Pharmacy label and record system and method

• US 6,036,231 A
• Filed: 12/31/1998
• Issued: 03/14/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ABP Patent Holdings LLC (Panera Bread Company)
• Original Assignee: Automatic Business Products Company, Inc. (Brady Corporation)
• Inventors: Young, Richard, Foote, Richard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Andrea L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CARTER, MONICA SMITH
• Application Number:
  US09/224,329
• Time in Patent Office: 439 Days
• Field of Search: 283/81, 283/67, 283/70, 283/74, 283/79, 283/101, 283/105, 283/900, 428/42.1, 428/43, 40/310, 40/306, 40/638, 40/299, 281/2, 281/5, 206/570
• US Class Current: 283/67
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0288 Labels or tickets consisting of more than one part, e.g. with address of sender or other reference on separate section to main label; Multi-copy labels
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/90 Medical record
• 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

A printer blank for a computer system printer is disclosed. The blank has a contiguous pressure adhesive backed label section and may also have a larger plain paper section separated from the label section by a perforation line. The label section is comprised of a plurality of adhesive backed labels and a backing sheet, including a main label portion and at least one smaller auxiliary label. A preferred blank comprises a plurality of auxiliary labels. In use, at least one, but preferably not all, of the auxiliary labels on such a preferred blank are simultaneously removed from the backing sheet with the main label portion. Any auxiliary label(s) simultaneously removed with the main label but not printed upon are readily separated from the main label.

Claims

1. A blank for use with a printer for printing labels, said blank comprising:

a label laminate comprising

a backing sheet;

a removable label sheet having a front side that is printed on with the printer and a back side;

a pressure-type adhesive on said back side of said label sheet, said adhesive removably adhering said label sheet to said backing sheet and after said label sheet is removed from said backing sheet being able to adhere said label sheet to another surface;

said removable label sheet comprising a main label and a plurality of auxiliary labels smaller than said main label and means permitting at least one but less than all of said auxiliary labels to be simultaneously removable from said backing sheet with said main label and subsequently readily separable from said main label; and

at least one further label in addition to said main label and said auxiliary labels, said further label being substantially completely separated from all other portions of said label sheet by die cuts substantially surrounding said further label and extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet.

2. A blank according to claim 1 wherein said means comprises a perforated-line tear line extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet and separating said main label and at least a first auxiliary label.

3. A blank according to claim 2 comprising four auxiliary labels.

4. A blank according to claim 3 wherein said means permit more than one of said auxiliary labels to be simultaneously removable with and subsequently readily separable from said main label, and said means are perforated-line tear lines between said main label and a first auxiliary label and between said first auxiliary label and a second auxiliary label, said perforated-line tear lines extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet.

5. A blank for use with a printer for printing labels, said blank comprising:

a label laminate comprising

a backing sheet;

a removable label sheet having a front side that is printed on with the printer and a back side;

a pressure-type adhesive on said back side of said label sheet, said adhesive removably adhering said label sheet to said backing sheet and after said label sheet is removed from said backing sheet being bale to adhere said label sheet to another surface;

said removable label sheet comprising a main label having a surface for receiving printing thereon in a first direction and a plurality of blank auxiliary labels smaller than said main label, and said auxiliary labels being elongated in a second direction lateral to the first direction and each having a surface for receiving printing thereon in the second direction;

means permitting at least one but less than all of said auxiliary labels to be simultaneously removable from said backing sheet with said main label and subsequently readily separable from said main label; and

wherein at least one auxiliary label not simultaneously removable with said main label is substantially completely separated from all other portions of said label sheet by die cuts substantially surrounding said auxiliary label and extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet.

6. A blank according to claim 5 in which said label further comprises at least one further label in addition to said main label and said auxiliary labels, said further label being substantially completely separated from all other portions of said label sheet by die cuts substantially surrounding said further label and extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet.

7. A blank for use with a printer for printing information and labels, said blank comprising:

a sheet having a front side that is printed on with the printer and having a back side, said sheet having a top edge and a bottom edge which together define a generally horizontal direction, and having two side edges which together define a generally vertical direction;

said sheet comprising a first portion and a second portion divided by a first, generally vertically extending tear line that extends from said top edge to said bottom edge;

said first portion comprising plain paper for receiving printed text,

said second portion comprising

a backing sheet;

a removable label sheet having a front side that is printed on with the printer and a back side;

a pressure-type adhesive on said back side of said label sheet, said adhesive removably adhering said label sheet to said backing sheet and after said label sheet is removed from said backing sheet being able to adhere said label sheet to another surface;

said removable label sheet comprising a main label and a plurality of auxiliary labels smaller than said main label and means permitting at least one but less than all of said auxiliary labels to be simultaneously removable from said backing sheet with said main label and subsequently readily separable from said main label; and

wherein at least one auxiliary label not simultaneously removable with said main label is substantially completely separated from all other portions of said label sheet by die cuts substantially surrounding said auxiliary label and extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet.

8. A blank according to claim 7, wherein said means comprises a perforated-line tear line extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet and separating said main label and at least a first auxiliary label.

9. A blank according to claim 8 comprising four auxiliary labels.

10. A blank according to claim 9 wherein said means permit more than one of said auxiliary labels to be simultaneously removable with and subsequently readily separable from said main label, and said means are perforated-line tear lines between said main label and a first auxiliary label and between said first auxiliary label and a second auxiliary label, said perforated-line tear lines extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet.

11. A blank according to claim 7, wherein at least one auxiliary label not simultaneously removable with said main label is substantially completely separated from all other portions of said label sheet by die cuts substantially surrounding said auxiliary label and extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet.

12. A form according to claim 10 in which said label laminate further comprises at least one further label in addition to said main drug container label and said drug warning labels, said further label being substantially completely separated from all other portions of said label sheet by die cuts substantially surrounding said further label and extending through said label sheet and said adhesive to said backing sheet.

13. A blank for use with a printer for printing labels, said blank comprising:

a label laminate comprising

a backing sheet;

a removable label sheet having a front side that can be printed on with the printer and back side; and

a pressure-type adhesive on said back side of said label sheet, said adhesive removably adhering said label sheet to said backing sheet and after said label sheet is removed from said backing sheet being able to adhere said label sheet to another surface;

said removable label sheet comprising a main label and four auxiliary labels smaller than said main label and means permitting two of said four auxiliary labels to be simultaneously removable from said backing sheet with said main label and subsequently readily separable from said main label and from each other.

14. A blank according to claim 13, wherein said main label and said two simultaneously removable auxiliary labels are each separated from each other by perforated lines.

15. A blank for use with a printer for the simultaneous printing both a main container label and drug-specific warning labels for use on containers for drugs dispensed by a pharmacist, said blank comprising:

a label laminate comprising

a backing sheet;

a removable label sheet having a front side that is printed on with the printer and back side;

a pressure-type adhesive on said back side of said label sheet, said adhesive removably adhering said label sheet to said backing sheet and after said label sheet is removed from said backing sheet being able to adhere said label sheet to another surface;

said removable label sheet comprising a main label for said container for accepting prescription-specific information relating to the contained drug, multiple auxiliary labels smaller than said main label for accepting drug-warning information specifically relating to the contained drug, and means permitting at least two of said auxiliary labels to be simultaneously removable from said backing sheet with said main label and subsequently readily separable from said main label and from each other.

16. A blank according to claim 15, wherein said main label and said two subsequently removable auxiliary labels are each separated from each other by perforated lines.