Mobile device label with negative image feature

• US 7,914,869 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Issued: 03/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ccl Label Incorporated (CCL Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
• Inventors: Pollman, Russ, Newburry, Keith A., Hodsdon, Jerry G., Wilson, Douglas W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nordmeyer; Patricia L
• Application Number:
  US11/239,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20060233994A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,008 Days
• Field of Search: 428/40.1, 428/42.1, 428/43, 402/990.1, 403/36, 403/60
• US Class Current: 428/40.1
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/4023 on the layer surface, e.g. ink
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/412 Transparent
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/748 Releasability
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/75 Printability
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 25/04 comprising rubber as the main or only constituent of a layer, which is next to another layer of the same or of a different material next to a layer of a particular substance B32B9/043; next to a bituminous or tarry layer B32B11/044; next to a water setting substance layer B32B13/042; next to a metal layer B32B15/06; next to a glass layer B32B17/063; next to a layer formed of natural mineral fibres or particles B32B19/043; next to a wood layer B32B21/045; next to a cellulosic plastic layer B32B23/046
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 25/06 of paper or cardboard
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 25/20 comprising silicone rubber
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2519/00 Labels, badges
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 29/002 as the main or only constituent of a layer, which is next to another layer of the same or of a different material next to a layer of a particular substance B32B9/06; next to a bituminous or tarry layer B32B11/06; next to a water-setting substance layer B32B13/08; next to a metal layer B32B15/12; next to a glass layer B32B17/065; next to a layer formed of natural mineral fibres or particles B32B19/046; next to a wood layer B32B21/06; next to a cellulosic plastic layer B32B23/06; next to a natural or synthetic rubber layer B32B25/06; next to a synthetic resin layer B32B27/10
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 3/02 characterised by features of form at particular places, e.g. in edge regions non-uniform thickness B32B3/263
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 7/04 Interconnection of layers
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 7/06 permitting easy separation
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 7/12 using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0286 provided with adaptations for labelling machines
• 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 428/1486 Ornamental, decorative, pattern, or indicia
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/15 Sheet, web, or layer weakened to permit separation through thickness

Abstract

An adhesive label is configured to be wrapped around an apparatus and to outline a predetermined image having first and second components. A first facestock has opposite first and second edges that come into proximity with one another when the label is wrapped around the apparatus. The first edge includes first contours that outline the first component of the predetermined image, and the second edge includes second contours that outline the second component. A multilayer sheet assembly comprises the adhesive label, wherein the first facestock inner surface includes a lined portion that is covered by a release liner, and an unlined portion that is not covered by the release liner. The sheet assembly further comprises a second facestock that covers at least some of the unlined portion of the first facestock inner surface, and is adhered thereto using an adhesive.

Claims

1. A multilayer sheet assembly, comprising:

an adhesive label having a shape that is configured to be wrapped around an apparatus and to outline a predetermined image having first and second components, the adhesive label comprising;

a first release liner,

a first facestock comprising;

an outer surface,

an inner surface including a lined portion that is covered by the first release liner, and an unlined portion that is not covered by the first release liner, and

opposite first and second edges that come into proximity with one another when the adhesive label is wrapped around the apparatus, the first edge including first contours that outline the first component of the predetermined image, and the second edge including second contours that outline the second component of the predetermined image, and

a first adhesive coated over at least portions of both the lined and unlined portions of the first facestock inner surface, and

a second facestock including an overlapping portion, the overlapping portion covering at least some of the unlined portion of the first facestock inner surface, and adhered thereto using at least the first adhesive;

wherein;

the second facestock overlapping portion covers the entire unlined portion of the first facestock inner surface, and

the second facestock overlapping portion abuts but does not overlap with the first release liner.