Patents Assigned to Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
  • Keyboard support
    Patent number: 5141196
    Abstract: There is disclosed a support for a keyboard. The support can be mounted either on a generally horizontal surface such as on a table, a portable cart, or an upper surface of a printer or on a vertical surface such as a wall. The support is adjustable so that the keyboard can be positioned at different inclinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory B. Arnold, Charles W. Klein, Bruce E. Taylor
  • Roll of record members
    Patent number: 5106123
    Abstract: There is disclosed a roll of a web of records members, wherein the web has outer and inner end portions free of machine-readable marks and wherein the outer end portions is free of other preprinted information. Also disclosed is method of making such rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Roung-Min D. Shieh
  • Web handling method and apparatus
    Patent number: 5092697
    Abstract: There is disclosed a web handling apparatus including a printer for printing on longitudinally extending multi-portion webs, with the web including a plurality of longitudinally extending web portions and connected at a longitudinal line of weakening between each adjacent pair of web portions, each web portion including record members, guide structure for causing adjacent web portions to move along different paths or planes to effect tearing and resultant separation of the web portions at each line of weakening, and a rewinder for drawing on the separated web portions and winding them into separate rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas G. McKenna
  • Method of making rolls of record members
    Patent number: 5086987
    Abstract: There is disclosed a roll of a web of record members, wherein the web has outer and inner end portions free of machine-readable marks and wherein the outer end portion is free of other preprinted information. Also disclosed is method of making such rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Roung-Min Shieh
  • Microprocessor controlled thermal printer
    Patent number: 5061946
    Abstract: A microprocessor controlled thermal printer particularly usable in a hand-held labeler for printing labels on a composite web detects indices on the web and utilizes the detected indices to position the labels relative to the print head. The printer utilizes an improved index detection system that compensates for variations in index size and density and for variations in sensor sensitivity by detecting both the leading and trailing edges of an index and utilizing the distance between the detected leading and trailing edges to determine the length of the index. By dividing the length thus determined by two, and by advancing the web by this amount after the detection of the leading edge of an index, the center of the index can be accurately located, and the web can be accurately registered at any desired position relative to the center of the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Helmbold, Richard D. Wirrig
  • Microprocessor controlled thermal printer
    Patent number: 5061947
    Abstract: A microprocessor controller thermal printer particularly usable in a hand-held labeler for printing labels on a composite web detects indices on the web and automatically adjusts the distance that the web is advanced based on a measurement of the distance between indices made during a paper loading sequence. The printer includes automatic jam detection that measures the length of time that one of the indices is being detected and provides a jam indication if it is detected for more than a predetermined time period. A solenoid operated braking mechanism retains the web in position upon completion of a printing cycle to prevent the web from being moved relative to the print head while the label is being applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald A. Morrison, Richard D. Wirrig
  • Deactivatable electronic article surveillance tags, tag webs and method of making tag webs
    Patent number: 5059950
    Abstract: Improved electronic article surveillance tags, webs of such tags and method of making such tags are shown and described. Each tag has a resonant circuit and utilizes a flexible fuse having a supporting film or web of plastics material, a thin coating of a conductive material such as silver to provide a destructible fuse member, and spaced connectors which join the fuse member to spaced-apart circuit portions of the resonant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Perchak
  • Printhead mount & cassette lock in a thermal printer
    Patent number: 5051009
    Abstract: There is disclosed a printer having a thermal print head which is biased towards a cooperable platen roll. The printer uses an ink ribbon cartridge, which is locked into place as the printhead is moved to the print position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuzo Sugiura, Mitsuo Uchimura, Kouichi Kawamura
  • Table-top apparatus for printing on web of record members
    Patent number: 5044276
    Abstract: The printing apparatus is composed essentially of molded plastics material. 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 campath, 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: May 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Orville C. Huggins
  • Tag banding apparatus
    Patent number: 5036647
    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: December 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce E. Taylor, Orville C. Huggins, Augustus W. Griswold
  • Circuit for conserving power of a backup battery
    Patent number: 5033882
    Abstract: Circuitry including a first and second source of electrical energy provides a continuous supply of electrical energy to a volatile memory circuit utilized within an electrical apparatus. The circuitry includes an on and off switch and allows for the first source of electrical energy to be supplied to the volatile memory when the switch is both in an on and off position. The secondary source of electrical energy is only used to supply electrical energy to the volatile memory when the first souce of electrical energy is either inoperative or disconnected from the circuit. Such circuitry allows for conservation of power of the second source of electrical energy which in some electronic apparatus may include a lithium battery that may be relatively difficult to replace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Vanderpool, James M. Bain
  • Printer with improved web guide means
    Patent number: 5028155
    Abstract: There is disclosed a printer having a spindle which can hold a web roll installed either face side in or face side out. Spaced guides define the path from the roll to the printing mechanism; different guides are utilized depending on the orientation of the particular roll being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuzo Sugiura, Mitsuo Uchimura, Kouichi Kawamura, Ronald L. Fogle, Orville C. Huggins
  • Hand-held labeler
    Patent number: 5015324
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler having a housing with a handle, a thermal print head for printing on labels of a composite label web, a platen roll cooperable with the print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for applying printed labels, and a brake for arresting the platen roll to prevent loss of print registration during application of a label. The operative components of the labeler are readily accessible for servicing, and yet the labeler is simple in construction. The labeler has an improved print head mounting structure for facilitating precise alignment and pressure contact between the print head and the platen roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Donald L. Karn, John D. Mistvurik, John R. Monteith, Mark A. Seale, David R. Wisecup
  • Hand-held labeler
    Patent number: 5013388
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler having a housing with a handle, a thermal print head for printing on labels of a composite label web, a platen roll cooperable with the print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for applying printed labels, and a brake for arresting the platen roll to prevent loss of print registration during application of a label. The operative components of the labeler are readily accessible for servicing, and yet the labeler is simple in construction. The labeler has an improved print head mounting structure for facilitating precise alignment and pressure contact between the print head and the platen roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, John D. Mistyurik, Mark A. Seale
  • Hand-held labeller
    Patent number: 5013387
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler having a housing with a handle, a thermal print head for printing on labels of a composite label web, a platen roll cooperable with the print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for applying printed labels, and a brake for arresting the platen roll to prevent loss of print registration during application of a label. The operative components of the labeler are readily accessible for servicing, and yet the labeler is simple in construction. The labeler has an improved print head mounting structure for facilitating precise alignment and pressure contact between the print head and the platen roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Donald L. Karn, John D. Mistyurik, John R. Monteith, Mark A. Seale, David R. Wisecup
  • Hand-held labeler
    Patent number: 5009739
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hand-held labeler having a housing with a handle, a thermal print head for printing on labels of a composite label web, a platen roll cooperable with the print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for applying printed labels, and a brake for arresting the platen roll to prevent loss of print registration during application of a label. The operative components of the labeler are readily accessible for servicing, and yet the labeler is simple in construction. The labeler has an improved print head mounting structure for facilitating precise alignment and pressure contact between the print head and the platen roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent E. Goodwin, Donald L. Karn, John D. Mistyurik
  • Replaceable inking cartridge with depletion counter
    Patent number: 5007750
    Abstract: There is disclosed a replaceable inking cartridge for a printer. The inking cartridge includes an arrangement for indicating when the inking medium of the cartridge has been spent. The indicating arrangement is non-resettable so that the user is prevented from using a spent cartridge for additional printing. The indicating means is useful for signalling the user or the printer about the spent condition of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Goubeaux
  • Electronic article surveillance tag and method of deactivating tags
    Patent number: 5006856
    Abstract: A deactivatable tag useable with an electronic article surveillance system and method of making such a tag. The tag includes a resonant circuit and a provision for promoting the permanent deactivation of the tag. The solution according to the present invention has been to render the deactivator more difficult to operate. A higher level of excess energy is applied to the resonant circuit before the breakdown material breaks down. This higher level of energy in the resonant circuit is applied to the improved deactivator and operates the deactivator much more completely. This arrangement promotes permanent deactivation of the resonant circuit to prevent the resonant circuit from becoming active again or "coming back to life" as time passes. The deactivator adjacent the resonant circuit can include a vacuum metalized conductive coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: S. Eugene Benge, Robert L. Froning
  • Slide assembly for mounting a print ribbon
    Patent number: 4998834
    Abstract: There is disclosed a printer with an improved arrangement to facilitate changing of inking ribbons. A slide assembly is placed in a load position and loaded with an inking ribbon supply roll. Thereafter, the inking ribbon is threaded about guides. With the print head and the platen of the printer separated, the slide assembly is slid to a printing position where the inking ribbon is disposed in space between the print head and the platen. Thereafter, the print head and platen are moved relatively together so that the printer is now able to print on a record medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce E. Taylor
  • Magnetic antenna system having independently controllable electrical field shielding and magnetic field balance
    Patent number: 4999641
    Abstract: A magnetic antenna system particularly useable in electronic article surveillance systems for detecting the presence of a resonant tag utilizes multiple loop shielded transmitting and receiving antennas. The antennas employ shield structures that are designed to minimize the electric field response and to provide a balanced magnetic field response. The magnetic field responses of different ones of the loops in each of the antennas are different and the loops are oriented so that more responsive loops of the transmitting antenna are positioned opposite less responsive loops of the receiving antenna and vice versa in order to reduce the coupling between antennas without reducing the sensitivity of the receiving antenna to a tag signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Cordery, Michael F. Hartings