Guide for imprinting bottle tops

A manually transportable apparatus for serially marking the price upon the cap of each of a plurality of capped bottles by relative positional movement between said apparatus and the bottles, said apparatus comprising in combination:

• (a) a price marking stamping device for marking the price, said device including an imprinter settable to reflect the price of the bottle to be marked and which imprinter is relocatable with respect to said device to a fixed position to which said imprinter can extend for imprinting coincident with the operation of imprinting the price;
• (b) an apertured base member for providing the sole support for said device upon the cap during imprinting of the price upon the cap, said base member including an aperture for defining the area within which said imprinter will print the price, said base member being mounted upon said device at a location which will permit penetration of said imprinter through said aperture upon relocation of said imprinter to the fixed position;
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• (c) a frusto conically shaped shroud means depending from said base member for guiding the cap into registration with said aperture and for locating the surface of the cap to be imprinted adjacent said base member and commensurate with the fixed position of said imprinter, said shroud being devoid of means for supporting said device upon the cap.