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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090185847 | Semiautomatic electronic printer A semiautomatic electronic printer comprises a housing (2) and, internally, a print head (8). A push-button (3), projecting upwards from the housing (2), is rigidly connected to a frame (7), which is mounted in a spring-charged relatio... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090027476 | PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT INCORPORATING A PRINTER Provided is a personal digital assistant. A printer is arranged in a body section. The printer includes a printhead, a motor driver and a media transport device arrangement for transporting print media from a roll of print media past the printhead. A motor driver and gu... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090027475 | HINGED PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT (PDA) WITH INTERNAL PRINTER A personal digital assistant (PDA) includes a body housing circuitry and an internal printer. The body bears a keypad and defines a print media ejection slot. A display is pivotally connected to the body about a hinge joint so that the display can be folded over the key... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090016795 | HAND-HELD THERMAL TRANSFER PRINTER FOR LABELING Various embodiments of a hand-held printer that includes an area for receiving a cassette carrying label material, a drive system for positioning the label material relative to a printhead, and a processing circuit for receiving inputs, producing outputs and controlling... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080286025 | Mobile messaging micro-printer A mobile micro-printer delivers and prints incoming messages and text instantly and privately in hard copy on paper or pre-treated plastic and is compatible with cell phones and smart phones. It provides for instant or text messaging from computers, laptops, PDAs, cell ... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080219737 | Hand Held Printer Having A Doppler Position Sensor A hand held printer for printing on a print medium includes a body. A printhead is fixedly mounted to the body of the hand held printer. A Doppler position sensor is mounted to the body. A controller is communicatively coupled to each of the printhead and the Doppler po... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080170900 | Hand-Held Printer Guides A hand-held printer includes at least one print nozzle and a guide for maintaining the alignment of the at least one print nozzle relative to an object. The guide is operable to operable to maintain the position of the at least one print nozzle relative to the object wh... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080075511 | Method for Position Acquisition for Use with a Hand-operated Printer A method for position acquisition for use with a hand-operated printer includes activating the hand-operated printer to make navigation calculations that are based on reading a first sensor and a second sensor; moving the hand-operated printer until a field of view of e... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080075513 | Methods for a Maintenance Algorithm in Hand Held Printers Methods and apparatus for monitoring the print quality maintenance of hand-held printers and insuring the performance of periodic maintenance to maintain optimal print quality.... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080075512 | Guiding a Hand-operated Printer A method for use in guiding a hand-operated printer positioned over a print medium includes determining a position of the hand-operated printer relative to the print medium; and generating on a display screen a virtual image of at least a portion of an area under the ha... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080069620 | Hand-operated Printer and Printer Dock Configured to Facilitate Auxiliary Printing An imaging apparatus includes a hand-operated printer and a printer dock. The hand-operated printer has a body and a printing mechanism coupled to the body. The printer dock has a cradle configured for removably mounting the hand-operated printer, and has a recessed reg... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080025779 | THERMAL PRINTER DEVICE FOR POINT OF SERVICE TERMINAL The present invention provides for a compact, portable POS terminal through the use of a compact printer that utilizes a thermal printer with fan-folded paper. The POS terminal also accommodates contactless instrument readers and optionally includes features for electro... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20070264069 | Handheld Printing Devices and Systems Adapted to Receive Radio Signal Information Indicative of a Position and Methods for Using the Same Hand-held printing device and systems adapted to receive radio signal information indicative of a position. Hand-held printing device having at least one antenna and a controller adapted to calculate the relative position of the hand-held printing device by comparing re... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070258745 | Modular Printer With Readily Interchangeable Modules The present invention relates to a modular printer. The modular printer includes at least two modules each defining oppositely located male and female connectors to facilitate interconnection of the modules in any order. Each module includes a serial bus including power... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070237560 | Stand-alone hand-held printer and systems with display for print quality Stand-alone hand-held printers comprising a housing, a printhead, one or more sensors, and a display. The one or more sensors are adapted to detect relative position of the print head during an ongoing print job. The hand-held printer is configured to show one or more p... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070237561 | Methods and apparatuses for sensing a print area using a hand-held printer A hand-held printer includes two or more tracking devices, such as optical sensors, located adjacent a print head. The two or more tracking devices permit the identification of a printing surface underneath at least one of the tracking devices, such that the movement of... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070223982 | Design and functional improvements for hand held printers A hand held printing device is disclosed that tracks its motion and prints an image based on its sensed position. The printing device includes a controller, a position sensor, a housing, a display, and a user interface. The display is pivotable between an open position,... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070147930 | Light guides to assist in movement of a handheld printing device A printing device includes light guides to assist the user in aligning the device with a reference, such as the edge of a page. The light guides emit a beam of light that produces an illuminated visible straight line segment on the page. The light guides can employ a li... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070140770 | User interface for a hand-operated printer A hand-operated printer includes a body, a printhead mounted to the body, a display device mounted to the body, and a user interface communicatively coupled to the display device. The user interface provides a user input to the display device based on movement of the ha... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070092325 | Hand-held printing device A hand-held printing device has a hand-operated mechanical actuator for moving a print head that prints images to medium and memory configured electronically storing a sequence of images in a predetermined sequential order. The hand-held printing device further has logi... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070092324 | Device and method for printing A hand-held printing device having a hand-operated actuator that moves a print head relative to a print medium and at least one sensor. The hand-held printing device further has logic configured to perform at least one power-using operation of the hand-held device based... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070065206 | Printing a coupon using a mobile device A system for printing a coupon on a print medium, the system comprising: a mobile telecommunications device which comprises: a printer module to print the coupon on the print medium; and, a sensor module to sense a print media identifier of the print medium. ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20060275067 | Digital palm computer with built-in printhead for external printing A digital palm PC includes a housing. An elongate printhead extends along a side of the housing. A pair of rotationally mounted wheels flanks the printhead at either end of the printhead. The wheels are engageable with a sheet of print media. One of the wheels is an opt... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20060251459 | Staggered keyboard for a portable device A staggered keyboard for use with a portable device is provided. The staggered keyboard includes a plurality of keys arranged into a plurality of rows of keys. For each row of keys, the labeling of the keys is arranged in either a linear or an arced relationship dependi... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060251457 | Mobile device with first and second optical pathways A mobile device including: a printhead for printing onto a print medium, the print medium including coded data; a media path for directing the print medium past the printhead for printing; an optical sensor; a first optical pathway for directing optical image informatio... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060251458 | Mobile device that commences printing before reading all of the first coded data on a print medium A mobile device for printing onto a print medium in a print direction, the print medium including first coded data that encodes first information, mobile device comprising: a first sensor for sensing the first coded data; processing means for decoding the coded data and... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060239739 | Portable electronic device and associated charging stand A portable electronic device and associated charging stand assembly where the portable electronic device has an inbuilt printer and the associated charging stand recharges the device battery and refills the printer. ... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060228143 | Portable printer enabling to directly print on an object surface A portable printer includes a printing assembly having a ink cartridge mounted on a moving device which is mounted on a fixed bracket and a frame, which has the printing assembly mounted thereunder, having a data transmission interface and a control unit for processing ... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060216094 | Compact personal digital assistant having in-built printer A hand held personal digital assistant is provided having body and display sections interconnected via a hinge section, a pagewidth inkjet printhead disposed in the body section, and a supply of print media disposed in the hinge section. By disposing the print media sup... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060165460 | Handheld printing device connectable to a mobile unit The present invention relates to a handheld printing device (1) having a print head for printing a printout on a printout surface. The handheld printing device (1) comprises an interface for mechanical and electrical connection to a handheld mobile unit (<... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060153618 | Portable printing system A portable label printing system for printing on a variety of materials is disclosed. A retractable platen roller cooperates with a self-aligning print head in three planes cooperates for proper label printing registration. A display screen allows the user to view preci... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060104692 | Electronic device handling apparatus and temperature application method in electronic device handling apparatus In a handler 1 capable of handling strip formats 2, a plurality of strip formats 2 are held in a magazine 3 and conveyed to inside a constant temperature chamber 15, and the strip formats 2 held in the magazine 3 are appl... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060088355 | Direct remote analog/digital printing devices, processes and mediums Direct remote digital/analog printing devices and mediums have been developed, which are capable of directly digitally printing on non-uniform or uniform substrate/mediums. Examples of devices are also capable of recognizing wireless digital or analog signals for proces... | 04/27/2006 |
| 20060024107 | Docking station and associated method for docking a portable printer The present invention provides a docking station and an associated method for docking a portable printer. The portable printer has a printhead, media drive, and media support externally configured to be latched onto the docking station, and the docking station is adapte... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20050254874 | Electronically controllable pen comprising a force switch A pen which includes a marking device, the pen being operative to mark a visible path onto a surface. The marking device is electronically controllable to change an attribute of the path, such as line width or color. The marking device is actuated in response to a compr... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050232675 | Printer within a computer keyboard A printer is disposed within a housing of a keyboard. The keyboard housing has an upper side bearing a plurality of keypads arranged to interact with a keyboard circuit board located within the housing. A print media entry slot formed through a first side of the housing... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050220526 | Easyreceipt electronic receipt storage deivce The EASYRECEIPT device stores, organizes and files paper receipts electronically to be uploaded to accounting and tax preparation software. EASYRECEIPT is capable of storing receipts up to four inches wide and any length in memory. Receipts too wide for the device can b... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050207813 | Portable printer device A portable printer device is capable of holding a plurality of paper rolls. The portable printer device comprises a single printing portion which is provided for printing of each of the plurality of paper rolls. A paper roll hold device includes a plurality of paper rol... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050201809 | Digital stamp A digital stamp is described which can print out a message using a moveable inkjet printhead (30) which can be moved by a mechanical arrangement of arm (35) and pivots (33, 36). A cartridge (20) containing ink feeds the printhead (30) ... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050135857 | Hand-propelled wand printer In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, provided is a hand-held printer system and method for printing on a target. The system includes a hand-held printer, a target position sensing system which senses a position of the target, and a hand-hel... | 06/23/2005 |
