Protective Label
a technology of protective labels and labels, applied in the field of protective labels, can solve the problems of reducing the perception of package quality, consumers may be dissatisfied by glass breakage associated with dropped bottles, and material damage and/or breakage, and achieve the effect of reducing damage and/or breaking or preventing damag
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[0075]To demonstrate this, standard beer and wine bottles were decorated with labels that represent conventionally decorated bottles that are on the market today. These bottles represented a control group. Additional such bottles were decorated with a label up to just below the neck of the bottles (e.g., the same or similar to that shown in FIGS. 4A-4D). This group of bottles represented a test group.
[0076]Tests were then conducted with the labeled articles by dropping them from a height of approximately five feet onto concrete. The beer and wine bottles (from both the control and test groups) included bottles that were (1) filled and capped, (2) filled but not capped, and (3) filled one third with no cap.
[0077]When subjected to the drop test, all of the control bottles broke immediately upon impact. However, when the test group was subjected to the drop test, the filled bottles broke at five feet, but the bottle filled one third did not break, but simply bounced. The one-third fill...
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[0078]In Example 1 (above), test group bottles were decorated with a label up to just below the neck of the bottles (e.g., the same or similar to that shown in FIGS. 4A-4D). For this Example 2, the size of the label was reduced in order to cover a lower portion 32 of the side surface of a bottle (thereby leaving a large portion of the side surface underneath the neck of the bottle unlabeled).
[0079]Additional labeled bottles were then prepared. In particular, the new test groups of bottles included a label positioned around only a lower portion 32 of the side surface of the article to confront the side surface of the article (e.g., the same or similar to that shown in FIGS. 3A-3D). A first test group was created with such a label, wherein the label extended ½″ up the side surface of the bottle from the bottom end of the bottle. And a second test group was created with such a label, wherein the label extended 1″ up the side surface of the bottle from the bottom end of the bottle.
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[0081]Based on the information obtained by the experiments described in Examples 1 and 2 (above), further studies were performed in order to understand the relationship of the particular label substrate used to the drop test performance of the labeled bottles.
[0082]All testing described in this Example 3 was conducted with filled and capped bottles.
[0083]Samples of bottles decorated with a variety of films were evaluated (See FIG. 6 for the particular materials of the labels tested). These bottles were then tested under the standard test method ASTM D2463-15, which is known to those of ordinary skill in the art (and which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety). This test method provides a means to assess the drop impact resistance of water-filled, blow-molded thermoplastic containers, which is a summation of the effects of material, manufacturing conditions, container design, and perhaps other factors. In the embodiments of the present invention, however, the articles ...
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