EP0119669B1 - Procédé pour l'étiquetage d'articles - Google Patents

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EP0119669B1
EP0119669B1 EP84200408A EP84200408A EP0119669B1 EP 0119669 B1 EP0119669 B1 EP 0119669B1 EP 84200408 A EP84200408 A EP 84200408A EP 84200408 A EP84200408 A EP 84200408A EP 0119669 B1 EP0119669 B1 EP 0119669B1
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cover layer
underlayer
backing
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Henricus Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Nolens
Johannes Henricus Kroezen
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THERMOPATCH BV
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/04—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps to be fastened or secured by the material of the label itself, e.g. by thermo-adhesion
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C5/00—Labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface, e.g. paper, fabric rolls, stockings, shoes
    • B65C5/02—Labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface, e.g. paper, fabric rolls, stockings, shoes using adhesives
    • B65C5/04—Thermo-activatable adhesives
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/46—Applying date marks, code marks, or the like, to the label during labelling

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  • the subject invention relates to a labelling method comprising the steps of supplying an underlayer by means of a temporary backing and affixing it to an article, supplying subsequently a transparent cover layer by means of a temporary backing, the cover layer being provided with markings applied in mirror image on its free surface prior to supply, and affixing the cover layer to the underlayer one to overlie the other as known from NL-A-66,02837.
  • any markings on the cover layer are preprints and any variable information is always applied to the underlayer after it has been affixed onto the article to be marked and before the cover layer, supplied on its own temporary backing, is affixed to overlie the underlayer by way of protection.
  • variable information onto an underlayer already affixed to an article does not have to give problems so long as the information is of such a simple nature that it can be applied in handwriting or by means of an easily variable stamp, and if use is made of printing inks which can adhere to the surface of the underlayer which after the removal of the temporary backing is often smooth.
  • the improvement which consists in that the underlayer and the cover layer, are supplied by one and the same temporary backing, and variable information is applied in mirror image to the cover layer while still being adhered to the temporary backing.
  • the labelling method according to the invention has been found in practice to be suitable for applying complicated variable information with sufficient clearness and sharpness to ensure reliable reading, also in the case of information in the form of a bar code on textile, after. repeated washing or dry cleaning.
  • the cover layer often of thermoplastic material, has been found after being affixed to a textile article by means of heat and pressure to impregnate the textile material sufficiently to protect the information markings from external, chemical and similar influences.
  • an underlayer as used in the prior method is only needed if a contrasting background is desirable.
  • At least one pair of associated underlayer and cover layer sheets are supplied on a common backing, the cover layer is printed with the desired information while still on the temporary backing, and the underlayer and the cover layer are sequentially affixed to an article to be marked one to overlie the other.
  • a labelling apparatus comprising a press with heating means and guide means for guiding a continuous temporary backing of label components from a supply roll along a computer-controlled printing head arranged to print information symbols, such as a bar code, in accordance with variable information supplied to the computer, and subsequently guiding the label components along the press, and further comprising signalling means which in response to markings on said continuous temporary backing control said printing head and said press.
  • an article such as a piece of clothing in a laundry
  • the printing head is set at a corresponding bar code
  • this code is printed in mirror image on the free side of a label cover layer supplied by the temporary backing, which during this step can rest on a suitable flat support.
  • the cover layer thus printed in situ is supplied to the press.
  • the piece of clothing to be marked then only needs to be introduced into the press for the label to be applied to a desired location thereof.
  • a continuous backing strip carrying an alternation of cover layer sheets and underlayer sheets and markings for signalling means controlling the movement of the backing strip through a label-application section.
  • a labelling apparatus comprising a label press with a stationary section 1 and a section 3 movable up and down by means of a pneumatic cylinder 2.
  • the stationary press section 1 carries a heatable press plate 4, and the movable press section 3 carries a heatable press plate 5.
  • a temporary backing 6 for label components which will be described in more detail hereinafter, is guided by guide rollers 7, 8, 9 and 10 from a supply roll 11 along a driven pressure roller 12, between the press plates 4 and 5 and to a reel 13.
  • the pressure roller 12 cooperates with a printing head 14.
  • the apparatus is controlled by a computer 15 by means of photocells 16 and 16'.
  • the apparatus is designed to label textile articles 21 with a label composed of an underlayer 17 which can be affixed to the textile article 21 by hot pressing, for example, owing to the underlayer being made of thermoplastic material, and further a transparent cover layer 18, which can also be affixed by hot pressing.
  • These label components 17 and 18 are sequentially affixed to the temporary backing formed by a continuous strip 6 made of, or coated with, a material having such characteristics that sheets 17 and 18 can easily be peeled off from it.
  • backing 6 is provided in each of its marginal zones with markings 19 and 20.
  • marking 19 has been applied only, and marking 20 is absent.
  • the labelling apparatus operates as follows.
  • an article to be labelled such as the textile article 21, shown diagrammatically, is positioned on the stationary, heated press plate 4.
  • the movable press plate 5 is in the raised position.
  • a transparent cover layer sheet 18, and an underlayer sheet 17 is present in the bagging portion between the printing head 14 and pressure plate 4.
  • an underlayer sheet 17 is, for example, positioned at photocells 16, 16', which is detected by the two cells 16 and 16' sensing a marking 20 and 19, respectively. This information is passed to computer 15.
  • Computer 15 controls printing head 14, which prints the variable information, possibly translated into a bar code, on the cover layer sheet present on the printing roller, in mirror image, whereafter the printing roller 12 is driven so that the underlayer 17 is transferred to the appropriate place over press plate 14. At this moment an underlayer sheet 17 is present on the printing roller, and the presence of a cover layer sheet 18 is detected at the photocells.
  • the press plate 5 is now lowered, and the underlayer 17 is pressed into the article 21.
  • the press plate 5 is moved upwards again, and, without the printing head 14 having meanwhile become operative, the pressure roller 12 is again driven to position the earlier printed cover layer sheet 18 over the underlayer sheet 17 already affixed to the article 21.
  • Press plate 15 is again lowered and presses the cover layer sheet 18 onto the underlayer 17.
  • the label is now completed and after press plate 5 has been raised, article 21 can be removed.
  • the empty backing is continually wound on reel 13.
  • the apparatus is ready for a next labelling operation.
  • stepwise movement of backing 6 with label components 17 and 18 may be different, for example, so that at the moment when a cover layer sheet 18 is printed simultaneously an underlayer sheet 17 is pressed on to an article 21.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Labeling Devices (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)
  • Ultra Sonic Daignosis Equipment (AREA)
  • Container Filling Or Packaging Operations (AREA)
  • Saccharide Compounds (AREA)
  • Medicines Containing Material From Animals Or Micro-Organisms (AREA)
  • Nitrogen Condensed Heterocyclic Rings (AREA)
  • Lining Or Joining Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • General Preparation And Processing Of Foods (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Photographic Processing Devices Using Wet Methods (AREA)
  • Measuring Or Testing Involving Enzymes Or Micro-Organisms (AREA)

Claims (2)

1. Une méthode à étiqueter comprenant les étapes de fournir une couche inférieure (17) à l'aide d'un support temporaire (6) et de l'attacher à un article (21), fournissant ensuite une couche de recouvrement transparente (18) à l'aide d'un support temporaire (6), la couche de recouvrement étant munie de marques appliquées en image inverse sur sa surface libre avant la fourniture, en attachant la couche de recouvrement (18) à la couche inférieure (17), l'une surjacente par rapport à l'autre, caractérisée en ce que la couche inférieure (17) et la couche de recouvrement (18) sont fournies par le même support temporaire (6), et qu'on applique des informations variables en image inverse sur la couche de recouvrement tout en étant adhérée encore au support temporaire.
2. Pour utilisation dans la méthode à étiqueter selon la revendication 1, une bande de matière continue, comprenant une bande de support continue (6) portant une alternance de feuilles de couche de recouvrement (18) et des feuilles de couche inférieure (17) et des marques (19, 20) pour des moyens de signalisation (16,16') contrôlant le mouvement de la bande de support (6) vers une section d'application d'étiquettes (1).
EP84200408A 1983-03-22 1984-03-21 Procédé pour l'étiquetage d'articles Expired EP0119669B1 (fr)

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AT84200408T ATE30890T1 (de) 1983-03-22 1984-03-21 Verfahren zum etikettieren von gegenstaenden.

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NL8301024 1983-03-22
NL8301024A NL8301024A (nl) 1983-03-22 1983-03-22 Werkwijze en inrichting voor het etiketteren van voorwerpen.

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EP0119669B1 true EP0119669B1 (fr) 1987-11-19

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JP (1) JPS59209517A (fr)
AT (1) ATE30890T1 (fr)
AU (1) AU2589084A (fr)
DE (1) DE3467553D1 (fr)
DK (1) DK160784A (fr)
ES (1) ES8504054A1 (fr)
FI (1) FI841142A (fr)
IE (1) IE56095B1 (fr)
NL (1) NL8301024A (fr)
NO (1) NO841121L (fr)

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DK160784D0 (da) 1984-03-21
NO841121L (no) 1984-09-24
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IE840699L (en) 1984-09-22
ATE30890T1 (de) 1987-12-15
NL8301024A (nl) 1984-10-16
AU2589084A (en) 1984-09-27
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FI841142A (fi) 1984-09-23
DE3467553D1 (en) 1987-12-23
DK160784A (da) 1984-09-23

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