Heat-shrinkable label sleeve with pleats to prevent wrinkling
CA 1080666 A · Owner: Owens-Illinois · Inventors: Amberg, Stephen W.
Overview
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The disclosure relates to a label on a closured bottle including a pilfer-proof feature. The neck label comprises a secondary closure in the form of a sleeve of a shrinkable oriented thermoplastic material shrunken snugly over the bottle and its closure skirt. The label stock is preprinted in a web and rolled as a supply, the roll width representing the label height. The label stock is (1) scored a partial depth of its thickness extending lengthwise along a line that is at a predetermined height in the final label and (2) pleated transversely at spaced intervals therealong. The pleats are spaced so that a predetermined number thereof appear in each label blank cut from the stock. Label …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
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- Granted July 1, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 1, 1997.
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