Hand-held label printing, dispensing and applying apparatus

US4288276A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Esselte Pendaflex Corporation · US

Inventors

• Kurt Schrotz · Hirschhorn, DE
• Werner Becker · Hirschhorn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 1979
• Grant date: Sep 8, 1981
• Expiry date: Jun 20, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T156/18
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A hand-held labelling apparatus for printing, dispensing and applying self-adhering labels, having a housing provided with a handle and having two side walls consisting of sheet metal and held in spaced relation. Each side wall of the said housing comprises two parallel and free edges which are opposite one another. Casing or sheathing walls consisting of synthetic plastics are capable of being pushed over the outsides of each side wall. The said casing walls comprise flanges which engage over the free edges of the side walls.