B65C 11/00
Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers
Official title: Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers, e.g. modified for the application of labels to articles (special furniture, fittings, or accessories for shops, storehouses, bars, or the like A47F; for paper towels or toilet paper A47K10/32; for playing cards A63F; movable-strip writing or reading apparatus B42D19/00; adhesive tape dispensers B65H35/002; dispensers for tickets G07B; coin-operated dispensers for stamps G07F {; dispensing devices for pamphlets from vehicles G09F21/22})
B65C11/00 (Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers) appears on 645 US grants and 234 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65C- Granted patents
- 645
- Published applications
- 234
- Assignees
- 184
- Inventors
- 717
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 1978 | 29 | 0 |
| 1979 | 19 | 0 |
| 1980 | 32 | 0 |
| 1981 | 31 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 19 | 0 |
| 2001 | 15 | 0 |
| 2002 | 9 | 7 |
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| 2004 | 6 | 15 |
| 2005 | 5 | 10 |
| 2006 | 9 | 17 |
| 2007 | 4 | 10 |
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| 2018 | 12 | 15 |
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| 2021 | 6 | 7 |
| 2022 | 8 | 10 |
| 2023 | 11 | 10 |
| 2024 | 8 | 13 |
| 2025 | 7 | 8 |
| 2026 | 7 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65C 11/02Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers: having printing equipment453
- B65C 11/002Modified for the application of labels to articles88
- B65C 11/006Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers: using electrical or electro-mechanical means38
- B65C 11/04Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers: having means for moistening the labels13
- B65C 11/06Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers: having means for heating thermo-activatable labels7
- B65C 11/008Manually-controlled or manually-operable label dispensers: using pneumatic means4
Recent patents
- Hand-held labeling machine for acousto-magnetic (AM) anti-theft labels, and am anti-theft label roll15 Sep 2026US 12,735,222 B2Ningbo Signatronic Technologies, Ltd.
- Sticker machine30 Jun 2026US 12,668,395 B2Shenzhen Xiaoguan Technology Co., Ltd.
- System for conveying proppant to a fracking site hopper2 Jun 2026US 12,643,750 B2Sandbox Enterprises, LLC
- Label affixing device including peeling part peeling label off release material, affixing part affixing label to adherend, and discharge part through which release material is discharged5 May 2026US 12,617,575 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Label affixing device including peeling part peeling label off release material, support part supporting label, and affixing part affixing label to adherend17 Mar 2026US 12,577,015 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Hand-held labeling machine for acousto-magnetic (am) anti-theft labels, and am anti-theft label roll10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264919 A1Ningbo Signatronic Technologies, Ltd.
- Pressure actuated sticker dispenser9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192965 A1
- Food rotation and labeling system9 Apr 2026US 2026/0097879 A1Innovative Technologies By Design, Inc.
- Label dispensing device2 Apr 2026US 2026/0091904 A1Nanya Technology Corporation
- Portable Handheld Self-Adhesive Tape Applicator and Printer26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054504 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Custom label printer147US 5,401,110 A1995
- Thermal printer119US 4,734,713 AKabushiki Kaisha Sato · 1988
- Labelling machines115US 4,264,396 AMonarch Marking Systems, Inc. · 1981
- Label printing and applying apparatus106US 4,439,257 AKabushiki Kaisha Sato · 1984
- Programmable hand held labeler87US 5,805,779 AMonarch Marking Systems, Inc. · 1998