Patent ID: 6039356
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: B42D,G07B,Y10T

Abstract:
A printed sheet product comprising:a thin flexible core formed by a printable material having first and second opposing major planar sides;a set of at least two separate code fields printed on a first major planar side of the core, each code field of the set being printed with a unique numeric code common to all code fields of the set, the unique numeric code being printed in at least a bar code format in at least a first printed code field of the set and being printed in at least a second printed code field of the set spaced apart from the first printed code field;at least one printed field on the second major planar side of the core;a first cover sheet permanently fixed to the first major planar side of the core overlying at least the first printed code field of the set, the first cover sheet being sufficiently transparent to permit the unique numeric code printed in bar code format in the underlying first code field to be machine read through the first cover sheet;a pressure sensitive adhesive applied over the second side of the core directly opposite only the second of the first and second code fields; andscoring extending sufficiently through the core and at least the first cover sheet where present to define at least two separate elements removable from a remainder of the printed sheet product, a first removable element bearing the first printed code field of the set and at least part of the first cover sheet to form a transaction element and a second removable element bearing the second printed code field of the set and at least part of the adhesive, the adhesive on the second removable element being exposable at least after the second removable element is removed from a remainder of the printed sheet product to form a self-adhering label bearing at least the second printed code field.