CA1120715A - Label strip with self-adhesive labels - Google Patents

Label strip with self-adhesive labels

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Publication number
CA1120715A
CA1120715A CA000333301A CA333301A CA1120715A CA 1120715 A CA1120715 A CA 1120715A CA 000333301 A CA000333301 A CA 000333301A CA 333301 A CA333301 A CA 333301A CA 1120715 A CA1120715 A CA 1120715A
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strip
self
label
adhesive
backing
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Gerhard Wippern
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Esselte Pendaflex Corp
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Esselte Pendaflex Corp
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Priority claimed from DE2834592A external-priority patent/DE2834592C2/en
Priority claimed from DE19792912348 external-priority patent/DE2912348C2/en
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/08Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
    • G09F3/10Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by an adhesive layer
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65CLABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C11/00Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles
    • B65C11/02Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles having printing equipment
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02Forms or constructions
    • G09F3/0286Forms or constructions provided with adaptations for labelling machines

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Labeling Devices (AREA)
  • Adhesive Tapes (AREA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT:
In the case of a label strip intended for use in label printing and dispensing apparatuses easily detachable self-adhesive labels attached end-to-end adhere to a carrier strip. The labels are progressively fed by gradually pulling them of of the carrier strip and are released from the corner strip individually at a deflection device as the carrier strip is drawn around the said deflection device. In order that even a strip of printed labels can be dispensed with the help of a labeling apparatus having a pull-off device, a continuous backing strip is arranged under the carrier strip, said backing strip being bonded yet easily detachable from the carrier strip or the self-adhesive labels.

Description

The invention refers to a lable strip with self-adhesive labels attached end to end adhering to a carrier strip for use in label printing and dispensing apparatuses, such apparatuses being equipped with a pull-off device intermittently advancing the labels.
Such label strips are known from the United States Patent No. 2~095,437, West German PS 12 05 ~88 and the ~est German AS 14 86 149. These label strips are used in price-marking apparatuses wherein the labels are printed and then brought into a dispensing position, in which position they are at least substantial-ly released from the ~rrier strip and can be pressed by a pressuremember, for example an elastic roller, against an article to be labelled.
With the help of label printing and dispensing apparatuses it is also possible to dispense a chain of printed labels when label strips are used, wherein the labels are separated merely by a simple separation cut or even by a perforation. If such label strips are, for example, inserted into a manually operated marking apparatus according to the Wes~ German PS 12 24 661 and the manually operated labelling apparatus is used only as a label printer, then a chain of contiguous printed self-adhesive labels released from the carrier strip will be dispensed from the apparatus. The self-adhesive labels adhere to one another by means of a glue bridge or a per-foration an~ can be easily separated from one another. The printed labels can then be applied by hand to an article to be labelled.
In this way it is possible to apply labels effortlessly to surfaces which are inaccessible or only accessible with difficulty to the pressure member of the labelling apparatus. Using this method, however, there is the disadvantage that the self-adhesive layer of the printed labels will no longer be protected by the carrier strip. For this reason only relatively few labels can be printed in succession and adhered by hand to the surfaces to be labelled, because otherwise there is a risk that the printed self~
adhesive labels will stick together or that the self-adhes~ve layer of the labels will come into contact with surfaces to which they are not intended to adhere. ~lso it is difficult to store such self-adhesive labels once they are freed from the carrier strip.
The task of the invention is to create a label strip of the initially named type, whereby the disadvanta~es portrayed do not occur and the printed labels can either be pressed by the pressure member of the labelling apparatus onto an article to be labelled or a series of printed labels can be dispensed, the self-adhesive layer thereon being at least mostly protected.
This problem is solved according to the invention by arranging a continuous backing strip which is bonded, yet easily removable, by a relatively slight adhesive force to the carrier strip or the self-adhesive labels. If such a label strip is in-serted in a price-marking apparatus then the label feed can be effected by either gradually pulling off only the backing strip using the pull-off device of the labelling apparatus or by progressively pulling off the backing strip together with the carrier strip by means of the pull off device. In the first case the carrier strip and the self-adhesive labels are freed from the backing strip at the deflection guide device of the price-marking apparatus. By this action a band is obtained which is made up of a carrier strip and the thereto adhered printed labels.
- Such a band of printed labels can be used for various purposes. For example it is possible to mark articles not easily accessible using the price-marking apparatus, such as, for example, textiles on a shelf or in a cupboard, stacks of washing, towels, and bedlinen, or other articles of a kind such that a label brought into the dispensing position of the price-marking apparatus can only be pressed on with difficulty using the pressure roller; for example, in the case of extremely small articles such as jewellery, small toys, glass and china S
animal figures, or for adhering prices on tie-on labels, it is necessary to use several people~ each provided with a band of printed labels, who remove the self-adhesive labels from the band by hand and then press them onto the article for labelling.
Another possible use for such label strips is to supply sales assistants with strips of self-adhesive labels upon which is printed a symbol identifying the sales assistant. ~Iaving sold an article the sales assistant can apply the self-adhesive label identifying himself or herself alongside the price label, so that, for example, at the cash desk the sale of the article and also the identity of the sales assistant is registered, recording the sales success of the individual sales assistants.
If-the label strip according to the invention is inserted into a price-marking apparatus such that the pull-off device pulls off the backing strip as well as the carrier strip, then with the help of the labelling apparatus the labels can be printed and the printed label, once brought into the dispensing position, can be pressed by means of the pressure member against an article to be labelled. In order to reset the price-marking apparatus the carrier strip need only be guided around the deflection edge and be placed together with the backing strip into t~e pull-off device, said pull-off device consisting, for example, of a pair of rollers.
An adhesive agent is arranged between the carrier strip and the backing strip in order to achieve a certain adherence of the carrier strip to the backing strip. It can be advantageous to use a wax type adhesive or an adhesive which is non self-adhesive or only very slightly self-adhesive.
The carrier strip can also be bonded with the backing strip by means of embossing.
To achieve a bond between the backing strip and the re-maining label strip it can also be advantageous to make the carrier strip somewhat narrower than the backing strip and the self-~z~ s adhesiv~ labels. In the case of such a label s-trip the edges of the self-adhesive labels adhere to the backing strip. A label strip of this type has the advantage that in the case of a strip of printed labels said labels can be very easily removed.
Depending on the type and design of the pull-off device of the labelling apparatus, care must be taken that the backing strip passes through the feed device of the labelling apparatus free of adhesion. One must prevent adhesive particles frqm settling on the feed device of the labelling apparatus which would cause malfunctions. In the case of the known labelling apparatuses the devices for pulling off the carrier strip or backing strip consist of a pair of rollers, or a forward and backward-moving gripper, or a pinch roller provided with pro-jections which engage into recesses in the carrier strip or the backing strip.
There are pull-off devices for labelling apparatuses which only come into contact with the carrier strip or backing strip to be pulled off over a certain section of the width of the strip. For these apparatuses a label strip is-particularly advantageous whereby the carrier strip has on both its sides an adhesive repellent, in particular a siliconized layer, and the backing strip is provided with a self-adhesive layer at places on the side adjacent to the carrier strip. In the case of this label strip the self-adhesive agent does indeed adhere to the backing strip but nevertheless the self-adhesive agent is successully applied to the backing strip in such a way that it does not come into contact with the elements of the ~eed device of the label-ling apparatus. The self-adhesive layer can be arranged as a very narrow strip in the central area of the backing strip or as two narrow strips in the proximity of the margins of the backing strip, depending on how the transport device of the labelling apparatus is shaped. As the backing strip is only intended to adhere to the carrier strip with a slight adhesive strength, the s self-adhesive layer can be applied very sparingly, i.e. very thinly and on relatively small surface areas of the backin~ strip.
This labelling strip has the advantage that the carrier strip is completely free of adhesive on its underside when it leaves the label printing and dispensing apparatus together with the pre-printed labels.
It is, however, also possible to arrange between the backing strip and the carrier strip a continuous bandlike self-adhesive layer and to provide the carrier strip on both sides an~ the backing strip on at least the side adjacent to the carrier strip with an adhesive repellent, in particular a siliconized layer. In the case of this label strip the self-adhesive layer would have to form a continuous band in order that the label strip be able to be fed into the price-marking appara-tus at the deflection device together with the carrier strip and then to be able to be separated from the carrier strip.
There now follows a more detailed explanation of four embodiment examples with reference to the drawings.
Figures 1, 3, 5 and 7 show top views of four embodiment -~orms of the label strip according to the invention;
i Figures 2, 4, 6 and 8 show sectional views of the label - strips portrayed in Figs. 1, 3, 5 and 7, wherein the thickness of the strips is greatly increased for purposes of illustration.
The label strips consist of a carrier strip 1, self-adhesive labels 2 adhering to the carrier strip 1 and a backing strip 3 arranged under the carrier strip 1. - ~`
In Fig. 1 a label strip is shown with smooth lateral marglns whereby the width of the rectangular self-adhesive labels
2 corresponds to the width of the backing strip 3, and the directly contiguous labels 2 are separated from one another by smooth separation cuts.
As Fig. 2 shows, the self-adhesive labels 2 aahere by way of their self-adhesive layer 4 to both the carrier strip 1 and to the margins of the backing strip 3. If the sel~-adhesive labels 2 are only printed with a price-marking apparatus then the carrier strip 1 is released from the backing strip 3 at the de-flection guide device of the labelling apparatus with the thereto adhered labels 2. The margins of the self-adhesive labels pro-trude laterally beyond the carrier strip and can now be very easily removed from the carrier strip 1. Nevertheless, the carrier strip 1 protects the greater part of the self-adhesive layer 4 of the labels 2.
Fig. 3 shows a label strip with undulating lateral margins whereby the edges of the carrier strip 1, the backing strip and the band on self-adhesive labels 2 are congruent.
As Fig. 4 shows, an adhesive agent 5 is arranged between the carrier strip 1 and the backing strip 3 which produces a slight adhesive bond between the carrier strip 1 and the backing strip 3.
Wax or stearin can be used as adhesive agents. The adhesive agent can be applied as a thin layer or in a spot grid.
In the case of the embodiment example according to Fig.
5 orbicular labels adhere to the carrier strip 1. The carrier strip l is bonded with an identical sized backing strip 3 by means of an embossing 6, said embossing being arranged in the longltu~
dinal centre o the label strip. In the longitudinal centre of the carrier strip l and the backing strip 3 punched holes are arranged equidistant between the labels 2. Elements o~ the pull-off device of a price-marking apparatus can engage in these punched holes, whereby an exact indexed feed of the labels is effected.
In the case of the label strip according to Figs. 7 and 8 the adhesive agent 5 is applied in strip form to the backing strip 3 and in such a way that it does not come into contact with the elements of the pull-off device of the labelling apparatus which engages with the backing strip 3. In the case of this label strip the carrier strip 1 is provided on both sides with an ad-` hesive repellent layer.

Claims (10)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A label strip for use in label printing and dispensing apparatus, comprising a continuous backing strip, a continuous undivided non-self-adhesive carrier strip overlying the backing strip, and a series of self-adhesive labels having a self-adhesive layer adhered to the carrier strip, the backing strip being secured beneath the carrier strip for easy release from the entire remainder of the label strip.
2. A label strip according to Claim 1, wherein an adhesive agent of low adhesive strength is disposed at least locally between the carrier strip and the backing strip.
3. A label strip according to Claim 2, wherein the adhesive agent is wax-like.
4. A label strip according to Claim 1, wherein the carrier strip is secured by embossing to the backing strip.
5. A label strip according to Claim 1, wherein the carrier strip only partially overlies the backing strip and minor parts of the self-adhesive labels directly overly the backing strip and are adhered thereto.
6. A label strip according to Claim 5, wherein the carrier strip is narrower than the backing strip and the self-adhesive labels.
7. A label strip according to Claim 5, wherein punched holes are arranged in the carrier strip through which the self-adhesive layer of the self-adhesive labels adheres directly to the backing strip.
8. A label strip according to Claim 2, wherein the carrier strip has an abherent layer on both sides and the backing strip is provided at least locally with a self-adhesive layer on its side adjacent to the carrier strip.
9. A label strip according to Claim 8, wherein the self-adhesive layer is a narrow strip along the centre of the backing strip.
10. A label strip according to Claim 8, wherein the self-adhesive layer is in two narrow strips near the margins of the backing strip.
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DEP2834592.8 1978-08-07
DE2834592A DE2834592C2 (en) 1978-08-07 1978-08-07 Label tape with self-adhesive labels
DE19792912348 DE2912348C2 (en) 1979-03-29 1979-03-29 Label tape with self-adhesive labels
DEP2912348.6 1979-03-29

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