Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – Adhesive-backed label
Patent
1991-05-29
1993-03-23
Brittain, James R.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
Adhesive-backed label
283 81, 206232, G09F 310
Patent
active
051952653
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention concerns a method for labelling the packaging of products wherein the wording on the label has to be altered periodically or according to the content of the packaging, and in particular to cassettes or boxes containing a rerecordable recording medium.
Whatever the type of recording medium, whether a magnetic tape or a magnetic or optical disk, it is generally housed in a protective cassette. Labels are supplied with the product, intended to be used to identify the type of recording and/or the contents of the recordings. These labels are supplied in the form of a strip or a sheet bearing a plurality of self-adhesive labels arranged side-by-side, each being separately detachable and being self-adherably attachable to one side of the protective cassette provided for this purpose. When the content of the recordings changes following a new recording, it will be necessary to alter the wording on the label, either by erasing the existing wording and rewriting, or by removing the out-of-date label and replacing it with a new one. The disadvantage of the first method is that it is only possible to write on the label with an erasable means, a pencil for example, thus rendering the label scarcely legible and sometimes not very attractive, especially after a certain number of erasures/rewriting. The problem with the second method, currently the most used, is that very often, when the wording needs to be changed, the spare labels cannot be found.
The labelling method of the invention proposes overcoming these disadvantages by providing spare blank labels directly on the cassette or the box containing the rerecordable recording medium; in this way, the spare labels are always available and a blank label which can be written on with any suitable means is always available.
These labels are preferably provided in a stack of superposed labels, stuck one on top of the other, the top label easily being able to be removed when its wording becomes out-of-date, allowing the following label to appear, the writing surface of which is ready to take the appropriate wording. The number of labels provided in the stack will be adapted to the required use, it could be one or several dozen, for example. In order to facilitate grasping the label to be removed, one edge thereof forming a tab is not adherable to the following label, allowing the label to be grasped easily and removed from the stack. An additional improvement could consist in alternating, from one label to the next, the non-adhesive edge of the label, to be sure when grasping a tab that only one is grasped in order to detach just the top tab; in other words, if, for example, the tab of the top label is on the left of the stack, that of the following label will be on the right, then on the left again and so on to the bottom of the stack.
The adhesive used to secure the labels on top of each other must be such that the hold between the labels is secure, that it is easy to peel off the label at the top of the stack, without the necessity of the label whose wording is out-of-date being readherable elsewhere. The adhesive coating the back of the last label at the bottom of the stack can be of a different type that coating the back of the other labels, because it must affix the whole stack of labels to the cassette or the box containing the recording medium, i.e. to a product generally made of synthetic material. The labels themselves can be of any suitable material, preferably of paper, but they may also be made of plastic material or of paper or cardboard coated with a plastic or metallic laminate.
The drawings show how the labelling method of the invention is applied to a TV video cassette wherein:
FIG. 1 represents a TV video cassette provided with a stack of labels according to the invention,
FIG. 2 represents a partial section of a stack of labels to one embodiment of the invention, and
FIG. 3 represents a partial section of a stack of labels according to another embodiment of the invention.
The TV video cassette 1 of FIG. 1 comprises a back 10, intended to rec
REFERENCES:
patent: 3148820 (1964-09-01), Robbins et al.
patent: 3257228 (1966-06-01), Reed
patent: 4589685 (1986-05-01), Lazar
patent: 4714276 (1987-12-01), Greig
patent: 4757901 (1988-07-01), Woods
patent: 4801514 (1989-01-01), Will et al.
patent: 4895746 (1990-01-01), Mertens
patent: 5050909 (1991-09-01), Mertens et al.
Brittain James R.
Gardner James M.
LandOfFree
Labelling method and system having adhesive over a majority of r does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Labelling method and system having adhesive over a majority of r, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Labelling method and system having adhesive over a majority of r will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1343584