Patent ID: 7842156

Claim:
Method of making narrow composite RFID strap webs, comprising: providing a wide strap web having RFID straps in longitudinally extending columns along the wide strap web and in transversely extending rows across the wide strap web, providing a wide, flexible, carrier web having opposite first and second sides wherein at least the first side is coated with a release coating with thermoplastic adhesive applied onto the release coating on the first side and wherein the release coating on the first side is between the carrier web and the adhesive to form a wide composite adhesive web, wherein the adhesive contains electrically conductive particles, laminating the wide composite adhesive web to the wide strap web with the adhesive against the wide strap web to provide a wide composite strap web, and the adhesive being heated sufficiently to adhere the adhesive to the wide strap web, and slitting the wide composite strap web longitudinally into narrow composite strap webs.