GB478699A - Improvements in labels and the method of making the same - Google Patents

Abstract

478,699. Labels; compound sheet materials; ornamenting. BRITISH CELANESE, Ltd. July 20, 1936, No. 20040. Convention date, July 18, 1935. [Class 140] [Also in Groups IX and XV] A label adapted to be secured to an article by hot-pressing comprises a front face bearing or constituting a legend or device and a back face of fabric having yarns or filaments of a thermoplastic derivative of cellulose such as cellulose acetate exposed thereon. The label may be formed from a single thickness of fabric having cellulose derivative yarns woven or knitted therein and exposed on the back face, and the legend on the front face may also be formed by weaving. Alternatively the label may comprise a front face of fabric woven, knitted, knotted, or netted from wool, cotton, linen, silk, regenerated cellulose or organic cellulose derivatives, or of felt, paper, leather, or metallic cloth, united to a fabric backing containing cellulose derivative yarns as by hot-pressing to cause the cellulose derivative yarns to fuse and adhere to the front layer. The fusion may be aided by a plasticizer or solvent and, if desired, moisture or steam. A plasticizer may be applied to or incorporated in the cellulose derivative yarns exposed on the back of the the label to improve adhesion to the article. The labels may be used on wearing- apparel, shoes, hats, fabrics, felt, paper, cardboard, and plaster board. They may be in the form of ribbons comprising a series of labels, or monograms, decorations, coats of arms, or trade marks. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 describes also labels having a front face of metal foil or artificial film, or having a back layer of non-thermoplastic fabric coated or impregnated with cellulose derivative as by applying an aqueous slurry or powder of the cellulose derivative. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.