Liner reinforced hang tab
AssigneeVoxcom, Inc.
InventorDavid M. Good
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Abstract
Hanging regions (22) of hang tags (25) are reinforced by a permanently bonded portion of a liner strip (11), an uncut portion of which releasably carries a row of die cut hang tabs. Liner strip (11) has a release coating on edge regions (16) where stick-on regions (23) of die cut hang tabs are releasably carried. The reinforced head regions (22) of the hang tabs are die cut through both the tab strip (12) and liner strip (11), and the stick-on regions of the tab strips are die cut only through the tab strip so that uncut liner edge regions (16) releasably carry a row of hang tabs.
Claims23
A liner reinforced hang tab having a hanging region and a stick-on region and comprising:
- a. a liner strip;
- b. a clear resin tab strip;
- c. said tab strip being releasably adhered to said liner strip in said stick-on region of said hang tab;
- d. said tab strip being permanently adhered to said liner strip in said hanging region of said hang tab;
- e. said tab strip and said liner strip both being die cut around a periphery of said hang tab in said hanging region where said liner strip reinforces said tab strip;
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- f. only said tab strip being die cut around a periphery of said hang tab in said stick-on region, where said liner strip releasably carries said hang tab.
A supply laminate for forming liner reinforced hang tabs, said supply laminate comprising:
- a. a liner strip and a clear resin tab strip partially adhered together;
- b. a continuous longitudinal stick-on region extending for the length of said liner strip and having a release coating allowing an adhesive coated stick-on surface of said tab strip to release from said liner strip along said stick-on region;
- c. a continuous longitudinal reinforced band extending for the length of said liner strip and spaced from and parallel with said stick-on region, said reinforced band being adhered to said tab strip without any release coating, for permanently bonding said liner strip to said tab strip along said reinforced band;
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- d. a continuous narrow hinge region extending for the length of said liner strip between said stick-on region and said reinforced band, said hinge region being free of adhesive so that said liner strip is not adhered to said tab strip in said hinge region.
A supply strip of hang tabs die cut from a tab strip and carried by a liner strip, said supply strip comprising:
- a. said liner strip being die cut, with said tab strip, around a hanging region of each of said hang tags;
- b. die cut portions of said liner strip being permanently adhered to said tab strip in said hanging regions of said tabs, where said liner strip reinforces said tab strip;
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- c. an uncut portion of said liner strip being releasably adhered to said tab strip in stickon regions of said tabs die cut from said tab strip and carried on said uncut portion of said liner strip.
A method of making liner reinforced hang tabs, said method comprising:
- a. adhering a tab strip to a liner strip permanently in a longitudinal reinforcing region and releasably in a longitudinal stick-on region;
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- b. die cutting hang tabs from said tab strip and said liner strip so that:
- head regions of said tabs, in said reinforcing region, are die cut from both said tab strip and said liner strip permanently bonded to and reinforcing said tab strip;
- and stick-on regions of said tabs are die cut from said tab strip and are releasably carried on an uncut portion of said liner strip.
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