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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:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2000
William J. Hill, IV, Landenberg, PA (US);
Thomas C. McNutt, Newark, DE (US);
Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc., New Castle, DE (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to a radiation curable system for continuously applying a layer of a radiation curable adhesive, e.g., a UV curable adhesive, to plastic, sheet fed, cut and stack, labels, irradiating the adhesive on the labels to render the adhesive sufficiently tacky to effectively adhere the label to a container in a commercial labeling machine and thereafter applying the labels to discrete containers through the sufficiently tacky adhesive layer. The plastic labels can be clear, opaque (including metallized ) plastic films and can be retained in a dispensing magazine prior to the application of the radiation curable adhesive to the labels.