WO2003001485A1 - Labels with a separable portion for wet glue application - Google Patents
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- WO2003001485A1 WO2003001485A1 PCT/AU2002/000833 AU0200833W WO03001485A1 WO 2003001485 A1 WO2003001485 A1 WO 2003001485A1 AU 0200833 W AU0200833 W AU 0200833W WO 03001485 A1 WO03001485 A1 WO 03001485A1
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- 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
- G09F3/08—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
- G09F3/10—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by an adhesive layer
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- 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
- G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
- G09F3/0288—Labels or tickets consisting of more than one part, e.g. with address of sender or other reference on separate section to main label; Multi-copy labels
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- 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
- G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
- G09F2003/0272—Labels for containers
- G09F2003/0273—Labels for bottles, flasks
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- the present invention relates to labels having a separable portion for wet glue application.
- Self-adhesive labels have a backing sheet to which the labels are held with their self adhesive glue. When these are applied by machine the labels are generally separated from the backing sheet by having the backing sheet with label travel around a beak at which point the labels leave by peeling off from the backing sheet and are transferred to the container such as a bottle. The bottle and label are then processed to press the label onto the bottle.
- Wet-glue labels have indicia on one side and wet glue is applied to the other during a wet glue application process.
- This process is a standard process and is common general knowledge.
- the labels in this standard process are stored as a pack with the labels held in an aligned horizontal stack which involves individual labels being loaded into tubes or carriers to form an horizontal column of such labels.
- the label are applied to a container such as a bottle by using a cam-mounted applicator having a face of a similar area and shape as the label.
- the applicator will first travel across a wet giue roller to be coated thereby with wet glue, and is then pressed against the end of a horizontally extending column of labels so as to capture a vertically presented back face of an end label.
- the applicator then moves on from the column, taking at the same time the label with applied wet glue from the column which has been held by a plurality of peripherally located and spaced apart fingers projecting slightly across the face of a respective label being held.
- the wet adhesion available from the applied glue on the face of the applicator is sufficient to pull the label away from its held position in the stack and at the same time coat the back of the label in appropriate places with the glue.
- the container is being rotated so that as the label glue face is presented against the container the fingers which have been holding the front edge of the label with the applicator are then withdrawn and the applicator cross's the side of a matching in movement rotating surface of the container.
- the fingers are arranged to hold with some force the label by its front edge, it is left for the wet glue to set.
- the frangible or separable connection of the portion is described as being preferably free from adhesive attachment to the bottle but the remainder of the label is adhesively attached.
- the portion is described as being vertically disposed and includes a tag or flap extending out from a bottom edge of the overall label.
- US Patent 5,172,936 describes an in-mould label for use in plastic containers such as motor oil.
- the label has a coupon portion that in part forms a tab and naturally puckers or blisters.
- In-mould label application methods are very different to wet-glue methods with the label becoming part of the container formed around the label.
- US Patent 5,702,127 describes a method of placing selectively spaced self- adhesive labels, (t discloses a method of positioning two labels with a space between them on a container. The space is formed by using a frangible section that is removed after the application of the labels to the bottle.
- US 5,329,713 describes a container label having a main portion having a generally U shape and a removable part.
- the removable part is free of adhesive and is connected to the main portion by a destructible connection web - in the form of a U shaped line of weakness or line of perforations.
- the label appears to be of the self-adhesive type in that it has a separate adhesive layer.
- frangible is used to describe a portion of the label which is integrally attached to a main part of the label but is separable by means that are fragile or frangible. These means are lines of weakness created by perforations through the paper of the label. There are difficulties in avoiding any application of glue to a frangible which is to say a frangibly separable portion and avoiding tearing of any perforations during a standard bottle labelling process.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a label with a frangibly attached portion that solves one or more of the above problems.
- this can be said to reside in a paper label for use in a wet glue label application system which includes a wet glue applicator and retaining fingers for holding the label when in a stack and being held by retaining fingers, the label having a main portion and a separable portion which is connected to the main label by lines of weakness and having at least one edge of the separable portion defining a part of one of substantially vertical sides of the label, the separable portion being located in relation to a remainder of the label so that the retaining fingers of a standard wet glue applicator stack retention arrangement will not during a transfer to a glue pallet of a label so held result in any of the fingers contacting the said separable portion of the label.
- Another aspect of the invention is a wine bottle label having a frangibly attached portion and line(s) of weakness associated with and defining the frangibly attached portion, wherein the line(s) of weakness include junction points and elongate perforations.
- a wine bottle label having a main label portion and a frangibly attached portion integral thereto where the main label portion defines a c shape in that the label has two substantially horizontal and one substantially vertical, lines of weakness associated with the frangibly attached portion, wherein the lines of weakness are formed from junction points and elongate perforations.
- elongate perforations are elongate in a direction of the line of weakness.
- junction points and perforations they are smaller in the vertical line of weakness than in the horizontal lines of weakness.
- the strength can be in the horizontal lines of weakness and the smaller junctions where strength is not so important can be in the vertical lines of weakness where the grain of the paper is along the horizontal direction so that any puckering in the junctions in the vertical line will less noticeable because the width of these is individually smaller than the horizontal lines.
- an open edge of the frangibly attached portion will be less likely to pucker or rise to then be potentially caught when a bottle typically is wedged while being rotated during a pressing procedure as is also conventional in these types of label applicators.
- a further form of this invention can be said to reside in a wine bottle label having a main label portion and frangible portion integral thereto where the main label portion defines a c shape in that, the label has two substantially horizontal and one substantially vertical lines of weakness associated with the frangible portion, wherein the lines of weakness are formed from junction points and elongate perforations and wherein the horizontal lines of weakness terminate within the label with an elongate perforation.
- the substantially vertical line of weakness extends from one of the terminating elongate perforations of the horizontal lines of weakness to the other.
- the vertical line of weakness starts at both ends with junction points that contact the terminating elongate perforations of the horizontal lines of weakness and are located below or above said terminating elongate perforations.
- Another aspect of the invention is a wine bottle label for use with wet glue applicators, the label having an outer perimeter, the label including a main portion and frangible portion integral thereto where the main label portion defines a c shape in that the line(s) of weakness associated with the frangible portion the line(s) of weakness formed from perforations and junction points, wherein the junction points closest to the outer perimeter of the label are set back from the outer edge of the frangible or separable portion.
- this outer edge of the separable portion does not itself extend beyond an imaginary straight line extending from one end of the C shape to the other end of the C shape or in other words lies within the C shape or at least substantially so.
- the separable portion has indicia which provide
- Another aspect of the invention is a wine bottle label that combines two or more of the above aspects of the invention.
- Yet another aspect of the invention is a method of applying a label of the invention to a container including a wine bottle and a container including a wine bottle having a label of the invention attached thereto.
- Figure 1 is a view of a bottle having the label of the invention attached thereto.
- Figure 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the label of the invention.
- Figure 3 is a plan view of a portion of the label of the invention.
- Figure 4 is a magnified view of figure 3.
- Figure 5 is a perspective view of a wet glue applicator appropriate for this application
- Figure 6 illustrates a stack of labels being held by a plurality of fingers holding the labels close to their corners.
- Figure 1 depicts a label (1) of the present invention affixed to a bottle.
- the label has a C shaped main portion (10) and a frangible or separable portion (20).
- the label is applied to the bottle by the wet glue method.
- the overall label is arranged not to have any protrusions past an imaginary line between a top and bottom .
- Columns of labels are stored in guides. As non-standard labels, such as those with protrusions will require a custom built guide, it is better to avoid having protrusions or tags extending from the label.
- Glue is applied by using an applicator or glue pallet having a same general peripheral shape of the label with however parts that are void so as to not pick up glue. These parts include a general area match approximately the area and shape of the frangible or separable portion 20 with a slight enlargement of this area to allow for natural glue spread.
- the applicator or glue pallet is a steel plate with a number of parallel ribs to which the glue becomes attached as it is applied. The glue is applied by passing the applicator against a roller which transfers glue from a glue supply.
- part of the applicator or glue pallet is void corresponding to the separable portion shape , location and area. This is done by recessing or rebating an appropriate part of the applicator plate to avoid the contact of that portion of the plate (and the glue thereon) to the separable portion.
- void portions to correspond with fingers which hold the labels when being held in a collective stack. The location of these fingers is such that they hold an outer most label from falling from the guides. These are also located to be located one to each end of each side. They are therefore located so as to leave clear the majority of the label area and are holding a respective edge of the label at a location which is approximately 15% of the distance in from a comer of a label.
- the label is depicted with a horizontally orientated separable portion. This is for two reasons.
- a vertically orientated separable portion is likely to tear when being applied to a bottle.
- a line of weakness associated with the separable portion is likely to tear during the process of removing the label from an applicator with fingers.
- the spinning step may tear vertical lines of weakness. The tearing effect in experiments appears to be avoided by using substantially horizontal lines of weakness and locating of the frangible or separable portion in a central area between upper and lower edges of the label.
- Production paper during production is rolled so that it has a direction of grain. If a label of paper with such grain is wetted, the paper will implicitly curl around its grain direction as an axis. Accordingly, all paper labels are produced so that their grain will run horizontal when applied to a container with a curved surface where the curve has a vertical axis (This presumes that the container is standing upright as for instance a conventional bottle). This means that the label is wrapped around the curved surface with a curve that has its axis opposite to the natural curl direction provided by the grain direction and this locks the label against such curl and assists in keeping the label in position while wet and before its glue is dry.
- an aspect of the invention is a bottle paper label for use with wet glue applicators, the label having a main portion and a separable portion, the separable portion being located so that when the label is transferred to a wet glue applicator and thereby pulled against retaining transfer fingers, the transfer fingers do not contact the separable portion of the main label.
- an aspect of invention is a wet glue bottle paper label having a length and a breadth, the label including a frangible or separable portion and line(s) of weakness which extend around the separable portion with however the separable portion having one side which is a part of the overall periphery of the label , wherein the line(s) of weakness which are a series of perforations only occur in a region located between 20% to 80% of the length of label.
- the location of the frangible or separable portion in a central position of the label is not desirable, as it may not considered acceptable to some customers.
- a second reason for orienting the frangible portion horizontally is to use the curvature of the bottle to assist access and removal of the frangible or separable portion.
- the label can be designed to permit the edge of the frangible or separable portion to stand proud from the surface of the bottle if it not glued down. This can act as a tag and thereby avoid the need to provide custom built frames for the columns of labels.
- Figures 2 to 4 depict a label having such a design.
- a frangible or separable portion (20) is integrally a part of a main C shaped portion (10) of the label.
- the line(s) of weakness formed from a plurality of elongate perforations (35, 45, and 60) and junctures (30, 40, 50, and 65) between the perforations.
- the outer edge may stand out proud from a bottle face due to the curvature of the bottle and the direction of the grain of the paper.
- a wine bottle label for use with wet glue applicators, the label having an outer perimeter, the label including a C shaped main portion and frangible or separable portion integral thereto, and line(s) of weakness associated with the frangible or separable portion, the line(s) of weakness formed from perforations and junctures, wherein the junctures closest to the outer perimeter of the label are set back from the outer edge of the frangible or separable portion.
- this outer edge does not itself extend beyond an imaginary straight line extending from one end of the C shape to the other end of the C shape (as a rectangular label without protrusions should fit within a standard frame).
- elongate perforations 35, 45, 60.
- a perforation is intended to include round holes or other shaped holes in the label. It is also intended to include cuts, slashes or slots. This embodiment uses perforations that are elongate in the direction of the line of weakness.
- the size of the junctures (40) in the horizontal lines of weakness is in this embodiment between 1.0 mm although trials suggest that a range of form 0.5 to 1.5 mm will be useful.
- the size of the perforations (45) are a magnitude larger, namely 8 mm although again a range of from 4mm to 12 mm is useful.
- an oversized first juncture (30) This juncture is intended to be a tougher part and this then is 1.5 mm.
- the size of the first perforation (35) may also be different to the remaining.
- junction points (50, 65) and smaller perforations in the vertical lines of weakness in order to reduce the likelihood of puckering.
- After the label has been glued to the bottle there may be different expansion differentials on the different sides of the line of weakness especially due to the natural characteristics of the paper.
- the use of more but smaller junctures largely addresses this problem without significantly affecting the clean-cut edge look after removal of the frangible or separable portion.
- the junctures (50, 65) may be between 0.3 mm to 0.7 mm, preferably 0.5 mm in size.
- the perforations are preferably between 2 mm to 4 mm, and more preferably 3 mm in size.
- the first junction points (50) of the vertical line is located below an outer edge (55) of the inner-most horizontal perforations (45). This arrangement was found to significantly reduce the likelihood of tearing the main portion of the label (10) thereby reducing the likelihood of leaving an unsightly 'daggy' ends in the inner corners of the main label portion.
- a wine bottle label having a C shaped main label portion and frangible or separable portion integral thereto, the label having two substantially horizontal and one substantially vertical lines of weakness defining the frangible or separable portion, wherein the lines of weakness are formed from junction points and elongate perforations and wherein the horizontal lines of weakness terminate within the label with an elongate perforation.
- the vertical line of weakness extends from each of the terminating elongate perforations of the horizontal lines of weakness.
- the vertical line of weakness should start with junction points that contact the terminating elongate perforations of the horizontal iines of weakness and are located below or above said terminating elongate perforations.
- a glue palette 100 which has a plurality of ribs 101 and voids firstly for fingers holding the labels.at 103 and a void 104.
- the void 104 co-incides with the location of the separable portion in the label as shown in Figure 1 so that there is no glue carried by the applicator and applied directly to the back of the separable portion.
- the glue palette 100 acts appropriately by being coated with wet glue and while still wet pressed against the back face of a label as shown in Figure 6 as 106.
- This label 106 is held in place by fingers 107 which are located in the end 15 percent of the distance a respective sides of the label 106.
- the location of the separable portion 108 is located so that it will be well ear of these fingers and, in this way, any pulling pressure does not transfer across the label through the lines of weakness so as to perhaps accidentally otherwise tear these.
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Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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EP02734912A EP1405290A1 (en) | 2001-06-26 | 2002-06-26 | Labels with a separable portion for wet glue application |
AU2002311094A AU2002311094B2 (en) | 2001-06-26 | 2002-06-26 | Labels with a separable portion for wet glue application |
SE0303392A SE0303392L (en) | 2001-06-26 | 2003-12-15 | Labels with a detachable part for application of wet glue |
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AUPR5910A AUPR591001A0 (en) | 2001-06-26 | 2001-06-26 | Wine bottle label and frangible portion |
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AUPS0906A AUPS090602A0 (en) | 2002-03-06 | 2002-03-06 | Label improvements |
AUPS0906 | 2002-03-06 |
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DE2348595A1 (en) * | 1973-09-27 | 1975-04-03 | Jagenberg Werke Ag | Marking of labelled containers - labels on bottles, packets etc. are marked on inside with registr. data |
EP0349670A1 (en) * | 1988-06-28 | 1990-01-10 | HAGEN & SORENSEN A/S | Label for containers, in particular for glass or plastic bottles |
GB2244694A (en) * | 1990-06-06 | 1991-12-11 | Instance Ltd David J | Labels and closures for containers |
US5329713A (en) * | 1989-11-13 | 1994-07-19 | Menasha Corporation | Label with removable part |
FR2706214A1 (en) * | 1993-06-08 | 1994-12-16 | Danel Ferry | Adhesive label equipped with at least one secondary label for subsequent use |
AU2482195A (en) * | 1994-07-05 | 1996-01-18 | David Andrew Watson | A label |
FR2728095A1 (en) * | 1994-12-07 | 1996-06-14 | Delahodde Guy | Identifying label removable from product packaging |
US5535536A (en) * | 1992-05-22 | 1996-07-16 | Comann; Tyler K. | System for identifying an object |
WO2001022388A1 (en) * | 1999-09-23 | 2001-03-29 | Anselmo Valle Vicente | Improved reminder label |
AU746344B1 (en) * | 2001-09-05 | 2002-04-18 | Global Apeel Limited | Label |
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- 2002-06-26 EP EP02734912A patent/EP1405290A1/en not_active Withdrawn
- 2002-06-26 WO PCT/AU2002/000833 patent/WO2003001485A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
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DE2348595A1 (en) * | 1973-09-27 | 1975-04-03 | Jagenberg Werke Ag | Marking of labelled containers - labels on bottles, packets etc. are marked on inside with registr. data |
EP0349670A1 (en) * | 1988-06-28 | 1990-01-10 | HAGEN & SORENSEN A/S | Label for containers, in particular for glass or plastic bottles |
US5329713A (en) * | 1989-11-13 | 1994-07-19 | Menasha Corporation | Label with removable part |
GB2244694A (en) * | 1990-06-06 | 1991-12-11 | Instance Ltd David J | Labels and closures for containers |
US5535536A (en) * | 1992-05-22 | 1996-07-16 | Comann; Tyler K. | System for identifying an object |
FR2706214A1 (en) * | 1993-06-08 | 1994-12-16 | Danel Ferry | Adhesive label equipped with at least one secondary label for subsequent use |
AU2482195A (en) * | 1994-07-05 | 1996-01-18 | David Andrew Watson | A label |
FR2728095A1 (en) * | 1994-12-07 | 1996-06-14 | Delahodde Guy | Identifying label removable from product packaging |
WO2001022388A1 (en) * | 1999-09-23 | 2001-03-29 | Anselmo Valle Vicente | Improved reminder label |
AU746344B1 (en) * | 2001-09-05 | 2002-04-18 | Global Apeel Limited | Label |
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