Abstract: A stamp device for a seal plate is provided, which is configured so that the seal plate is easily attachable to and detachable from a supporter of the stamp device for removal or replacement and so that the seal plate does not detach or shift from the stamp device during a stamping or marking operation. The stamp device includes a supporter having a pair of longitudinally extending engaging claws for pinching opposite longitudinally extending edge faces of the seal plate; a recessed groove stopper portion for receiving and holding one end portion of the seal plate; and a pressure sensitive weak adhesive layer provided on a seal plate supporting face of the supporter.

Abstract: An improved labeler includes a housing and a bellows drive gear and cassette drive sprocket spaced apart and each rotatably supported in the housing. A stepper motor is mounted in the housing and has an output shaft. A first drive gear is affixed to the shaft and engages the bellows drive gear. A second drive gear is affixed to the shaft. A drive train is interposed between and engages the second gear and the cassette drive sprocket. The stepper motor is positioned between the bellows drive sprocket and the cassette drive sprocket whereby the footprint of the labeler is minimized.

Abstract: A top loading apparatus for use in a sheet feeding system for a printer is disclosed, wherein a finger which performs sheet loading is operated with a lever by user manipulation and is capable of elastic restoration. The apparatus comprises a lever rotatably mounted to a frame for moving at an angle of predetermined degree, torsion spring having its arms engagedly fixed to frame and lever, respectively, for supporting a restoration of level, a finger having its fixed arm rotatably and pivotally mounted to frame so that its free arm moves to load a sheet, and an elastic member which links frame and finger for allowing finger to be elastically restored when lever restores.

Abstract: The instant invention provides a process and a product made by the process. The first step of the process includes: providing a press having at least one die which forms the negative image of one face of a license plate of sufficiently small size to be used as an element of jewelry. The second step of the process includes: providing a generally planar blank having an upper and a lower surface, and is comprised of a precious metal such as: gold, silver, platinum, palladium, vanadium or combinations of these metals. The third step of the process includes: impressing the at least one die on the blank with the press sufficient to emboss a positive image of the license plate on at least one surface.

Abstract: A litter box and pivotal sifting device assembly having an open base portion and a pivotally movable sifting device operably attached thereto. The base portion also has a litter holding wing portion operatively associated therewith and extending upwardly and outwardly therefrom. The pivotal sifting device is initially disposed beneath a layer of loose litter material. Thereafter, the sifting device is pivotally movable up through the litter material to collect clumped absorbent litter and fecal matter wastes thereupon while permitting loose litter material to pass therethrough. The sifting device is pivoted still further to deliver the wastes to a disposal site.

Abstract: A paper or sheet material embossing press that uses snap-fit parts with a minimal use of bolts, rivets, welding, is disclosed. The embossing press has an embossing (or forward) end and rear end, and is constructed of a base frame having a lower arm extending from the rear end to the embossing end and having structure for supporting a lower die or die-holder at the embossing end. The embossing press further has a lever extending upwardly from the rear end and forwardly to a position over the embossing end, the lever supporting portion pivots yet has removably supported thereon the anchoring end of an operating lever.

Abstract: A pre-ink die-plate dater includes a casing having a bolt transversely extending therethrough to which at least one disk member is mounted, a die-plate rotatably reeved around a first shaft of the disk member and a second shaft, a bottom board pivotally connected to an underside of the casing and having an oblong opening defined therein so as to receive a stamping face of the die-plate therein. An adjusting member is disposed between the casing and the bottom board and connected to the bottom board by two screws. A distance between the bottom board and the adjusting member is adjusted by rotating the screws.

Abstract: Offset printing cylinder is formed of a basic cylinder body and a printing cover disposed on an outer cylindrical surface of the cylinder body, the printing cover including a plurality of layers of which at least one is a heat-removing layer having a location selected from a group thereof consisting of a location intermediate two other layers of the printing cover and a location at the bottom of the printing cover.

Abstract: A cushioned key including a top face, a bottom face, and four side faces. Each key has a hollow cushion compartment defined by the top face of the key, the side faces of the key and further a divider.

Abstract: In a splash-water protected keyboard having a contact foil arranged in a housing and a rubber mat with switch domes disposed over the contact foil and keys with contact stems disposed in the housing over the switch domes for actuating the contacts in the contact foil, the rubber mat has upwardly extending circumferential projections such that the rubber mat forms a trough structure which is provided at least at one edge with discharge spouts extending into openings in the housing bottom plate for discharging any liquid collected in the trough structure.

Abstract: A packing is secured to a cylinder of a rotary printing machine. The ends of the packing have suspension strips that are placed in a cylinder channel. A tightening strip is movable radially in the cylinder channel. One suspension strip is held, by one side of the tightening strip, in a channel groove in the cylinder channel. The other suspension strip is movable radially in the cylinder channel by radial movement of the tightening strip.

Abstract: An imprinting system having a print head with a plurality of type for transferring ink from an inked ribbon onto a substrate. A typeholder having an open ended cavity defined by side walls for retaining the plurality of type, wherein the typeholder is removably disposeable in a recess of the print head. At least one side wall portion of the cavity is removably coupleable to the typeholder for permitting insertion and removal of the plurality of type into and from the cavity. And a resilient member protrudes into the cavity from at least one of the side walls, wherein the resilient member biases the plurality of type toward one of other the side walls to prevent shifting of the type in the cavity. A resilient member urges a button protruding from an outer surface of the typeholder into contact with the recess of the print head, and a magnetized striker plate disposed on another outer surface of the typeholder cooperates to securely retain the typeholder in the recess of the print head.

Abstract: A subterranean animal sanctuary for housing an animal underground in a comfortable habitat. The subterranean animal sanctuary comprises a housing, a sanctuary foyer for providing unhindered entry and exit of an animal, an air and heating venting system coupled to a main residence and the housing for supplying cooled air or heated air to the housing, and a ventilation outlet conduit for automatically refreshing the air within the housing with clean and aromatically pleasing air.

Abstract: A printing-machine form cylinder having, in an interior space thereof, a winding reel and an unwinding reel for a printing film drawn around the outer casing surface of the form cylinder, respective ends of the printing film being fastened to the winding reel and the unwinding reel inside the form cylinder, the form cylinder being formed with a cylinder gap extending in the direction of a generatrix of the outer casing surface of the form cylinder, the cylinder gap being defined by cylinder gap edges which are formed on the form cylinder and around which the printing film is guidable into the interior of the form cylinder, includes a cover element closing the form cylinder gap, and at least one pressure roller disposed on the cover element and bearing against the printing film for guiding it out of the interior of the form cylinder over one of the cylinder gap edges.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a separable keyboard and computers having this separable keyboard which can be separated into two parts. This invention is particularly directed towards notebook or lap top computers. An essential feature of this invention is that the user can control the amount and degree to which the two keyboard halves are separated. Additional features include designs that allow the user to sense whether the keyboards are separating or locking into one of several possible discrete positions, and designs that prevent the keyboard halves from swerving or wobbling.

Abstract: A thermal transfer printer comprises an intermediate transfer roller, a thermal print head for transferring portions of an ink layer formed on an ink ribbon to the circumference of the intermediate transfer roller in ink dots, and a pressure drum to be pressed against the intermediate transfer roller to transfer the ink dots from the intermediate transfer roller thereto, provided with grippers on its circumference and with end plates each having a cam section. The cam sections have a height from the circumference of the pressure drum greater than that of the upper ends of the grippers from the circumference of the pressure drum at its opposite ends to avoid the collision of the grippers with the intermediate transfer roller, and have a radially outward convex curved shape. The length of the bases of the cam sections is greater than the distance between two edges between the circumference of the pressure drum and the flat surface formed by cutting a portion of the circumference of the pressure drum.

Abstract: A liquid fountain unit and method for a roll applicator equipped with doctor blades extending parallel to the roll axis and an axially extending third blade mounted adjacent one of the doctor blades and having an angled configuration in the fountain unit chamber with a free edge portion directed toward the roll applicator, the third blade being equipped with a passage to permit liquid flow from one blade side to the other to substantially minimize ghosting.

Abstract: A device for axially applying a printing blanket to a cylinder of a rotary printing press having a tensioning device formed with an axially extending receiving channel, the cylinder being formed at an end face thereof with an opening offering axial access to the tensioning device, includes respective insert strips disposed at leading and trailing edges of the printing blanket, the insert strips being connectable to one another outside the cylinder.

Abstract: A compact disc embossing device including a base member. A handle is pivotally disposed with the base member. The handle has a hooked portion formed on an interior surface thereof. An embossing disc is coupled with the handle. A corresponding raised boss is secured to a lower portion of the base member. A locking pin selectively engages the hooked portion of the handle.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an economical and highly operable blanket mounting apparatus in which the width of a cylinder gap on a blanket cylinder is further decreased to eliminate a printing trouble such as shock-streak and to shorten the non printing length. To achieve this object, a flat bar 15a, 15b is installed at each end of a blanket 2, a notch 16 with the same size as that of the leading edge flat bar 15a is formed in a cylinder gap 3, the leading edge flat bar 15a of the blanket 2 is inserted along a leading edge opening 3a of the notch 16, and a tail edge 2b of the blanket 2 to which a flat bar 15b is fixed is reeled by a reel bar 14, by which the cylinder gap opening is blocked by the leading edge flat bar 15a.