Perfume samplers and process for their manufacture

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EP 0 525 530 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	09.06.1993 Bulletin 1993/23

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	03.02.1993 Bulletin 1993/05

(21)	Application number: 92112157.0

(22)	Date of filing: 16.07.1992

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁵: B65D 75/30, G09F 5/04, A45D 37/00, A61L 9/12

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE FR GB IT

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Priority:

16.07.1991 US 730653

(71)	Applicant: THERMEDICS, INC.
	Woburn Massachusetts 01888-1799 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	Bootman, Matthew W. Medfield, Massachusetts 02052 (US)

(74)	Representative: Bardehle, Heinz, Dipl.-Ing. et al
	Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Bardehle . Pagenberg . Dost . Altenburg . Frohwitter . Geissler & Partner Postfach 86 06 20 81633 München 81633 München (DE)

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(54)	Perfume samplers and process for their manufacture

(57) Label-like, hermetically-sealed perfume pouch samplers with artwork on their top surface and a pressure sensitive adhesive bottom surface. The adhesive bottom surface may be employed to attach the pouch labelss to pages of a magazine or other mailer, providing an efficient method of mass distribution of perfume samples. The fragrance is stored in a perfume-releasing article such as an ultraviolet radiation-cured perfume-doped polymer, surrounded by two perfume impervious sealed barrier layers. There is disclosed a method of manufacturing the perfume pouch labels on a support web that can be wound onto rolls from which the pouch labels may be readily released and applied rapidly and precisely to advertising pages.

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