Longitudinally-seamed assembly of sleeve markers

Claim 1

In an assembly of sleeve markers comprising webs of flexible sheet material and means defining individual tubular sleeve markers that are manually detachable from the assembly, the improvement wherein: (1) the assembly is made with two webs arranged in face-to-face relationship and having longitudinal axes disposed parallel to one another; (2) the means defining individual sleeve markers consist of longitudinal seams joining the two webs together and transverse severance lines extending across the webs, (a) there being a plurality of spaced longitudinal seams in the assembly, and (b) there being a plurality of spaced transverse severance lines, with each transverse severance line extending at least between the outermost longitudinal seams in the assembly, (3) spaced rows of transverse apertures defined in at least one of the webs and extending transversely across the assembly, there being at least one transverse aperture for each individual sleeve marker, with each row of transverse apertures being positioned to be intersected by a transverse severance line; and (4) a longitudinal separation line extending along each longitudinal seam; an individual sleeve marker being manually detachable from the assembly along the transverse severance lines and longitudinal separation lines, each individual sleeve marker having opposed closed edge portions defined by parts of an adjacent pair of longitudinal seams and opposed open end portions defined by parts of an adjacent pair of transverse severance lines and having a portion of a transverse aperture along at least one of its open ends.