Printing apparatus employing embossed type in metallic foil

Claim 1

A stamping-type printer, comprising: a longitudinal support having a base and upstanding parallel spaced sides, said sides having horizontally extending lip portions; bracket means extending from each of said spaced sides of said support pivotally supporting a pressure applying lever means; a pair of rollers; first and second means respectively carrying one of said rollers rotatively on said support between said sides and the other of said rollers rotatively between said bracket means on spaced parallel axes disposed normal to the longitudinal axis of said support; a ribbon of tape having pressure removable metal foil on one face thereof, said tape extending between said rollers for winding on one roller while unwinding from the other roller; means on said support and said pressure applying lever means supporting a pair of aligned pressure bars on opposite sides of said tape for relative vertical movement towards and away from each other; said support having means adjustably supporting an object to be printed between one pressure bar and the metal foil face of said tape; each of said bracket means being provided with a longitudinal slot, each slot having a surface horizontally aligned with the top surface of said lip portion for supporting a printing plate in position between one of said pressure bars and the other face of said tape; a tape guide bar between said sides of said support adapted for tensioning said tape between said pair of rollers and disposed such as to slightly extend beyond the upper edges of said sides to thereby provide an abutment means for said printing plate supported on said slot and lip portion surfaces; and means intermittently advancing said tape between said pressure bars upon successive relative movement of said bars toward and away from each other by manipulation of said lever means. CM,2Rinter as defined in claim 1 in which said pressure bar supporting means on said support comprises a longitudinal member secured to said base between said sides and provided with a longitudinal slot, said slot being adapted to receive a stationary pressure bar, said pressure bar supporting means on said lever means comprises spaced pivot pins pivotally supporting a movable pressure bar and a parallelogram linkage pivotally secured to said support and said movable pressure bar to cause movement of said movable pressure bar towards and away from said stationary pressure bar in a substantially vertical direction upon manipulation of said lever means.