Plant label and tag and methods of making and using
AssigneeGreat Lakes Label, LLC
InventorJohn Anthony Cook
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Abstract
A plant label has a substrate and a permanent adhesive layer on a release liner. An identifier portion of the substrate and a tag portion of the substrate are defined by a detach line that enables the tag portion to be detached from the identifier portion. The tag portion has an adhesive deadener on the permanent adhesive layer, a strip of the permanent adhesive layer of the detachable portion free of adhesive deadener, and a tab having only adhesive deadener on the permanent adhesive layer that enables the tag portion to be detached from the identifier portion and from a container to which the label is affixed.
Claims15
A method of making a label for a growing plant, the method comprising:
- providing a sheet having a substrate layer, a permanent adhesive layer on the substrate layer, and a release liner on the permanent adhesive layer;
- delaminating the release liner from the permanent adhesive layer;
- applying an adhesive deadener to a predetermined portion of the permanent adhesive layer;
- relaminating the release liner to the permanent adhesive layer;
- cutting only the substrate layer to define a label;
- and
- scoring the label within the cutting to define an identifier portion and a tag portion;
- wherein the predetermined portion is entirely within the tag portion, and the tag portion includes a tab with adhesive deadener between the permanent adhesive layer and the release liner such that the identifier portion is fixable to a plant container and the tag portion is detachable from the identifier portion at the scoring and from the plant container by way of the tab.
A growing plant label comprising:
- a substrate having a first surface and an opposed second surface;
- a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on the second surface;
- a fixable portion of the substrate and a detachable portion of the substrate defined by a score line that enables the detachable portion to be detached from the fixable portion;
- and
- an adhesive deadener on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer of the detachable portion wherein a strip of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer of the detachable portion is free of adhesive deadener;
- wherein the detachable portion includes a tab having only adhesive deadener on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.