Label roll manufacture
US4475969A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 25, 1980 |
| Grant date | Oct 9, 1984 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 25, 2000 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T156/1082
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Paper label stock combined with liner material is butt cut to provide labels surrounded by a "rungless" ladder-shaped matrix whose side rails have relatively straight borders and can be relatively easily stripped. The labels, as formed, are adjacent each other, but are repositioned and spaced by off-feeding the labels from their original combination with liner material, and redepositing them on liner material moving in a path at 90 degrees to the direction of off-feed. When the labels are subsequently applied to a cylindrical container or the like, the grain of the labels is parallel to the axis of the container. In a label roll so manufactured, the grain of the labels runs crosswise.
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