Wire identification label pad

• US 4,609,208 A
• Filed: 09/16/1985
• Issued: 09/02/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co (3M Company)
• Original Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co (3M Company)
• Inventors: Wrobel, Norbert E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Paul A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Heyrana, Sr., Paul M.
• Application Number:
  US06/776,593
• Time in Patent Office: 351 Days
• Field of Search: 281/15 R, 282/DIG. 2, 283/81, 156/264, 156/289, 156/291, 156/292, 156/299
• US Class Current: 283/81
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/368 being a sleeve, ferrule, tag, clip, label or short length strip
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1092 All laminae planar and face to face
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1486 Ornamental, decorative, pattern, or indicia

Abstract

A pad of wire identification labels comprising a relatively stiff rectangular pad backing and a multiplicity of layers of a pressure sensitive adhesive tape on the pad backing. A narrow band of a release liner is similarly adhered to the pressure sensitive adhesive surface of each layer of tape along one edge and the layers of tape and the release liner are slit into a multiplicity of long, narrow, parallel strips defining the individual labels. Each of the narrow label strips has a multiplicity of the same indicia spaced along its length.

Claims

1. A pad of wire identification labels, comprising:

a relatively stiff rectangular pad backing,

a multiplicity of rectangular layers of a pressure sensitive adhesive tape on said pad backing, said tape having a flexible opaque backing,

a narrow band of a release liner similarly adhered to the pressure sensitive adhesive surface of each layer of said tape along one edge thereof,

said layers of tape being slit into a multiplicity of long, narrow, parallel strips, the slits running perpendicular to said one edge of each tape layer and the edge parallel thereto and extending through the layers of tape and release liner, and

indicia on said layers of tape, each of said narrow strips of tape having a multiplicity of the same indicia spaced along its length.

2. The pad of wire identification labels of claim 1 wherein said release liner is stiffer than said tape backing.

3. The pad of wire identification labels of claim 1 wherein said indicia on each of said narrow strips of tape are equally spaced along the length of said strip of tape.

4. The pad of wire identification labels of claim 2 wherein adjacent narrow strips of tape contain different indicia.