Patents Assigned to The Miner Group
  • Patent number: 6508904
    Abstract: A label for attachment to a substrate, including a flexible magnet having printed material on one surface. The label consists of a thin, flat, flexible magnet having a first surface and a second surface, printed material attached to the first surface of the flexible magnet, a transparent covering attached to the printed material, a clear base material attached to the second surface of the magnet, a clear film easily separable from the clear base material, an adhesive backing attached to the clear film, and a liner material covering the adhesive backing. The liner material may be removed from the adhesive backing whereby the label may be applied to a substrate by means of the adhesive backing. After separating the clear film and clear base material the clear base material covers the second surface of the magnet and the clear film covers the adhesive backing applied to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: The Miner Group, Limited
    Inventor: Richard A. Charley
  • Patent number: 6153279
    Abstract: A label for attachment to a substrate, including a flexible magnet having printed material on one surface. The label consists of a thin, flat, flexible magnet having a first surface and a second surface, printed material attached to the first surface of the flexible magnet, a transparent covering attached to the printed material, a clear base material attached to the second surface of the magnet, a clear film easily separable from the clear base material, an adhesive backing attached to the clear film, and a liner material covering the adhesive backing. The liner material may be removed from the adhesive backing whereby the label may be applied to a substrate by means of the adhesive backing. After separating the clear film and clear base material the clear base material covers the second surface of the magnet and the clear film covers the adhesive backing applied to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: The Miner Group, Limited
    Inventor: Richard A. Charley
  • Patent number: 6030002
    Abstract: A multi-color border cling decal suitable for application to a smooth surface comprising a long strip of translucent film wound into a coil or about a core. One side of the translucent film is flexographically printed with a multi-color border design then covered with a very thin layer of varnish. The continuous process for making the border cling decal comprising the steps of: (1) flexographically printing a multi-color design on one side of an unwinding roll of translucent film; (2) covering that design with a very thin layer of varnish; (3) winding a predetermined length of printed and varnished film about a core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: The Miner Group, Limited
    Inventors: Richard A. Charley, Robert M. Paakh
  • Patent number: 5770008
    Abstract: A sticker dispenser for holding a tape of stickers and dispensing the stickers one at a time consists of a case; a loading door for inserting the stickers into the case; a movable plunger mounted to the case and movable between an extended position and a retracted position and biased in the extended position by a spring and the plunger having a gear rack; geared wheels meshing with the gear rack for moving the stickers out of the dispenser; and a sticker door for engaging and guiding the tape of stickers as it leaves the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: The Miner Group
    Inventor: Jeffrey T. Murphy