DE2311116A1 - LABELING DEVICE - Google Patents

Description

Munich, March 7th tS? 3

My reference: P 1621 Applicant: Gary Gillot

39 Thurloe Square

London, S.W.7, England

and

Cyrill Endfield

39 Thurloe Square

London, S.W.7, England

Labeling device

The present invention relates to an inscription device by means of removable characters, which consist of a character carrier consists, on which the characters to be transmitted are arranged in parallel rows.

Such a labeling device is understood to mean an arrangement that allows you to use characters such as letters, Having numerals and symbols provided character carrier, and wherein the characters by rubbing on the back of the character carrier detached from this and transferred to the material to be labeled.

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It is important that the individual characters get exactly in the prescribed place in order to achieve a satisfactory one Image, e.g. a typeface.

However, this adjustment, which was previously carried out with the eye, has proven to be too imprecise.

The object of the present invention is now to provide a label c device by means of removable characters of the type mentioned above, which makes it possible, regardless of the subjective Impression of the viewer to place all characters exactly one after the other.

To solve this problem, it is proposed that the character carrier is provided on one edge with a guide part running parallel to the rows of characters.

This guide part can be a carrier edge attached to the character be stiff material, or a line marking on the character carrier itself, or the baseline of a of the strings of characters.

The edge of the character carrier is preferably provided with an adhesive.

The characters can be the letters of the alphabet and each row can contain any of the letters of the alphabet.

In a preferred embodiment, the labeling device additionally has a sliding device, which consists of two rectilinear side parts arranged parallel to one another, a rectilinear middle part arranged at right angles to them, that takes up the guide part of the character carrier, as well as a holding part that is movably suspended below the middle part, that carries the material to be labeled exists.

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With the arrangement proposed here, it is possible to transfer a large number of letters, numbers or other symbols one after the other in a predetermined manner from the character carrier to an object to be inscribed. The guide part proposed for this purpose can still be used after the character carrier has been used up by transferring all the characters. The rigid material from which the guide part is made, for example, made of cardboard or plastic and is connected to the character carrier by an 'adhesive in a detachable form or simply by clips. It will advantageously be designed as an elongated strip and so thick that it will not flex during normal use. Furthermore, it can be provided with markings, for example with a kind of crosshair in a circle, which in turn coincide with markings on the character carrier. After the markings of the character carrier and guide part have been aligned, the guide part is attached to the character carrier so that it is ready for use.

The rows of characters affixed to the character carrier can be, for example, the letters, although not necessarily each letter must appear equally often. The letters written in a particular language, such as English, occur most frequently, can accordingly often be included in a series. This avoids that when transferring several identical letters on the material to be inscribed the character carrier has to be shifted too often. Of furthermore it is not necessary that the letters are arranged in alphabetical order on the character carrier.

The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to the figures.
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FIG. 1 shows a character carrier and FIG. 2 shows a sliding device.

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On the character carrier 1 shown in Figure 1, for example, eight rows 2 of the letters of the alphabet are arranged together with commas and points. For example, the letter "e" can appear seven times, the letters ⁿ i "," s ⁿ and "t" four times, the letters ^M a ⁿ , "n", "o", "r" and ^w u "three times and the Letters "J", ^w q "," x "and ⁿ z ⁿ each once and the remaining letters each twice.

The character carrier is connected to a strip-shaped piece of a rigid material, for example cardboard, in such a way that the parallel rows of letters run parallel to the straight edge 3a of the rigid material. The rigid material is printed with instructions, not shown, and also has mounting slots 4, and a flexible tab 5, which serves as a handle.

The slots 4 can be formed so that they simultaneously serve as a suspension device for storage, while the handle 5 for manual movement of the guide partly serves.

The part 6 can be provided with inscriptions containing e.g. instructions for the lettering.

After one of the rows 2 is used up, the character carrier and the Guide part either along a simple ruler or moved a bit in a sliding device, so that the next letter can be peeled off without, for example, a guide line drawn with a pencil or printed grid systems must be applied to the material to be labeled, which could only interfere with further use.

In the sliding device shown schematically in Figure 2, 7 designates a frame, the two slides 8 and one

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Contains middle part 9 arranged at right angles between these, the d> er edge of which is denoted by 9a. A movable one Material carrier 10 is below the middle part 9 between arranged as a slide side parts 8. The individual parts can, for example, be made of plastic with a thickness of 1 mm be made.

The material carrier is provided on its upper edge with a clip 11 on which the material to be labeled, for example a piece of paper 12, is attached and by means of which the carrier can be moved back and forth between the side parts 8 can. By means of the scales 13, the material to be inscribed can be brought into the correct position in relation to the character carrier will.

For use, the material to be labeled is held and aligned by means of the clamp 11 and the guide part 3 » As shown in Figure 1, the character carrier is aligned with the edge 9a. After e.g. a line on the Material has been written, this material is shifted together with the carrier in such a way that a new line. the material can be written. During the peeling process, the mark carrier becomes one with your fingers Hand held, the heel of the hand pressing the same hand on the middle part 9, so that the material to be labeled cannot be moved during the peeling process. The back of the character carrier is rubbed with the free hand so that the character to be transferred is removed will.

With the proposed labeling device, it is possible to quickly and easily create a clean font or a clean image, which is composed of symbols, from a character carrier with removable characters on a to be labeled Transferring material.

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Claims (7)

Claims 1. Labeling device by means of removable characters, consisting of a character carrier on which the to be transferred Characters are arranged in parallel rows, characterized in that the character carrier is provided on one edge with a guide part running parallel to the rows of characters. 2. Labeling device according to claim 1, characterized in that g e that the guide part is a rigid material attached to the edge of the character carrier. 3. Labeling device according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide part is a Line marking is on the character carrier. 4. Labeling device according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide part is the basic r line is one of the strings of characters. 5. Labeling device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the character carrier edge is provided with an adhesive. 6. Labeling device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the characters are the letters of the alphabet and each row has all the letters of the alphabet. 7. Labeling device according to one of A _n claims 1 to 6, characterized in that it also has a sliding device which consists of two rectilinear side parts arranged parallel to one another, a rectilinear central part arranged at right angles thereto, which receives the guide part of the character carrier, as well as an under- 309837/0483 ~ ⁷ ~ half of the central part movably suspended holding part that carries the material to be labeled, consists. 309837/0 ^ 83