Shipment labels and related methods
AssigneeMoore Wallace North America, Inc.
InventorJames Harrison Pagones
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Abstract
Shipment labels and related methods are described. An example method includes printing a return address on a first label layer of the label and printing a delivery address on a second label layer of the label adjacent the first label layer. The example method also includes coupling the first label layer and the second label layer on at least a portion of a container. The second label layer releasably covers at least a portion of the first label layer so that the return address is not fully visible when the second label layer is releasably coupled to the container.
Claims28
A method of forming a multi-layered shipment label, the method including:
- printing a return address on a first label layer formed in a first substrate;
- printing a delivery address on a second label layer formed in the first substrate adjacent the first label layer;
- coupling the first label layer on at least a portion of a container;
- and
- coupling the second label layer on at least a portion of the container, wherein the second label layer releasably covers at least a portion of the first label layer so that the return address is not fully visible when the second label layer is releasably coupled to the container.
A container with a multi-layered shipment label, comprising:
- a container surface;
- a lower return address label layer formed from a first substrate and coupled to at least a portion of the container surface;
- a return address printed on the lower return address label layer;
- and
- a removable upper delivery address label layer formed from the first substrate and coupled to the lower label, wherein the upper delivery address label layer releasably covers at least a portion of the lower return address label layer so that the return address is not fully visible when the upper delivery address label layer is releasably coupled to the container surface.
A web of shipment label intermediates, the web comprising:
- a first substrate layer having a first side lined with a first adhesive layer;
- a deadening material coating at least a portion of the first adhesive layer to deaden the portion of the first adhesive layer;
- a second substrate layer having a first side lined with a second adhesive layer, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate layer are coupled so that the first side of the first substrate layer is adjacent a second side of the second substrate layer via the first adhesive layer;
- a third substrate layer, wherein the second substrate layer and the third substrate layer are coupled so that the first side of the second substrate layer is adjacent the third substrate layer via the second adhesive layer;
- a first line of weakness through the first, second and third substrate layers to form a plurality of intermediate constructions having a bottom side at the third substrate layer and a top side at the first substrate layer;
- a second line of weakness formed from the bottom side through the second and third substrate layers;
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- a third line of weakness formed from the top side through the first and second substrate layers to form a the first label layer and the second label layer adjacent to each other along a longitudinal axis of the intermediate construction and to form a waste matrix.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.