Patents Examined by Tom Hamill, Jr.
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Patent number: 5056827Abstract: A label for a pharmaceutical bottle is disclosed. Illustratively, the label comprises four sections. There is a first end-section having adhesive on its rear surface for adhering to the bottle. A second end-section spaced apart from the first end-section also has an adhesive rear surface for adhering to the bottle. A third relatively wide section is attached to the second end-section by means of a first perforation. A fourth relatively narrow section is attached between the first end-section and the third section by means of second and third perforations respectively. The fourth section includes a tab so that it can be easily removed by tearing along the second and third perforations. This permits the third section to be removed easily by tearing only along the first perforation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1989Date of Patent: October 15, 1991Assignee: Challenge Printing CompanyInventor: Theodore S. Sasso
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Patent number: 5007663Abstract: A multiple ply label assembly intended to be removably adhered to the surface of a sheet (e.g. a sheet of paper stationery) to be printed upon. A printer apparatus (e.g. computer printer or typewriter) is then controlled to concurrently print onto both the sheet surface and label assembly in the same operation. The removably adhered label assembly can then be removed from the sheet without leaving any discernible residue thereon and a label portion of the label assembly can be separated therefrom and affixed to an end use sheet (e.g. an envelope for mailing).Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1989Date of Patent: April 16, 1991Inventor: John Moran
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Patent number: 4988126Abstract: Documents and data, patterns, etc., applied thereto, which are present in the form of a surface relief, in particular in the form of embossed characters, are provided partially in the area of this surface relief with luminescent substance which is testable visibly and by machine. The luminescent substance is introduced either into raised or into depressed areas of the surface relief, so that characteristic features of the surface relief are reflected in its spatial distribution. The data can thus be tested for falsification and at the same time for authenticity in a simple way.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1988Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: GAO Gesellschaft fur Automation und Organisation mbHInventors: Christoph Heckenkamp, Gerhard Stenzel, Wittich Kaule
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Patent number: 4941684Abstract: A book mark for use in combination with a book having a front cover, a back cover and a spine therebetween, comprises a clamp for releasable attachment to the book and a marker, integrally formed with the clamp and arranged to extend, in use, from the clamp generally outward of the spine of the book, for releasably marking a page in the book. The clamp and the marker are formed of a molded, flexible, resilient material.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1988Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: Joseph D. Ben-DakInventors: Amos Frank, Joel Kehat
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Patent number: 4939968Abstract: Glass cutting apparatus which includes a base with a fixed, glass positioning fence along one edge thereof and a removable, pivotable glass cutter guide which can be locked to the base at a selected angle relative to the fixed fence, allowing glass to be scored at any selected angle with respect to the fence. A variety of accessories allow the glass being worked to be securely positioned on the base; one of these is a removable fence against which the glass may be positioned instead of against the fixed fence. A holder for a glass cutter which is slidable along and then fixable to the pivotable glass cutter guide allows the system to be employed to cut arcs as well as straight lines. Optionally, the system may be employed with yet another accessory which allows the center of an arc being cut to be shifted to any selected location on the base of that system.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1988Date of Patent: July 10, 1990Inventor: Robert E. Stoof
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Patent number: 4938505Abstract: A business form of multiple ply construction includes one ply having adhesive thereon for attaching directly to a package being shipped. The one ply is a removable waybill copy portion of the business form which provides a recond of information or data concerning the shipping of the package in an arrangement which does not require a separate pouch on the package.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1989Date of Patent: July 3, 1990Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Frederick E. Gruttemeyer, James B. Coffey, Peter G. Fransee
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Patent number: 4936723Abstract: A method and an apparatus for cutting off the beads of seam-welded pipes are disclosed, in which the skew angle of a freely rotatable circular cutting tool is 25.degree.-35.degree., and the tilt angle is 15.degree.-25.degree.. The apparatus comprises a double-walled holder, a double-walled impeder, and a head portion on which the cutting tool is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1988Date of Patent: June 26, 1990Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Yasumura, Moriyuki Kakihara, Koji Nishimoto, Kuniharu Fujimoto
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Patent number: 4928996Abstract: A booklet, such as a passport, for providing the identity of the holder thereof, with a picture of the face and personal data of the bookholder, includes transparent and supporting sheets bound in the booklet separately from and adjacent to each other. Furthermore, an image receiving layer is formed on one surface of one of the separate transparent and supporting sheets and an optically readable data printing section is provided on either one of the transparent and supporting sheets where optically readable personal data of said booklet holder is printed. Also, an adhesive layer is provided for adhering the transparent and supporting sheets together to sandwich the image receiving layer therebetween after having formed a composite image of the picture and personal data in the image receiving layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1988Date of Patent: May 29, 1990Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Oshikoshi, Yoshimi Suganuma, Hiroshi Hara, Kazuo Shiota, Nobumitsu Takehara, Kiichiro Sakamoto
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Patent number: 4927179Abstract: Mix-ups in the pricing of merchandise are avoided in a combination shipping label and price tag construction including a first ply 16 of release liner material and a second ply 24 of label stock having a pressure sensitive adhesive 26 on one side thereof releasably adhered to the release liner ply 16. The label stock ply 24 has a shipping label section 28 and a price tag section 30. The price tag section includes a plurality of individual and separable price tags 40 and has a dimension "d" that is less than the corresponding dimension "D" of the shipping label section 28 and which is closely adjacent the shipping label section and is at least nominally centered with respect to one edge 36 thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1988Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Assignee: Uarco IncorporatedInventors: Barbara A. Ehret, James H. Pearce, III
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Patent number: 4924578Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptor for converting a rotary power tool with a driving bit to a rotary cutter. The adaptor is particularly useful for making a conventional rotary screw gun into a gypsum wall board cutter. On one end of the adaptor is a rotary cutting bit, while a flexible open-ended bulb is fitted on the other end of the adaptor to receive the front end of the screw gun from which the screw driving bit extends. Between the bulb and the rotary cutting bit is a casing for housing a power transmission mechanism which transfers torque from the screw driving bit to the rotary cutting bit. The power transmission mechanism includes a plurality of rotatable gears and shafts to enable the cutting bit to turn at a speed preferably six times greater than that of the screw driving bit of the screw gun. The adaptor is operatively engaged with and disengaged from the screw gun without clamping or unclamping the adaptor to the screw gun.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1989Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Inventors: Kevin C. Chagnon, Glenn W. Silkman
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Patent number: 4913463Abstract: Interleaving troughs (28-30) are securely fixed to a front cover (12) and a back cover (14) of a hinged apparatus (10). The first and second troughs (28-30) are generally semicircular in shape and are dimensioned to slidably cooperate with each other. A gap (34) is formed between the second trough (30) and the back cover (14) to receive the first trough (28) when the apparatus (10) is in a fully opened position. When the apparatus (10) is closed, first and second troughs (28-30) form a generally cylindrical container (36) for holding a wire spiral (26) of a book (20). When the apparatus (10) is closed, a void (38) of less than 3/16 inch is formed between the first and second troughs (28-30). The void (38) meets the ASTM standards for toy safety with regard to a pinching hazard.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1988Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Steve H. Tlapek, Patrick P. Hicks, Julio E. Valella
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Patent number: 4909110Abstract: A tube cutting apparatus of the type in which jaws carried by relatively reciprocal slides move into and out of clamping engagement with tubing to facilitate severing of lengths of tubing as the tubing is moving rapidly along its lengthwise axis. Each of the jaws is releasably secured to the respective slide by a cam pin which coacts with a cam surface on the jaw to bring an eccentric portion of the cam pin into wedging coaction with the cam surface on the jaw in response to rotation of the pin and firmly and wedgingly secure the jaw to the slide. The jaw may be removed from the slide by simply rotating the cam pin a fraction of a revolution, axially withdrawing the cam pin, and then lifting the jaw out of the slide. Replacement is accomplished by reversing this procedure.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1988Date of Patent: March 20, 1990Inventor: John J. Borzym
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Patent number: 4906157Abstract: One type of bookbinding strip consists of a male strip with plural flexible studs projecting therefrom and a female strip with complementary holes and grooves in the outer surface thereof extending from each hole. The studs are inserted through holes in the punched paper, then through the holes in the female strip. The present invention compresses the strips toward each other with the paper therebetween and then, upon manual actuation of a lever, causes blocks carrying rollers to bend 90.degree. the portion of the studs projecting beyond the female strip, causing these portions to snap into the grooves. Since the grooves on each end of the strip extend toward the middle of the strip, two blocks are used, each moving inward toward the center upon actuation of the lever.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1989Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Assignee: VeloBind, Inc.Inventors: Frank A. Todaro, Keith Holmes
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Patent number: 4902183Abstract: An apparatus and cartridge for use in binding prepunched sheets into a booklet using curled-finger ring-type edge binders. The binders include an opening tool which is drawn through the binder for spreading curled binder finger from the binder spine to form a document receiving gap. Binder/tool combinations are carried in the cartridge which includes a binding position or slot. The cartridge is to be positioned in an apparatus having a recessed base for receiving the cartridge and a cover which includes a paper receiving slot. The base defines a slot for alignment with the cartridge binding position slot. In the opened position, the terminus of the cover slot is aligned with the base slot. When the cartridge is in position and the cover opened, a booklet can be formed at the binding position by a binder being opened, apertured paper deposited in the cover slot and binder, and removal of the opening tool to permit the binder to close on the apertured paper.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1989Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Assignee: General Binding CorporationInventors: Alfredo J. Vercillo, Thomas T. Battisti
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Patent number: 4900211Abstract: There is disclosed herein an apparatus and method for binding prepunched and apertured materials together with a curled-finger ring-type edge binder using an elongated tool. The tool includes leading, intermediate and trailing sections. The leading section is longer than the binder, but not as wide. The intermediate section which uncurls the fingers taperingly joins the leading and trailing sections. The trailing section is longer and wider than the binder, holds the fingers open, aligns the prepunched paper relative to the fingers and can form an upwardly-facing paper receiving gap. The back end of the trailing section is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the tool for releasing the fingers so as to allow each finger to release its potential energy, extent or snap through the aperture and thus bind the paper together.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1989Date of Patent: February 13, 1990Assignee: General Binding CorporationInventor: Alfredo J. Vercillo
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Patent number: 4825739Abstract: A punch system for rigid and brittle plastic sheet materials such as polycarbonates comprising a punch body mounted in a carrier board and having an upwardly projecting head portion which defines the shape of the hole to be punched, a ring of high durometer urethane mounted on the punch head to serve as a stabilizer and stripper and a disk of high durometer urethane mounted on the under surface of the press platen directly opposite the punch to receive the punch head and the slug of punched material during the punching operation. The punch is used in combination with a steel rule die but can be used either with other punches or alone.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1984Date of Patent: May 2, 1989Assignee: Bernal, Inc.Inventor: Douglas Pfaff