Portable shrink tubing marker gun

A portable tubing marker for transferring material from a printing tape and onto said tubing in flattened form, and including;

• an elongated housing having vertically disposed right angularly related front and side walls and a hand grip depending therefrom remote from the front wall, a selectively positionable character wheel carried on a vertical axis over the housing and with a downwardly disposed periphery embossed with indicia to be selectively positioned adjacent to a corner of the front and side walls of the housing, a shiftable platen carried at said corner of the housing in spaced opposition to said selectively positioned character embossments on the wheel, a cartridge supply of flattened tubing and engageable with the front wall of the housing and said tubing issuing therefrom in juxtaposed relation to and above the platen, a cartridge supply of printing tape and engageable with the side wall of the housing and said tape issuing therefrom in juxtaposed relation to and below the said selectively positioned character embossments on the wheel, and a manually operable drive means shifting the platen toward the selectively positioned character embossments on the wheel and alternately advancing the tubing and tape to issue from their cartridges respectively and comprising a lever actuated by gripping to shift the platen against the tubing for impression of the indicia of the character embossment thereon and by release against spring pressure to incrementally advance the tubing and tape.

A portable tubing marker for transferring material from a printing tape and onto said tubing in flattened form, and including;

• an elongated housing having vertically disposed right angularly related front and side walls and a hand grip depending therefrom remote from the front wall, a member with selectively positionable character embossments opposedly relatable to a shiftable platen carried adjacent to a corner of the front and side walls of the housing, a cartridge supply of flattened tubing and engageable with the front wall of the housing and said tubing issuing therefrom in juxtaposed relation to and above the platen, a cartridge supply of printing tape and engageable with the side wall of the housing and said tape issuing therefrom in juxtaposed relation to and below the said selectively positioned character emobssments, and a manually operable drive means shifting the platen toward the selectively positioned character embossments and alternately advancing the tubing and tape to issue from their cartridges respectively and comprising, a hand grip lever linked to a ratchet drive arm turning free upon a primary shaft when manually actuated to engage lever means to shift the platen against the tubing for impression of the indicia of the character embossment thereon and locked with said primary shaft when released to rotate said primary shaft to operate means incrementally advancing the printing tape, and a secondary shaft right angularly geared to the primary shaft to turn therewith to simultaneously operate means incrementally advancing the tubing.