EP0051850B1 - Device for brand-marking objects, especially the fibrous cover of a tennis ball - Google Patents

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EP0051850B1
EP0051850B1 EP81109494A EP81109494A EP0051850B1 EP 0051850 B1 EP0051850 B1 EP 0051850B1 EP 81109494 A EP81109494 A EP 81109494A EP 81109494 A EP81109494 A EP 81109494A EP 0051850 B1 EP0051850 B1 EP 0051850B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR TOOLS FOR ARTISTIC WORK, e.g. FOR SCULPTURING, GUILLOCHING, CARVING, BRANDING, INLAYING
    • B44B7/00—Machines, apparatus or hand tools for branding, e.g. using radiant energy such as laser beams
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    • A63B45/02—Marking of balls
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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  • the invention relates to a device for baking a marking into objects, in particular into the fiber jacket of a tennis ball with the aid of at least one symbol made of metal corresponding to the marking, which is attached to a holder and can be heated to the baking temperature by the flame of a heating device directed towards the symbol.
  • a burn-in template as a device of the aforementioned type, which is designed as pliers which grips the ball with a leg shaped like a sector of a sphere and presses it against the template facing the ball on the other leg.
  • the stencil is heated electrically so that it penetrates into the fleece-like fibrous materials in a knife-like manner and burns it down to the inner shell, so that the marking remains visible due to the abrasion that occurs during play (DE-A-2810653).
  • pincer-type devices are usually available in the manufacturing plants, at the sales outlets or in clubs for applying the desired markings, but are generally not available to the individual tennis player when he is about to start playing with a new set of tennis balls.
  • a portable branding iron in which a gas bottle is exchangeably attached to a solid support with a handle attached to the free end.
  • the iron is heated with the help of the gas bottle contents, to which air is supplied through lateral supply holes in the iron, until the front surface of the iron with the letters on it has reached the baking temperature. It is a comparatively heavy device because a support frame is provided.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a device which is extremely simple and handy and can be carried in the pocket of anyone, the operation of the device is simple and easy to carry out.
  • the device is designed as a liquid gas-operated hand lighter with an ignition mechanism that can be actuated from the outside, on the open end face of which is arranged the symbol that projects to the burn-in depth over two opposite housing edges and that the heating device in the form of at least one nozzle in one is provided at a distance from the end face in the housing transverse wall.
  • Hand lighter is to be understood in the usual sense of the word a lighter as it is used for lighting cigarettes or the like.
  • the device according to the invention has the advantage that it is just as simple as a lighter and can be operated. Due to the handiness of the device, the tennis player will always carry it with him with his other utensils, so that he is always ready when he wants to start playing with a new set of tennis balls and considers it necessary to attach the markings to one To avoid confusion with the balls of the neighboring square.
  • the device according to the invention can also be used to mark other objects, for example school bags or the like. be used.
  • edges of the housing are expediently concave to match the shape of a tennis ball.
  • the metal webs can be held tiltably with play on the housing side, so that their surface can align when pressed against an object to form this object by pivoting the webs in the housing-side holding opening.
  • the holding openings can be formed in the opposite housing walls or in wall-parallel housing-fixed webs.
  • the flame or flames which burn from the nozzle or openings provided on the housing transverse wall then heat the symbol or the symbols directly or by heat conduction via the fine-meshed network of metal wire which is provided at least in the vicinity of the symbol.
  • the symbol is sufficiently heated, for example at a temperature of 250 to 300 ° C, the device is pressed against the object to be marked, for example a tennis ball, whereby the heated symbol makes the corresponding mark in the surface of the object, here the fiber material of the Tennis ball burns in, but only to the depth that corresponds to the protrusion of the symbol over the housing edges forming the front side, against which the object, for example the tennis ball, comes to rest.
  • the device shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 is used to burn a mark into the fiber jacket of a tennis ball. It consists of a cuboid housing 1, the side walls 3 of which protrude above a transverse wall 10 and end in edges 9 which delimit a dome-shaped concave front face 2 which is adapted to the spherical shape of a tennis ball.
  • a refillable liquid gas storage device is provided as in the case of a lighter.
  • the liquid gas reservoir is connected via a discharge valve, not shown, to a nozzle 8 in the transverse wall 10, which is directed towards the end face 2.
  • the outlet valve of the nozzle 8 and the ignition mechanism 13 are actuated with the aid of an adjusting button 7 arranged on a housing wall 3.
  • recesses 11 are provided for clamping metal webs 4, on which a symbol 5 in the form of the letter L is held.
  • the metal web 4 has at both ends a shoulder 12, the cross section of which is smaller than the opening area of each recess 11. This web holder enables pivoting or tilting of the symbol 5 attached to the metal web 4 and thereby an alignment of the Symbol 5 with respect to the surface to be marked.
  • the outlet valve of the nozzle 8 is opened and the ignition mechanism 13 is actuated, as a result of which, for example, a spark that ignites the gas is generated piezoelectrically.
  • the symbol 5 is sufficiently heated by the gas flame, which is the case after approx. 5 to 10 s, the tennis ball is pressed against it, whereby the symbol 5 burns the marking into the fiber jacket of the tennis ball, but only to the desired depth, since a further burn-in is prevented by the tennis ball resting on the edges 9.
  • FIGS. 5 to 7 two symbols 5 in the form of the letters D and V are provided, which are adapted to the curvature of the edges 9 in recesses 11 in opposite side walls 3 of the housing 1 above the edges 9 above.
  • Each symbol 5 is assigned a nozzle 8 on the transverse wall 10.
  • Each nozzle 8 has an outlet valve, not shown, which, like the ignition mechanism 13, is actuated by an adjusting button 7 on a housing wall 3 in a manner known per se.

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zum Einbrennen einer Markierung in Gegenstände, insbesondere in den Fasermantel eines Tennisballes mit Hilfe wenigstens eines der Markierung entsprechenden Symbols aus Metall, das an einer Halterung angebracht und durch die zum Symbol gerichtete Flamme einer Heizeinrichtung auf die Einbrenntemperatur erhitzbar ist.The invention relates to a device for baking a marking into objects, in particular into the fiber jacket of a tennis ball with the aid of at least one symbol made of metal corresponding to the marking, which is attached to a holder and can be heated to the baking temperature by the flame of a heating device directed towards the symbol.

Bekannt ist es, als Vorrichtung der vorgenannten Art eine Einbrennschablone zu verwenden, die als Zange gestaltet ist, welche mit einem kugelsektorförmig gestalteten Schenkel den Ball erfasst und gegen die am anderen Schenkel dem Ball zugewendete Schablone presst. Die Schablone wird elektrisch erhitzt, so dass sie schneidenförmig in den vliesartigen Faserstoffen eindringen und diesen bis auf die Innenhülle wegbrennt, so dass auch durch den beim Spielen entstehenden Abrieb die Markierung sichtbar bleibt (DE-A-2810653).It is known to use a burn-in template as a device of the aforementioned type, which is designed as pliers which grips the ball with a leg shaped like a sector of a sphere and presses it against the template facing the ball on the other leg. The stencil is heated electrically so that it penetrates into the fleece-like fibrous materials in a knife-like manner and burns it down to the inner shell, so that the marking remains visible due to the abrasion that occurs during play (DE-A-2810653).

Solche zangenartigen Vorrichtungen sind gewöhnlich in den Herstellerwerken, an den Vertriebsstellen oder in Vereinen zur Anbringung der gewünschten Markierungen vorhanden, stehen jedoch in der Regel dem einzelnen Tennisspieler dann nicht zur Verfügung, wenn er gerade mit einem neuen Satz von Tennisbällen zu spielen beginnen möchte.Such pincer-type devices are usually available in the manufacturing plants, at the sales outlets or in clubs for applying the desired markings, but are generally not available to the individual tennis player when he is about to start playing with a new set of tennis balls.

Aus der US-A- 33 93 672 ist ein tragbares Brandeisen bekannt, bei dem auf einem massiven Träger mit am freien Ende angebrachtem Handgriff eine Gasflasche auswechselbar befestigt ist. Am vorderen Ende des Trägers befindet sich ein Eisenhalter, der mit dem Ventil der Gasflasche verbunden werden kann und an seinem freien vorderen Ende ein Eisen aufnimmt, das auf der freien Fläche die Markierungsbuchstaben trägt. Das Eisen wird mit Hilfe des Gasflascheninhalts, dem Luft über seitliche Zuführungslöcher im Eisen zugeführt wird, erhitzt, bis die Frontfläche des Eisens mit den darauf sitzenden Buchstaben die Einbrenntemperatur erreicht hat. Es handelt sich um eine vergleichsweise schwere Vorrichtung, denn es ist ein Unterstützungsgestell vorgesehen.From US-A-33 93 672 a portable branding iron is known in which a gas bottle is exchangeably attached to a solid support with a handle attached to the free end. There is an iron holder at the front end of the carrier, which can be connected to the valve of the gas bottle and holds an iron at its free front end which bears the marking letters on the free surface. The iron is heated with the help of the gas bottle contents, to which air is supplied through lateral supply holes in the iron, until the front surface of the iron with the letters on it has reached the baking temperature. It is a comparatively heavy device because a support frame is provided.

Demgegenüber liegt der Erfindung die Aufgabe zugrunde, eine Vorrichtung zu schaffen, die äusserst einfach und handlich ausgebildet ist und in der Tasche von jedermann mitgeführt werden kann, wobei die Bedienung der Vorrichtung einfach und leicht durchzuführen ist.In contrast, the invention has for its object to provide a device which is extremely simple and handy and can be carried in the pocket of anyone, the operation of the device is simple and easy to carry out.

Diese Aufgabe wird erfindungsgemäss dadurch gelöst, dass die Vorrichtung als flüssiggasbetriebenes Handfeuerzeug mit einem von aussen betätigbaren Zündmechanismus ausgebildet ist, auf dessen offener Stirnseite das Symbol angeordnet ist, das auf Einbrenntiefe über zwei gegenüberliegende Gehäuseränder vorsteht und dass die Heizvorrichtung in Form wenigstens einer Düse in einer im Abstand von der Stirnseite im Gehäuse gebildeten Querwand vorgesehen ist.This object is achieved according to the invention in that the device is designed as a liquid gas-operated hand lighter with an ignition mechanism that can be actuated from the outside, on the open end face of which is arranged the symbol that projects to the burn-in depth over two opposite housing edges and that the heating device in the form of at least one nozzle in one is provided at a distance from the end face in the housing transverse wall.

Unter Handfeuerzeug ist dabei im üblichen Sprachsinne ein Feuerzeug zu verstehen, wie es zum Zigarettenanzünden od. dgl. verwendet wird. Die erfindungsgemässe Vorrichtung hat den Vorteil, dass sie ebenso einfach wie ein Feuerzeug gebaut ist und bedient werden kann. Aufgrund der Handlichkeit der Vorrichtung wird sie der Tennisspieler mit seinen übrigen Utensilien immer mit sich führen, so dass er sie immer dann parat hat, wenn er mit einem neuen Satz Tennisbällen zu spielen beginnen möchte und es für erforderlich hält, die Markierungen anzubringen, um eine Verwechslung mit den Bällen des Nachbarplatzes auszuschliessen. Selbstverständlich kann die erfindungsgemässe Vorrichtung aber auch zum Markieren anderer Gegenstände, beispielsweise Schultaschen od.dgl. verwendet werden.Hand lighter is to be understood in the usual sense of the word a lighter as it is used for lighting cigarettes or the like. The device according to the invention has the advantage that it is just as simple as a lighter and can be operated. Due to the handiness of the device, the tennis player will always carry it with him with his other utensils, so that he is always ready when he wants to start playing with a new set of tennis balls and considers it necessary to attach the markings to one To avoid confusion with the balls of the neighboring square. Of course, the device according to the invention can also be used to mark other objects, for example school bags or the like. be used.

Die Gehäuseränder sind zweckmässigerweise in Anpassung an die Form eines Tennisballes konkav ausgebildet.The edges of the housing are expediently concave to match the shape of a tennis ball.

Dabei können die Metallstege gehäuseseitig mit Spiel kippbar gehalten werden, so dass sich ihre Oberfläche beim Andrücken an einen Gegenstand zur Form dieses Gegenstandes durch Verschwenken der Stege in der gehäuseseitigen Halteöffnung ausrichten kann. Die Halteöffnungen können dabei in den gegenüberliegenden Gehäusewänden oder in wandparallelen gehäusefesten Stegen ausgebildet sein.The metal webs can be held tiltably with play on the housing side, so that their surface can align when pressed against an object to form this object by pivoting the webs in the housing-side holding opening. The holding openings can be formed in the opposite housing walls or in wall-parallel housing-fixed webs.

Es ist auch möglich, das Symbol auf einem gehäusefesten feinmaschigen Netz aus dünnem Metalldraht zu befestigen.It is also possible to attach the symbol to a fine mesh mesh made of thin metal wire that is fixed to the housing.

Die Flamme oder die Flammen, die aus der oder den an der Gehäusequerwand vorgesehenen Düsenöffnungen brennen, erhitzen dann das Symbol oder die Symbole direkt oder durch Wärmeleitung über das feinmaschige Netz aus Metalldraht, das zumindest in der Umgebung des Symbols vorgesehen ist. Wenn das Symbol ausreichend erhitzt ist, beispielsweise eine Temperatur von 250 bis 300°C hat, wird die Vorrichtung gegen den zu markierenden Gegenstand, beispielsweise einen Tennisball, gedrückt, wodurch das erhitzte Symbol die entsprechende Markierung in die Oberfläche des Gegenstandes, hier das Fasermaterial des Tennisballes, einbrennt, jedoch nur auf der Tiefe, die dem Überstand des Symbols über die die Stirnseite bildenden Gehäuseränder entspricht, an denen der Gegenstand, beispielsweise der Tennisball, zum Anliegen kommt.The flame or flames which burn from the nozzle or openings provided on the housing transverse wall then heat the symbol or the symbols directly or by heat conduction via the fine-meshed network of metal wire which is provided at least in the vicinity of the symbol. When the symbol is sufficiently heated, for example at a temperature of 250 to 300 ° C, the device is pressed against the object to be marked, for example a tennis ball, whereby the heated symbol makes the corresponding mark in the surface of the object, here the fiber material of the Tennis ball burns in, but only to the depth that corresponds to the protrusion of the symbol over the housing edges forming the front side, against which the object, for example the tennis ball, comes to rest.

Anhand der Zeichnungen wird die Erfindung beispielsweise näher erläutert. Es zeigen:

  • Fig. 1 schematisch in einer Seitenansicht eine erste Ausführungsform der erfindungsgemässen Vorrichtung;
  • Fig. eine Draufsicht auf die Vorrichtung von Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 eine Stirnansicht der Vorrichtung von Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 4 schematisch die gehäuseseitige kippbare Halterung eines Metallsteges der Vorrichtung von Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 5 perspektivisch eine zweite Ausführungsform der erfindungsgemässen Vorrichtung;
  • Fig. 6 eine Draufsicht auf die Vorrichtung von Fig. 4 und
  • Fig. 7 eine schematische Seitenansicht der Vorrichtung von Fig. 4.
The invention is explained in more detail, for example, with reference to the drawings. Show it:
  • 1 schematically shows a side view of a first embodiment of the device according to the invention;
  • Fig. A plan view of the device of Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 is an end view of the device of Fig. 1;
  • 4 schematically shows the housing-side tiltable holder of a metal web of the device from FIG.
  • 5 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of the device according to the invention;
  • Fig. 6 is a plan view of the device of Fig. 4 and
  • FIG. 7 shows a schematic side view of the device from FIG. 4.

Die in den Fig. 1 bis 3 gezeigte Vorrichtung dient zum Einbrennen einer Markierung in den Fasermantel eines Tennisballes. Sie besteht aus einem quaderförmigen Gehäuse 1, dessen Seitenwände 3 über eine Querwand 10 hochstehen und in Rändern 9 enden, die eine kalottenförmig konkav gekrümmte Stirnseite 2 begrenzen, die der Kugelform eines Tennisballes angepasst ist. In dem von den Seitenwänden 3, einem Boden und der Querwand 10 umschlossenen Gehäuseinnenraum 6 ist ein nachfüllbarer Flüssiggasspeicher wie bei einem Feuerzeug vorgesehen. Der Flüssiggasspeicher steht über ein nicht gezeigtes Auslassventil mit einer Düse 8 in der Querwand 10 in Verbindung, die zur Stirnseite 2 hin gerichtet ist. Das Auslassventil der Düse 8 und der Zündmechanismus 13 werden mit Hilfe eines an einer Gehäusewand 3 angeordneten Stellknopfes 7 betätigt.The device shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 is used to burn a mark into the fiber jacket of a tennis ball. It consists of a cuboid housing 1, the side walls 3 of which protrude above a transverse wall 10 and end in edges 9 which delimit a dome-shaped concave front face 2 which is adapted to the spherical shape of a tennis ball. In the housing interior 6 enclosed by the side walls 3, a bottom and the transverse wall 10, a refillable liquid gas storage device is provided as in the case of a lighter. The liquid gas reservoir is connected via a discharge valve, not shown, to a nozzle 8 in the transverse wall 10, which is directed towards the end face 2. The outlet valve of the nozzle 8 and the ignition mechanism 13 are actuated with the aid of an adjusting button 7 arranged on a housing wall 3.

In den Randbereichen zweier gegenüberliegender Seitenwände 3 sind Aussparungen 11 für das Einklemmen von Metallstegen 4 vorgesehen, auf denen ein Symbol 5 in Form des Buchstabens L gehalten ist. Wie in Fig. 4 gezeigt ist, hat der Metallsteg 4 an beiden Enden einen Ansatz 12, dessen Querschnitt kleiner ist als die Öffnungsfläche jeder Aussparung 11. Diese Steghalterung ermöglicht ein Verschwenken bzw. Kippen des am Metallsteg 4 angebrachten Symbols 5 und dadurch eine Ausrichtung des Symbols 5 bezüglich der zu markierenden Oberfläche.In the edge regions of two opposite side walls 3, recesses 11 are provided for clamping metal webs 4, on which a symbol 5 in the form of the letter L is held. As shown in Fig. 4, the metal web 4 has at both ends a shoulder 12, the cross section of which is smaller than the opening area of each recess 11. This web holder enables pivoting or tilting of the symbol 5 attached to the metal web 4 and thereby an alignment of the Symbol 5 with respect to the surface to be marked.

Bei Betätigung des Stellknopfes 7 wird das Auslassventil der Düse 8 geöffnet und der Zündmechanismus 13 betätigt, wodurch beispielsweise piezoelektrisch ein das Gas entzündender Funke erzeugt wird. Wenn das Symbol 5 durch die Gasflamme ausreichend erhitzt ist, was nach ca. 5 bis 10 s der Fall ist, wird der Tennisball dagegen gedrückt, wodurch das Symbol 5 die Markierung in den Fasermantel des Tennisballs einbrennt, jedoch nur bis zu der gewünschten Tiefe, da ein weiteres Einbrennen durch das Aufliegen des Tennisballs auf den Rändern 9 verhindert wird.When the control button 7 is actuated, the outlet valve of the nozzle 8 is opened and the ignition mechanism 13 is actuated, as a result of which, for example, a spark that ignites the gas is generated piezoelectrically. When the symbol 5 is sufficiently heated by the gas flame, which is the case after approx. 5 to 10 s, the tennis ball is pressed against it, whereby the symbol 5 burns the marking into the fiber jacket of the tennis ball, but only to the desired depth, since a further burn-in is prevented by the tennis ball resting on the edges 9.

Bei der in Fig. 5 bis 7 gezeigten Ausführungsform sind zwei Symbole 5 in Form der Buchstaben D und V vorgesehen, die angepasst an die Krümmung der Ränder 9 in Aussparungen 11 in gegenüberliegenden Seitenwänden 3 des Gehäuses 1 über die Ränder 9 vorstehend gehalten sind. Jedem Symbol 5 ist dabei auf der Querwand 10 eine Düse 8 zugeordnet. Jede Düse 8 hat ein nicht gezeigtes Auslassventil, das ebenso wie der Zündmechanismus 13 von einem Stellknopf 7 an einer Gehäusewand 3 in an sich bekannter Weise betätigt wird.In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, two symbols 5 in the form of the letters D and V are provided, which are adapted to the curvature of the edges 9 in recesses 11 in opposite side walls 3 of the housing 1 above the edges 9 above. Each symbol 5 is assigned a nozzle 8 on the transverse wall 10. Each nozzle 8 has an outlet valve, not shown, which, like the ignition mechanism 13, is actuated by an adjusting button 7 on a housing wall 3 in a manner known per se.

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1. An apparatus for burning a mark into objects, in particular into the fiber covering of a tennis ball, using at least one metal symbol (5) corresponding to the marking, attached to a holding means (4) and heatable to the branding temperature by the flame of a heating means directed at the symbol, characterized in that the apparatus is designed as a liquid gas operated hand lighter having an ignition mechanism (13) operable from the outside on whose open front face the symbol (5) is disposed, protuding at the branding depth beyond two opposite housing edges (9), and in that the heating means is provided in the form of at least one nozzle (8) in a transverse wall (10) formed in the housing (1) spaced from the front face (2).
2. The apparatus as in claim 1, characterized in that the housing edges (9) have a concave design.
3. The apparatus as in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the symbol (5) is detachably held by metal studs (4) on opposite housing walls (3).
4. The apparatus as in claim 3, characterized in that the symbol (5) is attached to a fine-meshed net made of thin metal wire stationary in the housing.
5. The apparatus as in claim 3, characterized in that the metal studs (4) are held so as to be tiltable with clearance on the side of the housing.
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