Patents by Inventor Wonnie Brown

Wonnie Brown 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).

  • Portable applicator
    Patent number: 8453695
    Abstract: There is disclosed an applicator and method for applying transfers such as heat transfers, decals or labels to transfer-receptive materials. The applicator has a lightweight, T-shaped, sheet metal support or frame having an applicator station. A motorized supply roll unwind and a motorized take-up roll rewind are mounted on the support to hold supply and take-up rolls, to tension the transfer-containing web and to advance the web onto the take-up roll after the transfer has been applied at the applicator station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, LLC
    Inventors: Donald J. Ward, Raymond A. Blanchard, Jr., Richard E. Roberts, Monti D. Emery, Wonnie Brown
  • Portable applicator
    Publication number: 20080185093
    Abstract: There is disclosed an applicator and method for applying transfers such as heat transfers, decals or labels to transfer-receptive materials. The applicator has a lightweight, T-shaped, sheet metal support or frame having an applicator station. A motorized supply roll unwind and a motorized take-up roll rewind are mounted on the support to hold supply and take-up rolls, to tension the transfer-containing web and to advance the web onto the take-up roll after the transfer has been applied at the applicator station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Donald J. Ward, Raymond A. Blanchard, Richard E. Roberts, Monti D. Emery, Wonnie Brown
  • Garment labeling system, equipment and method and elastomeric label for use therewith
    Patent number: 5813772
    Abstract: A demand actuated system for automatically feeding, printing, cutting and applying a garment label composed of a strip of two layer laminated thermoplastic, elastomeric, preferably, polyurethane, film includes a printer and a bonder arranged for conjoint operation. The printer prints computer controlled images, by means of a thermal ink transfer ribbon, directly onto a layer of higher melting point resin and the bonder fusion bonds the other layer, of lower melting point resin, to the garment piece substantially without distortion of the imprinted image. A special two layer thermoplastic elastomeric label film is provided for use in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond H. Magill, George T. Sellers, Jr., Ralph W. Grapentine, Wonnie Brown
  • Garment labeling system, equipment and method and elastomeric label for use therewith
    Patent number: 5658647
    Abstract: A demand actuated system for automatically feeding, printing, cutting and applying a garment label composed of a strip of two layer laminated thermoplastic, elastomeric, preferably, polyurethane, film includes a printer and a bonder arranged for conjoint operation. The printer prints computer controlled images, by means of a thermal ink transfer ribbon, directly onto a layer of higher melting point resin and the bonder fusion bonds the other layer, of lower melting point resin, to the garment piece substantially without distortion of the imprinted image. A special two layer thermoplastic elastomeric label film is provided for use in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignees: Avery Dennison Corporation, Electro-Seal Corp.
    Inventors: Raymond H. Magill, George T. Sellers, Jr., Ralph W. Grapentine, Wonnie Brown