ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,114, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Iconex LLC (Duluth, Ga.).
"Apparatus and method for testing liner and label separation" was invented by Timothy Darren Livingston (Corryton, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for testing label-liner separation is provided. The apparatus comprises a roller, a plurality of replaceable printer peel bars, and a weight. Each peel bar associated with its own unique radius for its disengage edge. A label-liner web is fed under the roller and up to a given peel bar of a given radius over the corresponding disengage edge. A string is attached on one end to a liner portion of the web and ...