Patent ID: 7176799

Claim:
Apparatus for making a multiplicity of assemblies wherein each assembly comprises a tag with RFID means and a label, comprising: a supply of tags with RFID means; a supply of pressure sensitive adhesive coated labels in label web form, wherein labels are adhered to a liner; means for melding, by pressing together serially received labels and serially received tags, to form an assembly web in which each tag underlies a label adhered to said liner; means for serially removing each label from the label web at a first location upstream of the means for melding, and for delivering each label to the means for melding; means for running the label liner, after labels have been removed at the first location, along a loop path which runs to and through the means for melding; wherein there is a gap between said first location and the location where the label liner loop path runs to the means for melding; means for delivering each tag to the means for melding through said gap in coordination with the delivery of each label to the means for melding, so each label adheres to the liner by overlying a tag placed on the liner, thereby forming said assembly web; and means for moving said assembly web downstream from the means for melding.