Safety skin applique kit for identification of lost persons

• US 20090091120A1
• Filed: 09/19/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Michele Welsh
• Original Assignee: Michele Welsh
• Inventors: Welsh, Michele
• Granted Patent: US 7,988,199 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 283/74
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/02 by a carrier person or animal
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/00 Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means medals or badges A44C3/00; making labels B31D1/02; sheets temporarily attached together B42F; labelling B65C; labels on record carriers G11B23/38, G11B23/40; Seals; Postage or like stamps
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer

Abstract

A safety skin appliqué kit for parents and custodians of children, disabled persons, and the elderly, including a marking pen and a pre-packaged collection of preprinted skin appliqués each removably sandwiched between two carrier sheets. Each of the appliqués further comprise a die cut section of breathable polyurethane tape, printed with a forward image on one side defined by a lightly-colored high-contrast window, and pre-printed plea to call if lost. The appliqués are coated with hypoallergenic acrylate adhesive for application to skin or other surfaces. Parents and custodians can apply one of said appliques'"'"' to their child, disabled person, or elderly charge, and write a contact telephone number in the window of the appliqué. This way, if their charge becomes lost, passersby will notice the appliqué, read the contact telephone number, and call the custodian.

Claims

1. A safety skin appliqué

kit for parents and custodians of children, disabled persons, and the elderly, comprising;

a marking pen;

a plurality of preprinted skin appliqué

s removably attached to at least one carrier sheet, each said appliqué

further comprising a die cut section of tape printed with a forward image defined by a lightly-colored opaque high-contrast window and a proximate text plea to call if lost, and coated with adhesive for application to skin or clothing;

whereby parents and custodians can apply one of said appliques'"'"' to their child, disabled person, or elderly charge, and write a contact telephone number in the window of the appliqué

, so that if said charge becomes lost, passersby will notice the appliqué

, read the contact telephone number, and call the custodian.

2. The safety skin appliqué

kit according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of preprinted skin appliqué

s are removably sandwiched between two carrier sheets.

3. The safety skin appliqué

kit according to claim 1, wherein each said die cut section of tape further comprises a polyurethane tape printed on one side with said forward image and coated on another side with said adhesive.

4. The safety skin appliqué

kit according to claim 3, wherein said polyurethane tape is breathable.

5. The safety skin appliqué

kit according to claim 4, wherein said adhesive is hypoallergenic acrylate adhesive.

6. The safety skin appliqué

kit according to claim 1, wherein each said die cut section of tape further comprises a first layer of polyurethane printed on one side with said forward image and coated on another side with said adhesive, and a second layer of polyurethane overlying said printed image.

7. The safety skin appliqué

kit according to claim 6, wherein both said layers of polyurethane are breathable.

8. The safety skin appliqué

kit according to claim 7, wherein said adhesive is hypoallergenic acrylate adhesive.

9. A safety skin appliqué

for parents and custodians of children, disabled persons, and the elderly, comprising;

a first layer of tape coated with a skin adhesive coating on one side;

a multi-color ink image printed on another side of said first tape layer, said ink image comprising a text plea to call if lost proximate a contrast window for write-in of a contact telephone number.

10. The safety skin appliqué

according to claim 9, wherein said first layer of tape comprises polyurethane tape.

11. The safety skin appliqué

according to claim 10, wherein said first layer of polyurethane tape is breathable.

12. The safety skin appliqué

according to claim 10, wherein said skin adhesive comprises hypoallergenic acrylate adhesive.

13. The safety skin appliqué

according to claim 9, further comprising a second layer of transparent tape coated with an adhesive coating on one side and adhered thereby over said ink image to said first tape layer.

14. The safety skin appliqué

according to claim 13, wherein said second layer of tape comprises polyurethane tape.

15. The safety skin appliqué

according to claim 14, wherein said second layer of polyurethane tape is breathable.

16. The safety skin appliqué

according to claim 15, wherein the adhesive of said second layer of tape comprises hypoallergenic acrylate adhesive.

17. A method for constructing a safety skin appliqué

for parents and custodians of children, disabled persons, and the elderly, comprising the steps of;

obtaining a first layer of tape coated with an adhesive coating on one side;

priming another side of the first layer of tape with a water-based primer;

printing the primed side of said first layer of tape with a plurality of discrete ink designs each including a return message “

if lost, please call . . . ”

proximate a high contrast write-in window;

fusing the printed ink design by running said printed tape through heat rollers;

encapsulating said printed ink design by adhering a second layer of transparent tape to said first layer of tape overtop said printed ink image;

kiss-cutting about each of said plurality of discrete ink designs;

cutting said double-layer tape into discrete segments each containing at least one ink design.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said step of obtaining a first layer of tape further comprises obtaining a first layer of breathable polyurethane tape coated with a hypoallergenic acrylate adhesive.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said step of encapsulating said printed ink design by adhering a second layer of transparent tape further comprises adhering a second transparent layer of breathable polyurethane tape coated with a hypoallergenic acrylate adhesive to said first layer of tape overtop said printed ink image.