Inking mechanism for postage meters and price stamping machines

US4969394A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Helmuth Didsun · Heusenstamm, DE
• Reinhard Redecker · Rodenbach, DE
• Wolfgang Von Inten · Berlin, DE
• Peter Rogge · Berlin, DE
• Hubert Schewczyk · Berlin, DE
• Kurt Gotz · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 11, 1989
• Grant date: Nov 13, 1990
• Expiry date: May 11, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00548
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An inking mechanism for postage meters and price stamping machines includes an ink transport roller, an intermediate roller and an inking roller being operatively connected to one another and having surfaces. The surface of the intermediate roller transfers ink from the ink transport roller to the inking roller and the surface of the inking roller is formed of porous material. An ink supply container in the form of a tank has a slit-like opening formed therein. Porous material substantially fills the tank as a storage medium for stamp ink. The porous material protrudes out of the slit-like opening in the tank and contacts the surface of the ink transport roller in the form of a squeegee.