Walton M Henry

US Patent:

40275906, Jun 7, 1977

Filed:

Mar 5, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/555343

Inventors:

Maximilian R. Seidl - Munich, DT
Joachim Seidl - Eching, DT
Walton M. Henry - Rydal PA

Assignee:

Avery International Corporation - San Marino CA

International Classification:

B41F 1364

US Classification:

101288

Abstract:

A label, ticket and tag printing and dispensing machine with readily detachable and attachable interchangeable tape supply and feeding magazines, for the optional and selective use of any one of several alternative pre-adjusted tape-feeding magazines, each loaded with a roll of a different size or kind of labels, tickets or tags, thereby to provide maximum and ready variability and range of tape-supply; with each of the several alternative magazines being individually pre-adjusted for the length and width and other characteristics of the label, ticket or tag and in relation to location of the print-impression of the printer. Each magazine holds a roll of labels, tickets or tags and includes a self-contained tape-feeder for intermittently feeding the tape from the roll in the magazine in label, ticket or tag lengths in timed relation to the printing sequence of the printer portion. The printer portion includes a tape-feeder cam or several alternative tape-feeder cams. The tape-feeder (forming a part of the magazine portion) has a cam-follower extending from the feeder-slide thereof into operative juxtaposition to the feeder-cam in the printer portion when the magazine portion is operatively connected with the printer portion.