Patent ID: 7575649

Claim:
A method for obtaining a label structure comprising the steps of: providing a self-adhesive material tape reel of a type originally used for the obtaining of labels or other self-adhesive products, with a predetermined width and comprising a silicone-coated plastic tape ( 1 ′); an intermediate silicone layer ( 4 ′) arranged in an inner surface of tape ( 1 ′); an intermediate pressure-sensitive adhesive layer ( 13 ′), glued so as to be detached on the silicone layer ( 4 ′); and of a plastic tape ( 10 ″) opposite to the silicone-coated plastic tape ( 1 ′), which contains a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer ( 13 ′) and unwind said self-adhesive material tape from an unwinder located at the inlet end of a manufacturing equipment, making the traction thereof through a rewinder located at the opposite end of the equipment, so as to cause such tape to pass through the several manufacturing stages; printing on the surface of the silicone-coated tape ( 1 ′) facing outwards, opposite to that containing the silicone layer ( 4 ′), a succession of prints forming labels ( 2 ′), properly spaced from each other and in intervals between said prints corresponding to one of the label ends, printing marks ( 20 ), which work in collaboration with optical reader in the label application operation; printing on an outer surface of the self-adhesive tape ( 10 ″), opposite to that containing the adhesive layer ( 13 ′), prints at regular intervals forming the inner labels ( 10 ) containing gifts or coupons or similar products; coupling predetermined portions of the silicone layer ( 4 ′) of the tape ( 1 ′) to corresponding portions of the self-adhesive tape ( 10 ′) through an ultrasonic welding process, thereby inhibiting the silicone from the cross bands and from the two side longitudinal bands of the silicone layer ( 4 ′), of the silicone-coated tape ( 1 ′), which will form the back end cross bands ( 5 ), intermediate transversal bands ( 5 ′) and longitudinal bands ( 5 ″), such that the silicone layer ( 4 ) of the silicone-coated tape ( 1 ′) and the end cross bands ( 15 ), intermediate cross bands ( 15 ′) and longitudinal bands ( 15 ″) of said self-adhesive tape ( 10 ″) are coupled so as not to be detached, respectively, over the end cross bands ( 5 ), intermediate cross bands ( 5 ′) and longitudinal bands ( 5 ″); cutting ( 14 ′) the self-adhesive tape ( 10 ″) without cuffing the silicone-coated tape ( 1 ′) and without extracting the bands arising from the labels to define in said self-adhesive tape ( 10 ″) the shapes of the self-adhesive inner labels ( 10 ) and the end cross bands ( 15 ), intermediate cross band ( 15 ′) and longitudinal bands ( 15 ″); and rewinding the tape of labels when they are supplied in the form of a label tape or cut of the label tape when they are supplied already cut in the form of individual labels.