Patents by Inventor John W. George
John W. George 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).
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Patent number: 8414994Abstract: A note-carried liquid pack for application on an article by machine includes a base note layer with printed indicia on a top note face. The note-carried liquid pack also includes first and second fluid-impermeable, substantially transparent laminate layers overlying the base note layer. A first adhesive secures the first laminate layer to the base note layer, and a second adhesive secures the second laminate layer to the first laminate layer along an endless adhesive boundary. The endless adhesive boundary surrounds a central portion devoid of adhesive, in which the laminate layers define a liquid-holding pocket therebetween. A substantially transparent liquid is disposed within the pocket to be sealed therein so long as at least portions of the laminate layers adjacent the pocket remain secured to one another. The printed indicia is viewable through the laminate layers and through the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Express Card and Label Co., Inc.Inventor: John W. George
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Patent number: 8226535Abstract: A label product in web form has alternating, oppositely indented creases in the liner of the product to produce a fan-folded stack having alternating, reversely folded plies. Each crease is substantially, if not entirely, perforation-free to maximize the strength of the liner at the fold lines. The product is preferably produced on a narrow web press in a creasing station that includes a stack of rolls wherein a first die roll is on the bottom of the stack, a second die roll is on the top of the stack, and a pair of base rolls are located in the middle of the stack between the die rolls. A blade on each die roll cooperates with a cushion on the corresponding base roll to produce a crease during every other rotation of the die roll, each of the base rolls having a smaller circumference than its corresponding die roll.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Express Card and Label Co., Inc.Inventor: John W. George
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Publication number: 20110275504Abstract: A label product in web form has alternating, oppositely indented creases in the liner of the product to produce a fan-folded stack having alternating, reversely folded plies. Each crease is substantially, if not entirely, perforation-free to maximize the strength of the liner at the fold lines. The product is preferably produced on a narrow web press in a creasing station that includes a stack of rolls wherein a first die roll is on the bottom of the stack, a second die roll is on the top of the stack, and a pair of base rolls are located in the middle of the stack between the die rolls. A blade on each die roll cooperates with a cushion on the corresponding base roll to produce a crease during every other rotation of the die roll, each of the base rolls having a smaller circumference than its corresponding die roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: EXPRESS CARD AND LABEL CO., INC.Inventor: John W. GEORGE
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Publication number: 20110272102Abstract: A label product in web form has alternating, oppositely indented creases in the liner of the product to produce a fan-folded stack having alternating, reversely folded plies. Each crease is substantially, if not entirely, perforation-free to maximize the strength of the liner at the fold lines. The product is preferably produced on a narrow web press in a creasing station that includes a stack of rolls wherein a first die roll is on the bottom of the stack, a second die roll is on the top of the stack, and a pair of base rolls are located in the middle of the stack between the die rolls. A blade on each die roll cooperates with a cushion on the corresponding base roll to produce a crease during every other rotation of the die roll, each of the base rolls having a smaller circumference than its corresponding die roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: EXPRESS CARD AND LABEL CO., INC.Inventor: John W. GEORGE
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Publication number: 20110244151Abstract: A note-carried liquid pack for application on an article by machine includes a base note layer with printed indicia on a top note face. The note-carried liquid pack also includes first and second fluid-impermeable, substantially transparent laminate layers overlying the base note layer. A first adhesive secures the first laminate layer to the base note layer, and a second adhesive secures the second laminate layer to the first laminate layer along an endless adhesive boundary. The endless adhesive boundary surrounds a central portion devoid of adhesive, in which the laminate layers define a liquid-holding pocket therebetween. A substantially transparent liquid is disposed within the pocket to be sealed therein so long as at least portions of the laminate layers adjacent the pocket remain secured to one another. The printed indicia is viewable through the laminate layers and through the pocket.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: EXPRESS CARD AND LABEL CO., INC.Inventor: John W. George
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Patent number: 7985170Abstract: A label product in web form has alternating, oppositely indented creases in the liner of the product to produce a fan-folded stack having alternating, reversely folded plies. Each crease is substantially, if not entirely, perforation-free to maximize the strength of the liner at the fold lines. The product is preferably produced on a narrow web press in a creasing station that includes a stack of rolls wherein a first die roll is on the bottom of the stack, a second die roll is on the top of the stack, and a pair of base rolls are located in the middle of the stack between the die rolls. A blade on each die roll cooperates with a cushion on the corresponding base roll to produce a crease during every other rotation of the die roll, each of the base rolls having a smaller circumference than its corresponding die roll.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Express Card and Label Co., Inc.Inventor: John W. George
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Patent number: 7824752Abstract: A label product in web form has alternating, oppositely indented creases in the liner of the product to produce a fan-folded stack having alternating, reversely folded plies. Each crease is substantially, if not entirely, perforation-free to maximize the strength of the liner at the fold lines. The product is preferably produced on a narrow web press in a creasing station that includes a stack of rolls wherein a first die roll is on the bottom of the stack, a second die roll is on the top of the stack, and a pair of base rolls are located in the middle of the stack between the die rolls. A blade on each die roll cooperates with a cushion on the corresponding base roll to produce a crease during every other rotation of the die roll, each of the base rolls having a smaller circumference than its corresponding die roll.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Express Card and Label Co., Inc.Inventor: John W. George
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Patent number: 7762939Abstract: A label product in web form has alternating, oppositely indented creases in the liner of the product to produce a fan-folded stack having alternating, reversely folded plies. Each crease is substantially, if not entirely, perforation-free to maximize the strength of the liner at the fold lines. The product is preferably produced on a narrow web press in a creasing station that includes a stack of rolls wherein a first die roll is on the bottom of the stack, a second die roll is on the top of the stack, and a pair of base rolls are located in the middle of the stack between the die rolls. A blade on each die roll cooperates with a cushion on the corresponding base roll to produce a crease during every other rotation of the die roll, each of the base rolls having a smaller circumference than its corresponding die roll.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2007Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Express Card and Label Co., Inc.Inventor: John W. George
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Publication number: 20090058073Abstract: A web label product comprises a series of folded labels releasably attached to an elongated liner so that the labels may be peeled off at high speeds and applied to a line of fast-moving web material, individual publications such as newspaper sections or magazines, or other articles. The folded labels are directly adhered to the liner without the use of an intermediate base carrier label and are correspondingly adapted for direct application to the articles without an intermediate base carrier label. A number of different embodiments are presented disclosing variations in the way of folding the labels and releasably maintaining them in such folded condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: EXPRESS CARD AND LABEL CO., INC.Inventor: John W. George
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Publication number: 20080269036Abstract: A label product in web form has alternating, oppositely indented creases in the liner of the product to produce a fan-folded stack having alternating, reversely folded plies. Each crease is substantially, if not entirely, perforation-free to maximize the strength of the liner at the fold lines. The product is preferably produced on a narrow web press in a creasing station that includes a stack of rolls wherein a first die roll is on the bottom of the stack, a second die roll is on the top of the stack, and a pair of base rolls are located in the middle of the stack between the die rolls. A blade on each die roll cooperates with a cushion on the corresponding base roll to produce a crease during every other rotation of the die roll, each of the base rolls having a smaller circumference than its corresponding die roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: EXPRESS CARD AND LABEL CO., INC.Inventor: John W. George
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Patent number: 4978028Abstract: A disposable container for the handling of biohazardous waste material includes a substantially rectangular six-sided exterior box, a polyethylene liner receivable within the exterior box, a substantially rectangular four-sided interior insert positioned within the liner and a substantially rectangular inner box bottom positioned within the interior insert. The exterior box includes two top flaps and two lid sections each of which is integral with and in a hinged relationship with one of the sides of the exterior box. The top flaps and lid sections form a closure at the top portion of the exterior box. One of the top flaps includes an access hole for dropping waste material into the disposable container. The interior insert includes end flaps at the top and bottom of each of the sides integral with and in a hinged relationship with each of the sides of the interior insert to maintain the interior insert in a stable and equidistant relationship with respect to each of the sides of the exterior box.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: American Sterilizer CompanyInventors: John W. George, Laurence D. Taylor
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Patent number: 4909148Abstract: A removable print station has opposed, outwardly extending support portions configured for complemental reception within existing die cutter slots of a press frame. The drop-in printing station includes a plate cylinder which cooperates with an anvil roller associated with the removed die cutting unit for establishing an image on the web passing therebetween. Once the printing station is secured in place, precise lateral adjustment of the position occupied by the printing cylinder, an anilox roller and a doctor roller may be effected as desired.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1988Date of Patent: March 20, 1990Assignee: Express Flexographic Equipment Co., Inc.Inventor: John W. George
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Patent number: 4438696Abstract: The module is adapted to be attached to and suspended from a flexographic printing press in order to provide an additional web printing station and other options such as an ultraviolet curing device and a die cutting station. Guide rollers for the web being printed are so positioned that the web may be entrained around them in a manner to present the web to the print station of the module for backside printing thereof after the front side of the web has been printed by the primary press. The module derives its driving power for the various rollers and other components thereof from the primary press, and a quick change feature within the drive coupling between the press and the module enables the rollers of the module print station to be driven in a reverse mode for such backside printing, notwithstanding the fact that the print stations of the main press remain driven in the forward mode, as well as the web.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1982Date of Patent: March 27, 1984Assignee: Express Card & Label Co.Inventors: John W. George, Eugene D. Rudolph