Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Assembling or joining
Patent
1994-03-21
1998-11-10
Gorski, Joseph M.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Assembling or joining
29897, 72256, B41F 304, B23P 1100
Patent
active
058325867
ABSTRACT:
An imprinter in accordance with the invention includes a base (31) having a flatbed (32) for receiving a station plate (33) and a credit card (34) to be imprinted on a print receiving element and a carriage 29 movable in first and second directions to cause imprinting, respectively, by first and second rolling platens 42 and 44 each having an axle 50 rotatably supported in the carriage in opposed downwardly extending members (52) of the carriage. First and second pairs of openings (54) retain the axles (50) of the first and second rolling platens and have a length (58) and height (60) greater than the diameter of the axle which permits the axles of the rolling platens to move in the direction of motion during imprinting to provide alignment with first, second, third and fourth stops (70, 72, 74, 76) in the imprinting direction at one end (63) of the openings and further to permit orthogonal movement upward from the flatbed when an outside periphery (65) of one of the rolling platens has insufficient clearance to clear the station plate or credit card. The stops limit travel of the axle of the rolling platens orthogonally away from the base during imprinting to establish a position of the first and second rolling platens during imprinting relative to the flatbed.
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Gorski Joseph M.
SBN Systems, Inc.
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