US1295300A

US1295300A - Adhesive label.

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Publication number: US1295300A
Application number: US26122418A
Authority: US
Inventors: Maurice Galibert
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1918-11-05
Filing date: 1918-11-05
Publication date: 1919-02-25
Anticipated expiration: 1936-02-25

Description

M. GALIBERT.

ADHESlVE LABEL. APPLICATION man Nov. 5. me.

l ,295,300, Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

MAURIC GALIBERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADHESIVE LABEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

Application led November 5, 1918. Serial No. 261,224.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MAURICE GAmBnR'r, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adhesive Labels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention rel-ates yto a label for a labeled container having an exterior shouldered surface; its object being to effect the labeling in such wise`that paper or otherl be worked either mechanically or manually on any shape of container having an exterior shoulder which increases its cross-sectional dimension.

In the accompanying drawings, forming apart hereof and illustrating the principle of this invention in the best mode now known to me of applying that principle,

Figure 1 is a lengthwise central section of an unlabeled tubular container each end of which is provided withv a cupped cap the flange of which is exterior to the outward surface of the tubular body of the container.

Fig. '2 shows the back side of a paper label. gummed in accordance with my invention.

. Fig. 3. shows the capped container of Fig. 1 labeled in accordance with this invention. Referring'to the drawings, 1 is a tubular container body, each end of which is covered by a cupped cap 2, the flange. 3 of which encircles the container body and constitutes a peripheral shoulder or-.collar thereon, whereby -t'he container surface tobe labeled has relative high and low surfaces.

rI"he back of my new gummed or adhesively attachaJble paper label 4 is provided either before or during the labeling opera-'. tion, when there are two exterior cap shoulders on the container, with two opposed marginal gum strips '5, extending in the directionof the wrapping length of thelabel from end to end thereoieas shown. In- Wardly of and adjacent each such marginal vlength of the label.

gum strip 5, the label back is provided with an ungummed space 6 parallel to a gum' strip 5; and between the two gumless spaces 6, thelabel back is covered with an intermediate strip 7 of gum of the full wrapping By strip, in this conneet-lon, is meant a surface made adhesive by any suitable material whether applied, allowed to set and subsequently put into an adhesive condition; or applied moist as the label is being lapplied.

The point respecting the marginal strip or strips 5 is that the Vgum or adhesive is made liquid enough to temper the margin or margins of the lalbels,-that is tosoften and render them 'stretcha'ble The point respecting the intermediate gum strip 7 is preferably that the gum or adhesive shall be less liquid, that is of he-avierbody which willpin practice only negligibly temper the papel" on which it is applied. In actual practice. a thick adhesive is used for the gum strip 7, but it is not intended t'o limit the invention to non-tempering of the-paper correspondlng to such strip because actual tempering'of such portion of the pape-r might be successfully practised. The purpose of the tivo parallel gumless spaces 6 is to afford clean, gumless surfaces 0n the label back for contact with mechanical labeling .instrumentalities so that the latter will lnot become I gummed. The importance of this is knoivn to allskilled in the labelin machine art. The width of each marginaI gum strip or strips is approximately correspondent to the width of a'. shoulder or collar or fiange of the A container, thereby preferably to be 'adhe` sively attached not only to the peripheralv surface of the collar, shoulder or flange, but

also the inward edge thereof; and when the tempered and so stretchalble margin or margins of the label are applied on the shoulder or shoulders, the label wid-thwise can be by suitable pressure molded to fit the contour of the container, the intermediate more tenacious gum or adhesive on strip 7 holding the label to the body of the container while lthe stretchable paper margins `tempered by the more liquid gum strips 5 are confined to the cap iianges or shoulder-forming collars. The result -is that the body of the label between the collars or cap or coverflanges is laid smooth on the container body; and compared with all machine-labeled containers known to me presents a much neater and more desirable appearance, the more or less 'les wrinkled appearance of such labels of such prior container being eliminated.- In such prior practice, the labels have been smooth and tight around the shoulder-forming collars or cap or cover flanges, and more or less loose and wrinkled between them. l

Containers labeled by the described labels and by the present method are easily recognizable both by the smooth adhesion of the body of the label between the end collars, and also, on examination, by the resence of the two gumless spaces 6, two ot which are in the nature of mechanical features whether there is more than one gummed strip 5 or not; and by the relation of the gummed strip 7 to one or more gumless spaces 6 and one or more gum strips 5.

So far as I now know, this invention finds its main and perhaps exclusive utility in the application of paper labels, but the invention is susceptible of use in connection with any flexible label which has a tempei'able margin or margins. By gum is meant any suitable adhesive whether of gum proper, paste, or otherwise. The word temper is eX- tensively and commonly used in the paper label and paper working arts to indicate softening and consequent stretchability, and

the elements, liquidity of the adhesive and application Serial No. 261,225, and vthe labeled or wrapped container herein described forms the subject-matter of my copending application Serial No. 261,223, both filed November 5, 1918.

lVhat I claim herein is:

1. The herein described partially tempered label provided with a marginal adhesive stri on a temperable margin; with two para'l el non-adhesive portions spaced apart and parallel to the adhesive, tempered margin; and with anadhesive surface between such non-adhesive portions.

2. The hereindescribed partially -tempered label or wrapper provided with a marginal adhesive lstrip on a temperable margin; with an adhesive surface adjacent but spaced away from the marginal adhesive strip; and with a non-adhesive portion intermediate the marginal adhesive strip and said adhesive surface.

c In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of October, 1918.

' MAURICE GALIBERT.