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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1998
Brian D. Larsen, Worthington, MN (US);
Bedford Industries, Inc., Worthington, MN (US);
Abstract
The method of simultaneously banding and tagging merchandise involves forming a plurality of stretchable merchandise marking articles, each being formed to have an endless stretchable elastomeric band and a non-elastomeric flexible water-resistant plastic sheet material combined in a manner such that the sheet material encircles the band and presents an outwardly extending tag having an optically scannable code. The encircling of the sheet material about the band forms a channel within which the band is lodged but freely stretchable. A plurality of such marking articles are placed in condition for ready access for banding and tagging merchandise and an individual marking article of the plurality is removed by gripping the non-elastomeric tag of it. The elastomeric band is stretched and applied about an article, and the relationship of the channel length to the width of the information tag on the merchandise is such that bending forces exerted on the channel do not interfere with optical scanning of the information tag.