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US 12,437,675 B2Granted
Adhesive label and roll
AssigneeIconex LLC
InventorsPamela Sue Hill, Stephen Cameron Van Winkle, Austin Daniel Anderson, Tom Edward Zagaya, Robert L. Shinkle, II
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Abstract
An adhesive label is provided. The adhesive label includes an adhesive patch that covers at least 50% but less than 85% of a backside surface of the adhesive label and that is at least partially horizontally and vertically centered on the backside surface.
Claims20
An adhesive label, comprising:
- a substrate comprising an adhesive area distributed over a backside surface area on a backside of the substrate to avoid flagging, flaring, lipping, or curling along a perimeter of the adhesive label when the adhesive label is applied to packaging or an item;
- wherein the backside of the substrate includes an adhesive free area distributed over the backside surface area, wherein portions of the adhesive free area are staggered between portions of the adhesive area;
- wherein a front side of the substrate includes a thermally sensitive coating with a release coating disposed over the thermally sensitive coating.
An adhesive label roll, comprising:
- providing a plurality of labels within the adhesive label roll;
- wherein each label comprising:
- an adhesive area distributed over a backside surface on a backside of a corresponding label to avoid flagging, flaring, lipping, or curling along a perimeter of the corresponding label when the label is applied to packaging or an item;
- an adhesive free area distributed over the backside surface of the corresponding label, wherein portions of the adhesive free area are staggered between portions of the adhesive area;
- wherein a front side of the corresponding label includes a thermally sensitive coating with a release coating disposed over the thermally sensitive coating.
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A method of manufacturing an adhesive label roll, comprising:
- for each adhesive label within the adhesive label roll:
- disposing and distributing adhesive areas over a backside surface on a backside of a corresponding adhesive label to avoid flagging, flaring, lipping, or curling along a perimeter of the corresponding adhesive label when the corresponding adhesive label is applied to packaging or an item;
- disposing and distributing adhesive free areas over the backside surface on the backside of the corresponding adhesive label wherein each adhesive free area is staggered between each adhesive area;
- disposing a thermally sensitive coating on a front side of the corresponding adhesive label;
- and
- disposing a release coating atop the thermally sensitive coating on the front side of the corresponding adhesive label.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.