Method of removing units from laminate webs which have a multiplicity of units

• US 6,391,136 B1
• Filed: 08/13/1999
• Issued: 05/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ident Technology GmbH X
• Original Assignee: X-ident GmbH
• Inventors: Stickelbrocks, Karl
• Primary Examiner(s): Osele, Mark A.
• Application Number:
  US09/374,587
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 156/247, 156/249, 156/344, 156/541, 156/584, 156/304.3, 428/40.1, 428/42.2, 428/42.3
• US Class Current: 156/249
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 2009/0003 Use of RFID labels
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 9/0006 Removing backing sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 21/00 Apparatus for splicing webs during web-roll changing B65H19/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/4621 Overlapping article or web portions
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/02 Forms or constructions layered products B32B
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1184 Piercing layer during delaminating [e.g., cutting, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/14 Layer or component removable to expose adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1495 Adhesive is on removable layer

Abstract

Method of removing units (2) from laminate webs (1) which have a multiplicity of units (2,2a,2b) which are arranged adjacent to one another in the web direction and can be separated from one another at predetermined separating locations (3,3a,3b) arranged transversely to the web-running direction, and of reproducing continuous laminate webs (1), it being the case that the laminate webs (1) have a substrate layer (4) and, on the top side of the latter, a multiplicity of labels, tags or admission passes (5) which can be detached therefrom and, together with the substrate layer (4), form a unit (2), and the substrate layer (4) has at least one additional, prepared separating line (6) which is offset in the web-running direction in relation to the predetermined separating locations (3,3a,3b) of the laminate webs (1) and is arranged transversely to the web-running direction.

Claims

1. In a laminate web including an elongate substrate, a plurality of identification elements serially arranged on said substrate in the longitudinal direction of said substrate, said plurality of identification elements detachably secured to said substrate, said identification elements defining transverse separating locations between adjacent identification elements, said substrate including a plurality of separating lines arranged transversely to said laminate web whereby said web may be separated at each said line, each said line offset by a distance from one said separating location in the longitudinal direction of said laminate web, said lines defining a plurality of segments of said substrate, a method for removing one of said identification elements and a said segment associated with said identification element, said method comprising:

a first step of identifying an identification element and an associated segment, said identified identification element having a first adjacent identification element and a first associated segment and a second adjacent identification element and a second associated segment;

a second step of severing said substrate along a first separating line located between said identified segment and said first associated segment;

a third step of severing said substrate along a second separating line located between said identified segment and said second associated segment;

a fourth step of peeling said identified associated segment away from said first adjacent identification element;

a fifth step of peeling said second associated segment away from said identified identification element;

a sixth step of removing said identified identification element and said associated segment from said laminate web; and

a seventh step of attaching said second associated segment to said first identification element, whereby said laminate web is reassembled.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said separating line is formed in said substrate as one of a perforation and a non-continuous cut.

3. Laminate webs produced according to the method of claim 1.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said identification element comprises a data storage element.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein said separating locations between adjacent identification elements comprise separating spaces.

8. The laminate web according to claim 1 wherein said separating locations between adjacent identification elements comprise separating spaces.

6. An elongate spliced laminate web comprising:

first and second laminate webs each comprising a backing web and adhesively backed identification elements, wherein at least one said backing web includes a plurality of discontinuous cuts arranged transversely to the longitudinal direction of the web, the cuts defining a plurality of backing web segments;

at least one of said identification elements including a data storage element, said identification elements serially arranged on said backing webs and detachably secured thereto, wherein the elements have transverse separating locations between them, said backing web segments each having an associated detachably secured identification element, said discontinuous cuts and said separating locations offset from one another in the longitudinal direction of the web such that each identification element overlaps one of the discontinuous cuts and;

wherein one of the identification elements splices the two backing webs to form the spliced laminate web.

7. The laminate web according to claim 6, wherein the web comprises one of a roll and a stack with zigzag folding.