Patents by Inventor James A. Makley

James A. Makley 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: 20020059984
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label and tag webs of different widths. The labeler has a discharge chute for the carrier web which can be slid to a position outside the labeler for easy cleaning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Thomas P. Keller, James A. Makley, Mark W. Moore
  • Publication number: 20020023722
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler which is easy to load, clean and service. The labeler has a gear driven print head wherein the print head is situated on an upper housing section and the print head is actuated from a lower housing section. The upper housing section can be moved to an open position without interfering with the maintenance of the drive connection with the print head or the advance of a label carrying web through the labeler. An inker enables an ink roller to be easily inserted and removed without ink from the ink roller being transferred to the user's hands. An impression control device has only a small number of parts and is easy to assemble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: John D. Mistyurik, James A. Makley
  • Patent number: 6279638
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label and tag webs of different widths. The labeler has a discharge chute for the carrier web which can be slid to a position outside the labeler for easy cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Thomas P. Keller, James A. Makley, Mark W. Moore
  • Patent number: 5988249
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler which is easy to load, clean and service. The labeler has a gear driven print head wherein the print head is situated on an upper housing section and the print head is actuated from a lower housing section. The upper housing section can be moved to an open position without interfering with the maintenance of the drive connection with the print head or the advance of a label carrying web through the labeler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Mistyurik, James A. Makley, Paul H. Hamisch, Jr., Ronald L. Fogle
  • Patent number: 5934189
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler which is easy to load, clean and service. The labeler has a gear driven print head wherein the print head is situated on an upper housing section and the print head is actuated from a lower housing section. The upper housing section can be moved to an open position without interfering with the maintenance of the drive connection with the print head or the advance of a label carrying web through the labeler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Mistyurik, James A. Makley, Paul H. Hamisch, Jr., Ronald L. Fogle
  • Patent number: 5910227
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler which is easy to load, clean and service. The labeler has a gear driven print head wherein the print head is situated on an upper housing section and the print head is actuated from a lower housing section. The upper housing section can be moved to an open position without interfering with the maintenance of the drive connection with the print head or the advance of a label carrying web through the labeler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Mistyurik, James A. Makley, Paul H. Hamisch, Jr., Ronald L. Fogle
  • Patent number: 5906443
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label and tag webs of different widths. The labeler has a discharge chute for the carrier web which can be slid to a position outside the labeler for easy cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Thomas P. Keller, James A. Makley, Mark W. Moore
  • Patent number: 5900110
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label and tag webs of different widths. The labeler has a discharge chute for the carrier web which can be slid to a position outside the labeler for easy cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Thomas P. Keller, James A. Makley, Mark W. Moore
  • Patent number: 5875715
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler which can feed and apply a relatively long label or tape to merchandise or packaging. In one embodiment the feeding of the label web is accomplished by using a feed wheel that is driven both during the feeding stroke of a manual actuator and during its return stroke. The print head is driven toward and away from a platen during each cycle and the advance of the feed wheel is interrupted as the print head nears printing cooperation with the platen and the intervening label. In another embodiment some of the advance of the feed wheel is through a one way clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul H. Hamisch, Jr., James A. Makley
  • Patent number: 5833800
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label and tag webs of different widths. The labeler has a discharge chute for the carrier web which can be slid to a position outside the labeler for easy cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Thomas P. Keller, James A. Makley, Mark W. Moore
  • Patent number: 5800669
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label and tag webs of different widths. The labeler has a discharge chute for the carrier web which can be slid to a position outside the labeler for easy cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Thomas P. Keller, James A. Makley, Mark W. Moore
  • Patent number: 5755918
    Abstract: The hand-held apparatus of the present invention includes an integral printer and measuring device so that measurement information obtained from the measuring device may be automatically printed, used to determine additional information to be printed such as price information, or merely displayed. A measuring wheel having detectable marks disposed about the periphery thereof is rotatably mounted on the housing of the apparatus in proximity to a sensor that detects the marks. This sensor is positioned on the housing to not only detect the marks on the measuring wheel but to also detect the presence or absence of a label dispensed from the housing so as to provide an on-demand printing mode of operation. A controller is responsive to the sensor in the on-demand mode of operation for controlling a printhead to print on a supply when the previously printed supply has been removed from the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Cetnar, Amy S. Christopher, Ronald L. Fogle, Monte R. Lucas, James A. Makley, Donald A. Morrison
  • Patent number: 5683545
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label and tag webs of different widths. The labeler has a discharge chute for the carrier web which can be slid to a position outside the labeler for easy cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Thomas P. Keller, James A. Makley, Mark W. Moore
  • Patent number: 5486259
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label and tag webs of different widths. The labeler has a discharge chute for the carrier web which can be slid to a position outside the labeler for easy cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Thomas P. Keller, James A. Makley, Mark W. Moore
  • Patent number: 4954208
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler which uses labels releasably adhered to a carrier web. The labeler has a body with a pair of identical body sections. The body mounts first, second and third feed rolls. The first and third feed rolls project beyond the body and cooperate respectively with the second feed roll. The body has a delaminator and a guideway for the carrier web. The carrier web can be threaded through the guideway and about the delaminator in either direction. In either event, the first, second and third feed rolls cooperate with the carrier web to advance it and effect label delamination. Depending on the direction of threading, either the first or the third feed roll is used to advance the carrier web by rolling that feed roll along the surface to be labeled. A label roll is held captive in a holder having two identical body sections. In an alternative embodiment, a label strip winding feature enables a strip of labels to be wound into a roll for subsequent use in the labeler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul H. Hamisch, Jr., James A. Makley
  • Patent number: 4690317
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher for attaching tags to merchandise and the like. The attacher includes a hopper for holding a stack of tags to be attached, a tag feeder for feeding one tag at a time into alignment with a needle at an attaching position, mechanism for advancing the needle through the tag at the attaching position, a push rod for pushing a bar of a fastener through the needle, and means for feeding fasteners one-by-one to the needle, wherein the tag feeder, the needle advancing mechanism, the push rod and the fastener feeding means operate in sequence by one-hand operation by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul H. Hamisch, Jr., James A. Makley, Robert M. Pabodie, Larry D. Strausburg
  • Patent number: 4549483
    Abstract: There is disclosed printing apparatus composed essentially of molded plastics material which has relatively few parts, is easy to manufacture and maintain, and is lightweight and portable. The apparatus is illustrated as being of the table top type which can print both standard type tags and labels, string tags and pin tickets. The apparatus has a print head operable in conjunction with an impression control device, a feed finger assembly with a registration adjustment, a simple drive arrangement operated by a cam with a single cam path, and a reel positionable at different attitudes, and the construction of the apparatus is readily adaptable to both manually operated and motorized versions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Makley
  • Patent number: 4498947
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler with a thermographic print head for printing on labels releasably secured to a carrier web, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for applying printed labels, a web feeding mechanism including an electric motor for advancing the carrier web, a detachable handle containing a source of electrical energy, and circuitry including a plurality of printed circuit boards electrically connecting the electrical energy source, the keyboard and the print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul H. Hamisch, Jr., James A. Makley
  • Patent number: D484906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Paxar Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory B. Arnold, James A. Makley, Gregory de Swarte, Peter C. Mason, Jr.
  • Patent number: D486512
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Paxar Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory B. Arnold, James A. Makley, Gregory de Swarte, Peter C. Mason, Jr.