Printable sticker form with a manual adhesive transfer/placement system

• US 9,656,503 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2009
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Process Label Systems
• Original Assignee: Process Label Systems
• Inventors: O'Keefe, Robert V., Stoick, Andrew J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Sing P
• Application Number:
  US13/054,508
• Publication Number:
  US 20110253297A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,868 Days
• Field of Search: 156227, 156230, 156247, 156249, 156277
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/00 Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/47 using adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 5/027 Sheets or cards attached to a carrier strip or web shipping forms B42D15/006

Abstract

Forms that can be used to make stickers easily on demand, wherein the stickers are of the type in which a face of the sticker that bears printed information (graphic, textual, bar code, security, and/or other) also bears an adhesive that is used to affix the sticker to a desired substrate. A carrier sheet supports a sticker body and an adhesive source. The sticker body and the adhesive are initially separated on the form. The sticker face and the adhesive are registrably positioned with respect to a fold line. This allows the adhesive to be transferred to the sticker face on demand by an easy, desirably manual process that involves folding the form along the fold line. When the form is unfolded, the sticker can be removed and applied to the desired substrate.

Claims

1. A method of making an adhesive sticker, comprising the steps of:

a) providing an intermediate comprising a carrier sheet comprising a fold line defining first and second panels, wherein a sticker body having a face layer is supported on the first panel and a protected, releasable and transferable adhesive is transferably supported on the second panel between a release liner provided on the adhesive and a release coating supporting the transferable adhesive such that removing the release liner exposes the transferable adhesive, said sticker body and transferable adhesive being registrably positioned with respect to the fold line, and wherein a perforation line separates the first and second panels from at least one other region of the carrier sheet;

b) printing information onto the intermediate and said at least one other region while the transferable adhesive on the second panel is protected by the release liner; and

c) after printing, removing the release liner provided on the transferable adhesive to expose the transferable adhesive, and folding at least the first and second panels together under conditions effective to transfer at least a portion of the transferable adhesive from the second panel onto at least a portion of the face layer of the sticker body such that, after the adhesive is transferred, the transferred adhesive is exposed and useable to affix the face layer of the sticker body onto a substrate.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) comprises printing information onto the face layer of the sticker body.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one other region of the carrier sheet includes a perforation boundary defining a card-shaped member.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediate is foldable to fit into an envelope.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediate is foldable to provide a self-mailing device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the sticker body is adhered to the first panel by a releasable adhesive.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said releasable adhesive is a component of the carrier sheet.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said releasable adhesive is a component of the sticker body.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the sticker body further comprises a support film, a releasable adhesive interposed between the support film and the carrier sheet and adhering the sticker body to the carrier sheet, and wherein the face layer overlies the support film.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising backprinted information interposed between the face layer and the support film.

11. A method of applying an adhesive sticker body onto a substrate, comprising the steps of:

a) providing an intermediate comprising a carrier sheet comprising a fold line defining first and second panels, wherein a sticker body having a face layer is supported on the first panel and a protected, releasable and transferable adhesive is transferably supported on the second panel between a release liner provided on the transferable adhesive and a release coating supporting the transferable adhesive such that removing the release liner exposes the transferable adhesive, said sticker body and transferable adhesive being registrably positioned with respect to the fold line, and wherein a perforation line separates the first and second panels from at least one other region of the carrier sheet;

b) printing information on the intermediate and the at least one other region while the transferable adhesive on the second panel is still protected, said printing including printing information onto the face layer of the sticker body;

c) after step (b), removing the release liner provided on the transferable adhesive to expose the transferable adhesive and folding the first and second panels together under conditions effective to release and transfer at least a portion of the transferable adhesive from the second panel onto at least a portion of the face of the sticker body such that, after the adhesive is transferred, the transferred adhesive is exposed and useable to affix the face layer of the sticker body onto a substrate; and

d) after transferring the adhesive, removing the sticker body from the carrier sheet

e) applying the removed sticker body to a substrate in a manner such that the transferred adhesive helps hold the sticker body on the substrate.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein at least one other region of the carrier sheet includes a perforation boundary defining a card-shaped member.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the intermediate is foldable to fit into an envelope.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the intermediate is foldable to provide a self-mailing device.

15. A system useful for making an adhesive sticker body, comprising a carrier sheet comprising a fold line defining first and second panels, wherein a sticker body having a face layer is supported on the first panel and an adhesive source comprising a protected, transferable adhesive is releasably and transferably supported on the second panel between a release liner provided on the transferable adhesive and a release coating supporting the transferable adhesive such that removing the release liner exposes the transferable adhesive, said sticker body and transferable adhesive being registrably positioned with respect to the fold line in a manner such that the transferable adhesive can be transferred to at least a portion of the face of the sticker body by folding at least the first and second panels together such that, after the transferable adhesive is transferred, the transferred adhesive is useable to affix the face layer of the sticker body onto a substrate.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the sticker body is adhered to the first panel by a releasable adhesive.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said releasable adhesive is a component of the carrier sheet.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein said releasable adhesive is a component of the sticker body.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the sticker body further comprises a support film, a releasable adhesive interposed between the support film and the carrier sheet and adhering the sticker body to the carrier sheet, and wherein the face layer overlies the support film.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising backprinted information interposed between the face layer and the support film.

21. A system useful for making an adhesive sticker body, comprising a carrier sheet comprising a fold line defining first and second panels, wherein a perforation line separates the first and second panels from at least one other region of the carrier sheet, wherein the at least one other region comprises printed information, wherein a sticker body comprises fixed and variable information and has a face that is supported on the first panel and a protected, releasable, and transferable adhesive is releasably and transferably supported on the second panel between a release liner provided on the transferable adhesive and a release coating supporting the transferable adhesive such that removing the release liner exposes the transferable adhesive, said sticker body and transferable adhesive being registrably positioned with respect to the fold line in a manner such that the transferable adhesive can be transferred to the face of the sticker body by folding at least the first and second panels together such that, after the transferable adhesive is released and transferred, the released and transferred adhesive is useable to affix the face layer of the sticker body onto a substrate.