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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:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Fuushern Wuu, Wisconsin Rapids, WI (US);
Assignee:
Consolidated Papers, Inc., Wisconsin Rapids, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/12 ;
Abstract
A water resistant, caustically removable coating and method for making the same is disclosed. The coating is utilized to make a paper label which is water resistant but can be repulped in conventional caustic bottle washing solution. The coated paper label is applied to a bottle, the bottle used and then recycled using conventional caustic bottle washing solution to remove and repulp the paper label, permitting recycling of the bottle, and if desired, making paper from the recovered pulp.