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US 12,098,015 B2Granted
Device for controlling headspace humidity and methods for making the same
AssigneeBoveda, Inc.
InventorsRobert L. Esse, Brian Rice
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Abstract
Humidity controlled product methods and packages produced by providing a package material having an interior surface and providing a plurality of humidity control devices in a continuous strip, separating a humidity control device from the strip, adhering the humidity control device to the interior surface of the product package material, and forming the package material into a product package or a product package component with the separated humidity control device adhered to an interior space within the package.
Claims7
A method of producing a humidity controlled product package, the method comprising:
- providing a pre-package material having an interior surface;
- providing a stack comprising:
- a plurality of individual humidity control devices, each humidity control device comprising:
- a base layer;
- a permeable layer comprising a material permeable to water vapor, the permeable layer including one or more registration markers, the permeable layer also including a concave area inside the one or more registration markers, the permeable layer coupled to the base layer;
- and
- a humidity control agent arranged between the base layer and the concave area between the one or more registration markers of the permeable layer;
- a delivery strip, and
- an adhesive holding the humidity control devices on the delivery strip;
- separating an individual humidity control device from the delivery strip while leaving the delivery strip intact;
- adhering the separated individual humidity control device to the interior surface of the pre-package material;
- and
- after adhering the separated individual humidity control device to the interior surface of the product package material, forming the pre-package material into a product package having product compartment such that the humidity control device is adhered to an interior surface of the product package within the product compartment.
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