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Apparatus for forming moon characters for the visually handicapped

  • US 4,559,706 A
  • Filed: 06/28/1984
  • Issued: 12/24/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A sheet material embossing machine for generating a line of embossed characters, said machine comprising a sheet material support, an embossing stylus, stylus moving means operable to move said stylus with respect to said support into and out of a position in which said stylus impresses sheet material supported on said support, a finger board, a manually movable describing member positioned above the finger board, tracery means on the finger board for guiding said manually movable describing member positioned above the finger board operable to effect movement thereof in a horizontal plane above the finger board to describe the character to be embossed on the sheet material on said support, a coupling between said describing member and one of said stylus and said support, said coupling causing relative movement between said stylus and said support, said relative movement following movement of said describing member, said machine further comprising drive means operable to move said support in a transverse, stepwise manner relative to said stylus to present successive transverse areas of the sheet material supported on said support to said stylus, and means for effecting stepwise longitudinal movement of the sheet material relative to the stylus to present successive longitudinal areas of the sheet material supported on said support to said stylus.

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