Patent ID: 8608204

Claim:
A self-attaching tag made essentially of self-adhesive printable plastic to be attached to a fragile and easily deformable object such as a blood bag or other pharmaceutical fluid, said tag being of a total length of substantially 240 mm and comprising three parts, the first part being an oblong shaped main body of substantially 70 mm in width and longer in length, the second part comprising sloping shoulders which reduce the width of the tag gradually down to the third part which is essentially an attachment strip and comprises a T-shaped end which, when doubled back over said sloping shoulders part, forms an attachment loop to be attached to the blood bag, the whole tag being a laminate of six layers with layer one being a standard carrier layer, layer two being an adhesive and layer three a film layer, layer four being a thermo sensitive chemical which supports thermal printing of text, images or barcode on it, layer five protects that printing from deterioration and finally layer six allows, at the moment of use, writing on with standard ballpoint pen.