Patent ID: 8936197
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An integral garment tag, comprising: a RFID device, the RFID device having an antenna and an integrated circuit connected to the antenna and first and second layers of a flexible material laminated together to cover the antenna and integrated circuit to form a RFID inlay having first and second surfaces and a first dimension; a flexible fabric substrate having a second dimension at least one and half times greater than the first dimension, the fabric substrate having first and second surfaces each with two sections each of the first and second sections having first and second portions wherein each of the first and second portions is removable from each of the first and second sections, first and second longitudinally extending side edges and first and second transversely extending end edges; the first surface is provided with indicia; an adhesive layer applied on one of the first and second surfaces of the RFID inlay; the RFID inlay is positioned completely on a portion of the second section of the fabric substrate first surface such that the adhesive layer is directly in contact with the fabric substrate to hold the RFID inlay securely to the first surface of the substrate second section and the RFID inlay is positioned between the first and second longitudinally extending side edges and adjacent one of the first and second transversely extending end edges; the fabric substrate is folded over the RFID inlay such that the first surface of the fabric substrate is in contact with the first and second surfaces of the RFID inlay and the first and second longitudinally extending sides of the fabric substrate are secured together to form an envelope encasing the RFID inlay; wherein the indicia includes a line for tag removal; wherein the envelope with the RFID inlay has a head space which does not contain any portion of the RFID inlay; the RFID device is positioned completely below the tag removal line and the removable first and second portions to enable complete removal from the garment tag; and wherein at least one of the first and second sections is provided with indicia.