EP0000657B1
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Labelling machines.
Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
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Filing: 1978-07-21
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Granted: 1981-08-12
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Expires: 1998-07-21
Abstract
No abstract record available.
Inventors
- 👤 Inc. Monarch Marking Systems
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 12:00
CPC Classifications
B; B41; B41J; B41J2/00; B41J2/315; B41J2/32; B65; B65C; B65C11/00; B65C11/02; B65C11/0289; G; G06; G06K; G06K1/00; G06K1/12; G06K1/121; G09; G09F; G09F3/00; G09F3/02; G09F3/0286; B65C2210/00; B65C2210/0002; B65C2210/0013; B65C2210/0018; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T156/00; Y10T156/17; Y10T156/1702; Y10T156/1705; Y10T156/1707; Y10T156/171
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
243 words
A hand-held labelling machine, comprising: a housing (1) having a manually engageable handle (2), the housing (1) having means for holding a label supply roll (5) composed of a composite web having labels releaseably adhered to a backing strip (14), means (6) for printing on a label at a printing position, means for peeling a printed label from the backing strip (14), label applying means (12) disposed adjacent the peeling means, means (9, 10, 15) for advancing the backing strip to peel a printed label from the backing strip (14) at the peeling means and advance the printed label into label applying relationship with the label applying means and to advance another label to the printing position, the housing further having means for holding a source of electrical energy (3), characterised by means including a keyboard (19) mounted on the housing for entering selected data to be printed, the printing means including an electrically selectable thermographic printing head (6) powered by the source of electrical energy (3) for printing on a thermographic label at the printing position, means (21) coupled to the keyboard (19) for receiving and electrically processing data representative of the selected data entered by the keyboard (19), means (25, 26, 27) electrically coupling the data receiving and processing means and the thermographic printing head, and means (20) for causing the data receiving and processing means to operate the thermographic printing head (6) to print the selected data on the label.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
243 words
A hand-held labelling machine, comprising: a housing (1) having a manually engageable handle (2), the housing (1) having means for holding a label supply roll (5) composed of a composite web having labels releaseably adhered to a backing strip (14), means (6) for printing on a label at a printing position, means for peeling a printed label from the backing strip (14), label applying means (12) disposed adjacent the peeling means, means (9, 10, 15) for advancing the backing strip to peel a printed label from the backing strip (14) at the peeling means and advance the printed label into label applying relationship with the label applying means and to advance another label to the printing position, the housing further having means for holding a source of electrical energy (3), characterised by means including a keyboard (19) mounted on the housing for entering selected data to be printed, the printing means including an electrically selectable thermographic printing head (6) powered by the source of electrical energy (3) for printing on a thermographic label at the printing position, means (21) coupled to the keyboard (19) for receiving and electrically processing data representative of the selected data entered by the keyboard (19), means (25, 26, 27) electrically coupling the data receiving and processing means and the thermographic printing head, and means (20) for causing the data receiving and processing means to operate the thermographic printing head (6) to print the selected data on the label.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
18 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in Claim 1, wherein the advancing means includes a stepping motor (16).
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
62 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in Claim 2, wherein the feeding means includes means (8) for sensing the position of the composite web, and means (21) responsive to the sensing means for controlling the data receiving and processing means to terminate operation of the stepping motor when a label is in label applying relationship with respect to the label applying means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
24 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in Claim 3, wherein the composite web has means adapted to be sensed by the sensing means (8).
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
25 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in any one of Claims 1 through 4, wherein the data receiving and processing means includes a microprocessor (21
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
18 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in Claim 5, wherein the microprocessor (21) includes a read only memory.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
23 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in either of Claim 5 or Claim 6, wherein the microprocessor (21) includes a random access memory.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
33 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the thermographic printing head (6) includes a plurality of printing elements coupled to the data receiving and processing means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
50 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in any one of Claims 1 through 7, wherein the thermographic printing head includes a plurality of printing elements, and line driver circuit elements (25, 26) and dot driver circuit elements (27) coupling the data receiving and processing means (21) and the printing elements.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
34 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the means for causing the data receiving and processing means (21) to operate the printing head includes switch means (20).
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
76 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in any one of Claims 1 through 9, wherein the means for causing the data receiving the processing means (21) to operate the thermographic printing head also causes operation of the feeding means and includes switch means (20) and means (8, 22) coupled to the microprocessor for terminating operation of the feeding means when a printed label has been advanced into label applying relationship relative to the label applying means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
34 words
A hand-held labelling machine as defined in any one of the preceding claims, including display means (35) coupled to the data receiving and processing means (21) for displaying data entered by the keyboard (19).
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