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US 6,616,786 B2Granted
Process for applying an ink-only label to a polymeric surface
AssigneeHeineken Technical Services B.V.
InventorsPatrick Johannes Blom, Erwin Anton Rosens, Thomas Lynn Brandt, Daniel Nathaniel Wilkens
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a returnable plastic crate provided on at least one surface with an ink only label that is removable without destructive treatment of the said surface, said label being adhered to said at least one surface by an activated adhesive layer.
Claims14
Process for applying an ink-only label to a polymeric surface, said process comprising:
- providing the surface,
- presenting a reverse printed ink-only label consisting of at least one ink-only layer and an activatable adhesive layer on a substrate, separable from its substrate, which label is removable from the surface of the substrate after application thereto, without destructive treatment of the said surface, and
- transferring the ink-only label to the polymeric surface, said label being adhered to said at least one surface by the activation of said activatable adhesive layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.