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US 11,881,125 B2Granted
Labels with liner separation feature
AssigneeIconex LLC
InventorsShane Lamb, Timothy Darren Livingston
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Abstract
A liner in a label-liner combination is provided with a die cut portion made in the liner. The die cut portion is aligned with at least one edge in a label and a front side of the liner is attached to a backside of the label. The die cut portion of the liner is adapted to be removed from the liner when the label is removed from the label-liner combination. Dimensions, and orientation, and a location of the die cut portion in the liner are adapted to allow the label to be removed from the label-liner combination and applied to a surface by digits of a hand without touching an adhesive coating on the backside of the label and adapted to maintain proper printer waste liner spool operations when the liner is wound after application of the label.
Claims14
A label-liner combination, comprising:
- a liner;
- a label;
- and
- a non-adhesive handling component;
- wherein a backside of the label is adhered to a front side of the liner to form the label-liner combination with a first portion of the label aligned over a die cut portion in the liner when the label remains adhered to the front side of the liner;
- wherein a bottom side of the die cut portion in the liner partially extends below a bottom side of the label and also extends beyond a rightmost or a leftmost side of the label, but the die cut portion does not extend to a bottom of the liner and does not extend to a rightmost or a leftmost side of the liner;
- wherein the non-adhesive handling component is defined by the die cut portion of the liner that remains affixed to the backside of the label as a single label-liner combination after the label and the non-adhesive handling component are separated together from a remaining portion of the liner, wherein each non-adhesive handling component is a one square inch die cut in the corresponding liner;
- wherein the remaining portion of the liner comprises a hole that remains in the liner after the single label-liner combination is separated from the remaining portion of the liner and wherein the remaining portion of the liner retains four unbroken sides with just the hole representing the missing non-adhesive handling component after the single label-liner combination is separated from the remaining portion of the liner;
- wherein a backside of the non-adhesive handling component is free of any adhesive, and wherein the portion of the liner corresponding to the non-adhesive handling component is removable from the backside of the label to apply the label to a surface of an object.
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A roll of label-liner combinations, comprising:
- a liner web of material;
- a print media;
- labels defined within the print media;
- and
- a non-adhesive handling component for each label;
- wherein a backside of the print media is affixed to a frontside of the liner web and aligned to ensure that each label partially overlaps with a die cut portion made in the liner web;
- wherein each label and a segment of the liner web comprising the corresponding die cut portion defines a single label-liner combination;
- wherein each non-adhesive handling component is defined by the corresponding die cut portion of the liner web that remains affixed to the corresponding label when the corresponding label is separated from a corresponding remaining portion of the liner web;
- wherein each remaining portion of the liner web comprises a hole that remains in the corresponding remaining portion of the liner web when the corresponding non-adhesive handling component and the corresponding label are removed together as a corresponding single label-liner combination from the liner web and wherein each remaining portion of the liner web retains four unbroken sides with just the corresponding hole for the corresponding missing non-adhesive handling component after the corresponding single label-liner combination is separated from the corresponding remaining portion of the liner web;
- wherein a bottom of each non-adhesive handling component extends beyond a bottom of the corresponding label within the corresponding portion of the liner web and each non-adhesive handling component also extends beyond a rightmost or a leftmost side of the label, but the non-adhesive handling component does not extend to a bottom of the corresponding liner web and does not extend to a rightmost or a leftmost side of the corresponding liner web, and wherein the corresponding remaining portion of the liner web includes the four unbroken sides after the corresponding portion in the liner web is removed for the corresponding non-adhesive handling component;
- wherein a backside of each non-adhesive handling component is free of any adhesive, and wherein each portion of the liner web corresponding to a corresponding non-adhesive handling component is removable from a corresponding backside of the corresponding label to apply the corresponding label to a surface of an object.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.