Method and apparatus for laser marking objects
AssigneeTEN Media, LLC
InventorsMICHAEL JOHN GRIFFITHS, YANCY EDWARD FOX
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention comprise an apparatus for laser marking individual objects with indicia at a marking station wherein a predetermined window exists during which each object can be marked as the objects are conveyed along at least one path at a predetermined speed, the apparatus comprising, at least first and second lasers positioned adjacent one or more paths configured to direct a laser beam onto the objects to mark the same with indicia as the objects pass through the marking station, with each of the first and second lasers marking alternate following objects as they pass through the marking station.
Claims21
1-37. (canceled)
A carton having disposed therein a plurality of eggs, wherein:
- every egg of the plurality of eggs has printed thereon one or more graphical representations;
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- for every pair of first and second eggs of the plurality of eggs, the one or more graphical representations printed on the first egg are different in at least one aspect from the one or more graphical representations printed on the second egg.
An apparatus for printing graphical representations on edible objects, the apparatus comprising:
- a first printing unit configured to print, during a first time window, a first graphical representation of a first edible object disposed on a conveying mechanism;
- a second printing unit configured to print, during a second time window, a second graphical representation differs from the first graphical representation in at least one aspect;
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- the first time window overlaps with the second time window.
A method for printing graphical representations on the edible objects, the method comprising acts of:
- printing, during a first time window, a first graphical representation on a first edible object disposed on a conveying mechanism;
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- printing, during a second time window, a second graphical representation on a second edible object disposed on the conveying mechanism, wherein:
- the second graphical representation differs from the first graphical representation in at least one aspect;
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- the first time window overlaps with the second time window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.