Typewriting machines – Typing to produce embossed character
Utility Patent
1998-06-19
2001-01-02
Hilten, John S. (Department: 2854)
Typewriting machines
Typing to produce embossed character
C400S129000
Utility Patent
active
06168326
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a holder for a paper card to which ink and embossing powder are applied and subjected to heat in order to create an embossed design on the card.
2. Description of the Related Art
There appears to be no United States patent covering a device for holding a paper card upon which an embossed design is to be created.
In fact, only one United States patent seems even to suggest that the device of such patent can be utilized as a holder for a piece of paper, viz., U.S. Pat. No. 4,953,905, which is entitled “Telescoping Display Device.” (The patent, on line 29 through line 32 of column 1, states that such device “can be used to hold a card or note upon which desired information can be placed.” It does not declare that such card or note would be composed of paper.) As would be expected from the purpose of that invention, the patent does not provide either that the handle is to have low thermal conductivity or that the clip for holding the card is heat resistant. Therefore, the clip could melt; and the hand of the user could be burned if one attempted to utilize the Telescoping Display Device for embossing.
Somewhat related to the preceding patent is U.S. Pat. No. 5,112,016, which is entitled “Parking Pass-card Handling Device.” Again, however, as would be expected from the purpose of that invention, the patent does not provide either that the handle is to have low thermal conductivity or that the means for retaining the card is heat resistant. Therefore, the means for retaining the card could melt; and the hand of the user could be burned if one attempted to utilize the Parking Pass-card Handling Device for embossing.
Several other patents exist for devices which have a handle attached to some means for retaining an object.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,224,745 has a handle connected to a clamping system which, in the claims, is clarified to be a device for releasably holding a flat plastic clip that is intended to hold items on a tree limb. However, not only is the handle not state to have low thermal conductivity, but the clamping system is not stated to be of such construction that it would not damage a paper card.
A portion of the System for Installing Automobile Baby Seats, which is the subject of U.S. Pat. No. 5,496,083, involves, according to line 10 through 13 of column 2, an “elongated member 12, preferably of an appropriate molded plastic composition, [which] includes a central extender 16 that is bounded at opposed ends by a handle 18 and a clip member 20.” Thus, although the handle is not stated to have low thermal conductivity, it is preferably composed of plastic, which would have low thermal conductivity. The clip member 20 is, however, also preferably plastic and is understandably not declared to be heat resistant. The clip member 20 would, therefore, melt if exposed to the heat necessary to emboss a card. Furthermore, a handle 18, being perpendicular to the central extender 16 as shown in the figures of the patent, would impeded using the elongated member 12 to hold and manipulate a card during the process of embossing.
And the Bed Sheet Stuffing Device of U.S. Pat. No. 4,890,345 similarly has an awkward shape for holding and manupulating a card during the process of embossing. According to line 56 through line 60 of column 2, “[t]he stuffing device 10 basically includes an elongated, cross-sectionally thin and relatively narrow, flat shaft member 12 and a short clamp element 14 having substantially the same cross-sectional thickness and width as the shaft element 12. Moreover, line 7 through line 9 of column 3 indicate that “the shaft member 12 is composed of resiliently flexible material, for instance, metal such as spring steel or a memory plastic.” And line 23 through line 25 of column 3 declare that “[t]he clamp element 14 is preferably composed of the same resiliently flexible material as the shaft member 12.” Therefore, not only does this patent not state that the shaft member is not to be thermally conductive; but the shaft member may be composed of thermally highly conductive steel which would bum the hand of one using such a tool for embossing. And not only does the patent not provided that the clamp is to be heat resistant; but the clamp may be constructed from plastic, which would melt during the process of embossing.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The Holder for Embossing a Card has a handle which has a generally circular cross section to facilitate manipulating the card during the process of embossing.
Furthermore, the length of the handle and, primarily, the fact that the handle is constructed from material having a low thermal conductivity isolate the hand of the user from the heat employed during embossing.
And the clip is constructed of heat resistant material so that it will not be deformed during the process of embossing. Furthermore, the clip is constructed so that it will automatically adjust to cards of different thicknesses and will not puncture or otherwise damage a paper card during insertion of the card, manipulation of the card, or extraction of the card.
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Fehr Thompson E.
Hilten John S.
Nguyen Anthony H.
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