Abstract: An improved value print device having incorporated within the device improved linkages for imparting a reciprocal motion to the carriage, housing and inking roller.

Abstract: An improved value print device having incorporated within the device improved mechanism for detachably coupling a housing with an inking roller to a reciprocal carriage and new structures on the housing for permitting the convenient removal of the housing and inking roller from the carriage.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ink pad having an elongated one-piece body of molded plastic construction and an ink receptive pad supported by the body. The body has a bottom wall with projections adapted to engage in corresponding holes in a carrier support. The invention also relates to an ink cartridge having an elongated body of plastics material. An ink-receptive pad supported by the body, a projection extending upwardly from a top wall of the body, a resilient retainer disposed above the projection and secured to the body, the retainer having a portion extending laterally from the projection and adapted to releasably engage a support plate.

Abstract: An ink stamp having movable type bands. The stamp includes an outer housing having a die plate located at its lower end and carrying an ink impregnated stamp. A frame is mounted for vertical movement within the housing and carries a series of endless type bands with each band having a plurality of spaced type characters with the lowermost character in each band adapted to project through an opening in the die plate. An upper handle or knob is connected to the frame and by pulling upwardly on the handle, the frame and bands can be raised above the die plate to a position where the bands can be rotated to change the lowermost type characters, as desired. The stamp also has a provision to adjust the heights of the type bands relative to the outer housing to insure that the lowermost operating type character is at a level flush with the lower surface of the stamp in the die plate.

Abstract: A disposable ink cartridge for use in automatic marking systems. The ink cartridge is composed of a housing which contains a collapsible elastomeric ink reservoir having an open end secured to a plurality of barrier disks. The barrier disks are apertured to permit passage of ink through and between them, from the reservoir. An ink absorbing member of fibrous or porous material is positioned at the other, outlet end of the cartridge housing. The ink cartridge provides a constant flow of ink when the ink absorbing member is contacted by a print head or the like until the supply of ink is depleted from the reservoir. The cartridge design permits depletion of essentially the entire reservoir under the above conditions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is A printing toy in combination with a printing guide. The printer comprises a disk like print dial with rubber indicia projecting therefrom along the outer periphery, a cover, an ink roller, and a foot guard extending from the bottom of the cover to shield the indicia adjacent the one being printed so that only one indicia is printed at a time. The indicia can be of letters or cartoons. The printing guide is used to guide the printer in order to print letters in a straight row to form a word.

Abstract: A disposable inking cartridge in combination with a housing for transferring ink to a secondary surface, including a housing having a pair of sidewalls, each of the sidewalls having a locating guide, wherein the locating guide includes at its trailing end a leg forming an acute or perpendicular angle therewith, an applicator roller rotatably mounted in the housing for transferring ink to a secondary surface, and a disposable inking cartridge lockingly mountable in the sidewalls of the housing.

Abstract: A printer mask has spaced openings to allow impact therethrough of a hammer against characters arranged in circular columns along a character drum. The distance between the characters and mask changes automatically to compensate for changes in ambient temperature by using mounting materials of selected thermal coefficients of expansion. Uniform printing quality without marring the print paper is achieved with this mask construction.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns an ink supply device for use in a labeling machine. The ink supply device includes at least one inking roller. Guide slots formed in the side plates of the frame of the labeling machine guide the inking roller to roll over the printing surface of a printing head. Guide rollers that support the inking roller are received in the guide slots. In another embodiment, there are additional bearing plates attached at both ends of an inking roller. These plates are engageable with the lower end surfaces of the printing head. In other embodiments, two inking rollers are provided. Each inking roller is biased and guided in a different way. Springs may bias both rollers toward the print surface, or may bias only one roller. The rollers main embodiment may be guided to vertically shift over the print surface by the guide slot in the frame.

Abstract: An ink supply cartridge, for use with an insignia applying device having a chassis, a movable insignia element mounted within the chassis and a support member mounted to the chassis and the movable insignia element and pivotally movable into and out of the path of travel of the movable insignia element, includes a housing containing an ink supply portion and having an ink applying member and a retainer member for attaching the ink supply cartridge to the support member. The ink supply portion is adapted to receive an ink reservoir member which is adjustable to control the flow of ink to the ink applying member and the insignia element as desired. The attached ink supply cartridge is positioned to be engageable with the insignia element to ink the insignia element when the element is within the housing in the at rest position.

Abstract: A printing device of a construction, wherein a plurality of printing hammers are arranged in parallel facing toward a character wheel provided on its outer peripheral surface with a plurality of character types to be struck by the printing hammers through a printing paper, etc., interposed between the printing hammers and the character wheel, and an ink applying device is kept in contact with the character wheel to apply printing ink onto the type face of the characters, the ink applying device having on its surface discrete sections to apply a printing ink of a color to a particular character to be struck by a particular printing hammer out of a plurality of the printing hammers, and another printing ink of another color to the remainder of the characters to be struck by the remainder of the printing hammers.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cartridge type supply device for use with a portable, one-hand-operable labeling machine of the type including a printing mechanism with printing types arranged for imprinting inscriptions on each of a series of labels traveling along a predetermined path through the machine toward a dispensing opening of the machine. The ink supply device comprises a cartridge holder pivotally supported at one end thereof within the labeling machine in a readily detachable manner and a replaceable inking roller cartridge supported detachably by the other end of said cartridge holder said cartridge including a rotatable inking roller. The cartridge holder is spring-biased to urge the inking roller onto surfaces of the printing types of the printing mechanism of the labeling machine. When the inking roller cartridge is used up, the cartridge holder can be taken out of the machine together with the used cartridge. A cartridge box for housing spare inking roller cartridges is provided.

Abstract: An electro-mechanical marking device for use with various types of apparatus, having a stack sheet feed assembly, includes an open-ended housing adapted to loosely receive and hold interchangeable marking heads in a self-leveling position. The interchangeable marking heads include a resiliently mounted food device which engages the stacked sheets prior to the marking actuated position. The housing includes a solenoid which selectively energizes a drive element to move the element between an at rest position, and an actuated position. The interchangeable marking heads, such as bar-coders, imprinters, marginal word imprinters, daters and numberers, hot die stampers, foil stampers and label affixers, are held in engagement with the drive element to permit the operative movement of the selected interchangeable marking head between the inward at rest position and an outward actuated position.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cartridge type supply device for use with a portable, one-hand-operable labeling machine of the type including a printing mechanism with printing types arranged for imprinting inscriptions on each of a series of labels traveling along a predetermined path through the machine toward a dispensing opening of the machine. The ink supply device comprises a cartridge holder pivotally supported at one end thereof within the labeling machine in a readily detachable manner and a replaceable inking roller cartridge supported detachably by the other end of said cartridge holder said cartridge including a rotatable inking roller. The cartridge holder is spring-biased to urge the inking roller onto surfaces of the printing types of the printing mechanism of the labeling machine. When the inking roller cartridge is used up, the cartridge holder can be taken out of the machine together with the used cartridge. A cartridge box for housing spare inking roller cartridges is provided.

Abstract: There is disclosed a printing, feeding and severing method and apparatus for carrying out the method. The apparatus includes a print head assembly and a platen assembly movable relatively toward and away from each other into and out of printing cooperation, mechanism for inking the print head assembly, mechanism for feeding a web of record members to between the print head assembly and the platen assembly, the web being in roll form and there being means to assist the gradual unwinding of the roll with gradual paying out of web material from the roll to the feeding mechanism, an idler contacting the web and disposed at a slight angle to the direction of feed of the web to cause the web to follow a feed edge, record severing means disposed downstream of the print head assembly and the platen assembly, and a modular support assembly of a print head of the print head assembly.

Abstract: A plurality of sleeves extends through a printing-medium chamber; each sleeve has one or more openings through which its interior can communicate with the chamber. In each sleeve a plunger is reciprocable between a retracted position in which the opening is exposed so that printing medium can enter from the chamber, and a printing position in which the plunger closes the opening and the printing medium in the sleeve is applied to a workpiece. A drive reciprocates the plungers individually. The chamber may be pressurized to cause more rapid entry of printing medium into the sleeves. The quantity of printing medium applied during each plunger reciprocation may be selectively varied.

Abstract: A printing device for use with a hand operated labeler: the hand labeler includes a pair of juxtaposed spaced end plates fixed to the body of the hand labeler, a support shaft member interposed fixedly between the end plates, and a plurality of bar code rings mounted rotatably on the support shaft member and juxtaposed to one another between the end plates; the bar code rings carry at least bar code types and index characters on their respective outer peripheries; a bar code ring selecting mechanism includes a selecting shaft which is made rotatable and axially movable for selectively turning one of the bar code rings; stain preventive means with a cover plate is provided which is mounted on one of the end plates in a manner to move radially of the bar code rings so that the cover plate may be moved during the printing operations to approach and cover the index characters thereby to prevent them from being stained with ink, and so that the cover plate may be moved during the type selecting operations to leave

Abstract: There is disclosed printing apparatus having a print head, a cooperable platen, and an inking mechanism with a traveling inker. The inker includes a low cost ink cartridge and the printing apparatus yieldably mounts the ink cartridge.The inker alternately contacts the ink cartridge and the print head. The ink cartridge is displaced and can cant when the inker contacts the ink cartridge so that there is uniform pressure contact between the inker and the ink cartridge.

Abstract: A self-inking hand stamp incorporating an oscillating motion of the printing assembly which produces an effective printing action even when the hand stamp is not carefully aligned perpendicular to the printing surface. A wiping action of the printing assembly removes excessive ink from the printing characters prior to the printing stroke.

Abstract: Line printer having a plurality of rotatable printing rings coaxially arranged adjacent each other and carrying on the peripheries thereof a plurality of characters for the printing and a movable roller pad adapted to abut against the printing rings at the predetermined printing position so that the selected characters of the printing rings held at the printing position are simultaneously printed on a paper held between the printing rings and the roller pad so as to form simultaneously a line of printing thereon in each printing cycle. The printing rings are rotated in the same direction in each printing cycle in order to eliminate a complicated mechanism for reciprocally driving the printing rings.

Abstract: A dichromic ink supply mechanism for use in a hand operated labeler which prints labels dichromically: the ink supply mechanism comprises holding means pivotally attached to a manual actuating lever, two inking rollers respectively impregnated with inks of different colors and both being rotatably and removably carried on the holding means, and guide passages in the frame of the labeler for guiding reciprocating motion of the holding means and the rollers.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cartridge type supply device for use with a portable, one-hand-operable labeling machine of the type including a printing mechanism with printing types arranged for imprinting inscriptions on each of a series of labels traveling along a predetermined path through the machine toward a dispensing opening of the machine. The ink supply device comprises a cartridge holder pivotally supported at one end thereof within the labeling machine in a readily detachable manner and a replaceable inking roller cartridge supported detachably by the other end of said cartridge holder, said cartridge including a rotatable inking roller. The cartridge holder is spring-biased to urge the inking roller onto surfaces of the printing types of the printing mechanism of the labeling machine. When the inking roller cartridge is used up, the cartridge holder can be taken out of the machine together with the used cartridge. A cartridge box for housing spare inking roller cartridges is provided.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cartridge type supply device for use with a portable, one-hand-operable labeling machine of the type including a printing mechanism with printing types arranged for imprinting inscriptions on each of a series of labels traveling along a predetermined path through the machine toward a dispensing opening of the machine. The ink supply device comprises a cartridge holder pivotally supported at one end thereof within the labeling machine in a readily detachable manner and a replaceable inking roller cartridge supported detachably by the other end of said cartridge holder said cartridge including a rotatable inking roller. The cartridge holder is spring-biased to urge the inking roller onto surfaces of the printing types of the printing mechanism of the labeling machine. When the inking roller cartridge is used up, the cartridge holder can be taken out of the machine together with the used cartridge. A cartridge box for housing spare inking roller cartridges is provided.

Abstract: An ink roller cartridge having an ink roller rotatably mounted therewithin is formed with an opening through which the ink roller is engageable with a printing type drum when the cartridge is mounted on a printer body. The cartridge is provided with a lid to close the opening. A knob is provided on the outer periphery of the ink roller cartridge to facilitate the mounting and dismounting of the cartridge.

Abstract: There is disclosed a printing apparatus having a print head and an inking mechanism for inking the print head. The inking mechanism comprises an ink roller, an inker body or carrier for the ink roller and structure for movably mounting the inker body. The ink roller is rotatably mounted to the inker body by mounting means including a pair of mounting members. The inker body has a pair of undercut slots and the mounting members have respective flanges received in the slots. Each mounting member is shown to have a resilient member or finger engageable with a respective shoulder on the inker body to lock the mounting member to the inker body. The inking mechanism has means for preventing its disconnection from the printing apparatus while the inking mechanism is in cooperation with the print head, but the inking mechanism can be removed and replaced with a new inking mechanism having a new ink roller while the inking mechanism is out of cooperation with the print head.

Abstract: A self-inking hand stamp incorporating an improved inking arrangement permitting a shorter stroke and also providing a special removable ink pad assembly with associated convenience features.

Abstract: A textile shade marker for imprinting identifying indicia such as numerals, on the reverse side of each layer of fabric as the fabric is laid out in a multiple layer stack on a cutting table preparatory to the cutting thereof into garment panels, the marker consisting of a frame carrying printing wheels having series of indicia printing elements on the peripheries thereof, and which are rotated by movement of the fabric in engagement therewith, and mechanism for applying ink only to a selected printing element, whereby all of said printing elements engage the fabric but only the selected element imprints its image thereon.