Animal tag

A method of producing an animal tag comprising forming, in a plastic tag transparent to a barcode scanner, a pocket with at least one opening through which a label can be passed, providing on said label a barcode, inserting said label into said pocket with the barcode visible to said scanner through said plastic, and sealing said at least one opening.

A method of producing an animal tag comprising molding a rigid plate and encapsulating a barcode label in a pocket of said plate, said plate being formed of a plastic transparent to a barcode scanner, and being on the order of 50 to 80 mils thick, the walls overlying the label being on the order of 20 to 40 mils thick.

An animal tag comprising a keeper portion having a stud receiver, and a plastic case through which a bar code can be read with a commercial scanner, said case having a pocket in which a self-supporting plastic bar code label is sealed, said label bearing a bar code viewable by said scanner through a wall of said case, said plastic case containing sufficient of an ultraviolet light inhibitor to protect said label, and said label being provided with an ultraviolet light inhibitor, said pocket being elongatedly rectangular, with said keeper portion being at a closed short end of said pocket and, initially, with an open end of said pocket at the short end of the pocket opposite the keeper portion, which is heat sealed after the bar code is in place.

22 The animal tag of claim 1 wherein the label includes an RFID chip.

An animal tag comprising a keeper portion and a rigid plastic case, said case having a pocket in which a self-supporting label is sealed, said label bearing an RFID chip readable from outside said case.