SECURITY INFORMATION AND GRAPHIC IMAGE FUSION

• US 20080176011A1
• Filed: 03/27/2008
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Taylor Communications, Inc (Middleby Corporation)
• Original Assignee: The Standard Register Company (Middleby Corporation)
• Inventors: Freund, Robert Frank, Abrams, Fredric Louis
• Granted Patent: US 8,062,737 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/29
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 5/00 Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein by using light-sensitive materials G03; electrography, magnetography G03G ; repeatedly usable boards or tablets for writing or drawing B43L1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0294 where the change is not permanent, e.g. labels only readable under a special light, temperature indicating labels and the like
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/04 to be fastened or secured by the material of the label itself, e.g. by thermo-adhesion by a separate adhesive layer G09F3/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24802 Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24942 including components having same physical characteristic in differing degree
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249953 Composite having voids in a component [e.g., porous, cellular, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/256 Heavy metal or aluminum or compound thereof

Abstract

A security information and graphic image fusion system to be used with verification equipment to provide a tamper proof labeled article having security information thereon. The label comprises a printable sheet having at least one invisible IR or UV image, or both, printed thereon, at least one visible image printed thereon, and an over-coating layer thereon. The invisible IR or UV image, or both, provide security information. The visible image provides the graphic image. The label is permanently fused by an in-mold molding process to an article made of plastic, rubber or the combination thereof to render it tamper proof.

Claims

1. A system for providing security information, comprising:

a labeled article comprising a material selected from plastic, rubber, and combinations thereof and a label, wherein;

said label comprises a printable sheet, the printable sheet comprising a microporous material and having at least one invisible IR or UV image printed thereon, at least one visible image printed thereon, and a cured polymeric material applied over the printable sheet;

said at least one invisible IR or UV image is configured to provide security information; and

said label is permanently fused to said article during the manufacture of said article; and

a verification system comprising verification equipment that is programmed to verify the security information provided by said at least one invisible IR or UV image on said label.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one invisible image is at least one invisible IR image which is printed on said printable sheet such that said at least one visible image at least partially overlies said at least one invisible IR image;

wherein said invisible IR image is configured such that said invisible IR image exhibits an expected change in absorption and reflection, and wherein said verification equipment is programmed to verify the expected change in absorption and reflection.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one invisible image is at least one invisible UV image printed on said printable sheet such that said at least one invisible UV image at least partially overlies said at least one visible image.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein multiple UV images with small variations in wavelength are printed on said label.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one invisible IR image is printed on said printable sheet such that said at least one visible image overlies said at least one IR image and at least one invisible UV image is printed on said printable sheet such that said at least one invisible UV image at least partially overlies said at least one visible image.