Label for use on store shelves in a retail environment

• US 9,399,331 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2013
• Issued: 07/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. (Avery Dennison Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Electronic Imaging Services, Inc. (Avery Dennison Corporation)
• Inventors: Weidauer, Jeffrey, Wilkinson, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL
• Application Number:
  US14/082,519
• Publication Number:
  US 20140367472A1
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• Field of Search: 235/488, 428/41.8
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/4825 Pressure sensitive adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/5057 positioned between the surfaces to be joined B29C65/5035 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/76 Making non-permanent or releasable joints
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 66/004 Preventing sticking together, e.g. of some areas of the parts to be joined
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 66/43 Joining a relatively small portion of the surface of said articles B29C66/45 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B31D 1/021 Making adhesive labels having a multilayered structure, e.g. provided on carrier webs
• CPC Class Codes: B31D 1/026 Cutting or perforating B31D1/022 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B31D 1/027 involving, marking, printing or coding
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2255/26 Polymeric coating
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/732 Dimensional properties
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/748 Releasability
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2317/12 Paper, e.g. cardboard
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2323/10 Polypropylene
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2367/00 Polyesters, e.g. PET, i.e. polyethylene terephthalate
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2383/00 Polysiloxanes
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2519/00 Labels, badges
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/10 of paper or cardboard
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/32 comprising polyolefins comprising vinyl (co)polymers or acrylic (co)polymers B32B27/30
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/36 comprising polyesters
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 3/266 characterised by an apertured layer, the apertures going through the whole thickness of the layer, e.g. expanded metal, perforated layer, slit layer regular cells B32B3/12
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 37/12 : characterised by using adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 37/1292 : selectively, e.g. in stripes, in patterns B32B37/0076 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 38/0004 : Cutting, tearing or severing, e.g. bursting; Cutter details cutting in general B26D; laminating combined with punching or perforating B32B38/04; removing all or part of the layers B32B38/10; cutting in combination with laying up and registration B32B38/185 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 38/1825 : characterised by the control or constructional features of devices for tensioning, stretching or registration
• 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: G06K 19/06028 : using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06046 : Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0208 : Indicia
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0214 : Stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0225 : Carrier web
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/023 : Adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0257 : Multilayer
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/02 : Forms or constructions layered products B32B
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0297 : including a machine-readable marking, e.g. a bar code digitally marked record carriers in general G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 : by an adhesive layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/10 : Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1052 : with cutting, punching, tearing or severing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1057 : Subsequent to assembly of laminae

Abstract

A label for use on store shelves in a retail environment. The label include adhesive strips applied to a bottom surface of each label and a top laminate layer with a release coating applied to the top surface of each label.

Claims

1. A label comprising:

a substrate comprising paper, the substrate having display information on a top surface of the substrate;

a first adhesive layer having a top surface contacting a bottom surface of the substrate;

a first lamination material layer having a top surface contacting a bottom surface of the first adhesive layer, the first lamination material layer being adhesively affixed to the bottom surface of the substrate via the first adhesive layer;

a second adhesive layer having a bottom surface contacting the top surface of the substrate;

a second lamination material layer having a bottom surface contacting the top surface of the second adhesive layer, the second lamination material layer being adhesively affixed to the top surface of the substrate via the second adhesive layer, the second lamination material layer having a gauge thickness of 92 or 102; and

a release coating comprising silicone, the release coating having a bottom surface contacting a top surface of the second lamination material and covering the entire top surface of the second lamination material;

an adhesive strip including a third adhesive layer, a polyester film, and a fourth adhesive layer, a top surface of the third adhesive layer contacting a bottom surface of the first lamination material layer, a top surface of the polyester film contacting a bottom surface of the third adhesive layer, a top surface of the fourth adhesive layer contacting a bottom surface of the polyester film, the adhesive strip having a width ranging from 5/8 inch to 1 inch from a first end of the adhesive strip to a second end of the adhesive strip, the width of the adhesive strip being less than a width of the first lamination material layer, the first end of the adhesive strip being about 1/8 inch from a plane defined by an edge of the first lamination material layer and the second end of the adhesive strip being farther from the plane than the first end of the adhesive strip; and

a relief perforation configured to maintain the substrate in a substantially planar shape, the adhesive strip covering the relief perforation to reinforce the relief perforation.

2. A label comprising:

a substrate comprising paper, the substrate having display information on a top surface of the substrate;

a first adhesive layer having a top surface contacting a bottom surface of the substrate;

a first lamination material layer having a top surface contacting a bottom surface of the first adhesive layer, the first lamination material layer being adhesively affixed to the bottom surface of the substrate via the first adhesive layer;

a second adhesive layer having a bottom surface contacting the top surface of the substrate;

a second lamination material layer having a bottom surface contacting the top surface of the second adhesive layer, the second lamination material layer being adhesively affixed to the top surface of the substrate via the second adhesive layer, the second lamination material layer having a gauge thickness of 92 or 102;

a release coating comprising silicone, the release coating having a bottom surface contacting a top surface of the second lamination material and covering the entire top surface of the second lamination material; and

an adhesive strip including a third adhesive layer, a polyester film, and a fourth adhesive layer, a top surface of the third adhesive layer contacting a bottom surface of the first lamination material layer, a top surface of the polyester film contacting a bottom surface of the third adhesive layer, a top surface of the fourth adhesive layer contacting a bottom surface of the polyester film, the adhesive strip having a width ranging from 5/8 inch to 1 inch from a first end of the adhesive strip to a second end of the adhesive strip, the width of the adhesive strip being less than a width of the first lamination material layer, the first end of the adhesive strip being about 1/8 inch from a plane defined by an edge of the first lamination material layer and the second end of the adhesive strip being farther from the plane than the first end of the adhesive strip.