US3768404A - Travelling cylinder printer with the roller contacting the back of the embossed plate - Google Patents

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US3768404A
US3768404A US00158750A US3768404DA US3768404A US 3768404 A US3768404 A US 3768404A US 00158750 A US00158750 A US 00158750A US 3768404D A US3768404D A US 3768404DA US 3768404 A US3768404 A US 3768404A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41L—APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
    • B41L47/00—Details of addressographs or like series-printing machines
    • B41L47/02—Applications of printing surfaces in addressing machines or like series-printing machines
    • B41L47/04—Applications of printing surfaces in addressing machines or like series-printing machines of flat or curved plates for relief printing
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    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41L—APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
    • B41L19/00—Duplicating or printing apparatus or machines for office or other commercial purposes, of special types or for particular purposes and not otherwise provided for
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41L—APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
    • B41L47/00—Details of addressographs or like series-printing machines
    • B41L47/02—Applications of printing surfaces in addressing machines or like series-printing machines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41L—APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
    • B41L47/00—Details of addressographs or like series-printing machines
    • B41L47/42—Printing mechanisms
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41L—APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
    • B41L47/00—Details of addressographs or like series-printing machines
    • B41L47/42—Printing mechanisms
    • B41L47/46—Printing mechanisms using line-contact members, e.g. rollers, cylinders

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  • This invention relates to apparatus and methods for imprinting on documents or document sets images corresponding to indicia embossed on credit cards or the like, and relates more particularly to improved imprinting apparatus and methods wherein imprinting is accomplished by disposing the credit card between the pressure roll and the document or set and applying pressure to the smooth side of the credit card to press the card against a fixed platen.
  • the paper stock to be imprinted is positioned between a roller and the printing member.
  • an inked pressure roll or an uninked pressure roll that bears on the uncoated side of a carbon sheet presses the paper against the embossed characters projecting from the credit card, while the smooth side of the credit card bears against a fixed platen.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevational view, partly in section, of one embodiment of an imprinting apparatus wherein embossed data from successive credit cards is imprinted on an incremented paper tape to enable optical scanning and computer vertification against the input data;
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary view, to substantially enlarged scale, of a portion of the apparatus shown in- FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a left side view taken along line 3--3 of FIG.
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary plan view taken in the direction of line 44 of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a plan view of a portable imprinting apparatus constructed according to another embodiment of the invention that enables concurrent imprinting of both fixed and variable data;
  • FIG. 6 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line 66 of FIG. 5.
  • the imprinting apparatus comprises a freely rotatable steel pressure roll 10 that is mounted on a shaft 11.
  • the ends of shaft 11 are journaled in bearings 12 (FIG. 2) in a block 13.
  • Block 13 is supported on two longitudinally spaced pairs of roller followers 14,15 (FIGS. 3,4) that ride in two slot-like cam tracks 17 provided, respectively, in upper and lower plates 18,19 forming part of a U-shaped housing 20.
  • An actuator arm 21 has an extension 22 that projects through slot 17 in lower plate 19 and is connected to block 13 for shifting the latter leftward and then rightward, as viewed in FIG. 3, through a pin 24 riding in a groove 25, provided in a shaft 26.
  • Shaft 26 is rotated a half revolution in a clockwise direction by a pulley-driven belt 27 powered by a half-revolution clutch (not shown) during each imprinting cycle.
  • groove 25 has a right-hand lead portion formed in one-half of the periphery of shaft 26 and joining a left-hand lead portion formed in the remainder of the periphery of the shaft and rejoining the righthand portion, thereby providing an endless groove that causes pin 24 to move rightward from one extreme position to the other upon one energization of the clutch, and leftward to its initial extreme position during the next succeeding energization of the clutch, for thereby operatively moving pressure roll 10 from its leftmost position to its rightmost position and then back to its leftmost position, respectively.
  • credit cards 30 are advanced upright long-edge down between upper and lower guide channels 31,32 from an embossing station (not shown) into the nip of a feed roll 33 and a springloaded idler roll 34.
  • embossing station not shown
  • suitable means including a control circuit (not shown) will be activated for causing a sprocket-driven chain 36 through its longitudinally spaced, laterally projecting pusher fingers 37, to advance the credit card and preceding credit cards leftward as viewed in FIG.
  • a paper tape 41 or other record to be imprinted will be disposed between the embossments on said credit card and an imaging medium, such as an inked ribbon 43, that is backed up by a stationary flat platen 44.
  • Paper tape 41 is dispensed incrementally in an upward direction, as viewed in FIGS. 1 and 2, between the credit card 30 and the platen 44 from a supply roll (not shown) around suitable idler rolls under action of an intermittently rotated drive roll 45.
  • Ribbon 43 is incremented in the opposite direction (i.e., downward as viewed in FIGS. 1 and 2) between tape 41 and platen 44, with the inked surface of ribbon 43 facing the tape.
  • Ribbon 43 is unwound from supply roll 48 and between and around suitable idler rolls under action of an intermittently rotated drive roll 49.
  • platen 44 preferably has a flat surface 52 which is recessed relative to the main flat surface 53 an amount corresponding to degree by which the height of embossments 42a exceed that of embossments 42.
  • pressure roll 10 As pressure roll 10 continues to move rightward from the position in which it is shown in FIGS. 3,4, it will move parallel to the credit card and apply compressive pressure against the smooth back side of the card along a moving line of contact. As this occurs, the successive embossments 4211,42 along each line of embossments, will progressively be pressed against the paper tape for imprinting on the tape from the ribbon 43 a rightreadable image corresponding to the embossed indicia on the card, while the tape is backed up by the flat surfaces 52,53 of platen 44.
  • the relieved surface 52 will assure that substantially equal pressure will be applied to embossments 42 and the higher embossments 42a to provide a uniformly sharp machine and human readable image of all embossed indicia.
  • microswitch 35 when closed, it also completes a time delay circuit (not shown) for energizing a solenoid 54 to retract stop 38 for a time interval sufficient for a credit card 30 to be moved beyond the imprinting station by its pusher finger 37; whereupon shortly after the finger has moved past stop 38, the solenoid will be deenergized for extending the stop to intercept the next card.
  • paper tape 41 and ink ribbon 43 are preferably incremented in opposite directions, as illustrated, in order to effect spearation of the tape from the ribbon with a shearing-type action to minimize feathering of the edges of the imprinted characters.
  • the portable imprinting apparatus comprises pressure rolls 100,101 that are rotatably connected to a block 102.
  • a link 103 connects block 102 to a block 104 to which is rotatably connected a pressure roll 105.
  • Blocks 102, 104 are disposed between side plates 106,107 of a sectionalized housing 108.
  • Rolls 100,101,105 move in a path prescribed by pairs of roller followers 109,110 that ride in cam slots 111 provided in plates 106,107.
  • Housing 108 has one opening 112 providing a bed for supporting an embossed credit card 113, and another opening 1 14 providing a bed for supporting a vendors embossed identification plate 115 and a date plate 1 l6.
  • a plurality of strips 117 bearing embossed or typewriter-like raised characters 0-9 are movable transversely of the path of roll 105.
  • Manually adjustable knobs 118 are movable in slide tracks 119 to expose and register the characters corresponding to the amount of sale through a rectangular slot 120 in the housing.
  • a direct in-line application of embossing pressure is achieved because the pressure rolls apply pressure in a moving line of contact along the smooth back side of the credit card and any plates such as 115, 116 or strips such as 117.
  • the pressure rolls do not move up and down as they advance past the embossments, such as occurs when the pressure roll faces the embossments as in imprinting arrangements heretofore employed.
  • imprinting is effected during a complete stroke in either direction, eliminating the need for an ineffectual return stroke.
  • imaging medium may be employed if desired.
  • a right-reading image can be achieved by applying a carbonless pressure-transferable coating to that side of the document to be imprinted that faces the platen, thereby eliminating the need for either an ink ribbon or carbon paper.
  • the platen 44 or 122 may be provided with ink-impregnated hard flat surfaces and the inked ribbon 43 or carbon sheet 121 eliminated.
  • the imaging medium may be either a separate element as 43 or 121 or associated with the element 41 or 120 to be imprinted or associated with the platen 44 or 122.
  • mirror images may readily be achieved by providing ink, carbon or carbonless coating adjacent the opposite side of the tape or sheet from that shown in the drawings.
  • ink ribbon 43 or an additional ribbon between the tape and credit card 30 with its inked side facing the tape.
  • tape 41 or single sheet 121 may be replaced with a three-ply set comprising a card, double-faced carbon, and slip, to give a rightreading image on the slip or card adjacent the credit card and a mirror image on the card or slip adjacent the platen.
  • the term document as used in the claims is intended generically to cover paper or cardstock in discrete or web form, or a set of sheets or webs comprising paper slips and/or cards with interleaved carbon sheets or their equivalents.
  • Credit card imprinter apparatus for imprinting a plurality of right readable images on a document with an imaging medium from a corresponding plurality of right readable embossments projecting from one side of a unitary flat credit card printing member having a substantially smooth opposite side, said apparatus comprising a hard platen providing a flat back-up surface,
  • each roll supporting each roll and adapted to be moved for moving such roll generally linearly, and cam track and follower means for guiding each roll during such linear movement for concurrently causing each roll to rotate and make rolling contact with the smooth side of the printing member and to also move relative to the platen in a controlled path generally parallel to lines of embossments to exert pressure on said smooth side along a moving line of contact for applying pressure to the smooth side of and through the printing member to cause the embossments to contact and exert compressive pressure on the document and press the document against the medium and cause the medium to be solidly backed up by contact with said back-up surface to effect image transfer from the medium to the document, thereby to imprint the document with the right-readable images.
  • Apparatus characterized in that the imaging medium is provided by an element that is movable intermittently and incrementally in one direction, and the document is movable intermittently and incrementally in the opposite direction to separate the medium from the document with a shear-type action.
  • cam track has complementary ramps adjacent each end of its stroke for causing each roll to move successively toward and away from the platen during its movement by the roll supporting means through a complete stroke in either direction along .said path past and beyond the imprint station.
  • the first-mentioned positioning means comprises a pair of oppositely arranged guide tracks and a pusher for incrementally advancing successive members between said tracks in one direction to the imprint station, and
  • said platen is a fixed plate means which is flat except for relieved areas adjacent those portions of the member which, when at the imprint station, project said greater extents, thereby to assure that substantially the same pressure will be applied to all embossments to assure that the images produced therefrom will be of equal density and sharpness capable of optical reading by an optical character recognition machine.

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