Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.

Paxar Americas, Inc.

Avery Dennison Corporation

David R Wisecup

Thomas P Keller

Orville C Huggins

Brent E Goodwin

Dennis Scott Prows

John D Mistyurik

Donald L Karn

Mark A Seale

John R Monteith

Ronald L Fogle

Jan M Watson

Mark W Moore

John D Mistvurik

Paul H Hamisch, Jr

Charles B Bussard

Jack D Keefe

Harold N Grushon

John R Aiple

David S Prows

There is disclosed a lightweight portable printer having a frame or housing with a print head and a cooperable platen roll mounted in the housing. The housing pivotally mounts a subassembly. The subassembly mounts an electric motor and gearing driven by the motor for driving the platen roll. The subassembly is resiliently urged to press the print head against the platen roll. The printer has a front door which provides access to the inside of the housing. The front door mounts the platen roll, a label delaminator, a pressure roll, a holder for mounting a supply roll of labels or tags, and a latch for latching the door to the housing and for camming the pressure roll into and out of cooperation with the platen roll.

Portable printer

A lightweight portable printer has a frame or housing with a print head and a cooperable platen roll mounted in the housing. The housing pivotally mounts a subassembly. The subassembly mounts an electric motor and gearing driven by the motor for driving the platen roll. The subassembly is resiliently urged to press the print head against the platen roll. The printer has a front door which provides access to the inside of the housing. The front door mounts the platen roll, a label delaminator, a pressure roll, a holder for mounting a supply roll of labels or tags, and a latch for latching the door to the housing and for camming the pressure roll into and out of cooperation with the platen roll.

There is disclosed an improved thermal printer with a rigid frame made from a main frame plate with compound bends and a base plate, record member supply roll mounting and guide devices, an ink ribbon and record member web feed control system, a print head assembly, and improved ink ribbon cores and spindles.

Printer frame made of three panels of one-piece metal

Printer with ink ribbon spool electric motors

There is disclosed a hand-held labeler having a housing with a handle, a thermal print head for printing on labels of a composite label web, a platen roll cooperable with the print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for applying printed labels, and a brake for arresting the platen roll to prevent loss of print registration during application of a label. The operative components of the labeler are readily accessible for servicing, and yet the labeler is simple in construction. The labeler has an improved print head mounting structure for facilitating precise alignment and pressure contact between the print head and the platen roll.

Hand-held labeler

Hand-held labeller

Hand-held labeler and method labeling

There is disclosed a printing apparatus for printing on tags and labels. The apparatus includes a compact housing which is comprised essentially of plastics material. The housing includes a self-storing sliding cover, end plates and a base forming track structure for the cover, and a shelf for mounting a thermal printing mechanism. The printing mechanism is a compact module that is suitably secured in the housing. The printing mechanism includes structure for maintaining tension in a label-carrying web, for adjusting the orientation of the printing mechanism's thermal print head, and for applying controlled rewinding.

Printing apparatus

There is disclosed a one-piece molded fastener composed of plastics material, wherein there is a socket hav ing a through-passage and a head connected by a filament. The head is insertable into the socket in one direction to be non-releaseably gripped by prongs or spring fingers on the inside of the socket. There is a provision on the head for preventing the head from being inserted into the passage through the other end of the socket to a position where it would be releasably gripped by the prongs.

One-piece plastics fastener

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Xenia, OH, United States of America

David R Wisecup