EP0677013A1 - Product labelling. - Google Patents
Product labelling.Info
- Publication number
- EP0677013A1 EP0677013A1 EP94902989A EP94902989A EP0677013A1 EP 0677013 A1 EP0677013 A1 EP 0677013A1 EP 94902989 A EP94902989 A EP 94902989A EP 94902989 A EP94902989 A EP 94902989A EP 0677013 A1 EP0677013 A1 EP 0677013A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- label
- adhesive
- labels
- area
- web
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
- B31D—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSES B31B OR B31C
- B31D1/00—Multiple-step processes for making flat articles ; Making flat articles
- B31D1/02—Multiple-step processes for making flat articles ; Making flat articles the articles being labels or tags
- B31D1/021—Making adhesive labels having a multilayered structure, e.g. provided on carrier webs
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
- B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
- B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
- B65B61/202—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents for attaching articles to the outside of a container
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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
- G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
- G09F3/0288—Labels or tickets consisting of more than one part, e.g. with address of sender or other reference on separate section to main label; Multi-copy labels
- G09F3/0289—Pull- or fold-out labels
Definitions
- This invention relates to processes for furnishing each of a plurality of products with a respective label and an article carried on that label.
- the invention further relates to a web of converted labels suitable for use in such processes, and to apparatus for performing those labelling processes.
- the manufacture of a strip of essentially identical labels as described above, comprising a carrier web on which the labels are releasably supported end-to-end and each of which has an adhesive face in contact with the carrier is relatively expensive, owing to the additional complexity imposed on the manufacturing process by the incorporation in each label of the folded portion.
- a further aim of the present invention is to provide converted labels suitable for use in such processes, and apparatus to perform those processes.
- a process for furnishing a plurality of products passed through a labelling station with a respective label and article carried on that label comprises: feeding a strip of converted labels releasably supported on a carrier web towards the label-applying station; arranging the exposure of an area of adhesive on the face of each fed label directed away from the carrier web, each said area being of a size smaller than the area of the label; and then, in either order: applying to each said area of adhesive a respective article, in a controlled relationship to the label so that the article adheres to the adhesive; and applying each label to a respective product passed through the label-applying station.
- the process of this invention could be used to furnish a label with more or less any article of a size and weight appropriate for the product being labelled (for example, with a free sample of some product other than the product being labelled, the free sample perhaps being contained in a sachet), nevertheless it is envisaged that a principal use of the labelling process of this invention is to furnish a label with a product information leaflet, suitably folded. Consequently, in the following references will be made solely to such leaflets, though it will be understood that the invention has a wider application and the term "leaflet" should be construed accordingly.
- the manufacture of a strip of labels ready to apply to a product is conventionally performed in two stages.
- a paper or plastics manufacturer or processor may produce a roll of blank label material having pressure sensitive adhesive on one face and which is covered by a strippable backing sheet.
- the printed labels are formed in a typical conversion process, the roll of blank label material is un-reeled, the label material is printed as required, the labels are die-cut, the unwanted label material is stripped away, and the carrier (strippable backing sheet) supporting the finished labels is re-rolled, ready for use by a labelling machine.
- a reel of converted labels for use in the process of this invention may be manufactured by conventional label conversion machinery, as conventional labels.
- the labels are relatively cheap to manufacture and so the process of this invention may be performed economically.
- the labels themselves are not significantly more bulky than conventional labels, so facilitating the manufacture, storage, and general handling of a reel of those labels.
- the leaflet may be applied to said area of adhesive on a label immediately after the label has itself been applied to an article, nevertheless it is envisaged that the process would mainly be operated by applying a leaflet to a respective label immediately before that label is itself applied to a product. In this way close control of the relative disposition of a label and its leaflet may be maintained, so ensuring that the leaflet lies exactly where required, on the labelled product.
- the adhesive is applied to a defined area of the label, during the label conversion process in which the labels are printed and cut ready for subsequent use in the labelling process.
- the adhesive employed on said area may be an activatable adhesive which displays very low, or no, tack properties until activated.
- a heat- seal adhesive may be employed, which adhesive is activated by exposing said area of each label to heat, as the labels are advanced to the labelling station.
- a web of a strippable liner may be laminated over the converted labels during the label conversion process, the exposure of the area of adhesive being performed by striping away the liner as the labels are fed to the labelling station.
- an active adhesive such as a hot-melt adhesive
- solvent-based or emulsion-based adhesives which also remain tacky, at least until exposed and then contacted by a leaflet.
- Yet another alternative is to provide a release compound, such as a silicone compound coating, on the reverse face of the carrier web remote from the labels, whereby that carrier web acts as a strippable liner for the areas of adhesive on the converted labels when the carrier web together with the supported labels are reeled.
- a release compound such as a silicone compound coating
- a further possibility is to coat the pre-defined area of each label with an adhesive during the label feeding step itself, substantially immediately prior to a leaflet being applied to that area.
- This invention extends to a web of converted labels suitable for use in any of the methods of this invention as discussed above.
- apparatus for performing a process according to this invention as defined above comprises: means to unreel a strip of converted labels and to expose adhesive applied to a pre-defined area of the printed face of each label; feeding means to feed the labels to a labelling station where the labels are applied one to each of a series of products also fed through the labelling station; and means to present to the exposed adhesive area of each label a respective article whereby the presented article adheres to the label and is thereafter carried thereby.
- Figures 1 and 2 are respectively plan and diagrammatic longitudinal sectional views of a part of a strip of converted labels according to a first example of this invention
- Figures 3 and 4, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8 are respective plan and diagrammatic longitudinal sectional views similar to those of Figures 1 and 2, but of second, third and fourth examples of labels of this invention;
- Figure 9 diagrammatical ly shows a label application machine for use with labels as shown in Figures 1 and 2;
- Figures 10, 11 and 12 are all views similar to that of Figure 9, but of machines intended for use with labels of the second, third and fourth examples respectively, as mentioned above.
- the first example of labels of this invention comprises an elongate web 10 of a conventional backing material or liner, which may be made from a variety of materials such as a paper or a plastics film.
- the web 10 carries a coating 11 of a suitable silicone compound, having regard to the nature of a pressure sensitive adhesive 12 used in conjunction with labels 13, carried by the web 10, so that the labels 13 may be stripped from that web with the adhesive remaining tacky and on the labels 13.
- a formulation of a hot-melt adhesive may be employed for this purpose, in a manner well-known in the art.
- Material for the manufacture of labels is conventionally supplied with the web 10 and a continuous strip of label material adhered thereto; in a subsequent label-manufacturing (conversion) step, the labels are printed and die-cut to an appropriate shape and size; very often, the label conversion step also includes the removal of the excess (unwanted) label material, so leaving a line of labels arranged end-to- end on the web 10, but spaced one from the next adjacent labels, as shown in Figure 1.
- each label carries on an area 14 an adhesive coating which is non-sticky until appropriately activated.
- an adhesive coating which is non-sticky until appropriately activated.
- a heat-seal adhesive may be employed, which may be activated by the application of heat thereto.
- the labels may be reeled for storage and subsequent use. As the adhesive coating 14 is non-sticky until activated, the reeling and subsequent unreeling gives rise to no difficulties.
- the web 10 is coated on both sides with a silicone compound, as shown at 11 and 15.
- Each label 13 carries on area 14 a coating of an active adhesive which remains sticky following its application to the area.
- the adhesive coatings on areas 14 lie against the silicone coating 15 on the web 10; on subsequent unreeling of the strip, the web 10 peels away from the adhesive, leaving the tacky surface thereof on each area 14 fully exposed.
- FIG. 7 there is shown diagrammatically a machine for affixing labels and leaflets to products advanced along a path 20 in the direction of arrow A, those products being in the form of containers 21.
- the machine is adapted for labels as described with reference to Figures 1 and 2; the labels 13 are thus provided on a web of backing material, wound into a reel 22 supported on the machine, and do not, at that stage carry the leaflets.
- the web 23 of converted labels is unwound and passed round rolls 24, 25 and 26 and then passes over a tensioning device 27, which typically may be a vacuum tensioner. From there, the web is guided by rolls 28 and 29 to pass an adhesive activation device 30, whereby the areas 14 of adhesive coating on the labels are activated.
- the activation device would comprise a heater arranged to raise the temperature of the adhesive sufficiently render that adhesive tacky.
- the web is then guided by a further roll 31 past a pick-and-place device 32 (known per se) which includes a magazine 33 for folded leaflets (not shown).
- the pick-and-place device takes the lowermost leaflet from the magazine and places it on a respective label 13 ( Figures 1 and 2) as the label moves past the pick-and- place device.
- appropriate means are provided to monitor the progress of the labels to the pick-and-place device and to cause the pick-and- place device to operate in a timed relationship to the progress of those labels.
- Such means may also monitor the labels themselves to ensure they are correctly printed and, for example, to read a bar code on each label to ensure the label is of a desired kind, for the leaflet to be attached thereto.
- Roll 31 guides the web 23 supporting the labels with attached leaflets on to a beak 34, which serves to peel the labels from the web, for application to containers being advanced along the path 20, past the nose of the beak.
- the labels are wiped on to the containers by means of brushes, rollers, or other suitable means well known and understood in the labelling art.
- the web 23 is rewound on to a further reel 35, the web being drawn by means of a power-driven roller nip 36, and then being guided by rolls 37,38 and 39 to reel 35.
- the above described machine serves to furnish each label 13 with a leaflet immediately prior to that label being applied to a container 21, which leaflet may subsequently be removed by an ultimate purchaser of the product, for unfolding and reading.
- the activatable adhesive coating on each area 14 is other than a heat-seal adhesive
- a suitable activating method other than the use of heat may be employed by the activation device 30.
- the machine of Figure 10 is essentially the same as that of Figure 9 and like components are given like reference characters; those components will not be described again here.
- the machine of Figure 10 is intended for use with labels described with reference to Figures 3 and 4 and thus which have an active adhesive on the areas 14 thereof. Consequently, the activation device 30 of the Figure 9 machine may be omitted, in this example. Instead, the adhesive areas are exposed by the act of unwinding the labels from the reel 22.
- the machine of Figure 11 is intended for use with labels as shown in Figures 5 and 6. Again, like components with those of the machine of Figure 9 are given like reference characters and will not be described again here.
- the machine of Figure 11 differs in that it includes a rewind arrangement 40 for liner 16 together with its silicone coating, this rewind arrangement including guide rolls 41 and 42 and a rewind roll 43, whereby the liner 16 is stripped from the web and the active adhesive on each label is thereby exposed prior to the labels passing the pick- and-place device 32, to receive a leaflet.
- the machine of Figure 12 is similar to that of Figure 9, but differs in that the adhesive activation device 30 ( Figure 9) is replaced by an adhesive application system 45 configured and arranged to apply adhesive just to area 14 of each label, as the label passes that system 45. Each label having the applied and exposed adhesive is then guided past the pick-and- place device 32, to receive a leaflet prior to the label being applied to a container 21 being advanced along the path 20, as in the case of the previous examples.
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
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GB939300205A GB9300205D0 (en) | 1993-01-07 | 1993-01-07 | Product labelling |
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PCT/GB1994/000035 WO1994015840A1 (en) | 1993-01-07 | 1994-01-07 | Product labelling |
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EP0677013A1 true EP0677013A1 (en) | 1995-10-18 |
EP0677013B1 EP0677013B1 (en) | 1997-05-28 |
EP0677013B2 EP0677013B2 (en) | 2000-10-25 |
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EP94902989A Expired - Lifetime EP0677013B2 (en) | 1993-01-07 | 1994-01-07 | Product labelling |
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EP (1) | EP0677013B2 (en) |
JP (1) | JPH08505111A (en) |
AT (1) | ATE153619T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU5713594A (en) |
DE (1) | DE69403437T3 (en) |
GB (1) | GB9300205D0 (en) |
WO (1) | WO1994015840A1 (en) |
Cited By (1)
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WO2000017056A1 (en) | 1998-09-21 | 2000-03-30 | Inca Digital Printers Limited | Method and apparatus for packaging products with different markings |
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AU5713594A (en) | 1994-08-15 |
DE69403437T3 (en) | 2001-06-13 |
JPH08505111A (en) | 1996-06-04 |
WO1994015840A1 (en) | 1994-07-21 |
DE69403437T2 (en) | 1998-01-08 |
ATE153619T1 (en) | 1997-06-15 |
GB9300205D0 (en) | 1993-03-03 |
EP0677013B1 (en) | 1997-05-28 |
EP0677013B2 (en) | 2000-10-25 |
DE69403437D1 (en) | 1997-07-03 |
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