Patent ID: 6099927
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: B32B,G09F,Y10T

Abstract:
In combination a label facestock material joined with a layer of adhesive to a carrier for labelling workpiece substrates with labels less than about 3 mils thick that are die-cut from said facestock material and applied by a labelling machine, said facestock material comprising a film of polymeric material which is directionally-stiffened and heat-set such that said polymeric film has a differentiation between stiffness in the machine direction and stiffness in the cross-direction such that the degree of stiffening in the machine direction exceeds the degree of stiffening in the cross-direction and the degree of stiffening in the machine direction stiffens the heat set-film to a stiffness of between about 10 and 60 Gurley in the machine direction, wherein the stiffness in the cross-direction is less than 0.75 times the stiffness in the machine direction said carrier including a release means having a release value in the range of from about 10 to about 80 grams/2 inch width, said directional-stiffening providing said film with a stiffness sufficient at said release value to dispense a series of die-cut individual heat-set polymeric-film labels carried on said carrier past a peel-back edge and onto the workpiece substrates on which the labels are applied.