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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean-Claude Haroutel, Orsay, FR;
Jacques Bastien, Osny, FR;
Assignee:
Neopost Industrie, Bagneux, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
118216 ; 118225 ; 156390 ; 156578 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a device for moistening labels that have one face coated with adhesive, the device serving to moisten the adhesive-coated face of the labels in uniform manner. The device includes a moistening element constituted by a rigid bar whose top portion is in contact with the adhesive-coated face of the labels and which is split by capillarity slits extending in the running direction of the labels over the bar and whose respective bottoms are immersed in a moistening liquid maintained at constant depth.