DE20121270U1 - Transport strips for label carriers - Google Patents

Description

SCHROETER Lehmann Fischer & Neugebauer

Patent Attorneys European Patent Attorneys European Trademark Attorneys
Wolfratshauser Str. 145, 81479 Munich, Germany

New German utility model application

Branch from 101 03 612.4-27

Stempel-Herbst GmbH 19 March 2002

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Transport strips for label carriers

The present invention relates to a transport strip for marking carriers.

Identification carriers are known in the form of labels, seals, stickers or other means of identification which are applied and used as official documents, for example for vehicle registration plates, signs, registration documents, driving licenses or similar. Special quality and authenticity assurance as well as security against forgery must be observed here. TÜV stickers and registration stickers for vehicle registration plates, for example, are now supplied in small boxes or tubes which correspond to the shape (usually round) of the identification carrier and which are closed with a lid. To remove such an identification carrier from a tube, a person applying the identification carrier to the corresponding documents moistens a fingertip slightly, lifts the sticker out of the storage container, removes the carrier layer attached to the back and sticks the identification carrier to the corresponding base. Such identification carriers have the advantage, on the one hand, that they are already punched and separated. One disadvantage, however, is that it is not easy to estimate the quantity in the storage container - you have to empty the tube and count the individual plaques and then put them back in the container - and if such a tube falls to the ground, they can fall apart like cards in a deck of cards. They can be destroyed or soiled, or in any case damaged in some way and thus rendered unusable. This is particularly important because we are dealing with documents.

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The invention has for its object to provide a transport strip for marking carriers with which the disadvantages of the prior art are avoided or at least greatly reduced.

The problem is solved with a transport strip for marking carriers according to claim 1. In this case, several marking carriers are advantageously carried by a carrier layer from which they can be detached for use. Such a transport strip can be checked at a glance and the number of marking carriers still on it can be determined. The detachment of the marking carriers from the carrier layer is advantageously made extremely easy in that a part of the marking carrier in the area enclosed by punching lines, in which the transport strip is punched through, can simply be pushed out or lifted out of the transport strip plane and can thus be gripped very easily and safely. The marking carrier can thus be extremely quickly and cleanly detached from the transport strip because it can be lifted off the film layer. It is completely detached from the film surrounding it by a punch.

In an advantageous development of the invention, the film layer of a circumferential line surrounding the respective marking carrier is completely punched through, while the carrier layer is punched through along a line section of the circumferential line and along a line connecting the ends of the line section. This means that part of the marking carrier can be pressed out of the transport strip and detached from the transport strip from both sides without directly touching the marking carrier. The marking carrier is then pressed onto a base with its adhesive surface/side. The remaining part of the carrier layer still on the marking carrier is then removed simply by "rolling" the marking carrier. The marking carrier can be completely spread and pressed onto the base.

Further advantages and features can be found in the subclaims.

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For a better understanding, this will now be briefly described using a drawing.

Figure 1 shows a schematic sectional view of a transport strip according to the invention in extreme magnification.

Figure 2 shows schematically the top view of a section of an inventive

transport strip.

Figures 1 and 2 show, for the purpose of better illustration, partially in extremely exaggerated proportions, a transport strip 2 according to the invention with identification carriers 8 located in it or on it. The identification carriers 8 are shown circular and diamond-shaped in Figure 2. The section of a transport strip 2 shown here contains three identification carriers 8, some of which are shown completely. Figure 1 is a sectional view along the section line A-A in Figure 2, in which the width dimension is realistically adopted from the width dimension in Figure 2, but the height dimension is at least twenty times larger. Layers a, ρ and d shown in Figure 1 are actually thinner than a pencil line. A identification carrier shown in Figure 1 consists of layers arranged one above the other, namely a film layer a, an adjoining layer p which essentially contains the characteristic features of the identification carrier 8, and a carrier layer d. The film layer a is the upper side 12 visible to the observer when the marking carrier 8 is mounted. Opposite it is the lower side 14, towards which the carrier layer d faces.

In Figure 1, a removal section 16 can be seen, drawn with a thick line, which contains parts of the carrier layer d, the intermediate layer ρ and the film layer a. This removal section is to be pressed out of the transport strip 2 from the underside 14 upwards and applied to a desired base, for example a vehicle license plate or a driver's license. For this purpose, a very thin adhesive layer, which can be removed in the initial phase, is expediently applied between the carrier layer d and the license plate layer ρ, which for understandable reasons cannot be seen further in the illustration. In order to be able to remove the removal section 16 from the transport strip, the removal section 16 must be separated into cuts that separate the respective layers. To do this, according to the embodiment shown here, the layers a and ρ are punched through from the top side 12 along the circular line 10. It goes without saying that this punching can only be done from the top side. Furthermore, an area of the carrier layer d which is delimited by a line section 4 of the circumferential line 10 and

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a section enclosed by a cutting line 6 connecting the ends of the line section is punched through from below at the level of the layer thickness of the carrier layer d. If the removal section 16, which is now delimited by the punching lines, is pressed upwards from the underside 14 towards the top 12 by pressing on the handle section 18 of the carrier layer d which is also punched out and is enclosed by lines 4 and 6, the removal section can be gripped in the handle section 18 and glued to the base mentioned above with the area which does not have a carrier layer d and, after pressing on the area just mentioned, can be glued completely to the base by "rolling off" the segment-shaped remaining piece (handle section 18) of the carrier layer d and thus removing all of the carrier layer material.

A particular advantage of the arrangement according to the invention is that a person handling it generally no longer comes into contact with adhesives located between the layers ρ and d and thus does not soil themselves, the base or other objects. This arrangement also makes it possible to sort and count marking carriers very well. Furthermore, the removal of marking carriers 8 from a transport strip 2 according to the invention described here can be automated, whereby the selection of the punch line sections knows no limits and line guides can be selected that are individually adapted to the corresponding devices.

Of course, marking carriers of the type mentioned can consist of layers other than those specified, a, ρ and the adhesive layer. This is known to the person skilled in the art from the prior art and is therefore not described in more detail here. As already mentioned, the proportions shown here are not lifelike. However, without departing from the spirit of the invention, all dimensional wishes can be pursued in this way.

Claims (3)

1. Transport strip for marking carriers, characterized by a carrier layer (d) carrying marking carriers ( 8 ) and a film layer (a) covering the marking carriers ( 8 ) and adhering to them, wherein the carrier layer (d) and the film layer (a) are each punched and/or punched through along selected lines ( 4 , 6 , 10 ) from one and/or both sides (12, 14) of the transport strip ( 2 ). 2. Transport strip according to claim 1, characterized in that the film layer (a) is completely punched through along a circumferential line ( 10 ) enclosing the respective identification carrier ( 8 ), that the carrier layer (d) is punched through along a line section ( 4 ) of the circumferential line ( 10 ) and along a cutting line (6) connecting the ends of the line section ( 4 ). 3. Transport strip according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it carries adjacent rows of identification carriers ( 8 ).