Avery Dennison Corporation

Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, LLC

Paxar Americas, Inc.

Paxar Corporation

Paul A Chamandy

Rudolph J Klein

John W Moliski

Ian J Forster

Raymond A Blanchard, Jr

Gerald R Bradley

Christopher T Caldwell

Julie Vargas

Thomas R Loemker

Derrick Harrison

Kimberly Kae Schneider

Christopher Palmer

Theodore S Pinkard

John R Wilhovsky

David O'Connell

Christopher Caldwell

A sonic label welding device for welding multiple labels together using ultrasonic welding is disclosed. The sonic label welding device comprises a digital controls main menu screen which includes touch screen buttons that are utilized to go to specific screens to program the device to perform in a certain manner. For example, a user can press the cut to length button if wanting to cut a label to a specific length, or the label weld count button to specify the number of labels being sonically welded. Further, the sonic label welding device comprises a head for allowing multiple labels to be assembled under pressure and an anvil for directing the high frequency vibrations. A method of manufacturing a multi-layer care label is also disclosed.

Sonic label welding unit and method of manufacturing a multi-layered care label

A tag or label incorporating embedded trigger technology, such as RFID, QR codes, or barcodes is disclosed to effectively integrate RFID or a trigger directly into the garment. Typically, the embedded technology is embedded via a digital manufacturing process, and the labels and tags enable a data connection via the embedded triggers and a unique identifier corresponding to the embedded triggers. Thus, once the trigger technology is enabled via scanning, visual recognition, UHF/NFC RFID, etc., data items in the data management platform are enabled. Specifically, the data items within the data management platform include sustainability, consumer engagement, authentication/brand protection, merchandising/marketing, and data management and can be leveraged to drive an interactive consumer experience.

Smart product label platform

An anti-counterfeiting serialization method. The method can include receiving an input serial number, locating a seed character at a predetermined position in the input serial number, determining, based on the seed character, a first output position for an incrementing character of the input serial number, determining, based on the incrementing character, at least one second output position for at least one remaining character of the input serial number, and generating an output serial number having the incrementing character in the first output position and at least one remaining character in the at least one second output position.

Anti-counterfeiting serialization system

A system for forensic encryption may be described. This system may include: a 2D barcode pattern comprising a plurality of standard 2D barcode elements printed in a region on a printable surface, and which is affixed to a unique product; and at least one glyph printed within the area of the 2D barcode pattern; wherein the at least one glyph is generated from information identifying the unique product; and wherein the 2D standard barcode elements may be decoded by a first 2D barcode scanner to yield product information, and wherein a second scan is done by a user, to verify if the label in hand corresponds to the glyph shown on screen. In another embodiment, the 2D barcode pattern including the at least one glyph may be decoded by a second 2D barcode scanner to yield different product information.

Method and system of forensic encryption

System method and apparatus for anti counterfeiting serialization

There is disclosed thermal transfer media containing both fixed and variable printed information, and method of making and using such a thermal transfer medium. The fixed information is printed in one or more fixed-information zone(s) preferably on a web during a long production run and thereafter as the need arises the variable information is printed or imprinted in one or more variable information zone(s) on sections of the web during shorter production runs. The transfer medium is particularly suited for printing onto fabrics that are subject to repeated home laundering and commercial dry cleaning.

Thermal transfer media and method of making and using same

A merchandise security kit includes a tag body, a first tack adapted to be removably attached to the tag body to form a first reusable hard tag that is limited to electronic article surveillance (EAS) capabilities, and a second tack adapted to be removably attached to the tag body to form a second reusable hard tag that is provided with both EAS and radio frequency identification (RFID) capabilities. The tag body comprises a security inlay that is disposed within a protective casing, the security inlay including an antenna and an EAS marker. The second tack comprises an enlarged head, a sharpened pin connected to the head and an integrated circuit (IC) chip embedded within the head. With the second tack attached to the tag body, the IC chip either conductively or reactively couples to the antenna in the tag body to provide the second hard tag with its RFID capabilities.

Merchandise security kit

There are disclosed embodiments of a marking clip for marking garments which may be stacked flat on a surface. The marking clip is generally U-shaped with leg portions joined by a bight portion and is preferably molded of flexible, resilient, plastics material and bears repetitive indicia along the outer surface of the leg and bight portions. Two or more marking clips may be coupled to provide selected combinations.

Garment marking clip

There are disclosed embodiments of a marking clip for marking garments which may be stacked flat on a surface. The marking clip is generally U-shaped with leg portions joined by a bight portion and is preferably molded of flexible, resilient, plastics material and bears repetitive indicia along the outer surface of the leg and bight portions. Two or more marking clips may be coupled to provide selected combinations. A label strip with respective indicia and with an RFID transponder and/or a machine-readable code can be adhesively adhered either directly to a garment across a fold or to the marking clip.

Garment marking clip and label strip

There are disclosed several embodiments of label sets or arrays having a substantial capacity for printed information while maintaining all the labels of the array associated and properly oriented with respect to each other, wherein all the labels of each set or array can be printed in a printer. The labels of the array are preferably printed in transverse rows across a label web to increase the number of labels that can be carried on a roll.

Labeling method, web of labels and label array

There is disclosed a composite web of record members and a method of making same, the composite web provides tag/label pairs comprised of a tag and a label which can be feed through a printer and in which a tag/label pair can be cut from the tag web with its underlying release liner. The tag webis simple to manufacture using readily available materials. The labelcan be adhesively adhered to garment wrappings and the tag is rendered non-tacky by use of a patterned adhesive deadener.

Web of record members, tags, labels, and method of making same

There is disclosed a plurality of embodiments of composite webs of labels wherein there are labels on a pressure sensitive pressure-coated carrier web and wherein adhesive deadener coats the adhesive underlying the labels to enable the labels to be releasably adhered to the carrier web while leaving the carrier outside the peripheries of the labels non-tacky.

Composite label

There is disclosed a fabric label, a method of making a label, a method of marking a garment, and a tool for inserting a marker. The label preferably has a closed or essentially closed pocket, into which a marker, such as an electronic article surveillance (EAS) or radio frequency identification device (RFID) marker is inserted after the pocket has been formed. In one embodiment the marker is inserted through a slit in the pocket and in other embodiment the marker is inserted into a closed pocket by a hollow needle which has penetrated through a wall of the pocket.

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Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Paul A Chamandy