US 11,688,305 B2
Label sheet assembly with surface features
Martin Utz, Bavaria (DE); Alan Jameson, West Covina, CA (US); Eric Cushing, Riverside, CA (US); Le-Hoa Hong, Brea, CA (US); Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Chino Hills, CA (US); Adam Bratter, Newport Coast, CA (US); Heba Armand, Placentia, CA (US); Ana Trinh, Rowland Heights, CA (US); Thomas Amann, Buchloe/Lindenberg (DE); Martin Bögl, Warngau (DE); Andreas Meyer, Ottobrunn (DE); and Rebekka Trabitzsch, Putzbrunn (DE)
Assigned to CCL Label, Inc., Framingham, MA (US)
Filed by CCL Label, Inc., Framingham, MA (US)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/360,259.
Application 17/360,259 is a continuation of application No. 15/813,693, filed on Nov. 15, 2017, granted, now 11,049,420.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/475,288, filed on Mar. 23, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/422,364, filed on Nov. 15, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0327309 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. G09F 3/02 (2006.01); G09F 3/00 (2006.01); C09J 7/40 (2018.01); G09F 3/10 (2006.01)
CPC G09F 3/02 (2013.01) [C09J 7/403 (2018.01); G09F 3/0297 (2013.01); G09F 3/10 (2013.01); G09F 2003/0201 (2013.01); G09F 2003/0226 (2013.01); G09F 2003/0264 (2013.01); G09F 2003/0267 (2013.01); Y10T 428/14 (2015.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A label sheet assembly comprising:
a facestock layer having first and second sides, the facestock layer including at least one cut line that defines at least one label and a matrix portion wherein the facestock layer is configured to receive indicia thereon;
an adhesive layer along the second side of the facestock layer;
a liner sheet layer having top and bottom surfaces, the top surface attached to the adhesive layer along the facestock layer; and
at least one raised surface feature along the bottom surface of the liner sheet layer that includes a printed texture formed into a pattern including a first vertical surface feature, a second vertical raised surface feature and a third vertical raised surface feature, wherein the first and second vertical surface features include a plurality of spaced areas with rounded outer edges, and wherein the third vertical surface feature includes a plurality of spaced areas having a generally arrow shape with rounded edges that are generally aligned with the plurality of spaced areas of the first and second vertical surface features, the third vertical surface features being disposed between the first and second vertical features and between an upper edge and lower edge of the sheet, wherein the vertical surface features are aligned along a process direction as the label sheet is to be processed through a printer.