Deactivatable RFID labels and tags and methods of making same
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1. Method of making a web of deactivatable RFID labels, comprising:
- providing a longitudinally extending web of label material,placing RFID transponders at spaced apart locations on the label material web,thereafter coating the transponder-containing web with pressure sensitive adhesive, andthereafter adhering a label-deactivating tear strip to the adhesive across each transponder.
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Abstract
Disclosed are deactivatable RFID labels and tags in individual and web form, and methods of making same. When it is desired to deactivate the label or tag, the tag or label is subjected to tearing. One arrangement involves providing the label or tag with a tear strip by which the RFID transponder in the label or tag is destroyed, and in another arrangement a tag can be torn along a weakening line to destroy the RFID transponder.
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1. Method of making a web of deactivatable RFID labels, comprising:
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providing a longitudinally extending web of label material, placing RFID transponders at spaced apart locations on the label material web, thereafter coating the transponder-containing web with pressure sensitive adhesive, and thereafter adhering a label-deactivating tear strip to the adhesive across each transponder. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. Method of making a web of deactivatable RFID labels, comprising:
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providing RFID transponders at longitudinally spaced locations on a longitudinally extending printable web, thereafter coating the transponder-containing web with pressure sensitive adhesive, thereafter applying a longitudinally extending label-deactivating tear strip web across the RFID transponders to adhere the tear strip web to the adhesive on the longitudinally web, and thereafter laminating a longitudinally extending release liner to the adhesive on the longitudinally extending web. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. Method of making a web of deactivatable RFID labels, comprising:
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laminating a longitudinally extending pressure sensitive adhesive-containing printable web having RFID transponders at spaced locations and having a longitudinally extending label-deactivating tear strip web across the transponders to a longitudinally extending release liner, and severing the tear strip and the printable web into labels with each label having an RFID transponder and a tear strip. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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