Material or article handling – Load carried along a horizontal linear path – Having gripper means
Patent
1994-12-22
1996-04-02
Underwood, Donald W.
Material or article handling
Load carried along a horizontal linear path
Having gripper means
1984682, B65G 6500
Patent
active
055035140
ABSTRACT:
An embossing machine and method is provided in which the mass of the carriage assembly carrying the card to and from various operations in the machine is significantly reduced by the utilization of a card carrying carriage mounted for movement in one direction from side to side on the machine via a stationary motor. The carriage is mounted on a guide bar which, together with the carriage, moves from the front to the back of the machine via a stationary motor. A new card supply hopper is arranged to stack cards vertically and feed them to the carriage one-by-one as the carriage approaches the hopper. An embossing assembly is operated by a single interposer arranged in a crank drive or two interposers arranged between actuating levers and the rams of associated male and female embossing wheels. A topper assembly minimizes foil usage by winding up only that foil which has been used during the topping of the previous card. The embossed and topped card is fed to a stacking assembly either through an arrangement of wires which causes the card to waterfall into a stacker channel or to slide into contact with a pivoting loader which pivots the card into a stacker channel.
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Ashley Keith
Cucksey Edward
Kull Leo
LaManna Richard J.
Pankiw Igor
National Business Systems Inc.
Underwood Donald W.
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