Coextruded core laminates

Claim 1

A method of providing cut-to-shape flexible labels from a multilayer laminate assembly bonded to a substrate with pressure sensitive adhesive and adapted to be peelingly separated into at least two sub-assemblies, comprising the steps of: extruding two polymeric films of different composition and forming them in contact with each other to provide a flexible coextrusion having a pair of contacting interior faces each formed during the coextrusion by contact with the other constituting a peelable interface, forming a divisible core by permanently combining one film of said coextrusion with a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive having an adhesion level to said one film substantially greater than that between said two films and permanently combining the other film of said coextrusion with a second layer of pressure sensitive adhesive which in turn is permanently combined with flexible label face stock, each of said combinings being performed either simultaneously with or subsequently to said step of extruding and forming in contact, die cutting the combined layers into individual flexible labels and thereafter presenting said first layer of pressure sensitive adhesive to a substrate and laminating said divisible core to said substrate.

Claim 2

A method of providing cut-to-shape flexible labels from a multilayer laminate assembly bonded to a substrate with pressure sensitive adhesive and adapted to be peelingly separated into at least two sub-assemblies, comprising the steps of: extruding two polymeric films of different composition and forming them in contact with each other to provide a flexible coextrusion having a pair of contacting interior faces each formed during the coextrusion by contact with the other constituting a peelable interface, forming a divisible core by permanently combining one film of said coextrusion with a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive having an adhesion level to said one film substantially greater than that between said two films and permanently combining the other film of said coextrusion with a second layer of pressure sensitive adhesive which in turn is permanently combined with flexible label face stock, each of said combinings being performed either simultaneously with or subsequently to said step of extruding and forming in contact, die cutting the combined layers into individual flexible labels and thereafter presenting said first layer of pressure sensitive adhesive to a substrate and laminating said divisible core to said substrate.