Printing – Selective or progressive – Rotary machines
Patent
1991-05-20
1995-06-27
Fisher, J. Reed
Printing
Selective or progressive
Rotary machines
101103, 101349, B41F 3100
Patent
active
054270235
ABSTRACT:
A mailing machine with a rotatable drum including a printing die peripherally extending therefrom, structure for intermittently rotating the drum to move the printing die in a predetermined circularly-extending path of travel, a receptacle, and a disposable inking cartridge removably mountable in the receptacle and comprising: a generally rectangularly-shaped hollow housing having opposed side walls and having an edge wall extending between the side walls, the walls defining an aperture formed in the housing; a reservoir roller impregnated with printing ink and rotatably connected to the side walls so as to extend therebetween; a transfer roller impregnated with printing ink and rotatably connected to the side walls so as to extend therebetween; and be accessible via the housing aperture; the reservoir and transfer rollers respectively dimensioned for rolling engagement with each other to cause ink from the reservoir roller to be transferred to the transfer roller, and the transfer roller dimensioned for disposition in the path of travel of the printing die when the cartridge is mounted in the receptacle to permit engagement by the printing die for transferring printing ink from the transfer roller to the printing die.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3601049 (1971-08-01), Hamilton
patent: 3662682 (1972-05-01), Marozzi
patent: 4145967 (1979-03-01), Marozzi
patent: 5109769 (1992-05-01), Wright
Fisher J. Reed
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
Whisker Robert H.
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