Patent ID: 6371187
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: G08B,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for continuously manufacturing security tags, comprising:a first supply for plastic housing material in a continuous web; a plastic former, downstream of said first supply, for forming housing cavities in the plastic housing material without separating the continuous web; a resonator feeder, downstream of said plastic former, for placing resonator strips in the housing cavities; a second supply, downstream of said resonator feeder, for placing lid stock material over open ends of the housing cavities to seal the housing cavities closed with the resonator strips therein; and a bias feeder and a third supply, adjacent to one another downstream of said resonator feeder, for attaching bias strips and cover stock material to an outer surface of the lid stock material remote form the housing cavities with the cover stock material over the bias strips.