Patents Assigned to Esselte
  • Tape cutting apparatus
    Patent number: 5538591
    Abstract: A tape cutting apparatus is described for cutting off a portion of tape (4) comprising first and second layers (4a,4c) secured one to another by an adhesive layer (4b). The apparatus comprises an anvil (40) and a cutter support member (31) carrying a blade (30), the cutter support member and the anvil being mounted for relative movement to bring the blade into contact with a facing surface of the anvil. The facing surface has a stepped portion (40) over which the tape is bent during cutting such that when the tape is released the first and second layers tend to separate from one another at the cut edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo N.V.
    Inventors: Ian Collins, Robert C. L. Day, Alan R. Cooper, Erik Opgenhaffen, Geert Heyse
  • Thermal printer for printing labels
    Patent number: 5534890
    Abstract: A thermal printer is equipped with apparatus for allowing the thermal printer to be quickly and easily adapted to the type of paper currently being used without the need for testing and adjusting to obtain an essentially optimum print quality. The printer can also be equipped with a temperature sensor, attached to the thermal print head and connected to the computer control to essentially also produce printed images of uniformly high quality regardless of temperature fluctuations of the thermal print head. The necessary information for providing the adjustment values for producing the high quality print can be stored in a read/write memory connected to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International Produktions GmbH
    Inventors: Heidrun Krug, Jurgen Kunert, Jurgen Schoon, Horst Walter
  • Printer and a printer with a fastening device for attaching a peripheral device to the printer
    Patent number: 5531532
    Abstract: A connecting element for a printer housing has housing parts which are connected to one another by at least one connecting element, into which connecting element is integrated a locator device in the form of a T-slot for anchoring peripheral devices to the housing of the printer. Peripheral devices can be detachably connected to the locator device either directly or indirectly by means of an anchor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Umbach
  • Printer having a removable control panel
    Patent number: 5513922
    Abstract: To be able to set up and operate a printer with a control panel in any position, the printer housing or similar structure of the printer contains a panel receptacle for holding a removable control panel, whereby the latter is connected to the control components of the printer by means of a cable, or at least a wireless infrared transmitter, and that the control panel is fixed at least in the direction of withdrawal in the panel receptacle by means of at least one magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Umbach
  • Tape cutting apparatus
    Patent number: 5501539
    Abstract: A blade protection device is described for protecting a cutting blade in a printing device which is actuatable so that a blade protection member is movable by insertion of a cassette into the printing device. A printing device has a cassette receiving bay for receiving a cassette of tape and a cutting blade for receiving a cassette of tape and a cutting blade for cutting the tape after printing. The printing device incorporates a blade protection device such as described above. Cassettes are also described which are adapted to actuate the blade protection device described above when inserted into a printing device. One cassette has an aperture which receives an upstanding part of the blade protection member. Another cassette has a depending part which locates a surface of the blade protection member to actuate the blade protection device when the cassette is inserted into a printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo N.V.
    Inventor: Robert C. L. Day
  • Label and process for manufacturing a label
    Patent number: 5482779
    Abstract: A label for use as a price tag on products has a printable recording medium which can be attached by adhesive to a carrier foil. The adhesive attachment can be provided by means of a laminated material having an adhesive action. To create a label which, by means of its adhesive layer, properly adheres to the product to be labelled, and which, after removal from the product, leaves behind no adhesive residue, the laminated material can be made to have an intermediate layer coated on both sides with adhesive, and which intermediate layer is configured to exert a stronger adhesive force on adhesive than the products to be labelled will exert on the adhesive. Further, the adhesive deposited on the side of the intermediate layer facing the carrier foil preferably has a lower adhesive strength than the adhesive deposited on the side of the intermediate layer facing the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International Produktions GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Bausewein, Dieter Ludebuhl
  • Printer such as a printer for printing self-adhesive labels having a clutch
    Patent number: 5478159
    Abstract: A printer having a spring-loaded print head which can be pressed against a counterpressure roller, wherein an active strand of a printing ribbon and a medium to be printed run between the print head and the counterpressure roller, can be configured such that the printing ribbon is unwound from a first spool and is wound up on a second spool, can preferably have a slip clutch disposed between the drive of the second spool and the second spool and/or between a drive and a drive roller in contact with the medium to be printed, and the slip clutch can be disposed in a wheel with a concentric shaft. Between the shaft and the wheel there can be at least one pair of axially spring-loaded friction discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Schneider, Dirk Umbach
  • Tape cutting apparatus
    Patent number: 5468081
    Abstract: A cutting mechanism for printing tape is described wherein the tape is bent over an arcuate surface during cutting so that when the tape is cut layers of the tape secured to one another by an adhesive layer tend to separate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo N.V.
    Inventors: Michael R. Cane, Robert C. L. Day
  • Electronic article surveillance system with enhanced geometric arrangement
    Patent number: 5459451
    Abstract: An electronic article surveillance system for detecting articles carrying or containing magnetically responsive markers is disclosed, which system comprises a transmitting antenna in the form of a large loop of current-carrying material through which the articles are passed, and one or more receiving antenna units, which detect the electromagnetic response of the markers to an interrogating electromagnetic field generated by the transmitting antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael D. Crossfield, Andrew Dames
  • Tape cutting apparatus
    Patent number: 5458423
    Abstract: A tape printing device is described which has cutting means capable of providing a tab cut and a multiple strip of labels. The printing device also enables label lengths to be controlled and to control the cutting process in response to these label lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo N.V.
    Inventors: Charles R. Sims, Andrew R. B. Halket, Michael A. Beadman
  • Tape printing apparatus and tape holding case
    Patent number: 5456545
    Abstract: A printing device comprises a zone for receiving tape for printing so that said tape passes along a predetermined path in the printing device; and an optical sensing arrangement comprising first and second optical sensing assemblies which enable an end of tape state to be detected and also allow discrimination between tapes of different widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo N.V.
    Inventors: Charles R. Sims, Michael A. Beadman, Andrew R. B. Halket
  • Magnetic marker and method for modifying the magnetic properties thereof
    Patent number: 5455563
    Abstract: A method of modifying the magnetic properties of a thin film of a magnetically active material is provided which comprises forming surface modulations on the material in order to partition it into regions which display at least some degree of mutual magnetic independence. The resulting modified thin film may be used as a marker or tag in an anti-pilferage or article location system. The surface modulations formed on the material in the anti-pilferage or article location marker serve to enhance the response of the marker when used in an anti-pilferage or article location system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International Produktions GmbH
    Inventors: Dafydd G. Davies, Stephen H. Chambers
  • Ticket dispenser
    Patent number: 5453311
    Abstract: A continuous strip of tickets formed from a flexible material is disclosed including a plurality of ticket sections of a predetermined length interconnected with one another with the plurality of ticket sections being separated from one another by separation lines. The separation lines extending in a feed direction of the continuous strip from respective edges of the strip towards a center line thereof with first ends of the separation lines being spaced from the respective edges of the strip and second ends of the separation lines being spaced a predetermined spacing from one another with the second ends being forward of the first ends in the feed direction of the strip-and extending substantially transverse to the feed direction of the continuous strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International GmbH
    Inventor: Kjell Svensson
  • Tape printing apparatus
    Patent number: 5437511
    Abstract: There is described a printing apparatus, particularly a label printer, which includes a switching mechanism operable in response to movement of the lid to permit operation of the printing apparatus only when the lid is closed. This can be combined with detection of the presence or absence of a cassette in a cassette receiving bay of the apparatus so that operation of the printing apparatus is permitted only in the presence of a cassette and with the lid in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo N.V.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Halket, Richard W. Ware, Charles R. Sims
  • Printing apparatus with cassette
    Patent number: 5431504
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is described which enables a cassette to be removed more easily. This is done by tightening the tape within the cassette automatically in response to movement of a printing mechanism from its operative to its inoperative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo N.V.
    Inventors: Michael A. Beadman, Charles R. Sims
  • Thermal printer and cassette therefor
    Patent number: 5424757
    Abstract: A printer comprises a cassette bay (8) having a lid (16), a printing mechanism comprising a thermal print head (26) and a platen (32) and a linkage (38,50) coupled between the lid and the printing mechanism. On opening the lid, the linkage causes the print head to adopt an inoperative position in which a cassette can be loaded into or removed from the cassette receiving portion and, on closing the lid, the linkage causes the print head to take up its operative position reading for printing. The invention also provides a cassette for the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo N.V.
    Inventor: Richard Thom
  • Printer for adhesive backed labels
    Patent number: D360890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo, N.V.
    Inventor: Jonathan Tremlett
  • Hand held labeler
    Patent number: D365597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Esselte Meto International Produktions GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Patzak, Heinrich Volk
  • Portable printer for adhesive backed labels
    Patent number: D367075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Esselte Dyno N.V.
    Inventor: Jonathan Tremlett
  • Tape cassette for a label printer
    Patent number: D372044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Esselte Dymo, N.V.
    Inventors: Richard W. Ware, Robert C. Day