Multilayer adhesive label

• US 4,801,514 A
• Filed: 07/02/1987
• Issued: 01/31/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Steinbeis PPL GmbH
• Original Assignee: Zweckform Etikettiertechnik GmbH
• Inventors: Ast, Hans-Peter, Will, Rolf
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas, Alexander S.
• Application Number:
  US07/070,642
• Time in Patent Office: 579 Days
• Field of Search: 428/77, 428/136, 428/354, 428/910, 40/2 R, 40/306, 40/310, 429/175, 429/167
• US Class Current: 429/167
• CPC Class Codes: B31D 1/021 Making adhesive labels having a multilayered structure, e.g. provided on carrier webs
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0202 printed before use
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/021 Indicia behind the front foil
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0225 Carrier web
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0233 Resistance to humidity
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0251 Sleeve shaped label, i.e. wrapped around a device
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0255 laminated
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0267 die cut
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0272 Labels for containers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/02 Forms or constructions layered products B32B
• 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: G09F 3/06 by clamping action by separate clamps G09F3/16
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/119 Metals
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/121 Organic material
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/129 with two or more layers of only organic material
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/91 Product with molecular orientation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24868 Translucent outer layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2848 Three or more layers

Abstract

Multilayer adhesive label which is shrinkable on a circumferential surface of a body, particularly of a dry-cell battery, including a carrier layer for a outwardly visible imprint which is covered with a transparent protective layer, whose outermost layer is formed by means of an at least axially stretched, transparent laminated foil of shrinkable plastics material. The carrier layer may have at least one cut in the vicinity ofits edge extending along the generating line of the circumferential surface of the body.

Claims

1. Multilayer adhesive label glued onto a circumferential surface of a dry-cell battery body, the body having an axis and top and bottom end faces, wherein the label comprises:

(a) a bottom layer of hard polyvinyl chloride foil stretched in circumferential direction of the body, an adhesive layer on the bottom side of the bottom layer glued onto the circumferential surface, the top side of the bottom layer covered with a vapor deposited layer of aluminum,

(b) an intermediate layer of hard polyvinyl chloride foil stretched in circumferential direction of the body, an adhesive layer on the bottom side of the intermediate layer glued onto the vapor deposited layer, and an imprint on the top side of the intermediate layer,

(c) a top layer of hard polyvinyl chloride foil stretched in circumferential direction of the body, an adhesive layer on the bottom side of the top layer glued onto the top side of the intermediate layer and the imprint,

wherein the bottom layer, the intermediate layer and the top layer of hard polyvinyl chloride foil are shrinkable, and wherein the label defines edge portions which extend axially beyond the end faces of the body, the end portions being shrunk onto the end faces and the adhesive layer on the bottom of the bottom layer being glued onto the end faces.