公开(公告)号：US5738449A

公开(公告)日：1998-04-14

申请号：US449515

申请日：1995-05-23

申请人： Charles T. Groswith, III ,  William A. Banks ,  Eugene F. Duval ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Robert E. Smith ,  William J. Usitalo

发明人： Charles T. Groswith, III ,  William A. Banks ,  Eugene F. Duval ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Robert E. Smith ,  William J. Usitalo

IPC分类号： B41F19/06 ,  B41J1/00 ,  B41J1/24 ,  B41J1/30 ,  B41J33/52

CPC分类号： B41J1/00 ,  B41F19/068 ,  B41J1/24 ,  B41J1/30 ,  B41P2219/20 ,  B41P2219/434 ,  Y10T156/171

摘要： A dual station hot debossing stamper for a report or book cover includes a print engine having a character finger daisy wheel forcer and a logo die forcer which are actuatable independently by a common servo motor through respective gear trains. A heat and pressure transferable foil tape character cartridge and print wheel are inserted and locked into the engine in a character debossment operation with a motor driving the print wheel. Removal of the character cartridge and insertion of a logo transfer tape cartridge shifts the gears in the print engine. The tape of the character cartridge used with the print daisy wheel has a narrower tape width than that of the logo cartridge. Each of the tape cartridges includes an anti-back rotation spring attached to a reel in the cartridge and may include an adjustable tape advance and indicating means for determining the remaining length of tape on a supply reel. A method of loading heat and force transferable material-containing tape into the cartridges is disclosed.

摘要翻译： 用于报告或书籍封面的双站热压缩压模包括具有字符指状菊花轮锻造和标志模具的打印引擎，该打印引擎可以通过相应的齿轮系通过公共伺服电动机独立地致动。 将热和压力转移的箔带字符盒和打印轮插入并锁定到发动机中，并以马达驱动打印轮的字符压缩操作。 取出字符盒并插入标志转移盒式磁带可以移动打印引擎中的齿轮。 与打印菊花轮一起使用的字符盒的胶带的宽度窄于标志盒的宽度。 每个带盒包括附接到盒中的卷轴的防反转旋转弹簧，并且可以包括可调节带前进和用于确定供带盘上的带的剩余长度的指示装置。 公开了一种将热和力传递的含材料的带装载到盒中的方法。

公开(公告)号：US5441589A

公开(公告)日：1995-08-15

申请号：US78792

申请日：1993-06-17

申请人： Charles T. Groswith, III ,  William A. Banks ,  Eugene F. Duval ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Robert E. Smith ,  William J. Usitale

发明人： Charles T. Groswith, III ,  William A. Banks ,  Eugene F. Duval ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Robert E. Smith ,  William J. Usitale

IPC分类号： B41F19/06 ,  B41J1/00 ,  B41J1/24 ,  B41J1/30 ,  B41J3/28

CPC分类号： B41J1/00 ,  B41F19/068 ,  B41J1/24 ,  B41J1/30 ,  B41P2219/20 ,  B41P2219/434 ,  Y10T156/171

摘要： A dual station hot debossing stamper for a report or book cover includes a print engine having a character finger daisy wheel forcer and a logo die forcer which are actuatable independently by a common servo motor through respective gear trains. The print engine moves line-by-line and a platen moves character-by-character. A print wheel is inserted and locked into the engine in a character debossment operation with a motor driving the print wheel. When using a logo die, the print wheel and casing is removed and using a loader-unloader tool the die is articulated under the logo die forcer. Insertion of a logo transfer tape cartridge shifts the gears in the print engine. A second character tape cartridge is used with the print wheel. A dedicated personal computer and associated software and firmware programs control the stamping apparatus.

摘要翻译： 用于报告或书籍封面的双站热压缩压模包括具有字符指状菊花轮锻造和标志模具的打印引擎，该打印引擎可以通过相应的齿轮系通过公共伺服电动机独立地致动。 打印引擎逐行移动，压板逐个移动。 打印轮被插入并锁定到发动机中，并以驱动打印轮的马达进行字符压缩操作。 当使用标志模具时，打印轮和外壳被移除，并使用装载机卸载工具将模具铰接在标志模具下。 插入标志转移盒式磁带可以移动打印引擎中的齿轮。 打印轮使用第二个字符的磁带盒。 专用的个人计算机和相关的软件和固件程序控制冲压装置。

公开(公告)号：US06424481B1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-23

申请号：US08775620

申请日：1997-01-02

申请人： William L. Theobald, Jr. ,  Kenneth C. Campbell ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Lyle J. Hedlund ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Thomas Noonan ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Haruhi Nakagawa ,  Bunroku Ochi

发明人： William L. Theobald, Jr. ,  Kenneth C. Campbell ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Lyle J. Hedlund ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Thomas Noonan ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Haruhi Nakagawa ,  Bunroku Ochi

IPC分类号： G11B1700

CPC分类号： G11B15/17 ,  G11B15/681 ,  G11B33/125

摘要： A generally rectangular outer housing is sized to fit within the full height five and one quarter inch form factor. A drawer is mounted for sliding motion within the housing along a longitudinal axis thereof from a retracted position in which the drawer is substantially fully contained within the housing to an extended position in which a forward portion of the drawer extends beyond a forward transverse end of the housing. A DAT tape drive is mounted within a rear portion of the drawer and has a forwardly opening cassette insertion slot. A cassette magazine is provided that has a plurality of vertically spaced receptacles for holding a plurality of DAT cassettes in a vertically stacked configuration. A magazine loader is mounted in the forward portion of the drawer for receiving and vertically reciprocating the cassette magazine and for selectively transferring cassettes between the magazine and the cassette insertion slot of the DAT tape drive.

摘要翻译： 大致矩形的外壳的尺寸适合于全高度为五英寸和四分之一英寸的尺寸。 一个抽屉被安装成用于在壳体内沿其纵向轴线从其缩回位置滑动运动，其中抽屉基本上完全容纳在壳体内到达延伸位置，在该延伸位置，抽屉的前部延伸超过 住房。 DAT磁带机安装在抽屉的后部，并具有向前打开的盒式磁带插槽。 提供盒式存储盒，其具有多个垂直间隔开的容器，用于将垂直堆叠构型中的多个DAT盒保持。 杂货装载机安装在抽屉的前部，用于接收并垂直往复运动盒仓，并用于选择性地将盒带传送到盒与DAT带驱动器的盒插入槽之间。

公开(公告)号：US6149326A

公开(公告)日：2000-11-21

申请号：US59598

申请日：1998-04-13

申请人： Charles T. Groswith, III ,  William A. Banks ,  Eugene F. Duval ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Robert E. Smith ,  William J. Usitalo

发明人： Charles T. Groswith, III ,  William A. Banks ,  Eugene F. Duval ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Robert E. Smith ,  William J. Usitalo

IPC分类号： B41F19/06 ,  B41J1/00 ,  B41J1/24 ,  B41J1/30 ,  B41J33/14

CPC分类号： B41J1/00 ,  B41F19/068 ,  B41J1/24 ,  B41J1/30 ,  B41P2219/20 ,  B41P2219/434 ,  Y10T156/171

摘要： A tape cartridge for a debossing stamper includes a casing, a tape-containing supply spool and a tape take-up spool in the casing, the supply spool having at least one reflector pad visually accessible from the exterior of the casing by an optical reflective sensor for detecting and indicating an amount of tape remaining on the supply spool. In one embodiment the at least one reflector pad is a series of equally spaced reflector pads on an outer periphery of the supply spool. The sensor provides a feedback on each 1/4 revolution of said supply reel, the feedback being received by firmware to track the number of motor steps to drive the take-up spool and to rotate the supply spool a 1/4 turn, and wherein a computer calculates the amount of tape remaining on the supply spool based on supply spool core diameter, take-up spool core diameter and total tape length.

摘要翻译： 用于凹陷压模的带盒包括壳体，带状供给卷轴和带壳卷取卷轴，所述供给卷轴具有至少一个反射板，所述至少一个反射板可通过光学反射传感器从壳体外部可视地接近 用于检测和指示剩余在供应卷轴上的胶带量。 在一个实施例中，至少一个反射器垫是在供给卷轴的外周上的一系列等间隔的反射器垫。 传感器对所述供带盘的每个+ E，1/4 + EE旋转提供反馈，固件接收反馈以跟踪驱动卷取卷轴的马达步骤的数量并使供给卷轴a + E，fra 1/4 + EE转弯，并且其中计算机基于供应卷轴芯直径，卷取卷轴芯直径和总带长度来计算剩余在供给卷轴上的胶带量。

公开(公告)号：US5413422A

公开(公告)日：1995-05-09

申请号：US102601

申请日：1993-08-05

申请人： Roger M. Gray ,  Warren K. Shannon

发明人： Roger M. Gray ,  Warren K. Shannon

IPC分类号： B41F19/06 ,  B41J1/00 ,  B41J1/24 ,  B41J1/30 ,  B41J1/22

CPC分类号： B41J1/00 ,  B41F19/068 ,  B41J1/24 ,  B41J1/30 ,  B41P2219/20 ,  B41P2219/434 ,  Y10T156/171

摘要： In a print wheel encoding scheme, signs such as reflector strips are arranged on an encoder ring along the print wheel petals. One strip is provided at each petal. The strips are grouped into groups of three or more petals. Each group starts with a reflective strip and terminates with a non-reflective strip, or vice versa. The strips are read by a single optical sensor to provide a reliable mechanism for reading the print wheel I.D., homing the print wheel and detecting print wheel error conditions such as jams or mispositioning.

摘要翻译： 在打印轮编码方案中，诸如反光片的符号沿着印刷轮花瓣布置在编码器环上。 每个花瓣提供一条。 条被分成三个或更多个花瓣的组。 每组以反射条开始，并以非反射条终止，反之亦然。 条带由单个光学传感器读取以提供用于读取打印轮I.D的可靠机构，用于归位打印轮并检测打印轮错误状况，例如卡纸或错位。

公开(公告)号：US5402285A

公开(公告)日：1995-03-28

申请号：US873443

申请日：1992-04-24

申请人： William I. Theobald, Jr. ,  Kenneth C. Campbell ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Lyle J. Hedlund ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Thomas Noonan ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Haruhi Nakagawa ,  Bunroku Ochi

发明人： William I. Theobald, Jr. ,  Kenneth C. Campbell ,  Roger M. Gray ,  Lyle J. Hedlund ,  Raymond D. Heistand, II ,  Barry C. Kockler ,  Thomas Noonan ,  Warren K. Shannon ,  Haruhi Nakagawa ,  Bunroku Ochi

IPC分类号： G11B15/17 ,  G11B15/68 ,  G11B33/12 ,  G11B15/18

CPC分类号： G11B15/17 ,  G11B15/681 ,  G11B33/12 ,  G11B33/121

摘要： A generally rectangular outer housing is sized to fit within the full height five and one quarter inch form factor. A drawer is mounted for sliding motion within the housing along a longitudinal axis thereof from a retracted position in which the drawer is substantially fully contained within the housing to an extended position in which a forward portion of the drawer extends beyond a forward transverse end of the housing. A DAT tape drive is mounted within a rear portion of the drawer and has a forwardly opening cassette insertion slot. A cassette magazine is provided that has a plurality of vertically spaced receptacles for holding a plurality of DAT cassettes in a vertically stacked configuration. A magazine loader is mounted in the forward portion of the drawer for receiving and vertically reciprocating the cassette magazine and for selectively transferring cassettes between the magazine and the cassette insertion slot of the DAT tape drive.