed Mylar cards each with a two color representation of a different size diamond and/or shape of diamond or arrangement of diamonds, all held together in a three-part heat sealed folder.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive laminate and method of making same for effecting an image transfer and attachment which includes a carrier layer having releasably bonded thereto a coloring pigment or dye, and a complementary adhesively backed laminate which is normally maintained in spaced relationship by a spacer interposed between the carrier and covering layers whereby the transfer is effected by applying a predetermined pressure for bringing the adhesive backed layer into intimate contact with the releasable pigment of the carrier layer in the area of applied pressure only. Upon stripping the covering layer from the carrier layer with the pigment adhered thereto along the area of intimate contact, the covering layer can be readily applied to a given surface.

Abstract: A heat-curable multilayer composite sheet comprising a layer comprising one or more unsaturated compounds which are normally solid or liquid free radical reactive unsaturated compounds and a layer comprising a normally solid or liquid free radical initiator, the layers being bonded to each other as a laminate as separate layers at a temperature at which the free radical initiator does not lose its free radical reaction initiating capability, and,A process for preparing a heat-curable multilayer composite sheet, which comprises coating a layer-forming material containing a normally solid or liquid free radical reactive unsaturated compound on a strippable sheet to form an unsaturated compound material layer on the strippable sheet, coating a layer-forming material containing a normally solid or liquid free radical initiator on a strippable sheet to form a free initiator layer on the strippable sheet, bringing the unsaturated compound material layer into contact with the free radical initiator layer, and bondin

Abstract: This invention relates to switch-proof labels useful for marking objects in a manner such that if one were to attempt to transfer the label to another object the label would be destroyed or defaced to such an extent that its transference would be noticeable. The label comprises laminate comprising a transparent or translucent outer sheet having an information containing pattern printed on its inner surface, said printed inner surface having a coating of pressure sensitive adhesive film coated thereon. The printed pattern has a lesser affinity for the outer sheet than the printed pattern has for the adhesive. The affinity of the adhesive for the surface to which the laminated label is adhered and to the printed pattern is greater than the affinity of the printed pattern for the outer sheet. In a preferred embodiment the free side of the adhesive film of the label is covered by a release sheet.

Abstract: The invention relates to decorations for application to sheet materials and comprises a decorative article, a layer of heat activated adhesive applied to a first surface of the article and a carrier sheet adhering to a second surface of the article which carrier sheet is heat stable at the temperature of activation of said adhesive whereby on positioning of the article with its adhesive surface juxtaposed the sheet material the application of heat and pressure activates the adhesive to produce bonding of the article to the sheet material per se.

Abstract: Method of dye absorption into the surface of plastics is accomplished by placing polyolefin film between a dye transfer paper and a sheet of thermoplastic and applying pressure and heat thereto. The heat applied is sufficient to sublime the dyes though the film to the plastic sheet. The dyes are absorbed into the surface of the plastic with the design intact. The materials are then cooled and separated and a decorated plastic sheet or article with wear-proof design is obtained. Thermoset plastics are similarly dye penetrated in this manner during the curing thereof.In mold dye decoration and penetration of thermoplastics and thermoset plastics is also disclosed.Further, post-pressure dye transfer to plastic sheet and plastic articles is disclosed.

Abstract: A dry release sublimation transfer for decorating textile substrates is disclosed, including a temporary backing sheet, a sublimation transfer design layer comprising sublimation transfer inks disposed on the design layer, and a polymeric layer disposed in contact with the sublimation transfer design layer. The polymeric layer comprises a polymer having a number average molecular weight between about 700 and 20,000, and having on the average at least three functional groups comprising isocyanates for each polymer chain thereof, whereby upon application of the sublimation transfer under heat and pressure to the textile substrate which is to be decorated, the polymeric coating softens and penetrates into the textile substrate, along with the sublimation transfer design layer. In a preferred embodiment, the functional groups are blocked, so that upon application of the sublimation transfer under heat and pressure the functional groups on the polymer chain unblock or become reactive, and cross-linking occurs.

Abstract: Transfers to be applied to ceramic or like materials normally need to be squeegeed vigorously on application to avoid trapping of air or water behind the pattern. This necessity is avoided according to the invention by providing a transfer comprising a base having a surface of soluble adhesive onto an area of which is printed a pattern of one or more glazes, colors or pigments, the pattern area being covered by a consumable cover coat, in which the cover coat is coherent but is provided with a configuration of small apertures over substantially the whole of the pattern area.

Abstract: A sheet material having a decorative surface and a working surface, for application to a support surface is disclosed, the working surface of which is provided with a continuous coating of tacky, pressure-sensitive, adhesive, which adhesive is provided with a coating of a discontinuous layer of resilient, non-adhesive particles. The coating of particles have the ability to be deformed under a load and thus, upon application to a support surface, deform, under pressure, to such an extent as to bring the adhesive and the surface into fuller contact.

Abstract: A composite of polymeric materials which are adheringly joined to each other and which can be easily and cleanly separated by stripping apart with a low pulling force whereupon the contacting surfaces of their interface separate cleanly without retention of any residue on one from the other, and which comprises the combination of a previously cured body of a copolymer of ethylene and propylene adjoined to a subsequently cured body of an elastomeric blend of a copolymer of ethylene and propylene admixed with chlorosulfonated polyethylene. The combination of materials is especially advantageous when used in electrically conducting wire and cable constructions as a composite of an electrical insulation and an overlying strippable semiconductive layer.

Abstract: Rigid surface covering materials such as vinyl or vinyl asbestos floor or wall tiles having pressure sensitive adhesive adhered to one surface thereof and a release agent for the adhesive adhered to the opposite surface. This enables vinyl tile, etc. coated with pressure sensitive adhesive to be stored without the use of release paper.

Abstract: A photosensitive sheet product which enables dry transfer sheets to be made very simply by a process involving photographic exposure, water-washing to remove unexposed parts of the photosensitive material and drying. The photo-sensitive material itself contains the resin or other adhesive present in the letters or other transferable images and the problem of the adhesiveness which would be apparent in the transferred characters or pictorial matter in the product is solved by making the dry transfer sheet with a temporary keycoat which transfers with the characters or pictorial matter and remains as a protective layer on the finished product. Another advantageous feature of the dry transfer sheets described is that they can be formulated so as to be pressure-transferable in the normal way or alternatively can be heated or solvent-treated to exhibit a permanently increased adhesiveness, making broad-area transfer possible using much lower transfer pressures than required in normal use.

Abstract: A crown closure having a polyolefin liner that can be readily removed, said crown closure comprising a crown shell having a primer layer on its inner surface and a polyolefin liner applied to the inside of said crown shell, characterized in that said primer layer is a two-component priming consisting of an undercoat layer containing .[.a polyethylene oxide.]. .Iadd.an oxidized polyethylene .Iaddend.and a topcoat layer containing .[.a polyethylene oxide.]. .Iadd.an oxidized polyethylene .Iaddend.and at least one other compatible resin, with the provision of a printing layer of indicia at the interface between said undercoat and topcoat layers or atop said topcoat layer. Aforesaid crown closure can be prepared by providing at one face of a metal stock sheet a primer undercoat layer containing .[.a polyethylene oxide.]. .Iadd.an oxidized polyethylene.Iaddend., printing indicia thereon, providing atop said undercoat layer a primer topcoat layer containing .[.a polyethylene oxide.]. .Iadd.

Abstract: A printed product label is composed of at least two sections, at least one of which is provided with the label indicia pertinent to the product. One of the label sections is provided with an adhesive of one given type capable of affixing such label section permanently to the product. A second section is separably connected to the first section and is also provided with said given type of adhesive, but such adhesive thereon is employed to removably secure the second section to the product. The second section is additionally provided with a second adhesive of the pressure sensitive type that is masked to render it inoperative while the second label section is secured to the product, but which can readily be made operative when the second section is separated from the product and the first label section to adhere the separated second section to a backing member.