Sealed tag

• US 5,148,618 A
• Filed: 10/18/1991
• Issued: 09/22/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Blair M. Brewster
• Original Assignee: Blair M. Brewster
• Inventors: Brewster, Blair M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Brittain, James R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nelson, Jr., Milton
• Application Number:
  US07/782,882
• Time in Patent Office: 340 Days
• Field of Search: 40/626, 40/152, 40/661, 40/159.2
• US Class Current: 40/626
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/18 Casings, frames or enclosures for labels

Abstract

A label in accordance with the present invention includes a base having a transparent window and an adjacent frame at least substantially surrounding the window, the frame being at least somewhat thicker than the window; a locating projection on the base for repeatably positioning an indicia bearing insert at least partially within the window; alignment holes on the frame; a cover having a transparent window portion and an adjacent frame portion at least substantially surrounding the window portion; alignment projections cooperating with the alignment holes for positioning the cover and base relative to each other with the transparent window portions of the cover and base at least substantially in registration; and at least one seal formed between the cover and the base at least substantially surrounding the window portions of the cover and the base for forming a sealed pocket for receiving an indicia bearing insert.

Claims

1. A sealed tamper resistant tag comprising:

at least substantially chlorine free base means;

a transparent window comprising at least a portion of the base means;

a peripheral frame portion on the base means surrounding the window, the tag being thicker at the frame than at the window;

a first upstanding rib on the base means for receiving and positioning an indicia bearing insert with at least a portion thereof visible within the window;

first alignment means on the frame;

a peripheral rim on the base surrounding the frame portion;

a least substantially chlorine free cover means disposed within the peripheral rim;

transparent window means on the cover means;

a frame portion on said cover means at least substantially surrounding the window portion of said cover means;

second alignment means on the cover means cooperating with said first alignment means for aligning the cover and base relative to each other with the transparent window portions of the cover and the base at least substantially in registration;

a recess in the cover means for receiving the first upstanding rib;

at least one seal formed between the cover and the base at least substantially surrounding the window portions of the cover and the base between the upstanding rib and the peripheral rim for forming a sealed chamber for receiving the indicia bearing insert; and

a plurality of aligned through mounting holes in the frame portions of the base means and the cover means for allowing the tag to be hung in at least two different orientations.

2. The sealed tamper resistant tag of claim 1 in which the base means comprises a unitary plastic member, in which the transparent window comprises an at least substantially flat centrally disposed generally rectangular portion of the base means;

and the peripheral frame portion comprises an extension of the flat window contiguous therewith and having at least one rounded surface.

3. The sealed tamper resistant tag of claim 1 in which the cover means comprises an at least substantially flat mounting surface;

the frame portion comprises a continuous side wall; and

also comprising a short radius tamper resistant connection between the side wall and the flat surface.

4. The sealed tamper resistant tag of claim 1 further comprising a printed indicia bearing member disposed within the sealed chamber.

5. The sealed tamper resistant tag of claim 1 in which the second alignment means comprises a plurality of upstanding pins on the cover means, and the first alignment means comprises a plurality of blind bores in the base means in registration with the pins.

6. The sealed tamper resistant tag of claim 1, in which the at least one seal comprises ultrasonic focusing means in said frame portion of said cover means.

7. The sealed tamper resistant tag of claim 6 in which the ultrasonic focusing means comprises projections extending upwardly from a surface of the cover means for engaging the frame portion of the base means, when the tag is assembled.