Patents by Inventor James L. Lowry

James L. Lowry has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10332428
    Abstract: A wrap-around expanded content label includes a base label free of adhesive, a booklet on the base label, and an overlaminate having a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on an underside thereof. The overlaminate overlies and adheres to the booklet, and opposite lateral portions of the overlaminate extend beyond the edges of the booklet to adhere to the base label. One lateral portion of the overlaminate is substantially permanently bonded to the base label adjacent a bound edge of the booklet. The other lateral portion of the overlaminate is resealably bonded to the base label adjacent a free lateral edge of the booklet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CCL LABEL, INC.
    Inventors: Mary DeShea Morgan, Glen Edward Matheny, Charles G. Woods, James L. Lowry, John William Walton, III
  • Publication number: 20190005851
    Abstract: A wrap-around expanded content label includes a base label free of adhesive, a booklet on the base label, and an overlaminate having a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on an underside thereof. The overlaminate overlies and adheres to the booklet, and opposite lateral portions of the overlaminate extend beyond the edges of the booklet to adhere to the base label. One lateral portion of the overlaminate is substantially permanently bonded to the base label adjacent a bound edge of the booklet. The other lateral portion of the overlaminate is resealably bonded to the base label adjacent a free lateral edge of the booklet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Mary DeShea Morgan, Glen Edward Matheny, Charles G. Woods, James L. Lowry, John William Walton, III
  • Patent number: 7503483
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a discontinuous business form construction created preferably from differential substrates that have been provided with one or more removable elements such as cards, labels, tags and differential substrates. The form construction is desirably a composite form having at least first and second discrete portions or segments one of which carries one or more removable elements and the other of which provides an information carrying portion. The form construction of the present invention is produced in such a manner so that when a series of the forms are placed into a stack, such as in a tray that supplies forms to a printing station or a laser printer, there is no significant pad lean. That is, the stack of forms retains a relatively square, rectangular or cube shaped as opposed to one having a sloped configuration, a high end and a low end, due to differential thicknesses between the two portions of the construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Ward/Kraft
    Inventors: Roger D. Buck, James L. Lowry
  • Patent number: 7438323
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a substantially planar business communication assembly that has one or more ablated recesses or depressions which are created through the use of electromagnetic radiation. The assembly preferably includes first and second portions that are joined to one another to form a composite construction. The business form is typically provided with an ablated depression in one of the two portions. The depression has a depth that is sufficient such that when a removable element is placed within the depression the surface of the removable element is substantially planar with the surface of at least one of the surfaces of the portions used to make up the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Ward/Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Lowry, Roger D. Buck
  • Patent number: 6378763
    Abstract: A container having a window for viewing the product contained therein and an associated method of manufacture is provided. The container is constructed of at least one body ply and a liner ply. The body ply defines at least one aperture therethrough such that when the body ply is wrapped into a tubular shape the aperture forms a window through the body ply into the container. The liner ply extends across the aperture in the body ply and has a sufficiently low opacity that allows the product in the container to be viewed through the window. The liner ply provides a moisture and gas barrier inside the container around the product. The container may include a label ply. The label ply defines at least one aperture therethrough. The cutting of the at least one aperture in the label ply is registered. The body ply defines at least one aperture therethrough corresponding to the at least one aperture in the label ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Nelson, James L. Lowry
  • Patent number: 5752614
    Abstract: An easy-opening closure is provided for hermetically sealing of an open end of a retortable container. The closure includes a metal end ring having a deformable outside peripheral area for being double seamed to the open end of the retortable container and having an inside area defining a large circular central opening to allow access therethrough to the interior of the container. An outside peripheral area of a membrane ring overlaps and is attached to the inside area of the metal end ring by a bond having predetermined shear and tensile force strengths. An inside peripheral area of the membrane ring extends inwardly into the circular central opening. A membrane patch is provided to cover the central opening and has an outer peripheral area overlapping and attached to an upper side of the membrane ring by a bond having predetermined shear and tensile force strengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Sonoco Products Company
    Inventors: Brian E. Nelson, James L. Lowry