Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
418 words
In an embossing tool having a body, a depressible actuating handle disposed subjacent said body and pivotally secured to the forward end thereof, and an embossing die wheel rotatably mounted on said body having an upper disk member formed at its lower face with a plurality of circumferentially spaced female dies and a coaxially spaced lower disk member defined by a plurality of circumferentially spaced radial upwardly depressible leaves carrying male dies complementary to said female dies, said die wheel being adapted to receive a strip of tape between said disks at an embossing position of said body with the set of dies selectively rotatably disposed at said embossing position being actuatable responsive to depression of said handle and upwardly urged movement of the leaf carrying the male die of said set by an embossing stud projecting upwardly from said handle, the combination comprising a bridge member secured to said body and extending between said upper and lower disk members of said die wheel, said bridge member having a channel for guiding said tape through said body, said channel having an opening at said embossing position for upward movement of the male die of the selected die set therethrough, a downwardly facing radially extending cut-off knife secured to said upper disk member at one end of the die positions thereof, and an anvil carried by the leaf of said lower disk member opposed to said knife for cut-off engagement therewith upon upwardly urged movement of said anvil by said stud when said knife and anvil are selectively positioned at said embossing position by rotation of said die wheel, said anvil opposite ends being inwardly spaced from the corresponding opposite ends of said knife and the opposite edges of said tape by amounts relatively small with respect to the transverse width of said tape and the length of said knife, so that when said tape is engaged between said anvil and said knife, said tape is centrally transverselY cut between points closely inwardly transversely spaced from the opposite side edges thereof and very narrow uncut portions remain at said side edges between said points and said opposite edges respectively, said channel having a very narrow tape support ledge extending along one edge of said opening longitudinally of said channel, said knife having an upper shank portion with opposite faces bevelled toward the knife major axis at one acute angle, and having a lower tip portion with opposite faces bevelled toward said knife major axis at a larger acute angle.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
418 words
In an embossing tool having a body, a depressible actuating handle disposed subjacent said body and pivotally secured to the forward end thereof, and an embossing die wheel rotatably mounted on said body having an upper disk member formed at its lower face with a plurality of circumferentially spaced female dies and a coaxially spaced lower disk member defined by a plurality of circumferentially spaced radial upwardly depressible leaves carrying male dies complementary to said female dies, said die wheel being adapted to receive a strip of tape between said disks at an embossing position of said body with the set of dies selectively rotatably disposed at said embossing position being actuatable responsive to depression of said handle and upwardly urged movement of the leaf carrying the male die of said set by an embossing stud projecting upwardly from said handle, the combination comprising a bridge member secured to said body and extending between said upper and lower disk members of said die wheel, said bridge member having a channel for guiding said tape through said body, said channel having an opening at said embossing position for upward movement of the male die of the selected die set therethrough, a downwardly facing radially extending cut-off knife secured to said upper disk member at one end of the die positions thereof, and an anvil carried by the leaf of said lower disk member opposed to said knife for cut-off engagement therewith upon upwardly urged movement of said anvil by said stud when said knife and anvil are selectively positioned at said embossing position by rotation of said die wheel, said anvil opposite ends being inwardly spaced from the corresponding opposite ends of said knife and the opposite edges of said tape by amounts relatively small with respect to the transverse width of said tape and the length of said knife, so that when said tape is engaged between said anvil and said knife, said tape is centrally transverselY cut between points closely inwardly transversely spaced from the opposite side edges thereof and very narrow uncut portions remain at said side edges between said points and said opposite edges respectively, said channel having a very narrow tape support ledge extending along one edge of said opening longitudinally of said channel, said knife having an upper shank portion with opposite faces bevelled toward the knife major axis at one acute angle, and having a lower tip portion with opposite faces bevelled toward said knife major axis at a larger acute angle.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
23 words
The combination of claim 1, further defined by said one acute angle being of 7* and said larger acute angle being of 15*.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
55 words
The combination of claim 2, further defined by said ledge having a width in a range of from about one thirty-second inch to about three sixty-fourth inch, and the opposite ends of said anvil being inwardly spaced from the opposite ends of said knife by amounts of the order of the width of said ledge.