| 摘要 |
A method and device for delivering a remotely detectable tag for tagging an article; the method comprises the steps of: (a) advancing a continuous pressure sensitive tape from a first source such that said tape travels along a first path, the tape having an adhesive side and an opposed non-adhesive side, (b) advancing a continuous sensor element substrate of a remotely detectable material from a second source and into adhering engagement with the adhesive side of said tape so as to form a composite tagging tape downstream of the first and second sources, (c) advancing the tagging tape along the first path so as to provide a free protruding forward end portion of tagging tape, and (d) severing the forward end portion as a tag of the pressure sensitive tape bearing a sensor element of the substrate on the adhesive side of the tape. The method and device particulars provide for stiffening the tagging tape to facilitate advancing the tape with the free forward end portion; a replacement cartridge and an applicator which are components of the device from separate aspects of the invention.
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