Extended wrap label and method of making same

• US 7,114,446 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2004
• Issued: 10/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lux Global Label Company, LLC
• Original Assignee: National Label Company (Lux Global Label Company, LLC)
• Inventors: Sellars, Neil G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yan, Ren
• Application Number:
  US10/896,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20050076549A1
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• Field of Search: 101/226, 101/483, 101/485, 428/306, 428/310, 428/41.8, 428/41.9, 428/42.1, 428/42.2, 428/42.3, 428/192, 428/194, 428/201, 428/202, 428/220, 406/38, 406/30, 403/06, 403/10
• US Class Current: 101/485
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0289 Pull- or fold-out labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/14 Layer or component removable to expose adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1476 Release layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1481 Dissimilar adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1486 Ornamental, decorative, pattern, or indicia
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/149 Sectional layer removable
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1495 Adhesive is on removable layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/15 Sheet, web, or layer weakened to permit separation through thickness
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24777 Edge feature
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24793 Comprising discontinuous or differential impregnation or bond
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24851 Intermediate layer is discontinuous or differential
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2486 with outer strippable or release layer

Abstract

A method for providing a label being suitable for being adhered about an object having a outer circumference once removed from a release liner, the label having a length greater than the circumference of the object and the release liner providing a mechanical support for the label prior to be adhered about the object, the method including: printing at least a portion of the label with indicia; printing at least a portion of the release liner with indicia; and, at least partially severing the printed portion of the release liner from the release liner such that upon removal of the label from the release liner, the printed portion of the release liner remains releasably adhered to the label.

Claims

1. A method for providing a label being suitable for being adhered about an object having a outer circumference once removed from a release liner, said label having a length greater than the circumference of said object and said release liner providing a mechanical support for said label prior to be adhered about said object, said method comprising:

printing at least a portion of said label with indicia;

printing at least a portion of said release liner with indicia; and

,

at least partially severing said printed portion of said release liner from said release liner such that upon removal of said label from said release liner, said printed portion of said release liner remains releasably adhered to an outer surface of said label when said label is adhered to said object.