Garment indicia strip

• US 5,343,648 A
• Filed: 01/18/1991
• Issued: 09/06/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Haggar Clothing Company (Texas Clothing Holding Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Haggar Apparel Company
• Inventors: Bracken, Frank D.
• Primary Examiner(s): GREEN, BRIAN
• Application Number:
  US07/643,769
• Time in Patent Office: 1,327 Days
• Field of Search: 40/299, 40/630, 40/638, 283/70, 283/81
• US Class Current: 40/638
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0201 Label sheets intended to be introduced in a printer, e.g. laser printer
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0202 printed before use
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0205 Coupon
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0264 Shapes or borders
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0276 Safety features, e.g. colour, prominent part, logo
• 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 3/02 Forms or constructions layered products B32B
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer

Abstract

A garment indicia strip and method for size labeling a pair of folded pants. A strip of flexible material has indicia repeatedly printed along a first major surface thereof. The indica are printed using symbols having a height no greater than the width of an edge of said folded pants. A second major surface of said strip has a pressure sensitive adhesive material bonded thereto. In use, the second surface of the strip is affixed to a pair of pants at a predetermined position whereby sizing information of said pants can be determined by reading said strip when said pants are folded.

Claims

1. A method of size labeling a pair of pants for display in a vertical stack, comprising:

printing sizing information for said pair of pants repeatedly on a first major surface of a flexible strip of material;

providing a second major surface of said strip with a pressure-sensitive adhesive material suitable for releasably affixing said flexible strip to said pair of pants;

affixing said strip onto a leg of said pair of pants with said strip substantially parallel to an outseam of said pair of pants; and

folding said pair of pants such that said strip is affixed to an outer surface of said folded pants and such that said strip spans a fold of said folded pants, whereby the size of said pair of pants can be readily determined when said pair of pants is displayed in a stack of garments on a store shelf.

2. The method of size labeling of claim 1 further comprising:

mounting said second major surface of said strip onto a release liner such that said release liner keeps said adhesive material from contacting other objects prior to affixing said strip to said pants; and

removing said release liner from said strip prior to affixing said strip onto said pants.

3. A method of labeling of claim 1 further comprising:

affixing a plurality of said strips onto a continuous length of silicon-coated release liner; and

removing each of said strips from said liner prior to affixing said strip onto said pants.

4. The method of labeling of claim 3 further comprising:

rolling said liner and said affixed strips into a roll after said strips are affixed to said liner, whereby said roll provides a means for storing and dispensing said flexible strips of material for attachment to said pants.

5. The method of labeling of claim 1 further comprising:

attaching a plurality of said flexible strips of material together to form a continuous length of said strips and including means for separating one of said strips from another of said strips of flexible material;

affixing said second major surface of said attached strip onto a continuous length of release liner;

detaching said strips from the length of attached strips; and

removing said strips from said liner prior to affixing each of said strips to said pair of pants.