On-the-fly marking systems for consumer packaged goods
AssigneeFastechnology Group, LLC
InventorsJoseph A. Hattrup, Ralph P. French, Nathaniel Evert Lawson, Gregory J. Allen
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Abstract
An on-the-fly package label printing system for a variety of packages containing a variety of products printed on each package of a web of successive packages a permanent record indicative of the product weight and product ingredients in the package. The system comprises a package handling device, a clock, and a printer system.
Claims20
An on-the-fly package printing system for a variety of packages containing a variety of products, said system for printing on each package of a web of successive packages a permanent record indicative of the product weight and product ingredients in the package, said system comprising:
- a package handling device receiving the web and guiding the web through the package handling device;
- a clock generating a unique series of alpha-numeric times, each representing a chronological time of clay;
- a printer system associated with the package handling device and the clock, said printer system configured to generate a plurality of different, unique, individual scannable QR codes embedded with the alpha-numeric time at the time of printing of the QR code and configured to print on each package of the web one of the plurality of different, unique, individual scannable QR codes as the packages are guided through the package handling device;
- wherein each QR code is printed on-the-fly as the web moves through the package handling device;
- wherein each QR code is an alpha-numeric form of an alpha-numeric time of printing of the QR code on the package as indicated by the clock such that each time of printing each QR code on each package is unique and such that each QR code is unique so no two packages have the same time of printing and no two packages have the same QR code;
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- at least one of:
- a weighing system configured to weigh the product in each package after the package is filled;
- and
- an ingredients system configured to track the ingredients of the product in each package after the package is filled;
- wherein each QR code indicates the weight of the product in the package as indicated by the weighing system and/or indicates the ingredients of the product in each package as indicated by the ingredients device.
An apparatus for use with a package and for use by an individual having the package for re-ordering a product of the package, said device comprising:
- a. a lower layer having a front side and a back side, the back side adapted to be adhered to the package;
- b. a unique code on the front side of the lower layer;
- c. an upper layer having a front, side and a back side, the back side adapted to be removably adhered to the front side of the lower layer over the unique code;
- d. an information code on the front side of the tipper layer;
- e. wherein the unique code when scanned by a scanning device is adapted to be linked to a user interface for re-ordering the product;
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- f. wherein the information code when scanned by a scanning device is adapted to be linked to information regarding the product.
An apparatus for use with a package comprising:
- a lower layer having a front side and a back side, the back side adapted to be adhered to the package;
- a unique code on the front side of the lower layer;
- an upper layer having a front side and a back side, the back side adapted to be removably adhered to the front side of the lower layer over the unique code;
- an information code on the front side of the upper layer;
- wherein the unique code when scanned by a scanning device is adapted to be linked to a user interface for re-ordering the product;
- wherein the information code when scanned by a scanning device is adapted to be linked to information regarding the product;
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- a package handling device for applying the lower layer to the package.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.