Abstract: In a stamping device, a stamping stencil is produced and used which does not require manual application of ink to the stencil. Data concerning an image, which may include character, figure and/or symbol data, is input by a input unit, a thermal head generates heat on the basis of the data and transmits the heat to the thermal stencil paper disposed at the printing position. As a result, a corresponding pattern of pores is produced, by the heat of the thermal head, in the thermal stencil paper. Ink is supplied to the pores by an ink supply unit at an ink supplying position when pressure is applied to the back of the ink supply.

Abstract: A compact portable stamp device which can prevent the ink stains on an operator and his/her clothes and the occurrence of nonuniform printing and, further, simplifies the operation of changing the color of the ink. The stamp device comprises a heat sensitive stencil paper fed between first and second rollers. The heat sensitive stencil paper has a laminate structure including a thermoplastic film layer and a porous carrier layer.

Abstract: A stamp is provided, preferably of the permanent ink pad type, for stamping ink or the like through a stencil, onto a surface to which selected indicia or the like is to be stamped. The stencils are removable and replaceable, and are releasably carried by the stamp, preferably by means of a band, and the stamp is provided with standoffs, that allow for accurate placement of a stamp on a surface that is desired, for proper orientation and location of the indicia that is to be stamped, prior to making ink contact with the surface. The standoffs are resiliently compressible. A kit comprising a stencil and a stamp is provided, as is a package comprising a container, a stamp, and preferably one or more stencils. The ink pad is preferably constructed of a micro reticulated plastic resin, with a higher density ink-metering portion at the stamping surface, and a lower density high-ink-retention, porous portion thereabove, for facilitating essentially permanent retention of ink therein for the life of the stamp.

Abstract: A screen printing apparatus is provided with a screen and a doctor blade movable on one side over the screen for pressing ink through the screen onto a printing stock. The screen is stretched over the open side of an otherwise closed box. The open side of the box is closable by means of a cover detachably connected thereto. The movable doctor blade is located inside the box. Also within the box and/or the cover is a device for generating a solvent atmosphere.

Abstract: A series of individual imprinting devices each comprising an imprinter including an imprintable surface for retaining an image mounted at a given fixed position thereon which is registered with respect to each one of the series of imprinting devices. Each of the imprinting devices includes a lip extending from one edge and an index mark adjacent the lip. A registration device is adapted to be held in a fixed position with respect to an imprintable medium and includes a groove to pivotally receive the lip with a registration mark above the groove for separately, removably retaining each of the imprinting devices successively in aligned registration with the imprintable medium by positioning the lip in the groove with the registration mark and the index mark aligned with each other. A composite image is formed on the imprintable medium by successive application of the lips of said series of individual imprinting devices with the groove of the registration.

Abstract: Reticulation caused by swelling with processing solutions in photographic elements is reduced for elements containing at least two contiguous gelatin-containing layers wherein the uppermost layer has a lateral swell coefficient at least 10% greater than the lower gelatin-containing layer before polymer addition and wherein said uppermost layer comprises an essentially non-diffusible vinyl polymer having reactive groups which crosslink by reaction with primary amine or secondary amine groups on gelatin or a water-soluble, non-diffusible amine containing vinyl polymer and a hardener for gelatin. These elements are particularly useful in photographic products.

Abstract: A pounce applicator which embodies a hand-sized storage container, a portion of which also serves as the gripping surface, and a replaceable pad unit which includes a core containing a reservoir for pounce and a system of pounce carrying channels, a support screen, a pounce flow limiter, a foam pad and a covering cloth. Included is external access to permit refilling of the reservoir. Enhanced distribution of pounce, particularly for vertical and overhead surfaces, is obtained through the use of an externally pressed bellows-shaped plug which provides increased air pressure internal to the pad unit.

Abstract: A molded plastic resin contact lens marking fixture is provided having a cup-like base with an upstanding internal pedestal having an upper surface which is a segment of a sphere for receiving a contact lens. The axis of the segment is tipped from the vertical so that a peripheral portion of the lens is in uppermost position. A lid is received over the base and includes a masking area which is resiliently urged toward the uppermost portion of the pedestal. Perforations are provided in the masking area, and a dye well is provided above the masking area so that dye in the well will be transmitted through the perforations to mark a contact lens near the periphery thereof.

Abstract: A compartmented pouch has two or more sealed compartments formed therein, these compartments being separated from each other by a breakaway partition. One of the compartments has a stencil formed therein which may be in the form of holes punched in one wall of the compartment arranged to form a desired marking image, which may be letters, numerals or symbols. In lieu of punched holes, the images may be formed by slots in this compartment wall. Removable tape is placed over the holes or slots. One of two fluid components is placed in one compartment and another of two fluid components is placed in another compartment which may or may or not be the compartment having the images formed therein; these two components forming an etchant or marking material when combined together.

Abstract: A stencil printer for printing the underside of a web including a vertically reciprocable upwardly opening printing head or receptacle mounted beneath a web to be printed, a reservoir for ink in a lower region of the receptacle, a printing pad in an upper region of the receptacle in fluid communication with the reservoir and presented upwardly through the reservoir opening for printing through a stencil on the printing pad.

Abstract: This invention relates to a printing apparatus and more particularly relates to a printer which permits rapid preparation of the label legend and quick printing of relatively small numbers of customized labels for use in labelling medicaments in hospitals and pharmacies, industrial products and the like.

Abstract: An applicator for applying liquid adhesive in a desired pattern and quantity to a paper form for the reception and securing of a stencil thereto. The applicator employs a liquid adhesive storage chamber and a spaced apart applicator chamber with an intermediate metering chamber. The applicator chamber is provided with a flexible plastic material having differential densities of porosity and an impermeable coating applied to selected areas thereof to control the deposition of a measured quantity of adhesive in a particular pattern to the paper form.

Abstract: A device which may be operated in a mode of thermally perforating thermal stencils, and another mode of producing printed copies by employing the perforated thermal stencils, wherein the thermal stencils are provided as a particular type of framed assembly for employing a relatively viscous printing ink, the device having a base plate, a cushion plate, and a press plate pivotally mounted to the base plate and having an aperture covered with a transparent rigid plate and a light source unit mounted at the aperture for emitting flash light to the aperture.

Abstract: A pre-inked stamp device comprising a holder or mount and a die, said mount comprising a shell, a stamp core reciprocally movable relative to said shell, and a handle affixed to said core for reciprocally moving said core; the improvement wherein said shell and core are formed with complementary elongated ribs that contact and guide the core within said shell during relative reciprocal movement.

Abstract: A mimeograph device which comprises a rectangular framework having a center window, a closure plate slidably received in the framework and having a knob, a perforated plate convexed downwardly and attached to the undersurface of the framework to define an ink holding chamber in cooperation with the closure plate, an air-liquid permeable sponge sheet convexed downwardly and applied to the undersurface of the perforated plate and a screen convexed downwardly and applied to the undersurface of the sponge sheet for releasably receiving a stencil paper thereon.

Abstract: A cylindrical printing roller combining a rubber mat printer and a stencil printer. The rubber mat portion is inked externally while the stencil portion receives its ink from internally of the roller. The two printing forms on the roller print simultaneously.