Patent ID: 6159569
Filing Date: 2000-12-12
Classification: B44C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
In combination with a hazardous product decal message application site for the installing of instructional and safety warning decal messages on a hazardous product, a decal organization tool at said application site useable with a hazardous product wherein the hazardous product is of a predetermined color and requires the attachment thereto of a multiplicity of spaced apart instructional and safety warning decal messages unrelated to and different from each other for the protection and education of the user, said decal organization tool decreasing the risk of injury to the user of the product, decreasing the frequency of unfounded product liability claims against a manufacturer of said product, bringing the multiplicity of decal messages as a group to said application site, avoiding decal installation errors by a decal installer and allowing the concealment of irregular margins around the decal messages from a human viewer while maintaining a visually attractive appearance, said tool comprising:an information layer having an obverse face and a reverse face;an adhesive applied to said reverse face of said information layer;a decal liner sheet releasably retained to said information layer by said adhesive;said information layer including a multiplicity of separate instructional and safety warning decal messages unrelated to and different from each other for the protection and education of the user and containing instructional information associated with the hazardous product and visible by the user whereby all of said multiplicity of said instructional and safety warning decal messages will be available to the installer and on said liner sheet as a group and can be carried to said hazardous product decal message application site as a group;said instructional and safety warning decal messages being printed adjacent each other on one of said faces of said information layer, each of said multiplicity of instructional and safety warning decal messages having an associated continuous border surrounding and spaced from said instructional information of said decal message with which it is associated;said borders of said adjacent decal messages being spaced from one another by an intervening gap;a multiplicity of removal cuts in said information layer, a said removal cut surrounding and associated with each of said decal messages to define the edge of each said associated decal message and to permit removal of each said associated decal message from said information layer and said liner sheet and permit transfer to the hazardous product, each said removal cut being wholly outside and spaced from said border of said associated decal message and within said intervening gap surrounding the associated decal message to define a margin between each said removal cut and said border of said decal message associated with said removal cut;product match means in said intervening gap on one of said faces of said information layer outside said borders, surrounding and contacting the said borders of a multiplicity of said decal messages and allowing the viewer to see a color in each said margin substantially matching said product predetermined color when said decal messages are affixed to the product, whereby each said decal message is releasably peelable from said liner sheet, and adhereable to the product with the said product match means which surrounds each decal message border allowing color matching of said margins with said predetermined color of said product so that when each said decal message is applied to the product and is viewed at a distance from the product by the user, the said margin between said border and said edge of said associated decal message will color match said predetermined color of the product and no portion of said decal message outside its said border visually color contrasts substantially with the product, thereby effectively visually concealing any irregular margin between said border and said removal cut; andsaid liner, when stripped bare of said multiplicity of decal messages, becoming an indicator at said decal message application site for the decal installer that all said instructional and safety warning decal messages of said group and on said liner sheet have been applied to the product thereby providing assurance that all the decal messages are attractively applied to the hazardous product and are available for the protection of the user.