Richard M Roule

47156236, Dec 29, 1987

Sep 28, 1984

6/655713

Richard L. Roule - Westport CT
Joshua C. Cantor - Westfield NJ

American Bank Note Company - New York NY

G09F 300
G09F 1916

283 91

A method of impressing a secret pattern on a substrate by the use of an uninked intaglio printing plate having the foreground area with a pattern of ridges and grooves which are distinctively different from the ridges and grooves in a background area enclosing the foreground area. The secret pattern may be observed only a person who is informed as to what pattern he is looking for and how to look at that pattern. Particularly, his line of sight must make a certain angle with the plane of the impressed substrate. The line of sight must also be oriented properly with respect to the background and foreground areas.

45335869, Aug 6, 1985

Mar 8, 1984

6/587374

Richard L. Roule - Westport CT
Peter J. Sorbo - Stamford CT
John J. Kimball - Huntington Station NY

American Bank Note Company - New York NY

B32B 324

428137

A web of adhesive labels for use with a machine for applying tax stamps or like adhesive labels to articles such as cigarette packages arranged in two or more rows in a carton, including mechanism for advancing the carton lengthwise with exposed ends of the packages facing upwardly, and a head disposed above the path of carton advance for transporting a corresponding number of rows of spaced-apart labels into contact with the advancing package ends while the labels and packages are moving in the same direction and at the same velocity. The head, which is movable vertically to accommodate packages of different heights, carries a supply of the labels in the form of an adhesive-backed web bearing spaced longitudinal rows of label imprints; a pinwheel for advancing the web lengthwise; a slicer for removing from the advancing web a longitudinal strip portion between the rows of imprints; a knife for cutting the separated rows of imprints into individual labels; and vacuum means for receiving the cut labels and transporting them, lengthwise of the rows, into contact with the package ends. The web has sprocket holes, for engagement by the pinwheel, disposed between the longitudinal rows of imprints and in register with the imprints of these rows.

45899436, May 20, 1986

Mar 8, 1984

6/587375

John J. Kimball - Huntington Station NY
Harry V. Kirk - Kennesaw GA
Richard L. Roule - Westport CT
Richard C. Sennett - Annandale VA
Peter J. Sorbo - Stamford CT

American Bank Note Company - New York NY
Kirk-Rudy, Inc. - Kennesaw GA

B26D 538
B32B 3500
B65C 942

156256

A machine for applying tax stamps or like adhesive labels to articles such as cigarette packages arranged in two or more rows in a carton, including mechanism for advancing the carton lengthwise with exposed ends of the packages facing upwardly, and a head disposed above the path of carton advance for transporting a corresponding number of rows of spaced-apart labels into contact with the advancing package ends while the labels and packages are moving in the same direction and at the same velocity. The head, which is movable vertically to accommodate packages of different heights, carries a supply of the labels in the form of an adhesive-backed web bearing spaced longitudinal rows of label imprints; a device for advancing the web lengthwise; a slicer for removing from the advancing web a longitudinal strip portion between the rows of imprints; a knife for cutting the separated rows of imprints into individual labels; and vacuum means for receiving the cut labels and transporting them, lengthwise of the rows, into contact with the package ends. The vacuum means may include a drum, having a preforate periphery on which the spaced rows of labels are held by suction, mounted for rotation in a plane containing the path of carton advance and positioned for tangential contact with the exposed package ends. Each time a carton is advanced, the web is intermittently advanced and the requisite number of labels for one carton are cut and transferred to the drum periphery, which applies them to the ends of the packages in the carton.