Patents Assigned to Color Communications, Inc.
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Patent number: 9767716Abstract: A fan blade and color display fan deck provide a changeable color display product because the fan deck blades can be added to and removed from the fan deck without opening the fastener to which the fan blades are pivotally attached. Despite being removable from the fan deck, the blades can withstand the normal wear and tear associated with use in a color fan deck such as supporting the weight of the whole fan deck when a user holds an individual fan blade.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steven B. Winter, Stanley I. Lerner
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Patent number: 9754516Abstract: A color display fan deck which illustrates paint colors and a method for making the color display fan deck is described. The color display fan deck includes paper blades which has paint applied on each sized paper surface of each side of the blade. A plurality of planar swatch bearing blades is pivotally joined together at one end to form a deck or fan deck of paper blades painted on each side. The method includes sizing and painting a paper web on both sides with a water based paint having selected heat resistant pigments.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventor: Steven B. Winter
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Publication number: 20160275827Abstract: A color display fan deck which illustrates paint colors and a method for making the color display fan deck is described. The color display fan deck includes paper blades which has paint applied on each sized paper surface of each side of the blade. A plurality of planar swatch bearing blades is pivotally joined together at one end to form a deck or fan deck of paper blades painted on each side. The method includes sizing and painting a paper web on both sides with a water based paint having selected heat resistant pigments.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Color Communications, Inc.Inventor: Steven B. Winter
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Patent number: 9393823Abstract: A color display fan deck which illustrates paint colors and a method for making the color display fan deck is described. The color display fan deck includes paper blades which has paint applied on each sized paper surface of each side of the blade. A plurality of planar swatch bearing blades is pivotally joined together at one end to form a deck or fan deck of paper blades painted on each side. The method includes sizing and painting a paper web on both sides with a water based paint having selected heat resistant pigments.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventor: Steven B. Winter
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Patent number: 8608892Abstract: A method of making a color display device and color display device are provided for the display of metallic or special effect pigmented paint using commercially available or the manufacturer's paint. In the method provided herein, the metallic or special effect pigmented paint is sprayed onto a web behind a knife or onto a first roller which is a part of a roller roller coater.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steven B. Winter, Stanley I. Lerner
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Patent number: 8007621Abstract: The present invention is directed to a paint color sample display device for the illustration of paint colors and a method for making such a color display device. The color display device may be a color fan deck which displays color on each side of the blades of the fan deck. The fan blades include a painted polymeric film laminated to both sides of a base paper to form a painted film/base paper/painted film laminate for the fan blades.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steven B. Winter, Stanley I. Lerner
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Method and apparatus for manufacture and inspection of swatch bearing sheets using a vacuum conveyor
Patent number: 7934529Abstract: An apparatus and method of high speed manufacture of swatch bearing sheets wherein each sheet is directed through various operating stations via sequentially releasing a suction force from an endless vacuum belt conveyor while sequentially pulling the sheet onto another endless vacuum belt conveyor with a suction force to allow for substantially continuous engagement of the sheet with the endless vacuum conveyors during the manufacture and inspection of the sheets.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stanley I. Lerner, Steven B. Winter, Gregory O'Brien -
Method And Apparatus For Manufacture And Inspection Of Swatch Bearing Sheets Using A Vacuum Conveyor
Publication number: 20100200165Abstract: An apparatus and method of high speed manufacture of swatch bearing sheets wherein each sheet is directed through various operating stations via sequentially releasing a suction force from an endless vacuum belt conveyor while sequentially pulling the sheet onto another endless vacuum belt conveyor with a suction force to allow for substantially continuous engagement of the sheet with the endless vacuum conveyors during the manufacture and inspection of the sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: COLOR COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Stanley I. Lerner, Steven B. Winter, Gregory O'Brien -
Method and apparatus for manufacture and inspection of swatch bearing sheets using a vacuum conveyor
Patent number: 7718020Abstract: An apparatus and method of high speed manufacture of swatch bearing sheets wherein each sheet is directed through various operating stations via sequentially releasing a suction force from an endless vacuum belt conveyor while sequentially pulling the sheet onto another endless vacuum belt conveyor with a suction force to allow for substantially continuous engagement of the sheet with the endless vacuum conveyors during the manufacture and inspection of the sheets.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stanley I. Lerner, Steven B. Winter, Gregory O'Brien -
Patent number: 7007601Abstract: A method and apparatus use an in-line printer to print on chips or swatches mounted on an underlying substrate such as a sheet or web of paper or paperboard. The chips may have varying heights due to variations of thickness of the paint on the chip and/or adhesive mounting the chips to the substrate. The sheets are continuously moving through the chip mounting machine and the printing machine which are synchronized to operate at the same speed. In the illustrated apparatus, conveyor pushers push the sheets through the chip mounting machine and through the printer machine and resilient strips on the printing roller form a nip with an underlying anvil roller to grip and hold the chips against shifting to prevent smearing of the ink as the sheets are pushed through the nip between the printing cylinder and the anvil roller. An in-line trimming apparatus such as die cutter may cut the chips to size and/or shape as to provide rectangularly mounted chips with arcs, curves, circles, etc.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2004Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steven B. Winter, Stanley I. Lerner
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Patent number: 7005171Abstract: The color card or display device of the invention has one or more paint color swatches or chips which are removable from a base and are repositionable and adhesively affixable to another substrate remote from the color card or display device. The color card with repositionable paint swatches provides swatches which may be remounted onto furniture, walls, other samples and fabrics to aid the consumer of the color to select the color on the swatch and match it with other colors and the environment for which the color is intended.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2002Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stanley I. Lerner, Steven B. Winter
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Publication number: 20040237811Abstract: A method and apparatus use an in-line printer to print on chips or swatches mounted on an underlying substrate such as a sheet or web of paper or paperboard. The chips may have varying heights due to variations of thickness of the paint on the chip and/or adhesive mounting the chips to the substrate. The sheets are continuously moving through the chip mounting machine and the printing machine which are synchronized to operate at the same speed. In the illustrated apparatus, conveyor pushers push the sheets through the chip mounting machine and through the printer machine and resilient strips on the printing roller form a nip with an underlying anvil roller to grip and hold the chips against shifting to prevent smearing of the ink as the sheets are pushed through the nip between the printing cylinder and the anvil roller. An in-line trimming apparatus such as die cutter may cut the chips to size and/or shape as to provide rectangularly mounted chips with arcs, curves, circles, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Applicant: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steven B. Winter, Stanley I. Lerner
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Publication number: 20030072907Abstract: The color card or display device of the invention has one or more paint color swatches or chips which are removable from a base and are repositionable and adhesively affixable to another substrate remote from the color card or display device. The color card with repositionable paint swatches provides swatches which may be remounted onto furniture, walls, other samples and fabrics to aid the consumer of the color to select the color on the swatch and match it with other colors and the environment for which the color is intended.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2002Publication date: April 17, 2003Applicant: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stanley I. Lerner, Steven B. Winter
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Patent number: 6416612Abstract: The color card or display device of the invention has one or more paint color swatches or chips which are removable from a base and are repositionable and adhesively affixable to another substrate remote from the color card or display device. The color card with repositionable paint swatches provides swatches which may be remounted onto furniture, walls, other samples and fabrics to aid the consumer of the color to select the color on the swatch and match it with other colors and the environment for which the color is intended.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1999Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stanley I. Lerner, Steven B. Winter
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Patent number: 6330342Abstract: The invention is directed to controlling and/or managing a marketing color on mass-produced articles. According to the invention, an unmanaged marketing color is managed over time where mass-produced samples having the unmanaged marketing color are periodically tested or audited to confirm that the unmanaged marketing color and/or a part of the mass-produced articles conforms to a master color standard.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1999Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steven B. Winter, Stanley I. Lerner
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Patent number: 6030481Abstract: Color swatch charts are formed by feeding sheets eighteen inches or longer in length with this long dimension of the sheet disposed transversely to the sheet travel direction. Ribbons in a row of eighteen inches or longer are simultaneously severed with the first and last swatch in each row of identical size and with the swatches having four square corners to form a rectangular shape. This orientation of the long axis of the sheet reduces the number of stations and the length of travel of the sheets, thereby increasing production. The sheets are fed through an adhesive applying station where spots of adhesive are applied in rows to the sheet. The sheet travels through a series of swatch forming and applying stations. At each such station, a plurality of swatch ribbons are fed forwardly and severed to form the individual swatches in a row; and a row of swatches is then transferred to and adhered by the adhesive spots on the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1997Date of Patent: February 29, 2000Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steve Winter, Stanley Lerner
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Patent number: 5622594Abstract: Apparatus for producing sample parts arranged in an array on a base sheet. The apparatus includes a roller about which webbing of the sample material is drawn, the webbing being severed to form the sample parts and to transport the sample parts to a transfer station. Needle take-down apparatus at the transfer station engages the sample part with a plurality of retractable needles to moving the sample parts to a base sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1994Date of Patent: April 22, 1997Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stanley Lerner, Steven B. Winter
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Patent number: 5370024Abstract: Apparatus for producing sample parts arranged in an array on a base sheet. The apparatus includes a roller about which webbing of the sample material is drawn, the webbing being severed to form the sample parts and to transport the sample parts to a transfer station. Needle take-down apparatus at the transfer station engages the sample part with a plurality of retractable needles to moving the sample parts to a base sheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1994Date of Patent: December 6, 1994Assignee: Color Communication, Inc.Inventors: Stanley Lerner, Steven B. Winter
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Patent number: 5313884Abstract: Apparatus for coating a webbing uses rollers in contact with each other. The coating is applied to a first roller and coating thickness is limited by a knife blade. The coating travels to a point of contact with the second roller about which the webbing is wound, and the coating is thereby transferred to the webbing. By controlling the relative speed between the two rollers, the knife blade can be raised or lowered with respect to the first roller to attain greater control over the coating operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1992Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stanley Lerner, Steven B. Winter
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Patent number: RE44113Abstract: The present invention is directed to a paint color sample display device for the illustration of paint colors and a method for making such a color display device. The color display device may be a color fan deck which displays color on each side of the blades of the fan deck. The fan blades include a painted polymeric film laminated to both sides of a base paper to form a painted film/base paper/painted film laminate for the fan blades.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Color Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steven B. Winter, Stanley I. Lerner