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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:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Pixie A. Austin, Marysville, WA (US);
Duane M. Fox, Snohomish, WA (US);
David N. Bledsoe, Mukilteo, WA (US);
Assignee:
Intermec IP Corp., Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/104 ; B32B 3/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/104 ; B32B 3/500 ;
Abstract
Linerless label stock is fed to a printer that prints on the front face of the label stock and then to a media cutter . The cutter cuts the strip into discrete labels, which are fed to a tag application station . A strip of electronic tags is fed through an encoder that detects defective tags and then to a tag cutter that cuts the strip into discrete tags. Defective tags exiting the cutter are diverted away from the tag application station. Non-defective tags are conveyed to the tag application station where they are secured to the back face of labels.