Patents by Inventor Steven Craig Weirather

Steven Craig Weirather 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: 8530020
    Abstract: A sheet of printable business cards which includes a cardstock sheet construction having a front side and a back side and a solid continuous liner sheet releasably secured with ultraremovable adhesive to and covering the back side. Continuous through-cut lines are cut through the cardstock sheet construction to the back side but not through-cut through the liner sheet; the through-cut lines defining at least in part perimeter edges of printable business cards. Portions of the back side of the cardstock sheet construction form back side surfaces of the printable business cards. Areas of the liner sheet covering back sides of all of the through-cut lines and thereby hold the printable business cards together when the sheet of printable business cards is fed through a printer or copier for a printing operation on the printable business cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: CCL Label, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian R. McCarthy, Steven Craig Weirather, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs, Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan, Patricia L. Cross, Arthur B. Moore
  • Patent number: 8507064
    Abstract: A printable sheet assembly having a facestock that is provided with a plurality of cards including a card whose perimeter is defined by first and second horizontal through-cut lines and first and second vertical through-cut lines, the intersection of the first horizontal through-cut line and the first vertical through-cut line defining a first corner, the intersection of the first horizontal through-cut line and the second vertical through-cut line defining a second card corner. A liner sheet strip is on a back side surface of the facestock. The liner sheet strip covers the first horizontal through-cut line and is wider at one of the card corners than along the first horizontal through-cut line at an area centrally disposed between the card corners, thereby exposing a portion of a back side surface the card, and the liner sheet strip covering portions of the vertical through-cut lines between the horizontal through-cut lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Brian R. McCarthy, Steven Craig Weirather, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs, Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan, Patricia L. Cross, Arthur B. Moore
  • Publication number: 20080182042
    Abstract: Ultraremovable adhesive is applied to a paper sheet to form therewith a liner sheet, and the liner sheet is laminated to a cardstock sheet to form a laminate cardstock. The cardstock sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the liner sheet, to form cardstock cut lines that define at least in part perimeters of business cards (or other printable media). The outer face of the liner sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the cardstock sheet, to form liner sheet strips on a back side of the cardstock sheet. Some of the strips define cover strips covering some of the cardstock cut lines, and others of the strips define waste strips. The waste strips are then matrix removed from the back of the cardstock sheet. According to a preferred (dry laminate) embodiment the only liner sheet die cut is parallel to the leading edge of the sheet and forms a narrow leading edge liner strip which is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Brian R. McCarthy, Steven Craig Weirather, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs, Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan, Patricia L. Cross, Arthur B. Moore
  • Patent number: 7374631
    Abstract: A method of forming printable media using a laminate sheet construction which includes a film-coated liner sheet and a laminate facestock. A facestock sheet, a film layer and an adhesive layer together form the laminate facestock. The laminate facestock is cut through to the liner sheet to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media, such as rectangular business cards. An outer face of the liner sheet is cut through to form liner-sheet cut lines defining a plurality of liner sheet strips on a back side of the laminate facestock. The laminate sheet construction is sheeted into a plurality of sheets, each of the sheets includes a plurality of the printable media and at least one of the liner sheet strips. The sheets are fed through a printer or copier, desired indicia is printed on the media and the printed media then separated from the liner sheet strips of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Craig Weirather, Brian R. McCarthy, Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs, Patricia L. Cross, Arthur B. Moore
  • Patent number: 7288163
    Abstract: A method of forming printable media including providing a laminate construction which includes (1) a film coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film coated liner. The facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together form a laminate facestock. The facestock is cut to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media. Areas of the liner cover backsides of the facestock cut lines and thereby hold the printable media together for a printing operation on the printable media in a printer or copier and allow the printed media to be removed from the liner after the printing operation into individual printed media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Craig Weirather, Brian R. McCarthy, Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs, Patricia L. Cross, Arthur B. Moore
  • Patent number: 7144469
    Abstract: A method of forming a printable media sheet construction, including: (a) cutting cross-direction lines through a cardstock web; (b) after step (a), laminating a plurality of strips to the web; and (c) after step (b), cutting machine-direction lines through the web and to the strips on the opposite side of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Brian R. McCarthy, Steven Craig Weirather, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs
  • Patent number: 6890397
    Abstract: A low density polyethylene film layer is extrusion coated on densified bleached kraft paper liner to form a film-coated liner sheet. A facestock sheet is adhered with a layer of hot melt adhesive to the film layer to form a laminate sheet web, which is rolled on a roll. The facestock sheet, the film layer and the adhesive layer together define a laminate feedstock. The roll is transported to and loaded on a press with the liner side up. One (or both) edge(s) of the web is (are) crushed with a calendering die to form thin lead-in edge(s). The web is die cut on the bottom face, up through the laminate facestock, but not through the paper liner, to form the perimeters of a grid of blank business cards or other printable media, with a waste paper frame of the laminate facestock encircling the grid. The web is then die cut from the top through the paper liner and to but not through the laminate facestock, to form liner strips covering the back face of the laminate facestock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Craig Weirather, Brian R. McCarthy, Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs, Patricia L. Cross
  • Patent number: 6837955
    Abstract: Ultraremovable adhesive is applied to a paper sheet to form therewith a liner sheet and the liner sheet is laminated to a cardstock sheet to form a laminate cardstock. The cardstock sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the liner sheet, to form cardstock cut lines that define at least in part perimeters of business cards (or other printable media). The outer face of the liner sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the cardstock sheet, to form liner sheet strips on a back side of the cardstock sheet. Some of the strips define cover strips covering some of the cardstock cut lines, and others of the strips define waste strips. The waste strips are then matrix removed from the back of the cardstock sheet. The resulting business card sheet construction is then fed through a printer or copier by the user and the desired indicia printed on the front sides of the business cards, while the cover strips hold the cards together as a unit sheet construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Brian R. McCarthy, Steven Craig Weirather, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs
  • Publication number: 20030150550
    Abstract: A method of forming printable media including providing a laminate construction which includes (1) a film coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film coated liner. The facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together form a laminate facestock. The facestock is cut to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media. Areas of the liner cover backsides of the facestock cut lines and thereby hold the printable media together for a printing operation on the printable media in a printer or copier and allow the printed media to be removed from the liner after the printing operation into individual printed media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Steven Craig Weirather, Brian R. McCarthy, Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs, Patricia L. Cross, Arthur B. Moore
  • Publication number: 20020047263
    Abstract: Ultraremovable adhesive is applied to a paper sheet to form therewith a liner sheet, and the liner sheet is laminated to a cardstock sheet to form a laminate cardstock. The cardstock sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the liner sheet, to form cardstock cut lines that define at least in part perimeters of business cards (or other printable media). The outer face of the liner sheet is then die cut therethrough, but not through the cardstock sheet, to form liner sheet strips on a back side of the cardstock sheet. Some of the strips define cover strips covering some of the cardstock cut lines, and others of the strips define waste strips. The waste strips are then matrix removed from the back of the cardstock sheet. According to a preferred (dry laminate) embodiment the only liner sheet die cut is parallel to the leading edge of the sheet and forms a narrow leading edge liner strip which is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Brian R. McCarthy, Steven Craig Weirather, Charles Thurmond Patterson, Tony Lee Scroggs, Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan, Patricia L. Cross, Arthur B. Moore
  • Publication number: 20010007703
    Abstract: A low density polyethylene film layer is extrusion coated on densified bleached kraft paper liner to form a film-coated liner sheet. A facestock sheet is adhered with a layer of hot melt adhesive to the film layer to form a laminate sheet web, which is rolled on a roll. The facestock sheet, the film layer and the adhesive layer together define a laminate feedstock. The roll is transported to and loaded on a press with the liner side up. One (or both) edge(s) of the web is (are) crushed with a calendering die to form thin lead-in edge(s). The web is die cut on the bottom face, up through the laminate facestock, but not through the paper liner, to form the perimeters of a grid of blank business cards or other printable media, with a waste paper frame of the laminate facestock encircling the grid. The web is then die cut from the top through the paper liner and to but not through the laminate facestock, to form liner strips covering the back face of the laminate facestock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 1998
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Inventors: STEVEN CRAIG WEIRATHER, BRAIN R. MCCARTHY, SUNJAY YEDEHALLI MOHAN, CHARLES THURMOND PATTERSON, TONY LEE SCROGGS, PATRICIA L. CROSS, ARTHUR B. MOORE