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EP0126899A2 Expired / Lapsed EP ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Hand-held labelling machine

Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
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Filing: 1982-05-25
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2002-05-25
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Abstract

Abstract There is disclosed a hand-held labelling machine having a print head with electrically selectable printing elements for printing and applying pressure sensitive labels. The labeler has a housing with a handle and structure for mounting a roll of pressure sensitive labels releasably carried on a carrier web. The labeler has a movable section which mounts a keyboard and a control circuit on a circuit board. The control circuit controls the printing elements. Labels are printed by the printing elements as the carrier web is advanced, and labels are delaminated at a delaminator and dispensed into label applying relation to an applicator. The print head is mounted on a support and is continuously spring-urged toward the platen. Movement of the print head toward the platen is limited to prevent damage. The support and the print head can be moved away from the platen from the outside of the labeler to facilitate threading of the web. The print head support can be skewed to provide uniform pressure contact of the printing elements with the labels. An electrical energy source, for example a battery, can be located in a hole in the label roll. Electrical energy from the battery terminals passes to the control circuit via contacts associated with the label roll mounting structure. In another embodiment, the handle can comprise a rechargeable battery. The drive includes an electrical stepping motor and in another embodiment, the drive is mechanically accomplished. Printing is accomplished by a plurality of individually controllable printing elements, preferably arranged in a single line array disposed on the print head in a direction transverse to the direction of advancement of the web. The array may be only one character width or height long, or may extend across the entire width of the web, in order to permit any size characters of any font and any orientation to be printed. When a long array is used, a serial-to-parallel converter may be incorporated in the print head to reduce the number of connections that need be made to the head. By utilizing thermal printing elements, the characters can be made to appear as if they were formed of individual print elements, or as if they were continuously printed simply by controlling the length of time that the printing elements are engaged to thereby control the amount of smear and burn produced on the web.

Inventors

  • 👤 Daniel Joseph Torbeck

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
B; B41; B41J; B41J2/00; B41J2/315; B41J2/32; B41J2/35; B41J11/00; B41J11/20; B41J25/00; B41J25/304; B65; B65C; B65C11/00; B65C11/02; B65C11/0205; B65C11/021; B65C11/0215; B65C11/0236; B65C11/0242; B65C11/0289; G; G06; G06K; G06K1/00; G06K1/12; G06K1/121; G06K15/00; G06K15/02; G06K15/028; B65C2210/00; B65C2210/0002; B65C2210/0013; B65C2210/0018; B65C2210/0037; B65C2210/004; B65C2210/0043; G06K2215/00; G06K2215/0082; G06K2215/0097; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T156/00; Y10T156/17; Y10T156/1702; Y10T156/1705; Y10T156/1707; Y10T156/1788; Y10T156/1795; Y10T156/18

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim 261 words
A hand-held labelling machine comprising: a housing having a manually engageable handle, the hous- i ng having means for holding a label supply roll of a composite web having labels releas-ably adhered to a backing strip, means for printing on a label at a printing position, means for peeling the printed label from the backing strip, label applying means disposed adjacent the peeling means, means for advancing the web to peel a printed label from the backing strip at the peeling means and advance the printed label into label applying relationship with the label applying means and to advance another label into the printing position, data entry means mounted on the housing for entering selected data to be printed, the printing means including a thermographic printing head having a plurality of individually selectable printing elements powered by the source of electrical energy for printing on a thermographic label at the printing position, means coupled to the data entry means for receiving and electrically processing data representative of the data entered by the data entry means, means electrically coupling the data receiving and processing means and the thermographic printing head and means for causing the data receiving and processing means to operate the thermographic printing head to print the selected data on the label, characterized in that said coupling means includes a plurality of individual conductors (294) electrically interconnecting the printing head (36) and the data receiving and processing means (202), the number of said individual conductors being fewer than the number of individually selectable printing elements (36') forming said printing head.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 261 words
A hand-held labelling machine comprising: a housing having a manually engageable handle, the hous- i ng having means for holding a label supply roll of a composite web having labels releas-ably adhered to a backing strip, means for printing on a label at a printing position, means for peeling the printed label from the backing strip, label applying means disposed adjacent the peeling means, means for advancing the web to peel a printed label from the backing strip at the peeling means and advance the printed label into label applying relationship with the label applying means and to advance another label into the printing position, data entry means mounted on the housing for entering selected data to be printed, the printing means including a thermographic printing head having a plurality of individually selectable printing elements powered by the source of electrical energy for printing on a thermographic label at the printing position, means coupled to the data entry means for receiving and electrically processing data representative of the data entered by the data entry means, means electrically coupling the data receiving and processing means and the thermographic printing head and means for causing the data receiving and processing means to operate the thermographic printing head to print the selected data on the label, characterized in that said coupling means includes a plurality of individual conductors (294) electrically interconnecting the printing head (36) and the data receiving and processing means (202), the number of said individual conductors being fewer than the number of individually selectable printing elements (36') forming said printing head.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 20 words
A hand-held labelling machine as recited in claim 1, characterized in that said coupling means comprises a serial-to-parallel converter (262).
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 52 words
A hand-held labelling machine as recited in claim 2, characterized in that said serial to parallel converter (262) is co-located with said selectable printing elements (36 1 ), and that said coupling means includes a plurality of individual conductors (294) interconnecting said serial-to-parallel converter (262) and said receiving and processing means (202).
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 241 words
A hand-held labelling machine comprising: a housing having a manually engageable handle, the housing having means for holding a lebel supply roll of a composite web having labels releasable adhered to a backing strip, means for printing on a label at a printing position, means for peeling the printed label from the backing strip, label applying means disposed adjacent the peeling means, means for advancing the web to peel a printed label from the backing strip at the peeling means and advance the printed label into label applying relationship with the label applying means and to advance another label into the printing position, means for entering selected data to be printed, the printing means including a thermographic print head having a plurality of individually selectable print elements powered by the source of electrical energy for printing on a thermographic label at the printing position during advance of the web by the advancing means, means coupled to said data entering means for electrically processing the selected data and energizing the individual print elements in a predetermined sequence determined by the selected data to print data on the label, wherein said advancing means includes signalling means electrically coupled to said processing means for providing a signal representative of the position of the label, said processing means including means for providing a signal representative of a printable area on the label for rendering said print head operative to place the data on the label.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 241 words
A hand-held labelling machine comprising: a housing having a manually engageable handle, the housing having means for holding a lebel supply roll of a composite web having labels releasable adhered to a backing strip, means for printing on a label at a printing position, means for peeling the printed label from the backing strip, label applying means disposed adjacent the peeling means, means for advancing the web to peel a printed label from the backing strip at the peeling means and advance the printed label into label applying relationship with the label applying means and to advance another label into the printing position, means for entering selected data to be printed, the printing means including a thermographic print head having a plurality of individually selectable print elements powered by the source of electrical energy for printing on a thermographic label at the printing position during advance of the web by the advancing means, means coupled to said data entering means for electrically processing the selected data and energizing the individual print elements in a predetermined sequence determined by the selected data to print data on the label, wherein said advancing means includes signalling means electrically coupled to said processing means for providing a signal representative of the position of the label, said processing means including means for providing a signal representative of a printable area on the label for rendering said print head operative to place the data on the label.

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