Adhesive Is On Removable Layer Patents (Class 428/42.3)
  • Patent number: 7214891
    Abstract: A weighing scale which includes a label printer for printing labels having a detachable portion. A label cassette is easily inserted or removed from the weighing scale. The label cassette is changed depending on the type of label to be printed. Standard labels can be printed, or labels having detachable portions along one side can be printed. The detachable portion can have merchandising information printed thereon including coupon information, advertising information, discounts, specials, and product information. The information on the label and detachable portions is easily edited by an operator at a control panel of the weighing scale. A conversational display is provided which allows easy editing and also allows specials, recipes, etc., to be displayed. A molded cover is provided to prevent moisture from entering the weighing scale without interfering with the operation of the weighing scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Ishida Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard C. W. Hewitt, Michael J. Rawlings, Joseph Sielski
  • Patent number: 7208212
    Abstract: A label applicator kit comprising a holder including first holding means for holding a first set of tabbed materials such that the tabs of the first set are staggered, exposed and in a first line and a second holding means for holding a second set of tabbed materials such that the tabs of the second set are staggered, exposed and in a second line that is parallel to and spaced from the first line. The holder being a pouch, the first holding means being a first pocket of the pouch and the second holding means being a second pocket of the pouch. The pouch being in a sets-holding condition when the first holding means is holding the first set and the second holding means is holding the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Do, Jerry G. Hodsdon, Galen C. Wong
  • Patent number: 7179514
    Abstract: A laminar label (7) which comprises a base label (4), which is attached to a release web (3) by means of a glue layer (5) on top of which base label a supplement (13) is applied, which is covered by a top label (11). The base label with a matching release web is made of the same starting material (40, 41) as the top label with a matching release web (9) and the base label and the top label are brought together on the release web (3) of the base label in a relative displaced position and with a special treatment, e.g., a removal of portions through punching of said starting material in order to form a base label and a top label, respectively. Also a method and an apparatus for providing laminar labels (7), base labels (4) being applied on a release web (3), supplements (13) being positioned on top of the base labels and top labels (11) being positioned in such a way that they overlap the supplements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Skanem Oslo AS
    Inventors: Per Harald Olsen, Arnt Erik Haarstad
  • Patent number: 7172220
    Abstract: An extended text label is provided for a tube container, wherein the tube container includes a product dispensing end and a filling end opposite the dispensing end. The filling end is adapted to be sealed by a crimp method, subsequent to filling the tube container with a selected product. The extended text label includes a crimp edge. The crimp edge is capable of being securely joined to the filling end of the tube container by way of the crimp method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Quality Assured Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph D. Franko, Sr.
  • Patent number: 7166345
    Abstract: A destructible privacy label includes a sheet-like member having an upper surface and an adhesive lower surface. The upper surface is adapted for printing indicia thereon. The sheet-like member includes two segments conjoined about a separation line which defines adjacent segment edges. Each segment is separable from the other along the separation line. Removing one of the segments from the other renders indicia printed on the sheet-like member upper surface illegible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Tri-State Hospital Supply Corporation
    Inventors: Zane D. Myers, Donald J. Propp
  • Patent number: 7160594
    Abstract: A protective material with punched shaped parts, obtainable in a converting process for producing single-sidedly or double-sidedly adhesive punched shaped parts, there being placed atop the protective material a single-sidedly or double-sidedly adhesive tape from which punched shaped parts are punched out by means of punching tools, in particular by the kiss-cut process, wherein the protective material comprises a backing sheet in the form of a colored polymer backing possessing essentially a top and a bottom face, the coloring being obtained by means of colorants in the interior of the backing sheet which do not give rise to any abrasive action on the punching tools, or wherein the backing sheet in the protective material in this case is a polymer backing which has essentially a top and a bottom face, with a color layer applied to the top and/or the bottom face of the polymer backing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Tesa AG
    Inventors: Andreas Wieck, Reinhard Storbeck
  • Patent number: 7157127
    Abstract: A label for adhesive attachment to a stack of articles combined by an exterior substrate. The label includes a label material having a pair of outer label regions, a central label region, a signal surface having indications and an adhesive surface, the adhesive surface being provided with an adhesive. The label also includes a protective release cover, wherein the release cover is releasably attached to the adhesive surface of the label. The release cover also includes at least two separating lines, wherein the separating lines divide the release cover into two outer regions separated by a center region such that the regions of the release cover can be removed from the label material independently from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Winfried Schmelzer
  • Patent number: 7153556
    Abstract: A form that incorporates either a label or card such that the form can be reliably printed on by the end user and manufactured less expensively. The integrated label form includes a top printable substrate and a liner substrate mated together by an adhesive. The top printable substrate serves at least partially as removable portions capable of being reapplied. Weakened lines of substrate may be provided to define removable portions on the top printable substrate. The form also may include a similar printable substrate mated to the other side of the liner by adhesive. Weakened lines of substrate also may formed in the second substrate to define removable portions. The integrated card form includes a printable substrate and a first and second laminate mated to the substrate and together by an adhesive. Weakened lines of substrate and first laminate define an integrated removable portion capable of being held in the form by the second laminate and easily removed manually when desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Malessa Partners, L.L.C.
    Inventor: John J. McKillip
  • Patent number: 7147743
    Abstract: An energy-beam-curable thermal-releasable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having, on at least one side of a base material, an energy-beam-curable thermo-expandable viscoelastic layer containing thermo-expandable microspheres and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer stacked in this order. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a thickness of about 0.1 to 10 ?m and can be formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive. The energy-beam-curable thermo-expandable viscoelastic layer, on the other hand, can be formed from a tacky substance. The energy-beam-curable thermal-releasable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet according to the invention has adhesion enough to withstand a carrying step of an adherend, causes neither winding up of the adhesive nor chipping upon cutting and facilitates peeling and collection of cut pieces after cutting. In addition, it exhibits low contamination on the adherend after peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kiuchi, Toshiyuki Oshima, Akihisa Murata, Yukio Arimitsu
  • Patent number: 7147913
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display strip to hold commodity-containing bags. It can facilitate to make a process of attaching the bags thereto automate. It enables commodity-containing bags to be removed therefrom without having their appearance degraded. The display strip according to the present invention is utilized to hold and align a plurality of commodity-containing bags vertically for the display. It comprises at least a substrate layer and a sealant layer with the sealant layer containing an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and an adhesive promoting tackifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Ishida Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Iwasaki, Yukio Nakagawa, Tadao Oota, Naoji Ichise
  • Patent number: 7128957
    Abstract: A pad of index tabs includes a plurality of sheets, each sheet comprising a front and a back, and an area of removable adhesive along a top edge of the back. The sheets are applied to one another at respective areas of removable adhesive to form a pad. Each sheet has a plurality of index tabs removably adhered thereto. The tabs are partially coated with removable adhesive and have an edge portion that is not coated with adhesive. Each of the tabs has on an edge thereof a writing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventor: Adam Bratter
  • Patent number: 7097891
    Abstract: A partitioning device for sealingly closing an opening in a working surface is provided. The partitioning device generally includes a panel having a sealing side including a perimeter portion. An adhesive trim is disposed about the perimeter portion on the sealing side. A package trim is removably attached to the adhesive trim, such that when the package trim is removed to expose the adhesive trim the partitioning device can be sealingly adhered to a wall surface surrounding a wall opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Inventor: Mark S Fenelon
  • Patent number: 7094454
    Abstract: A multi-color multi-ply note pad includes a plurality of note sheets, each of which has a perforated tear line that divides the note sheet into a stub portion and an inscribing portion, a binding member that binds the stub portions of the note sheets in a stack, and a repositionable adhesive layer provided on each of the note sheets at the inscribing portion of each of the note sheets and disposed adjacent to the tear line. The stub portions of the note sheets remain intact in the stack through the binding member when the inscribing portions of middle ones of the note sheets are removed from the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Taiwan Hopax Chems. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Tien Kuo, Jen-Rong Liu, Chin-Chung Tsai, Hsieh-Chang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7090907
    Abstract: An adhesive coated label includes indicia disposed on a facestock and layers of tactile coating selectively applied to discrete areas of the facestock to create distinct raised portions on the label. The tactile coating may be applied to correspond to the location of the indicia, wherein the raised portions overlie the indicia. A separate layer of primer may be applied to the facestock to cover substantially an entire side of the facestock. A plurality of such labels may be provided on a web of release liner which has been formed into a roll. The label may be applied to a container and the raised portions of the label provide tactile feel which enhances the aesthetic qualities of the label and container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Spear USA, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Fearn, Richard Spear
  • Patent number: 7087280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive transfer device for selectively making a repositionably adherable substrate from a selected substrate. The device comprises a base substrate, a layer of pressure-sensitive repositionable adhesive disposed on the base substrate, a layer of pressure-sensitive permanent adhesive disposed adjacent to the repositionable adhesive layer opposite the base substrate, and structure providing a release surface. The release surface is removably engaged with the permanent adhesive layer opposite the repositionable adhesive layer and the base substrate so as to cover the permanent adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Xyron, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl D. Neuburger
  • 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: 7060336
    Abstract: An image receiver material which, even when wound on a roll of a smaller diameter in a printer, an image receiver sheet is not peeled, such that the image receiver material is not susceptible to running troubles in a printer. To this end, there is provided a seal type image receiver material in which the image receiver material includes a separator including a release sheet base material and a release agent layer provided on its one surface and an image receiver sheet including a receiver sheet base material and an adhesive layer provided on its one surface. The separator and the image receiver sheet are layered together so that the separator and the image receiver sheet may be released from each other and so that the release agent layer of the separator faces the adhesive layer of the image receiver sheet. A half-cut is provided in the image receiver sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Horii, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshimasa Tanaka, Shigeru Nagashima
  • Patent number: 7055862
    Abstract: A label assembly comprises a support sheet of a paper material defining opposite surfaces, an adhesive coating applied to one side of the support sheet, and a printing paper defining opposite front and rear surfaces. The rear surface of the printing paper is releasably fixed to the support sheet in facial contact therewith through the adhesive coating and the printing paper is divided into individual paper labels or paper tags which are individually removable from the support sheet. The label assembly constitutes a label assembly which is readily printable in a laser jet or any similar printing machine such as an ink jet printer or a typewriter which label system consequently rendering it possible to provide a printing on a specific label for identifying a lever arch file or ring binder by means of the label assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Dry Label Denmark APS
    Inventor: Henning Viby
  • Patent number: 7052755
    Abstract: A bonding agent having an adhesive and a curing agent is formed on a bonding surface of a dial member. A transfer sheet is attached to a convex side of the dial members, and a release sheet is attached to its bonding agent side to form a dial label. When this dial label is attached to a dial base, the release sheet is peeled off and the dial label is attached to the dial base. The transfer sheet is peeled off together with the excess of the bonding agent, and then the bonding agent is cured by a curing agent. Since the bonding agent in the peripheral portions of the dial members is cured while bonding force is maintained, there is no adherence of fine particles of foreign matter, and a satisfactory appearance can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Co.
    Inventors: Shigemi Sasaki, Yoshimitsu Misawa
  • Patent number: 7048308
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical script includes a face sheet laminated to a liner by an adhesive therebetween. The face sheet includes a removable label defined by a perimeter diecut. The label includes an excisable tab spaced inboard from a surrounding rim. The tab includes a slit along one edge thereof. And, the label and tab are removable together from the liner to expose adhesive on the label rim, without adhesive being exposed on the tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Paul C. Blank
  • Patent number: 7048307
    Abstract: A display includes a base having a front surface, an adhesive pattern formed over a first area of the front surface, a reflective layer over the adhesive pattern, and may include an image formed over a second area of the front surface which is at least partially not occupied by the reflective layer. A manufacturing method improves economy of manufacture by combining a texture pattern layer and an adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Serigraph, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Scott Scarbrough, Daniel C. Faul
  • Patent number: 7040665
    Abstract: A carrier sheet comprising a printed paper sheet having an integrated detachable card with a magnetic backing and method of manufacturing same is described. The carrier sheet is comprised of a printed paper sheet having printed matter on at least a front face thereof. The printed matter contains card information printed in a card area. A polyfilm patch is adhered over the card area and over the card information printed thereon. A thin flexible patch of magnet material is adhesively secured on a rear face of the paper sheet and extends over the card area. A die-cut is made in the sheet and delineates the contour of the card area and extends through the polyfilm patch, the paper sheet and partly into the patch of magnet material to form a burstable region along said die-cut to hold the card in the carrier sheet. The die-cut can have any ornamental shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Relizon Canada Inc.
    Inventors: William Dale Ritchie, Christopher Robert Cox, Bill Garland
  • Patent number: 7033092
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method and a program are provided, each of which is intended to produce small prints. A variety of graphics are useful as framing elements for outer framing and tabulation with no need for increasing the volume of information to be prestored. One optional character, e.g., a pictogram, can be designated as a front ruling element and/or a rear ruling element for outer framing and tabulation. The optional character is chosen from among characters capable of input as character elements in lines of input characters. Upon execution of a print command, dot development is performed with respect to the front ruling portion and/or the rear ruling portion by utilizing fonts as character elements. Line types for upper ruling and lower ruling can also be designated, thereby effecting dot development depending upon the designated types of lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Horii, Shinji Ishizuka, Yasuhide Anbiru, Hiroshi Ono, Takayuki Uehara, Mikihiro Kajihara, Seiji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7029550
    Abstract: An energy-beam-curable thermal-releasable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has, on at least one side of a base material, an energy-beam-curable viscoelastic layer and a thermo-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing thermo-expandable microspheres stacked in this order. The energy-beam-curable viscoelastic layer is, for example, composed of a composition of an organic viscoelastic body and an energy-beam-curable compound or an energy-beam-curable resin. The energy-beam-curable viscoelastic layer has a thickness of about 5 to 300 ?m or may be not greater than the maximum particle size of the thermo-expandable microspheres. The energy-beam-curable thermal-releasable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer according to the invention has adhesion enough to withstand a carrying step of an adherend, causes neither winding up of the adhesive nor chipping upon cutting and facilitates peeling and collection of cut pieces after cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Cororation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kiuchi, Toshiyuki Oshima, Akihisa Murata, Yukio Arimitsu
  • Patent number: 7029737
    Abstract: A paint mask particularly adapted for masking corner areas of a demarcation zone to facilitate painting of an area of a workpiece disposed on the other side of the demarcation zone is formed of a thin, flexible sheet having opposite faces. The paint mask includes a first leg and a second leg that are generally rectangular in shape, and the legs intersect to form a right angle adapted for masking a corner and adjacent area. The bottom side of the paint mask which contacts the surface to be masked includes an adhesive for adhering the mask to the workpiece. The top side has release means for releasing stacked paint masks from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Henkel Consumer Adhesives, Inc.
    Inventor: John E. Schnoebelen, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7022418
    Abstract: Manufacture of stacked microelectronic devices is facilitated by producing subassemblies wherein adhesive pads are applied to the back surfaces of a plurality of microelectronic components in a batch fashion. In one embodiment, an adhesive payer is applied on a rear surface of a wafer. A plurality of spaced-apart adhesive pads are defined within the adhesive layer. Each adhesive pad may cover less than the entire back surface area of the component to which it is attached. A mounting member (e.g., dicing tape) may be attached to the adhesive layer and, in some embodiments, the adhesive layer may be treated so that the mounting member is less adherent to the adhesive pads than to other parts of the adhesive layer, easing removal of the adhesive pads with the microelectronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Connell, Tongbi Jiang
  • Patent number: 7021666
    Abstract: The invention relates to a greeting card containing a thermal transfer sheet. The transfer sheet of the present greeting card includes a (1) a support; (2) optionally at least one transfer layer; and (3) an image or an image receiving layer. According to the present greeting card, if the transfer material contains only (1) a support, and (3) an image, the image is not formed using a transferable ink. However, transferable inks may be used under specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Foto-Wear Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Hare
  • Patent number: 7017946
    Abstract: A card and business form assembly and method for making same. The assembly includes a printable carrier sheet having a card that is releasably attached to the sheet by a backer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Inventor: David H. Behnen
  • Patent number: 7014900
    Abstract: The present invention provides a filament-bearing tape comprising an adhesive substrate that is releasably adhered to a surface to be coated and a filament releasably adhered to an edge of the substrate that is used to trim the applied coating. The invention further provides a method of trimming the coating comprising applying a masking material to the surface to be coated and a filament of material of sufficient tensile strength to cut the coating material, allowing the coating material to dry or cure until it obtains sufficient strength to hold a cut edge and drawing the filament through to form the cut edge. Finally, the present invention provides an apparatus for making a filament bearing tape comprising means for folding an adhesive substrate along a predefined line, applying a filament to the interior of the fold and closing said fold to retain said filament at the edge of the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Inventor: Gary D. Langeman
  • Patent number: 7005171
    Abstract: The color card or display device of the invention has one or more paint color swatches or chips which are removable from a base and are repositionable and adhesively affixable to another substrate remote from the color card or display device. The color card with repositionable paint swatches provides swatches which may be remounted onto furniture, walls, other samples and fabrics to aid the consumer of the color to select the color on the swatch and match it with other colors and the environment for which the color is intended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley I. Lerner, Steven B. Winter
  • Patent number: 6994899
    Abstract: A curl resistant single substrate label sheet, and in-line high speed method for making same, for use with conventional printers, including at least one body portion, at least one label portion, and at least one release liner portion, all of which are made of a common substrate permitting the use of the label sheet with conventional printers including off the shelf laser printers, including duplex printers. The label portion may include multiple individual labels that may extend all the way to the edges of the label sheet. The label sheet may contain printed indicia on all portions of the label sheet and permit the end user to print on all exposed surfaces. The label sheet may include at least one score across the grain of the substrate to increase the rigidity of the label and further prevent curling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: The Cyril-Scott Company
    Inventors: Leslie E. McClelland, Chad Stephenson
  • Patent number: 6991259
    Abstract: The present invention is a business form with an integrated card. The form comprises a base paper layer having top and bottom surfaces and a periphery, a primary film layer having top and bottom surfaces and a periphery, a breakaway layer coated on the top surface within the periphery of the primary film layer, and an adhesive layer wherein the breakaway layer is adhesively secured to the bottom of the secondary film layer, at least one die cut through the top and bottom surfaces within the periphery of the form layer, through the adhesive layer, and through the breakaway layer. The die cut base paper layer, adhesive layer and breakaway layer comprise an information card wherein the breakaway layer has a greater affinity for the adhesive layer than the top surface of the primary film layer such that when the information card is removed from the form, the breakaway layer stays adhered to the bottom surface of the base paper layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Strata-Tac, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Schwarzbauer, Charles L. Casgrande
  • Patent number: 6991838
    Abstract: The use of a double sided adhesive tape for sealing and opening cartons or cartonlike packages, at least one of the two films of adhesive of the double sided adhesive tape being present applied in the lengthwise direction of the carrier material in the form of a strip which is present at least partially and which is narrower than the carrier material of the adhesive tape, the bonding of the adhesive tape between the two plies or flaps of the carton or of the cartonlike packages taking place in such a way that the part of the carrier material not covered by the film of adhesive is likewise situated between the two plies or flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: tesa AG
    Inventors: Michael Schwertfeger, Olaf Görbig
  • Patent number: 6989183
    Abstract: A form that incorporates either a label or card such that the form can be reliably printed on by the end user and manufactured less expensively. The integrated label form includes a top printable substrate and a liner substrate mated together by an adhesive. The top printable substrate serves at least partially as removable portions capable of being reapplied. Weakened lines of substrate may be provided to define removable portions on the top printable substrate. The form also may include a similar printable substrate mated to the other side of the liner by adhesive. Weakened lines of substrate also may formed in the second substrate to define removable portions. The integrated card form includes a printable substrate and a first and second laminate mated to the substrate and together by an adhesive. Weakened lines of substrate and first laminate define an integrated removable portion capable of being held in the form by the second laminate and easily removed manually when desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Malessa Partners, L.L.C.
    Inventor: John J. McKillip
  • Patent number: 6982114
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic enclosure for temporarily retaining documents, printed indicia, photographs or the like. More particularly, the present invention provides an enclosure that is created by laminating a magnetic material to a transparent sleeve created through the production process. The magnetic material serves as a backing member for mounting, displaying and securing printed indicia, creative content or other material in a convenient to use fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Ward/Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Jesse D. Crum
  • Patent number: 6962748
    Abstract: A masking tape comprising: a) a heat resistant adhesive tape comprising a flexible sheet backing and a pressure sensitive adhesive composition, b) a masking material, which is laminated in an edge region of the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, said masking material being capable of adhering to paint and absorbing paint, c) a masking sheet, which is laminated onto the very same edge region of the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, d) the masking sheet covering the masking material on a side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Tesa AG
    Inventor: Oliver Nickel
  • Patent number: 6962641
    Abstract: An arts and crafts material having a foil pattern imprinted thereon. In one embodiment, the arts and crafts material of the present invention includes a sheet of foil substantially uniformly adhered to a corresponding sheet of base material such as foam. Once the foil sheet is secured to the base material, the foil sheet is peeled back to disclose the foil sheet's coating transferred onto the base material. The base material is preferably resiliently compressible. Portions of the sheet of arts and crafts material maybe cut to form particular shapes such as body and tail portions of fishing flies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Inventors: Blane L. Chocklett, Harrison R. Steeves
  • Patent number: 6955843
    Abstract: A label assembly including a face sheet having a removable label portion and a layer of adhesive adhered to the face sheet. A back sheet includes a removable first portion generally coextensive with the label portion of the face sheet so that when the first portion is removed from the label assembly, a remaining portion of the back sheet is attached to the label portion of the face sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Inventors: Timothy J. Flynn, Thomas E. Flynn, Patrick J. Flynn
  • Patent number: 6948743
    Abstract: A multiple layer label and a method of making the same are provided. Specifically, a label having a base layer for adhering to a container is provided wherein the label has an overcoat layer having an end that is removably adhered to the container. Moreover, the end that is removably adhered to the container is grasped by a user of the label and pulled, thereby removing the end of the overcoat layer from the container and swinging the layer away from the remainder of the label and exposing sublayers beneath the overcoat layer. The overcoat layer is adhered directly to the base layer, and at least portions of the sublayers. Each of the overcoat layer, sublayers, and the base layer may have indicia printed thereon for communicating information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Weber Marking Systems
    Inventor: Todd A. Peterson
  • Patent number: 6939594
    Abstract: A self-adhesive label carried on a backing of release material comprising a multilaminar label portion having a front cover panel having an end, the multilaminar label portion having a first part, and a second part comprising the end of the front cover panel, and a self-adhesive support piece upon which the multilaminar label portion is disposed, the, support piece comprising first and second portions which are spaced apart to define a gap therebetween and at least one connecting portion extending across the gap and integrally connecting the first and second portions together, the first and second parts of the multilaminar label portion being respectively adhered to the first and second portions of the support piece, and the self-adhesive surface of the support piece being adhered to a backing of release liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Inprint Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: David R. Barry
  • Patent number: 6929837
    Abstract: A repositionable label for mounting upon or proximate to electrical or other types of interfaces may identify devices associated with such interfaces. A label may include a static cling or other type of substrate that carries identifying information. The identifying information may exist in textual, symbolic, iconic, tactile, chromatic, and/or other formats, and may correspond to common types of electrical devices and/or appliances controlled through electrical and/or other types of interfaces. Such interfaces may include switch covers and/or switches associated therewith; fuse or circuit boxes and/or switches residing therein; outlets; power strips; and/or other interfaces typically found in households, offices, or other environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Inventor: Rod Morrison
  • Patent number: 6926942
    Abstract: Label sheets are formed from a continuous web of laminated stock material comprising a face stock layer and a liner layer secured together by an adhesive layer. The stock material is delaminated and an adhesive deactivating material is applied to the adhesive layer in longitudinal strips to create active and inactive adhesive portions. Label sheets are formed by cutting the web of stock material transversely. Individual labels are formed on the label sheets by kiss-cutting the face stock layer. Each individual label includes an attachment end with active adhesive and a free/unattached end with inactive adhesive. A method of manufacturing partially-secured labels includes the steps of delaminating a stock material, deactivating strips of an adhesive layer, and relaminating the stock material. The method also includes the steps of cutting the stock material into individual label sheets and kiss-cutting the label sheets to form individual, partially-secured labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Graphic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Garvic, Mike H. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 6911243
    Abstract: Adhesives having a microreplicated topography are prepared from contacting a microembossed pattern to a layer of adhesive. When an adhesion interface is established between the layer of adhesive and a supporting substrate, the topography of the adhesive surface controls the performance of the adhesion interface. Articles having microreplicated adhesive surfaces are also disclosed that have an advantage of providing microchannels for fluid egress for an effective period of time. Multiple microeombossed patterns produce microreplicated adhesive surfaces having both microchannels for fluid egress and pegs for improved adhesive properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Frank T. Sher, Larry A. Meixner, Francis V. Loncar, Jr., Clyde D. Calhoun
  • Patent number: 6908653
    Abstract: A system for making at least one visual advertisement using at least one stepped surface, comprising: an array of decals displaying one or more visual advertisements on a stepped surface; a plurality of signage substrates wherein the decals are applied to the signage substrates, and; at least one guide mechanism adhered to the stepped surface, wherein each of the signage substrates is positioned by the guide mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Inventor: Margaret A. Keane
  • Patent number: 6905746
    Abstract: A substantially planar packaging device including printed indicia and defining a closed cavity being suitable for containing at least one product. The substantially planar packaging device including a first sheet forming the closed cavity, and a second sheet at least partially detachably coupled to the first sheet to allow the second sheet to be at least partially detached from the first sheet to view at least a portion of the indicia and reattached to the first sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: National Label Company
    Inventor: Neil G. Sellars
  • Patent number: 6902784
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pressure sensitive adhesive insulation structure for joining two adjacent insulation structures. The pressure sensitive insulation comprises a carrier having a first side and second side. A pressure sensitive adhesive is in communication with the first side and in communication with the second side for adhering an insulation structure, such as those used to insulate piping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Armacell Enterprise GmbH
    Inventors: Charles M. Princell, Kartik A. Patel, Holger Wilhelm Johann
  • Patent number: 6899933
    Abstract: A splicing tape (100) is provided having a base layer (10), an adhesive layer (20) on the top of the base layer (10), a first adhesive strip (30a) and a second adhesive strip (30b) on the bottom of the base layer (10), and a two lines of separating portions (50a and 50b) in the base layer (10). A splicing tape (100a) is also provided having a base layer (10a), a top adhesive (20a) on the top of the base layer (10) with detackified portions (14a and 15a), and a bottom adhesive (30c) on the bottom of the base layer (10a) with a detackified portion (23a), and first and second lines of separating portions (50a and 50b) in the base layer (10a). The line of separating portions (50a or 50b) can include perforations having a ratio of perforation length to space between perforations between a ratio of 4 to 6 and a ratio of 9 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignees: Permacel, Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Jason A. Bean, Koichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6896295
    Abstract: A business form with an integrated label and/or fold-over card is provided. The form includes a form layer having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a periphery, at least one die cut though the top and bottom surfaces within the periphery of the form layer defining at least one portion of the form layer within the die cut, and an adhesively but removably secured patch layer. The patch layer may be secured over the entire die cut and form layer portion to form an integrated label intermediate, or half of the patch layer may be secured over the die cut and form layer portion to form a fold-over card intermediate. In both embodiments the adhesive layer remains on the bottom surface of the patch when the label or card intermediate is removed from the form. By avoiding the use of any release materials, liners, layers and coatings, the remaining form layer is completely recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Precision Coated Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles L. Casagrande
  • Patent number: 6881461
    Abstract: A label assembly for a CD includes a face sheet having a generally circular label portion removable with respect to a carrier portion of the face sheet and at least one index hole positioned in the face sheet, the at least one index hole mateable with an applicator apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Inventors: Timothy J. Flynn, Thomas E. Flynn, Patrick J. Flynn
  • Patent number: RE39100
    Abstract: A business form is provided which is particularly useful in shipping products where certain preprinted information can be provided and then individualized information is printed before the form is applied to a substrate. The form includes a face ply which has a pattern of adhesive applied to at least a portion of the inner face, and a release liner which includes a pattern of adhesive which exposes a portion of the release liner to direct adhesive contact to the face ply without intervening release coating to permanently adhere a part of the release liner to the face ply. The release liner has a surrounding protective border provided with release coating on the release face thereof and which is removed prior to application to the substrate, and a slip which remains with the form as applied to the substrate. The face ply includes lines of perforation defining a central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Ward/Kraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce Raming