Avery Dennison Corporation

Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, LLC

Li Shu

Dong-Tsai Hseih

Yi-Hung Chiao

Xiao-Ming He

Kuolih Tsai

Alan Morgenthau

Ramin Heydarpour

Yukihiko Sasaki

David Nicholas Edwards

Scott Wayne Ferguson

Liviu Dinescu

N David Edwards

A method for labeling fabrics, such as fabric garments, and a heat-transfer label well-suited for use in the method. In one embodiment, the heat-transfer label includes (a) a support portion; and (b) a transfer portion, the transfer portion being positioned over the support portion for transfer of the transfer portion from the support portion to an article of fabric under conditions of heat and pressure, the transfer portion including (i) an ink design layer; (ii) a heat-activatable adhesive layer; and (iii) an RFID device.

Method for labeling fabrics and heat-transfer label well-suited for use in said method

A label assembly and method of using the same to label articles durably, yet removably. In one embodiment, the method includes providing an image removing laminate. The image removing laminate includes (i) a remover support, and (ii) a remover layer secured to the remover support, the remover layer, upon being activated by at least one of heat and light, being bondable to an ink image on a garment in such a way that the bonding between the remover layer and the ink image is stronger than the bonding between the ink image and the garment. The method then includes bonding the remover layer of the image removing laminate to the ink image on the garment and, then, detaching the ink image from the garment by separating the image removing laminate away from the garment.

Label assembly and method of using the same to label articles durably yet removably

A method for labeling fabrics, such as fabric garments, and a heat-transfer label well-suited for use in said method. In one embodiment, the heat-transfer label comprises (i) a support portion, the support portion comprising a carrier and a release layer; (ii) a wax layer, the wax layer overcoating the release layer; and (iii) a transfer portion, the transfer portion comprising an adhesive layer printed onto the wax layer and an ink design layer printed onto the adhesive layer. Preferably, at least a portion of the ink design layer is printed using a variable printing technique, such as thermal transfer printing.

Heat-transfer label well-suited for labeling fabrics and methods of making and using the same

A label assembly and method of using the same to label articles durably, yet removably. In one embodiment, the label assembly is used to label fabric articles, such as clothing, and comprises (a) an image forming laminate for forming an image on the fabric article, the image forming laminate comprising an ink layer, the ink layer being bondable to the fabric article; and (b) an image removing laminate for removing the image from the fabric article, the image removing laminate comprising a remover layer, the remover layer, upon being activated by heat and/or light, being bondable to the ink layer of the image forming laminate; (c) whereby, upon bonding of the image removing laminate to the ink layer, the bonding between the image removing laminate and the ink layer is stronger than the bonding between the ink layer and the fabric article.

A method for labeling fabrics, such as fabric garments, and a heat-transfer label () well-suited for use in said method. In one embodiment, the heat-transfer label () comprises (i) a support portion (), the support portion () comprising a carrier () and a release layer (); (ii) a wax layer (), the wax layer overcoating the release layer (); and (iii) a transfer portion (), the transfer portion () comprising an adhesive layer () printed directly onto the wax layer () and an ink design layer () printed directly onto the adhesive layer (). Each of the adhesive layer () and the ink design layer includes a non-cross-linked PVC resin. The ink design layer may be screen printed onto the adhesive layer () or may be printed onto the adhesive layer () using thermal transfer printing, ink jet printing or laser printing.

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Li Shu