Abstract: An embossing device and method, which can produce traditional braille cells and crisp, well-defined, raised images of graphical subjects is disclosed. Embossing of sheet material is accomplished using punches which have embossing faces shaped to mate with recessed areas on the surface of a platen.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 9, 2023
Publication date:
July 25, 2024
Applicant:
ViewPlus Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
John A. GARDNER, JR., Daniel Taylor GARDNER
Abstract: A system for producing tactile images from a drawing or graphics file includes an image scanner or input device for importing and creating a digital file, which may be operated upon by software in a computer. The software has edge detection and color detection functions that may be adjusted to create an image file that may be provided to an embossing machine, which in turn prints a tactile image.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 13, 2015
Publication date:
November 19, 2015
Applicant:
VIEWPLUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
John A. Gardner, JR., Christian Heinrich Otto Herden