System for providing updated product and pricing information for retailer

• US 4,549,750 A
• Filed: 03/11/1985
• Issued: 10/29/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gary H. Stone, Joel R. Stone
• Original Assignee: Gary H. Stone, Joel R. Stone
• Inventors: Stone, Joel R., Stone, Gary H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Paul A.
• Application Number:
  US06/710,326
• Time in Patent Office: 232 Days
• Field of Search: 283/70, 283/79, 283/80, 283/81, 283/82, 283/101, 283/105, 40/312
• US Class Current: 283/79
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/00 Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/02 Forms or constructions layered products B32B

Abstract

One section of a two piece label is marked by the supplier (wholesaler) with general product information and a separable section of the same label is marked with certain pricing information for the consumer and the label is then attached to the product'"'"'s shipping container in a fashion such that the general product information remains permanently attached to the container and the consumer pricing information section can be removed and placed on the store shelf when the product is removed from the container and placed on the shelf.

Claims

1. A shipping and price information label for use in identifying products in a shipping container and for providing consumer intelligible pricing information when the products are removed from the shipping container and placed on a store shelf for retail sale, comprising:

a rectangular label blank;

a first section of said blank being defined by one outer edge of the blank and by connected scored tear-lines in the blank paralleling the other outer edges of the blank;

said first section containing consumer intelligible product pricing indicia on its face;

the remaining section of the label blank containing computer generated product pricing information and product shipping information on its face;

a layer of adhesive on the back of said remaining section for adhesively attaching the label blank to a shipping container; and

means for preventing the first section from adhering to a shipping container whereby said first section can be separated from said label blank and from a shipping container and placed on a store display shelf after the label blank has been adhesively attached to a shipping container.

2. The label as described in claim 1 wherein said first section has a layer of adhesive on its back and wherein said means for preventing adhering comprises a removable backing layer on said adhesive layer.