Patents Represented by Attorney Joseph J. Grass

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  • Tag web of spiral conductors
    Patent number: 4843404
    Abstract: This invention relates to a tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprises of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Robert L. Froning
  • Hand-held tag attacher
    Patent number: 4838469
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry D. Strausburg
  • Method of making electronic tags
    Patent number: 4818312
    Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tage wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits. The conductors of each pair are connected by welding to provide a reliable circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: S. Eugene Benge
  • Hand-held printing and labeling device
    Patent number: 4813355
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held device for optionally printing and dispensing a web of tags or pressure sensitive labels, or printing on pressure sensitive labels and applying the printed labels to merchandise. Also disclosed are composite webs of pressure sensitive labels and method of using such webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward S. Stork
  • Method of making deactivatable tags
    Patent number: 4802944
    Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: S. Eugene Benge
  • Hand-held tag attacher and method of attaching tags
    Patent number: 4785987
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry D. Strausburg
  • Label printing and applying apparatus
    Patent number: 4785735
    Abstract: There is disclosed label printing and applying apparatus by which labels are successively printed and applied to merchandise. The apparatus feeds pressure sensitive labels mounted on a web of supporting material to a printing zone and to a delaminating zone. An applicator disposed downstream of the delaminating zone is used to apply the labels to merchandise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul H. Hamisch, Jr.
  • Alarm tag and method of making and deactivating it
    Patent number: 4778552
    Abstract: This invention relates to a deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Warren J. Pape, Richard S. Vuketich
  • Ink ribbon cassette with movable guide rolls
    Patent number: 4776714
    Abstract: There is disclosed a printer having a thermal print head and a cooperable platen roll. The platen roll is driven to advance a web of record medium and an ink ribbon into cooperation with the print head. The printer can use an ink ribbon cartridge. The printer has a compact arrangement for the record medium supply roll, the ink ribbon cartridge, the printing mechanism, the drive mechanism, the keyboard, and the cutting mechanism for cutting tags from the web. The ink ribbon cartridge has shiftable guide rolls cooperating with pins on the printer to assure accurate alignment of the ribbon on the print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuzo Sugiura, Mitsuo Uchimura, Kouichi Kawamura, Ronald L. Fogle, Orville C. Huggins
  • EAS tag with helical coil
    Patent number: 4774504
    Abstract: An anti-theft tag for use in an electronic article surveillance system has a housing, a lock for releasably attaching the housing to an article to be protected, and a marker on the housing, the marker having a resonant circuit including an inductor and a capacitor, the inductor including a solenoid type winding defining a winding opening, wherein the circuit has a Performance Factor P of at least 1.times.10.sup.6 in the equation P=QA.sup.1.5, wherein Q is equal to the circuit Q, and wherein A is equal to the area of the winding opening in square millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael F. Hartings
  • Anti-theft tag
    Patent number: 4774503
    Abstract: There is disclosed a tag for use in an electronic article surveillance system including a housing, a detectable marker held by the housing, and a releasable magnetic lock. The lock, which cannot be defeated by deflecting the housing, securely grips a pin by means of opposed jaws. The jaws and a pair of leaf springs are constructed of a single piece of sheet metal. Magnetic biasing of the sheet metal overcomes the forces exerted by the springs and causes the jaws to open to release the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles B. Bussard
  • Tag banding apparatus
    Patent number: 4735034
    Abstract: There is disclosed an improved tag banding apparatus which conveys a tag to a stop position, positions tags one-by-one and accumulates the tags in a stack, and bands the stacks in a connected series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce E. Taylor, Orville C. Huggins, Augustus W. Griswold
  • Method of making tags
    Patent number: 4717438
    Abstract: This invention relates to a tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and comprised of planar conductive material cut into a pair of inverse, first and second spiral conductors wrapped about each other and positioned for capacitive and inductive coupling. The invention also relates to method of making tags wherein conductors are cut from a planar web of conductive material in a continuous process in a manner that the cutting results in the formation of two spiral conductors without accompanying waste of conductive material, and thereafter positioning the conductors to provide resonant circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Robert L. Froning
  • Hand-held tag attacher
    Patent number: 4715521
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry D. Strausburg
  • Tab dispensing and attaching apparatus
    Patent number: 4711369
    Abstract: First and second separately actuatable triggers are mounted to a housing which carries a hollow needle through which a fastener is dispensed. The needle is mounted to the housing for movement between original and extended positions. The article to be tagged is situated adjacent the front of the housing. When the first trigger is depressed, a tag is moved from a stack on the housng into alignment with the needle as the needle is moved forward to pierce the tag and article. Also, a fastener is fed into the needle. When the second trigger is depressed, the fastener is moved through the needle such that the T-bar end is situated behind the article and the needle retracts to its original position. The apparatus is pulled away from the article, leaving the tag affixed by the fastener. The apparatus is light-weight, easily manipulatable, and can be operated by a single hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1987
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Duchin
  • Method of attaching tags
    Patent number: 4706362
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry D. Strausburg
  • Hand-held tag attacher, method of attaching tags and fasteners
    Patent number: 4696422
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held tag attacher having a manually engageable handle and a hopper for holding a stack of tags, a feeder for feeding tags one-at-a-time from the stack in the hopper to an attaching position, the hopper being constructed to position the stack at an acute angle relative to the axis of the attacher, the attacher having a hollow needle and a push rod for pushing a bar section of a fastener through a tag at the attaching portion behind the needle and into and through the needle, a mechanism for feeding fasteners one-at-a-time into alignment with the needle, and an actuator disposed at the handle and operable twice to complete a cycle of operating the tag feeder, the push rod and the feeding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry D. Strausburg
  • Cutting method and apparatus for stacker
    Patent number: 4693151
    Abstract: There is disclosed a cutting mechanism for a stacker. A web of record members traveling in a longitudinal direction is severed by the cutting mechanism while the web is traveling. The cutting mechanism severs the web transversely to cut off the record members. The cutting mechanisms has cutters or knives that travel as a unit with respect to each other and with respect to the web in the longitudinal direction as the web travels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Goubeaux, Richard A. Miller
  • Hand-held tag attacher
    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
  • Method of making a composite label web
    Patent number: RE32490
    Abstract: There are disclosed various embodiments of a composite web of pressure sensitive labels, method and apparatus for making such embodiments of the composite web, and method and apparatus by which a composite web of labels is advanced and by which labels are successively printed and applied to merchandise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: William A. Jenkins