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EP0119669A1
EP0119669A1 EP84200408A EP84200408A EP0119669A1 EP 0119669 A1 EP0119669 A1 EP 0119669A1 EP 84200408 A EP84200408 A EP 84200408A EP 84200408 A EP84200408 A EP 84200408A EP 0119669 A1 EP0119669 A1 EP 0119669A1
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cover layer
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Henricus Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Nolens
Johannes Henricus Kroezen
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THERMOPATCH BV
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K & N Laundry Computer Systems VoF
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/04—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps to be fastened or secured by the material of the label itself, e.g. by thermo-adhesion
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C5/00—Labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface, e.g. paper, fabric rolls, stockings, shoes
    • B65C5/02—Labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface, e.g. paper, fabric rolls, stockings, shoes using adhesives
    • B65C5/04—Thermo-activatable adhesives
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/46—Applying date marks, code marks, or the like, to the label during labelling

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  • This invention relates to a method of marking articles, so that the mark is protected from external influences.
  • the invention relates to the marking of textile articles with labels resistant to washing and dry cleaning.
  • a similar method is known from Netherlands patent application 66,02837.
  • information protected by at least one transparent cover layer is applied to an article to be marked by applying the information and subsequently, by means of heat and pressure, affixing a transparent cover layer supplied on a temporary backing to the article to be marked.
  • an underlayer supplied on a temporary backing, is pressed on to the article to be marked, whereafter variable information is applied, and subsequently the cover layer, also supplied on a temporary backing, is affixed to overlie the underlayer.
  • the underlayer may be provided with a preprint on the side facing the temporary backing, and the cover layer may be provided with a preprint on the side away from the temporary backing.
  • the variable information may be applied to the underlayer, possibly supplementing information applied by way of a preprint, after the underlayer has been applied to the article to be marked, and after the removal of the temporary backing therefrom, and subsequently the transparent cover layer is placed over it by way of protection.
  • a pre-printed symbol for example a trademark, may also be applied, in mirror image, to the side of the transparent cover layer that is not covered by the temporary backing.
  • variable information is always applied, in the prior process, to the underlayer, and this after the latter has been affixed to the article to be marked, and naturally after the temporary backing has been removed from it.
  • the application of variable information gives no problem so long as the information is of such a simple nature that it can be applied in handwriting or by means of an easily variable stamp, and if use is made of printing inks which can adhere to the surface of the underlayer which after the removal of the temporary backing is often smooth.
  • the improvement which consists in that the transparent cover layer, while still being adhered to the temporary backing, is supplied to a printing head, provided with a marking in mirror image on the fxee side thereof, supplied to the article to be marked by means of said temporary backing, and attached to said article.
  • the labelling method according to the invention has been found in practice to be suitable for applying complicated variable information with sufficient clearness and sharpness to ensure reliable reading, also in the case of information in the form of a bar code on textile, after repeated washing or dry cleaning.
  • the cover layer often of thermoplastic material, has been found after being affixed to a textile article by means of heat and pressure to impregnate the textile material sufficiently to protect the information markings from external, chemical and similar influences.
  • an underlayer as used in the prior method is only needed if a contrasting background is desirable.
  • the invention provides a labelling apparatus comprising a press with heating means and guide means for guiding a continuous temporary backing of label components from a supply roll along a computer-controlled printing head arranged to print information symbols, such as a bar code, in accordance with variable information supplied to the computer, and subsequently guiding the label components along the press, and further comprising signalling means which in response to markings on said continuous temporary backing control said printing head and said press.
  • an article such as a piece of clothing in a laundry
  • the printing head is set at a corresponding bar code
  • this code is printed in mirror image on the free side of a label cover layer supplied by the temporary backing, which during this step can rest on a suitable flat support.
  • the cover layer thus printed in situ is supplied to the press.
  • the piece of clothing to be marked then only needs to be introduced into the press for the label to be applied to a desired location thereof.
  • a continuous strip of material comprising a continuous backing carrying a sequence of label components, either exclusively transparent cover layer sheets, or. an alternation of cover layer sheets and underlayer sheets and markings for signalling means controlling the movement of the backing through a labelling apparatus.
  • a labelling apparatus comprising a label press with a stationary section 1 and a section 3 movable up and down by means of a pneumatic cylinder 2.
  • the stationary press section 1 carries a heatable press plate 4, and the movable press section 3 carries a heatable press plate 5.
  • a temporary backing 6 for label components which will be described in more detail hereinafter, is guided by guide rollers7, 8, 9 and 10 from a supply roll 11 along a driven pressure roller 12, between the press plates 4 and 5 and to a reel 13.
  • the pressure roller 12 cooperates with a printing head 14.
  • the apparatus is controlled by a computer 15 by means of photocells 16 and 16'.
  • the apparatus is designed to label-textile articles 21 with a label composed of an underlayer 17 which.can be affixed to the textile article 21 by hot pressing, for example, owing to the-underlayer being made of thermoplastic material, and further a transparent cover layer 18, which can also be affixed by hot pressing.
  • These label-components 17 and 18 are sequentially affixed to the temporary backing formed by a continuous strip 6 made of, or coated with, a material having such characteristics that sheets 17 and 18 can easily be peeled off from it.
  • backing 6 is provided in-each of its marginal zones with markings 19 and 20.
  • marking 19 has been applied only, and marking 20 is absent.
  • the labelling apparatus operates as follows.
  • an article to be labelled such as the textile article 21, shown diagrammatically, is posit.ioned on the stationary, heated press plate 4.
  • the movable press plate 5 is in the raised position.
  • a transparent cover layer sheet 18, and an underlayer sheet 17 is present in the bagging portion between the printing head 14 and pressure plate 4.
  • an underlayer sheet 17 is, for example, positioned at photocells 16, 16', which is detected by the two cells 16 and 16' sensing a marking 20 and 19, respectively. This information is passed to computer 15.
  • Computer 15 controls printing head 14, which prints the variable information, possibly translated into a bar code, on the cover layer sheet present on the printing roller, in mirror image, whereafter the printing roller 12 is driven so that the underlayer 17 is transferred to the appropriate place over press plate 14. At this moment an underlayer sheet 17 is present on the printing roller, and the presence of a cover layer sheet 18 is detected at the photocells.
  • the press plate 5 is now lowered, and the underlayer 17 is pressed into the article 21.
  • the press plate 5 is moved upwards again, and, without the printing head 14 having meanwhile become operative, the pressure roller 12 is again driven to position the earlier printed cover layer sheet 18 over the underlayer. sheet 17 already affixed.to the article 21.
  • Press plate 15 is again lowered and presses the cover layer sheet 18 onto the underlayer 17.
  • the label is now completed and after press plate 5 has been raised, article 21 can be removed.
  • the empty backing is continually wound on reel 13.
  • the apparatus is ready for a next labelling operation.
  • the invention is not limited to the exemplary embodiment of the apparatus as described.
  • other detection methods can be used, and also the stepwise movement of backing 6 with. label components 17 and 18 may-be different, for example, so that at. the moment when a cover layer sheet 18 is printed simultaneously an underlayer sheet 17 is pressed on to an article 21.
  • underlayer sheets17 can be omitted altogether, for example, in case the color of the article to be labelled contrasts sufficiently with the marking symbols to be applied, and an underlayer exclusively serving for such contrast is redundant.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Labeling Devices (AREA)
  • Container Filling Or Packaging Operations (AREA)
  • Ultra Sonic Daignosis Equipment (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)
  • General Preparation And Processing Of Foods (AREA)
  • Measuring Or Testing Involving Enzymes Or Micro-Organisms (AREA)
  • Saccharide Compounds (AREA)
  • Medicines Containing Material From Animals Or Micro-Organisms (AREA)
  • Nitrogen Condensed Heterocyclic Rings (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Lining Or Joining Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • Photographic Processing Devices Using Wet Methods (AREA)
EP84200408A 1983-03-22 1984-03-21 Verfahren zum Etikettieren von Gegenständen Expired EP0119669B1 (de)

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AT84200408T ATE30890T1 (de) 1983-03-22 1984-03-21 Verfahren zum etikettieren von gegenstaenden.

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NL8301024A NL8301024A (nl) 1983-03-22 1983-03-22 Werkwijze en inrichting voor het etiketteren van voorwerpen.
NL8301024 1983-03-22

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JP (1) JPS59209517A (de)
AT (1) ATE30890T1 (de)
AU (1) AU2589084A (de)
DE (1) DE3467553D1 (de)
DK (1) DK160784A (de)
ES (1) ES8504054A1 (de)
FI (1) FI841142L (de)
IE (1) IE56095B1 (de)
NL (1) NL8301024A (de)
NO (1) NO841121L (de)

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FR2581093A1 (fr) * 1985-04-30 1986-10-31 Cermat Marquage d'une piece de tissu, dispositif pour la mise en oeuvre de ce procede et etiquette obtenue
EP0199810B1 (de) * 1984-11-05 1989-10-25 JACOB SCHLAEPFER & CO. AG Verbesserungen an und betreffend die herstellung von transferts
EP0489960A1 (de) * 1990-12-13 1992-06-17 SCHREINER ETIKETTEN UND SELBSTKLEBETECHNIK GMBH & CO. Verfahren zur Herstellung von heisssiegelfähigen Etiketten und nach diesem Verfahren herstellbares Etikett
NL1003650C2 (nl) * 1996-07-19 1998-01-21 Thermopatch Bv Werkwijze en inrichting voor het bedrukken van textiellabels, in het bijzonder heat-sealable textiellabels.
GB2520053A (en) * 2013-11-08 2015-05-13 Secure Tag Ltd Method of applying an identification label, possession identification system kit, garment, care label and method of providing information relating to an
WO2020123369A3 (en) * 2018-12-09 2020-07-23 Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, Llc Method and system for bag forming and label application
CN112644835A (zh) * 2020-12-22 2021-04-13 王卜墨 一种展平式毛衣贴标装置
EP3877272A4 (de) * 2018-11-09 2022-07-27 Collinder Märksystem AB System und verfahren zum bedrucken von etiketten und zum aufbringen eines bedruckten überlaminierten etikettensatzes auf ein objekt

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US2654495A (en) * 1948-03-04 1953-10-06 Meyer Hans Machine for marking and affixing tabs to articles
GB1128455A (en) * 1964-11-24 1968-09-25 Nashua Corp Dry transfer label and method of application of such a label
DE1807524A1 (de) * 1968-11-07 1970-05-27 Jagenberg Werke Ag Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Kennzeichnen von Werkstuecken in Etikettiermaschinen
FR2282134A1 (fr) * 1974-08-13 1976-03-12 Wallis Christopher Etiquettes adhesives

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US2654495A (en) * 1948-03-04 1953-10-06 Meyer Hans Machine for marking and affixing tabs to articles
GB1128455A (en) * 1964-11-24 1968-09-25 Nashua Corp Dry transfer label and method of application of such a label
DE1807524A1 (de) * 1968-11-07 1970-05-27 Jagenberg Werke Ag Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Kennzeichnen von Werkstuecken in Etikettiermaschinen
FR2282134A1 (fr) * 1974-08-13 1976-03-12 Wallis Christopher Etiquettes adhesives

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0199810B1 (de) * 1984-11-05 1989-10-25 JACOB SCHLAEPFER & CO. AG Verbesserungen an und betreffend die herstellung von transferts
US5073223A (en) * 1984-11-05 1991-12-17 Jakob Schlaepfer & Co. Ag Apparatus for forming a pattern of articles on a substrate
FR2581093A1 (fr) * 1985-04-30 1986-10-31 Cermat Marquage d'une piece de tissu, dispositif pour la mise en oeuvre de ce procede et etiquette obtenue
EP0201440A1 (de) * 1985-04-30 1986-11-12 CERMAT Association de droit local sans but lucratif Kennzeichen eines Textilstücks, Vorrichtung zur Durchführung dieses Verfahrens und so erhaltenes Etikett
EP0489960A1 (de) * 1990-12-13 1992-06-17 SCHREINER ETIKETTEN UND SELBSTKLEBETECHNIK GMBH & CO. Verfahren zur Herstellung von heisssiegelfähigen Etiketten und nach diesem Verfahren herstellbares Etikett
NL1003650C2 (nl) * 1996-07-19 1998-01-21 Thermopatch Bv Werkwijze en inrichting voor het bedrukken van textiellabels, in het bijzonder heat-sealable textiellabels.
WO1998003724A1 (en) * 1996-07-19 1998-01-29 Thermopatch B.V. Method and apparatus for printing textile labels, in particular heat-sealable textile labels
GB2520053A (en) * 2013-11-08 2015-05-13 Secure Tag Ltd Method of applying an identification label, possession identification system kit, garment, care label and method of providing information relating to an
EP3877272A4 (de) * 2018-11-09 2022-07-27 Collinder Märksystem AB System und verfahren zum bedrucken von etiketten und zum aufbringen eines bedruckten überlaminierten etikettensatzes auf ein objekt
WO2020123369A3 (en) * 2018-12-09 2020-07-23 Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, Llc Method and system for bag forming and label application
CN112644835A (zh) * 2020-12-22 2021-04-13 王卜墨 一种展平式毛衣贴标装置

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EP0119669B1 (de) 1987-11-19
JPS59209517A (ja) 1984-11-28
NO841121L (no) 1984-09-24
FI841142A0 (fi) 1984-03-21
ES530875A0 (es) 1985-04-16
ES8504054A1 (es) 1985-04-16
DK160784A (da) 1984-09-23
IE840699L (en) 1984-09-22
FI841142L (fi) 1984-09-23
ATE30890T1 (de) 1987-12-15
DE3467553D1 (en) 1987-12-23
NL8301024A (nl) 1984-10-16
IE56095B1 (en) 1991-04-10
DK160784D0 (da) 1984-03-21

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