Typewriting machines – Sheet or web – Including friction-feed means
Patent
1998-04-16
2000-06-27
Yan, Ren
Typewriting machines
Sheet or web
Including friction-feed means
400634, 347264, B41J 1302
Patent
active
060798904
ABSTRACT:
A tag feed system is used to feed tags through a marking machine, such as a tag printer or a laser marking machine, that marks information on the tags. A laser-marking system is used to mark and label information on metal tags, and a tag feed system for the laser-marking system that drives the tag material through the laser-marking system for marking. The laser marking system can include a housing, a laser for marking tag material, a tag unwind system for holding and supporting unlabeled tag material before it is marked and a tag retainer system for holding and supporting labeled tag material after it is marked. The tag feed system for feeding tag material through the laser marking system includes a housing unit that contains a first aperture through which tag material enters the housing unit for marking, a second aperture through which marked tag material exits the housing unit, and a lasing window through which a laser beam from the laser passes to mark tag material. The tag feed system also includes a drive unit assembly to move tag material through the feed system housing unit for lasing, a pressure unit assembly to press tag material against a component of the drive unit assembly, and a tension adjust device to exert a varying amount of tension to the pressure unit assembly. The laser-marking system also includes a control system for signaling the drive unit assembly to move and to stop moving tag material through the feeding apparatus housing unit.
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Pannier Drawing No. E 9530-A4 dated Nov. 21, 1998 showing a tag feed system that was on sale and/or in public use and/or published more than one year prior to the filing date of this application (Apr. 16, 1998).
Pannier Drawing (unnumbered and undated) showing a tag printer that includes the feed system shown in Reference AA, which was on sale and/or in public use and/or published more than one year prior to the filing date of this application (Apr. 16, 1998).
Pannier Drawing No. A3660-204 dated Jul. 3, 1997 showing a tag transport system that was on sale and/or in public use and/or published more than one year prior to the filing date of this application (Apr. 16, 1998).
Pannier Drawing No. Q705021 dated Sep. 12, 1997 that shows a laser marking system that includes the system shown in Reference AC.
Gross Frank D.
Hopson Julius L.
Cornelius Andrew J.
Nguyen Anthony H.
The Pannier Corporation
Yan Ren
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