Textile shade marker
OwnerFrank S. Darwininventor
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Abstract
A textile shade marker for imprinting identifying indicia such as numerals, on the reverse side of each layer of fabric as the fabric is laid out in a multiple layer stack on a cutting table preparatory to the cutting thereof into garment panels, the marker consisting of a frame carrying printing wheels having series of indicia printing elements on the peripheries thereof, and which are rotated by movement of the fabric in engagement therewith, and mechanism for applying ink only to a selected printing element, whereby all of said printing elements engage the fabric but only the selected element imprints its image thereon.
Claims8
A textile shade marking device comprising:
- a. a frame through which a width of fabric is moved continuously in one direction,
- b. a printing wheel carried by said frame for rotation about an axis parallel to the plane of said cloth and transverse to said direction of travel, said printing wheel having a series of angularly spaced raised printing elements on its peripheral surface, and engaging said cloth,
- c. driving means carried by said frame and operable to cause said printing wheel to turn at a peripheral linear speed equal to the speed of movement of said cloth,
- d. inking means carried by said frame and operable to apply ink only to certain of said printing elements during each rotation of said printing wheel, whereby only said inked printing elements will imprint their images on said cloth, said inking means comprising, an inking wheel carried by said frame for rotation on an axis parallel to the axis of said printing wheel, and having one or more raised inking faces operable to engage the printing elements of said printing wheel as said inking wheel rotates, the angular extent of each inking face being such that it can apply ink to only a single printing element of said printing wheel, the linear circumferential spacing between certain of said inking faces, relative to said inking wheel, being equal to the circumference of said printing wheel,
- e. means operable to turn said inking wheel at a linear peripheral speed equal to that of said printing wheel,
- f. means operable to apply ink to the inking faces of said inking wheel, and
- g. selector means operable to adjust said inking wheel to apply ink selectively to any of said printing elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.