Electronic article surveillance labels
AssigneeAll-Tag Corporation
InventorAlain Favier
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Abstract
There is disclosed an electronic article surveillance label and a cover label for an electronic article surveillance label for small high value hard goods such as, but no limited to, cosmetics, perfumes, medication, health-care items, DIY accessories and the like. The electronic article surveillance label and cover label include a flexible support having a bottom section with a soft glue area and a top section with a strong glue area.
Claims20
An EAS label for attachment to an article by wrapping the EAS label at least partially around the article comprising a flexible support having a first side, a second side, a bottom section and a top section;
- the bottom section having a larger width than the top section and including a soft removable glue area on the first side of the flexible support and said soft removable glue area is adapted to be attached to the article when starting to wrap the EAS label around the article;
- a security element is attached to the bottom section on the first side or the second side of the flexible support;
- and the top section has a smaller width than the bottom section and has a strong glue area on the first side of the flexible support, wherein the flexible support is adapted to be wrapped at least partially around the article starting with the bottom section of the flexible support.
A method for attaching an EAS label to an article wherein the EAS label comprises a flexible support having a first side, a second side, a bottom section and a top section;
- the bottom section having a larger width than the top section and including a soft removable glue area on the first side of the flexible support;
- a security element is attached to the bottom section on the first side or the second side of the flexible support;
- and the top section has a smaller width than the bottom section and has a strong glue area on the first side of the flexible support, comprising the steps of applying the first side of the bottom section of the EAS label having the soft removable glue area to the article and wrapping the EAS label around the article and securing the EAS label to the second side of the wrapped EAS label by the strong glue area of the top section of the EAS label.
An EAS label for attachment to an article comprising a flexible support having a first side, a second side, a bottom section and a top section;
- the bottom section having a soft removable glue area on the first side of the flexible support and adapted to engage the article;
- the top section having a strong glue area on the first side of the flexible support and adapted to engage the article;
- and a security element is attached to the top section on the first side of the flexible support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.