Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100285249 | WASH-OFF PRESSURE-SENSITIVE LABEL - A label including a base film having a front side and a reverse side, and an adhesive layer on the reverse side of the base film. The base film is a co-extruded multilayered film including at least two layers, which are made of different materials and are formed such that the base film formed by the layers has asymmetry. Alternatively, the base film is a multilayered film including at least two layers laminated together, which layers are oriented in different degrees of orientation in at least one direction of the layer. The pressure-sensitive label structures are used for wash-off pressure-sensitive labels for reusable bottles or other containers. | 11-11-2010 |
20100300616 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LABEL LAMINATE - A method for manufacturing a label laminate. A transparent plastic film having a first side and a second side is introduced. The second side of the transparent plastic film is printed. A release liner including a release surface and single layer of a non-tacky adhesive on the release surface is introduced. The non-tacky adhesive on the release surface is activated so that the non-tacky adhesive becomes tacky. The tacky adhesive is attached on the release surface to the second side of the transparent plastic film. | 12-02-2010 |
20110039151 | BATTERY LABEL - A battery label including an oriented face film having a front side and a rear side. An adhesive layer is on the rear side of the face film. The adhesive layer includes pressure sensitive adhesive. The face film includes cyclic olefin copolymer. A battery including a battery label and a method of forming a battery label. | 02-17-2011 |
20110041998 | LABEL AND A METHOD FOR ATTACHING THE LABEL TO AN ITEM - A label including a substrate having a face side and a rear side. An adhesive layer is arranged on the rear side of the substrate. The adhesive layer is non-tacky but activatable to become tacky adhesive. The adhesive layer includes a polyurethane polymer composition that is reversibly changeable from the non-tacky state to the tacky adhesive state. A method for attaching a label to an item. | 02-24-2011 |
20110048632 | LABEL, A METHOD IN LABELLING AND USE OF AN ADHESIVE - A label including a substrate having a face side and a rear side, and an adhesive layer arranged on the rear side of the substrate. The adhesive layer is non-tacky but activatable to become tacky. The adhesive layer includes a deactivating agent that is activatable by external energy so that the agent, when activated, begins to transform the adhesive layer to become non-tacky. A method for attaching a label to an item. The use of an adhesive in labelling. | 03-03-2011 |
20110177326 | BATTERY LABEL AND A BATTERY - A battery label including an oriented face film having a front side and a rear side, and an adhesive layer on the rear side of the face film. The face film is a co-extruded multilayer film including at least one layer which includes a styrene-containing polymer. A battery includes a body and a battery label which is wrapped around the body. | 07-21-2011 |
20110318557 | MDO POLYPROPYLENE LINER - The invention relates to a machine direction oriented plastic film as a release liner for a pressure-sensitive label, wherein the plastic film comprises a polypropylene homopolymer and a hydrocarbon resin. The invention also relates to a method for producing a release liner for pressure-sensitive label. In the method at least one polypropylene homopolymer is selected as one component and at least one hydrocarbon resin is selected as another component. A relative amount of the at least one hydrocarbon resin in a mixture of the at least one polypropylene and at least one hydrocarbon resin is selected, the at least one polypropylene homopolymer component and the at least one hydrocarbon resin component are mixed in said relative amount by melt processing to form a monolayer or multilayer plastic film. Said plastic film is oriented in a machine direction; and the machine-direction oriented plastic film is coated with a releasing agent to form a release liner. | 12-29-2011 |
20120060997 | MACHINE DIRECTION ORIENTED FILM FOR LABELS - A machine direction oriented plastic film. The film includes at least one polypropylene homopolymer, polypropylene random copolymer or polypropylene block copolymer or mixture of two or more thereof and at least one modifier. | 03-15-2012 |
20120107574 | METHOD FOR APPLYING A SHRINK LABEL TO AN ARTICLE, A SHRINK LABEL AND A SHRINK LABEL MATERIAL - A method for applying a shrink label to an article, a shrink label and a shrink label material. | 05-03-2012 |
20120145304 | REMOVABLE LABEL FOR CONTAINERS - A label having a laminated composite structure and including an adhesive layer, a polypropylene film and a lactic acid based polymer film. The adhesive layer is on a first side of the polypropylene film and a lactic acid based polymer film is on a second side of the polypropylene film. The lactic acid based polymer film induces curling so that the label is removable during washing process from a surface of an item attached. | 06-14-2012 |
20120175053 | METHOD FOR ATTACHING LABELS TO ITEMS - A method for attaching a label to a surface of an item. The label includes a carrier layer and a bonding layer. The method includes heating the bonding layer using infrared light such that the infrared light has a maximum spectral irradiance at a peak wavelength. The bonding layer has an absorbing spectral region that spectrally matches with the peak wavelength. | 07-12-2012 |
20120199274 | REMOVABLE LABEL WITH A DOUBLE-LAYER ADHESIVE - The invention relates to a removable labels having a multilayer adhesive structure, wherein the first adhesive layer comprises a hot-melt adhesive or tackifier and the second adhesive layer comprises an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such labels and to use of the labels for labelling of reusable containers. | 08-09-2012 |
20120231197 | RELEASE LINER FOR LABEL LAMINATE - A method of preparing a release layer of a release liner for a label laminate. A substantially continuous release layer with controlled thickness is formed on a liner substrate from a composition including at least a release agent and an inductive filler material. The release layer is heated to cure the release agent. The heating is at least partly based on electromagnetic induction heating of the inductive filler material. Also a release liner and a label laminate. | 09-13-2012 |
20130145664 | LABEL FOR INSULATING PACKAGES - The invention relates to a label for a thermally insulating item which comprises material formed by using a gaseous expansion agent. The label comprises a face material and an adhesive layer, wherein at least one component of the adhesive layer is capable of dealing with the expansion agent escaping from the material of said item. The invention further relates to a labelled thermally insulating item and a method for attaching a label to an item. | 06-13-2013 |
20130145665 | REMOVABLE LABEL FOR CONTAINERS - The invention relates to removable labels having a facestock layer, wherein another side of the facestock layer is overlaminated by a plastic film layer including regenerated cellulose. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such labels and to a method of labelling recyclable or re-usable containers. | 06-13-2013 |
20140124133 | METHOD IN LABELLING AND USE OF AN ADHESIVE - A method for attaching an adhesive label to an item. The label includes a substrate having face and rear sides and an adhesive layer applied on the rear side. The adhesive layer is non-tacky but activatable by external energy from an energy source to become tacky. The adhesive layer includes a deactivating agent that is activatable by the external energy exerted on the adhesive layer from an energy source so that the deactivating agent, when activated, begins to transform the adhesive layer to become non-tacky. The deactivating agent is activated with the energy source to start the transformation of the adhesive layer. A delay is arranged during which the thermal effect of external energy used for activation reduces in the label. The label is attached to the item so that the adhesive surface comes in contact with the surface of the item. The use of an adhesive in labelling. | 05-08-2014 |
20140134430 | LABEL FACESTOCK - A machine direction oriented multilayer facestock for labels. The facestock includes a skin layer including at least polyethylene and cyclic olefin copolymer(s). The facestock is annealed. Also a use of the multilayer facestock for self-adhesive labels and to a self-adhesive label including the multilayer facestock. | 05-15-2014 |
20140208695 | ROLL-FED SHRINK FILM - The invention relates to a shrink film having a multilayer structure, wherein the core layer of the film includes polypropylene, hydrocarbon resin and block-copolymer rubber. The invention also relates to a label including said film and to use of films for labelling recyclable or reusable items. Further the invention relates to a method for producing shrink film, to a method for attaching a shrink film to an article, and to a method separating a shrink film from an article. | 07-31-2014 |
20140311001 | WASH-OFF PRESSURE-SENSITIVE LABEL - A label including a base film having a front side and a reverse side and an adhesive layer on the reverse side of the base film. The base film includes a multilayered film including at least two layers laminated together, which layers are oriented in different degrees of orientation in at least one direction of the layer. A method for providing wash-off pressure-sensitive labels for bottles and other containers. A multilayered base film is provided by laminating together at least two layers oriented in different degrees of orientation in at least one direction of the layer. The base film has a front side and a reverse side. An adhesive layer is provided on the reverse side of the base film. | 10-23-2014 |
20150060320 | LABELING OF ITEMS WITH WASH-OFF LABELS - A washable label may include a heat-shrinkable layer and a heat-activatable layer. The label may be attached to an item by a method including: heating a portion of the heat-activatable layer by intense visible or infrared light so as to transform the surface of the heat-activatable layer from a non-tacky state to a tacky state, and attaching the label to the item when the surface of the heat-activatable layer is in the tacky state, wherein the intensity of the light is selected such that spatially averaged temperature of the heat-shrinkable layer remains lower than the threshold shrinking temperature of the heat-shrinkable layer. The label may be easily separated from the item by heating the label such that shrinking of the heat-shrinkable layer peels at least a portion of the label away from the item. | 03-05-2015 |