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US 10,525,678 B2Granted
Shrink film for label
AssigneeAvery Dennison Corporation
InventorVadim Zaikov
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Abstract
A shrink film comprising a core layer comprising a glycol modified polyester, the core having an upper and lower surface; an upper skin layer disposed on the upper surface of the core layer and a lower skin layer disposed on the lower surface of the core layer, the skin layers each individually comprising (a) a resin material; and (b) an antiblocking agent.
Claims24
A multilayered shrink film comprising:
- a core layer consisting of a glycol modified polyester, the core layer having an upper and lower surface;
- an upper skin layer disposed on the upper surface of the core layer and a lower skin layer disposed on the lower surface of the core layer, the skin layers each individually comprising:
- (a) about 97.5 to about 99% by weight of a resin material;
- and
- (b) about 1 to about 2.5% by weight of an antiblocking agent;
- wherein the multilayered shrink film is not biaxially oriented;
- wherein a thickness ratio of the core layer to the skin layers combined is about 90:10;
- and
- wherein the resin material consists of a single polymer selected from the group consisting of a polyester, a glycol modified polyester, and a polyolefin;
- wherein the glycol modified polyesters of the core layer and of the resin material in the skin layers are derived from:
- (i) a dicarboxylic acid and a difunctional alcohol other than ethylene glycol;
- or (ii) a difunctional carboxylic acid and at least two difunctional alcohols, one of which is ethylene glycol;
- and wherein the shrink film has a shrink initiation temperature of about 45 to about 65° C. in a first direction.
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