Transparent icon and use on consumer product packaging

• US 20070080234A1
• Filed: 10/06/2005
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Conopco, Inc. (Unilever PLC)
• Original Assignee: Conopco, Inc. (Unilever PLC)
• Inventors: Domoy, Brett
• Application Number:
  US11/244,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20070080234A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/494
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06046 Constructional details

Abstract

An article and a process are provided for assembling a package and correct label form the article. The article includes a water insoluble web, a transparent icon arranged on the web, the icon being formed by a material including a substance fluorescent within a wavelength ranging from about 385 to about 620 nm.

Claims

1. An article comprising:

a water insoluble web;

a transparent icon arranged on the web, the icon being formed by a material comprising a substance fluorescent within a wavelength ranging from about 385 to about 620 nm.

2. The article according to claim 1 wherein the icon is a matrix comprising from about 10 to about 1,000 identically shaped geometric objects.

3. The article according to claim 2 wherein the matrix comprises from about 10 to about 200 identically shaped geometric objects.

4. The article according to claim 2 wherein the objects are square.

5. The article according to claim 1 wherein the icon is a data matrix code.

6. The article according to claim 1 wherein the wavelength ranges from about 430 to about 580 nm.

7. The article according to claim 1 wherein the wavelength ranges from about 480 to about 580 nm.

8. The article according to claim 1 wherein the wavelength is about 532 nm.

9. The article according to claim 1 wherein the icon has a surface area ranging from about 0.01 to about 1 cm².

10. The article according to claim 1 wherein the icon has a surface area ranging from about 0.1 to about 0.5 cm².

11. The article according to claim 1 further comprising a plastic label adhesively attached to the web.

12. The article according to claim 1 wherein the material further comprises an ultraviolet light photopolymerized resin.

13. The article according to claim 1 wherein the substance is a fluorescent organic dye suspended in an ultraviolet light sensitive polymerizable resin.

14. The article according to claim 1 wherein the web is a molded or plastic bottle.

15. The article according to claim 1 wherein the article is a plastic bottle, the plastic being filled with a consumable liquid home or personal care formulation.

16. The article according to claim 1 wherein the icon is flexographically printed onto the web.

17. The article according to claim 1 further comprising a Universal Product Code symbol.

18. A process for assemblying a packager with a correct label comprising:

filling a consumer product into a package;

applying a label to a wall of the package, the label comprising a transparent icon, the icon being formed by a material including a substance fluorescent within a wavelength ranging from about 385 to about 620 nm; and

exciting the substance to emit a fluorescent signal and detecting the signal; and

decoding the signal to obtain the information to correlate the label and package.