Flat bed daisy wheel hot debossing stamper

US5441589A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Taurus Impressions, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Charles T. Groswith, III · Los Altos, US
• William A. Banks · Carrollton, US
• Eugene F. Duval · Menlo Park, US
• Roger M. Gray · Lewisville, US
• Raymond D. Heistand, II · Round Rock, US
• Barry C. Kockler · Lewisville, US
• Warren K. Shannon · Meadowlark Drive, US
• Robert E. Smith · Burlington, US
• William J. Usitale · Farmers Branch, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 1993
• Grant date: Aug 15, 1995
• Expiry date: Jun 17, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T156/171
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A dual station hot debossing stamper for a report or book cover includes a print engine having a character finger daisy wheel forcer and a logo die forcer which are actuatable independently by a common servo motor through respective gear trains. The print engine moves line-by-line and a platen moves character-by-character. A print wheel is inserted and locked into the engine in a character debossment operation with a motor driving the print wheel. When using a logo die, the print wheel and casing is removed and using a loader-unloader tool the die is articulated under the logo die forcer. Insertion of a logo transfer tape cartridge shifts the gears in the print engine. A second character tape cartridge is used with the print wheel. A dedicated personal computer and associated software and firmware programs control the stamping apparatus.