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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Orville C. Huggins, Centerville, OH (US);
Assignee:
Monarch Marking Systems, Inc., Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 3/500 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a printer for printing and dispensing labels releasably adhered to a carrier web. The printer includes a print head and a cooperable platen roll, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels from the web, a take-up roll for drawing the web about the delaminator, and a slip clutch for limiting the amount of driving force applied to the web by the take-up roll. Slippage occurs at the slip clutch but not between the take-up roll and the web.