Automatic tape cutter/sticker

• US 4,800,812 A
• Filed: 09/05/1986
• Issued: 01/31/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shuh-Chin Lin
• Original Assignee: Shuh-Chin Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Shuh-Chin
• Primary Examiner(s): Pearson, Charles A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/904,162
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 101/288, 101/328, 101/329, 101/224, 101/226, 101/376, 156/384, 156/385, 156/386, 156/387, 156/388, 156/510, 400/242, 400/613
• US Class Current: 101/226
• CPC Class Codes: B41K 3/12 with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/002 Hand-held or table apparatus B65H35/006 takes precedence

Abstract

An improved automatic tape cutter/sticker is composed of an outer housing, inner housing, side cover, plate spring, circular ring tube, printing equipment, rotating cutting equipment, compressing rod and tape. The device further includes a circular ring tube, in which two opposite plates of the four pieces of circular arc tube plates are smaller and shorter than the other plates for encasing tapes with smaller widths. Moreover printing equipment is installed on the left lower side of the inner housing, which is composed of character mold rolling cylinder, ink rolling cylinder, character mold rolling cylinder shaft and ink rolling cylinder shaft. The character mold rolling cylinder linked with character mold rolling cylinder shaft is driven by the tape, so that the ink rolling cylinder located around the ink rolling shaft is driven so that the ink adheres to the convex lines of the character mold rolling cylinder for printing it in the back side of the output tape.

Claims

1. In an automatic tape cutter/sticker comprising an outer housing;

an inner housing;

a side cover;

a plate spring;

a rotating cutter;

a compressing rod;

the improvement comprising;

a circular ring tube installed in substantially the center of said inner housing having two upper and lower symmetrical circular arc tube plates, two left and right symmetrical circular arc tube sheets, and an X-shaped fixing shaft, said circular arc tube plates being smaller and shorter than said circular arc tube sheets, said plates and sheets being independent and installed respectively at circular edges of said X-shaped shaft;

printing equipment installed on a bottom plate of said inner housing, said printing equipment comprising a character model rolling cylinder shaft, a character model rolling cylinder, an ink rolling cylinder shaft and an ink rolling cylinder, said character model rolling cylinder shaft being located substantially parallel to said ink rolling cylinder shaft and disposed generally perpendicular to the bottom plate of said inner housing, said character model rolling cylinder shaft and said ink rolling cylinder shaft each having a slightly tapered connecting hole installed at a substantially center portion of the top of the respective cylinder for compressing a fixing plug for fixing the cylinders on the shaft, said character model rolling cylinder and said ink rolling cylinder each having a shaft hole installed at a substantially center position thereof and said character model rolling cylinder having a circular edge comprising at least two parallel slots for dividing the rolling cylinder surface into at least two convex arc faces on which convex characters are installed.

2. The automatic tape cutter/sticker as described in claim 1, wherein the circular arc tube plates and sheets of the circular ring tube have suitable outward tension and have flanges installed respectively on outer edges of top portions of said plates and sheets.

3. The automatic tape cutter/sticker as described in claim 1, wherein at least one penetrating ink filling opening hole is installed on a top side of said fixing plug on the ink rolling cylinder shaft of the printing equipment.

4. The automatic tape cutter/sticker as described in claim 1, further comprising tape.

5. The automatic tape cutter/sticker as described in claim 1, wherein said printing equipment is installed at a lower left side of said bottom plate.

6. The automatic tape cutter/sticker as described in claim 1, wherein said character model rolling cylinder and said ink rolling cylinder are positioned such that the distance between substantially the center of each cylinder is slightly smaller than the radius of the character model rolling cylinder plus the radius of the ink rolling cylinder.

7. The automatic tape cutter/sticker as described in claim 1, wherein said at least two parallel slots are located substantially parallel to a center line of said character model rolling cylinder.

8. The automatic tape cutter/sticker as described in claim 1, wherein said at least two parallel slots are located at a predetermined angle with respect to a center line of said character model rolling cylinder.

9. The automatic tape cutter/sticker as described in claim 1, wherein said ink rolling cylinder is made of ink absorbable fibers.