Patents by Inventor Clive Lawrence Ayling
Clive Lawrence Ayling has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
-
Publication number: 20090154978Abstract: Media for use with an activation printer, the media comprising at least one surface having an array of pixels deposited thereon, each pixel containing at least one activatable colourant, wherein different pixels have different colourants and the pixels are arranged in a predetermined pattern, such that, in use, a multicolour image can be produced when the paper is passed through an activation printer. An activation printer for use with the above media comprising means for detecting the pattern of pixels in the array on the media so that the printer is able to determine which pixels on the paper to activate in order to produce the desired multicolour image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: THE TECHNOLOGY PHARTNERSHIP PLC.Inventor: Clive Lawrence Ayling
-
Patent number: 7021846Abstract: A method of printing an image on a composite medium is described. A composite medium comprises a thermally sensitive image receiving layer and a protective layer. The image receiving layer is activated through the protective layer whereby to generate an image in the image receiving layer which is protected by the already present protective layer. A tape and cassette comprising the composite medium are also described, as it is a printing device for use with the composite medium, and a method of producing a printed label from the composite medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: EsselteInventors: Michel Woodman, Clive Lawrence Ayling, Robert Charles Lewis Day
-
Patent number: 6816281Abstract: A printing device is described, predominantly for printing labels on a tape. The printing device has a display and input means for inputting characters to be printed by the printing device. Using the input means, a cursor on the display can be controlled. The printing device has a label memory which comprises a storage portion having a plurality of storage sections. The display is operable to display a plurality of label access elements each of which represents a respective storage section in the storage portion of the memory. The cursor is used to access a selected storage section of the memory associated with the label access element identified by the cursor position. A method of storage label data in a label memory using this principle is also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: EsselteInventors: Clive Lawrence Ayling, Michel Woodman, David Roger Tegerdine, Geoffrey Stuart Howe
-
Publication number: 20040159252Abstract: A method of printing an image on a composite medium is described. A composite medium comprises a thermally sensitive image receiving layer and a protective layer. The image receiving layer is activated through the protective layer whereby to generate an image in the image receiving layer which is protected by the already present protective layer. A tape and cassette comprising the composite medium are also described, as it is a printing device for use with the composite medium, and a method of producing a printed label from the composite medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2004Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventors: Michel Woodman, Clive Lawrence Ayling, Robert Charles Lewis Day
-
Patent number: 6485208Abstract: A printing device for printing labels that includes a display; a user input means for inputting an image to be printed by the printing device and for selecting a required label length; and a control means operable to determine the length of the image input via the user input means, and if 10 the length of the image input is greater than the required label length, the control means is arranged to cause the display to display an error message indicating the difference between the length of the image and the required label length, which may be the minimum length of the inputted image, the difference between a preselected length and the minimum length of the inputted image, or both.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Esselte N.V.Inventors: Michel Woodman, David Roger Tegerdine, Clive Lawrence Ayling, Geoffrey Stuart Howe
-
Patent number: 6351275Abstract: A printing device comprising user input means having function setting means for selectively instigating a background text state and an edit state and character selection means for selecting characters or symbols to be printed, a label memory for holding label data in the form of characters or symbols selected as background text and characters or symbols selected as foreground text, a printing mechanism for printing images based on said label data and a controller responsive to the user input means and the label data to control the printing mechanism, wherein the controller is operable to generate print data for the printing mechanism to print said selected background characters or symbols as grey shaded background.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Esselte NVInventors: Clive Lawrence Ayling, Michel Woodman, David Roger Tegerdine, Geoffrey Stuart Howe
-
Patent number: 6339982Abstract: A cutting mechanism having a movable carriage and two cutters. Each cutter has an anvil that opposes a blade, and one of these is a roller that rolls against the other for progressively biasing material against the blades, producing cuts through the material. The rollers are rotatably mounted to the carriage, which is mounted to a lead screw that controls the position of the carriage. As the carriage moves across the material, the rollers roll, and the material is cut. The space between the anvil and the blade of at least one of the cutters can be varied to disengage that cutter so that the rolling of the roller will not cut the material. The engagement and disengagement of the cutter is dependent on the position of the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1999Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: Esselte NVInventors: Clive Graham Angel, Clive Lawrence Ayling, Graham Scott Gutsell
-
Publication number: 20010024590Abstract: A printing device for printing labels that includes a display; a user input means for inputting an image to be printed by the printing device and for selecting a required label length; and a control means operable to determine the length of the image input via the user input means, and if the length of the image input is greater than the required label length, the control means is arranged to cause the display to display an error message indicating the difference between the length of the image and the required label length, which may be the minimum length of the inputted image, the difference between a preselected length and the minimum length of the inputted image, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2001Publication date: September 27, 2001Inventors: Michel Woodman, David Roger Tegerdine, Clive Lawrence Ayling, Geoffrey Stuart Howe
-
Patent number: 6014921Abstract: A cutting mechanism having a movable carriage and two cutters. Each cutter has an anvil that opposes a blade, and one of these is a roller that rolls against the other for progressively biasing material against the blades, producing cuts through the material. The rollers are rotatably mounted to the carriage, which is mounted to a lead screw that controls the position of the carriage. As the carriage moves across the material, the rollers roll, and the material is cut. The space between the anvil and the blade of at least one of the cutters can be varied to disengage that cutter so that the rolling of the roller will not cut the material. The engagement and disengagement of the cutter is dependent on the position of the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1997Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: Esselte N.V.Inventors: Clive Graham Angel, Clive Lawrence Ayling, Graham Scott Gutsell