Patents by Inventor Martin Utz

Martin Utz 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).

  • Publication number: 20050095388
    Abstract: A card sheet including a top material having punched lines, the front side of the top material being printable. A carrier material of at least one polymer layer is directly applied as by extruding to the back side of the top material. The polymer has a stress-at-break in the range of 10 to 30 MPa and an elongation at break in the range of 10 to 120%. From the card sheet individual cards may be broken out to form high quality calling (business) cards, photograph cards, post cards or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Martin Utz, Karl Lengfeller, Michael Wilkes, Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Ramin Heydarpour, Chia-Hsi Chu, Ronald Ugolick, Ali Mehrabi
  • Publication number: 20050089663
    Abstract: A label sheet (1) having a release liner (16) and a column of labels (12) releasably adhered thereto is modified to allow easy removal of the labels. The liner has a weakened separation line (30) formed by cuts and ties running underneath a column of labels near the edge of the labels, and notches (18) at the top and bottom of the sheet aligned with the cuts and ties. A matrix (14) surrounding the labels, if present, also has cuts and ties, with the cuts and ties in the matrix parallel to and slightly offset from the cuts and ties in the liner. The separation lines are strong enough that the label sheet can be fed through a printer, yet weak enough that a user can tear off the liner and matrix along the separation lines, thus leaving a minor edge of a column of labels exposed for easy removal from the label sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Galen Wong, Steven Weirather, Jerry Hodsdon, Inge Bachner, Martin Utz
  • Publication number: 20050089664
    Abstract: A card sheet including a top material having punched lines, the front side of the top material being printable. A carrier material of at least one polymer layer is directly applied as by extruding to the back side of the top material. The polymer has a stress-at-break in the range of 10 to 30 MPa and an elongation at break in the range of 10 to 120%. From the card sheet individual cards may be broken out to form high quality calling (business) cards, photograph cards, post cards or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Martin Utz, Karl Lengfeller, Michael Wilkins, Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Ramin Heydarpour, Chia-Hsi Chu, Ronald Ugolick, Ali Mehrabi
  • Publication number: 20040209029
    Abstract: A card sheet including a top material having punched lines, the front side of the top material being printable. A carrier material of at least one polymer layer is directly applied as by extruding to the back side of the top material. The polymer has a stress-at-break in the range of 10 to 30 MPa and an elongation at break in the range of 10 to 120%. From the card sheet individual cards may be broken out to form high quality calling (business) cards, photograph cards, post cards or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Martin Utz, Karl Lengfeller, Micheal Wilkes, Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Ramin Heydarpour, Chia-Hsi Chu, Ronald Ugolick, Ali R. Mehrabi
  • Publication number: 20040091659
    Abstract: A label badge sheet construction including a facestock sheet releasably adhered to a liner sheet. A weakened separation line in the facestock sheet defines at least one label. After the sheet construction has been passed through a printer or copier and desired indicia printed on the at least one label the printed label can be removed to be used as a visitor's badge or the like. Preferably, first and second labels are formed with a fold line separating them, and a weakened separation line through the liner sheet forms a liner panel which is adhered to the back of the first label. With the first and second labels and the liner panel removed as a label assembly and the labels folded on the fold line, through-holes through the first and second labels and the liner panel are aligned. A lanyard or clip can be passed through the aligned through-holes. The liner panel thereby reinforces the through-holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Donald E. Banks, Jerry G. Hodsdon, Martin Utz, Ronald Ugolick
  • Publication number: 20030148056
    Abstract: A card sheet including a top material having punched lines, the front side of the top material being printable. A carrier material of at least one polymer layer is directly applied as by extruding to the back side of the top material. The polymer has a stress-at-break in the range of 10 to 30 MPa and an elongation at break in the range of 10 to 120%. From the card sheet individual cards may be broken out to form high quality calling (business) cards, photograph cards, post cards or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Martin Utz, Karl Lengfeller, Michael Wilkes, Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Ramin Heydarpour, Chia-Hsi Chu, Ronald Ugolick, Ali R. Mehrabi
  • Patent number: 5700535
    Abstract: Described is a sheet of labels made from label material composed of non-sticky substrate material, an intermediate adhesive layer and top material, the surface area of the top material being smaller than that of the substrate to the extent that the edges of the substrate material project out on all sides of the sheet beyond the edges of the top material. A sheet of this kind prevents particles of adhesive from being transferred to parts of machines in an installation in which the sheets are further processed, irrespective of which side is used to draw the sheet into the processing installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Zweckform Buro-Produkte GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Galsterer, Andreas Schlegel, Martin Utz