Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5718173 | Stamping apparatus A stamping apparatus for a heat requiring ink is described wherein a stamping head is moved between an ink wetting position and an object stamping position. A stamping pad is located in a heated housing wherein a replaceable stamping pad is mounted on a r... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5515780 | Reciprocating printing apparatus with tangential inking arrangement A printing apparatus employs a rotatable cam having an enclosed cam slot for controlling the rocking motion of an inking roll without the need for a cam follower spring. The apparatus also includes an articulated printing member support assembly which exe... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5146851 | Print head assembly with a stationary heater A print head assembly for intermittently marking surfaces, such as packages and packaging materials, includes a heated ink supply means which engages with type elements as the latter move from a rest position, in which the type is heated, to a printing po... | 09/15/1992 |
| 4896595 | Print head and backer plate assembly for carton marker A marking machine for automatically marking cartons passing on an intermittently moving conveyor includes a printing head cyclically moved by a pneumatic cylinder into engagement with the cartons. The motion of the printing head is controlled by guide ele... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4724034 | Labeling device A labeling device is described with the aid of which self-adhering labels (6) can be imprinted, dispensed and attached to articles. The device includes a printing mechanism (16) having printing types (27) and a means for inking the printing types which in... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4566386 | Hot ink imprinter with swinging print head A hot ink imprinter and method wherein a print head carrying marking type face is swingingly supported by a rocker arm for cyclical swinging, in one phase of which type face carried by the head effects imprinting of a workpiece, and in a second phase of w... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4498389 | Labeler with inking mechanism There is disclosed label printing and applying apparatus by which labels are successively printed and applied to merchandise. The apparatus feeds pressure sensitive labels mounted on a web of supporting material to a printing zone and to a delaminating zo... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4444108 | Printing apparatus and process A printing apparatus is disclosed wherein rocking motion of a movably mounted inking roll assembly is controlled by a cam and follower arrangement coupled to the drive system for a pivoting printing member. The cam and follower arrangement allows coordina... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4419171 | Portable labeling machine The machine intended for printing two lines of characters of different color (8, 9) on self-adhesive labels comprises two printheads mounted in a rocking housing (7). This housing comprises two holding elements (14, 16) engaged in two guide slots (17, 19)... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4387645 | Printing mechanism The invention relates to a printing mechanism, particularly for labelling devices, with an adjustable printing attachment, an inking rocker arm 20 and 108 which can be swung out and is swung out of its movement path on moving the printing attachment and a... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4323011 | Actuating stamp with free-turning inking roller There is shown an inking apparatus for stamping on a localized area, and with a speedy application, a selected reproduction to a travelling or advanced product. This inking roller is free-turning with a light brake to prevent free wheeling. A four-bar lin... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4301729 | Manually-operated labeler A labeler for dispensing labels from a carrier strip having labels stuck onto the strip. The labeler has a case in which is a carrier strip feeding mechanism driven by an actuating mechanism for advancing the carrier strip so as to turn it around a turnba... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4240348 | Ink supply devices for portable labeling machine An ink supply device for use in a labeling machine: the ink supply device includes at least one inking roller; guide means on the frame of the labeling machine guide the inking roller to roll over the printing surface of a printing head; the guide means m... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4213389 | Ink supply device for hand labeler An ink supply device for inking the types of a hand labeler device, usually including at least two inking rollers which are rotatable over the type surfaces of a printing head; these ink rollers are removably held in an ink roller assembly which is, in tu... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4178849 | Inking device for label printing and applying machine An inking device for a label printing and applying machine, or the like: the inking device has a multi-link mechanism which comprises yoke arms operated by the squeezing of a hand lever, a supporting member for supporting inking rollers, a plurality of li... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4051780 | Label feed mechanism for portable labeling machines A feed mechanism for feeding an elongated strip of labels in a portable labeling machine. The label feed mechanism intermittently advances the label strip with an indexed movement in response to the manual gripping and releasing of a grip lever which acts... | 10/04/1977 |
