Device for intermittently transporting a label bearing tape in a manually operated labeler

US4544433A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Esselte Pendaflex Corporation · US

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 4, 1983
• Grant date: Oct 1, 1985
• Expiry date: Jan 4, 2003

Classification

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

Abstract

An apparatus is described by which a label bearing tape can be transported intermittently in a manually operated labeler. The device contains a transporting carriage (19) reciprocable along the label bearing tape (5). In the carriage a latch (22) with a clamping face (25) is held in frictional engagement with the label bearing tape so that during movement of the carriage in one direction it freely slides on the label bearing tape, while during movement of the carriage in the other direction it clamps the label bearing tape against an abutment surface (26) with self-locking action. The clamping face of the latch is covered with abrasive paper, preferably with an aluminous abrasive paper.