Method for applying a removable printed marking to a container
AssigneeHeineken Technical Services B.V.
InventorJohannes Femminus Steenbergen
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Abstract
For the application of a removable printing to a container, such as a plastic crate, a layer of ink, which forms the printing and is provided on one side with a bonding agent for bonding the layer of ink to the container, is transferred to the container from a carrier film to which the layer of ink has been applied to the side not provided with bonding agent. The bonding agent has such properties that in normal conditions of use of the container the layer of ink adheres firmly to the container and in predetermined conditions which differ from the conditions of use the bonding agent and the layer of ink are easy to remove from the container. This produces a container with a high-quality printing, which printing is easy to replace with another printing.
Claims10
Plastic container provided with a removable printing comprising a layer of ink which forms the printing and which is applied directly to the container by means of an adhesive, the adhesive having such properties that in normal conditions of use of the container the printing adheres firmly to the container and in predetermined conditions which differ from the normal conditions of use the layer of ink and the adhesive are easy to remove from the container.
Film to which a layer of ink which forms a printing is applied to one side by means of conventional printing techniques, which layer of ink on the side facing away from the film is provided with an adhesive for bonding the layer of ink to a substrate.
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