Product display hanger and process

Abstract

A clear / printed hang tag, a hanging system for suspending a package of products from a single wire hanger and / or a double wire hanger, automatic labeling of product packaging on a billboard, and the process for making hang tags. The hang tag has an opening for receiving a single or a double wire hanger cut near the top of a billboard region containing printed matter. The hang tag is made from a continuous web of polyester film with a process including, printing graphics on the back side of the upper portion using reverse image flexographic printing, coating the printed image with a UV cured, opaque ink coating, a lower portion of the front side with a clear, pressure sensitive adhesive, combining and adhering the continuous web of polyester film to a release liner, die cutting the hang tag shape and the hanger opening, stripping the waste material from the liner, and rewinding the combined hang tags and liner on a reel for shipment to a customer. The package consists of at least two bundled products forming a compact package, wrapped and sealed in a clear, oriented polypropelene shrink wrap film, and the adhering region is pressed against the topmost product and adhered thereto by the adhesive.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThis invention relates generally to product hangers and more specifically to clear / printed hang-tag construction to be used in automatic labeling of product packaging and a process for making hang-tags.2. Discussion of the Prior ArtHang tags are used in large numbers for hanging a wide variety of small products on the wire hangers of sales display racks. The hang tags have an opening, usually in the form of a squat, isosceles triangle, having an apex that can receive a single wire hanger and having a base broad enough to receive a double wire hanger.Hang tabs are generally adhered to the box or package they support, and are usually formed to fold flat against the package they are adhered to, until the package is removed from a packing case and hung up for sales display.Labels using pressure sensitive adhesives are well known. In general, pressure sensitive labels involve the label itself, a pressure sensitive adhesive, and a backin...

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Problems solved by technology

Both of these packaging systems use a considerable amount of material.

Hang tags, although having many of the qualities of labels, suffer from an additional problem and that is the tendency of pressure-sensitive hangers to peel from the surface to which they are secured, if the article hung is moderately heavy so that there is a constant and substantial pull by gravity.

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