Labeling method

US8142604B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ExxonMobil Oil Corporation · US

Inventors

• Richard A. Rehkugler · Fairport, US
• James A. Johnson · Arcadia, US
• Daniel L. Hinman · Farmington, US
• Jo Ann H. Squier · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 21, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 27, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49716
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method useful for applying labels to a container, the labels having an activatable adhesive coating on a surface thereon, the adhesive is activated by contact with a low viscosity activator solution from an apparatus comprising at least a label pallet that receives a low viscosity activator solution by contact with a spinning roller, the spinning roller receives at least one stream of the low viscosity activator solution delivered or sprayed by a fluid manifold.