Method for addressing cards and envelopes
AssigneeMaster Addresser Company
InventorsRonald A. Rogers, Ansel J. Wright, William H. Wright
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Abstract
A method for printing addresses on envelopes or cards from a plurality of master cards each having an address and other indicia imprinted thereon with heat conducting material, such as carbon. Master cards and envelopes or cards to be printed are delivered to a printing zone in face-to-face relationship together with a length of printing tape interposed between each master card and its respective envelope or card to be printed. The tape has one surface coated with heat-transferable printing medium disposed in face-to-face relationship with the envelopes. The master cards, tape and envelopes or cards to be printed are pressed together at the printing zone where heat is applied to the heat conducting indicia on the master cards.
Claims18
A method of reproducing material imprinted on a master element having indicia of heat conducting material thereon, comprising:
- (a) feeding the master element through a printing zone in which a heating element is disposed;
- (b) feeding a print receiving member through the printing zone outwardly of the master element relative to the heating element and in the same direction as the master element;
- (c) supporting a length of flexible sheet material provided with a heat transferable printing medium under predetermined tension between the master element and the print receiving member;
- (d) intermittently advancing a predetermined length of the flexible sheet material through the printing zone against its supporting tension in the same direction as the master element;
- (e) and pressing the master element, flexible sheet material and printing receiving member together during movement thereof through the printing zone.
A method of reproducing material imprinted on a plurality of master elements having indicia of heat conducting material thereon onto a like number of print receiving members comprising the steps of:
- (a) delivering master elements singly and in succession from a magazine through a printing zone in which a heating element is disposed;
- (b) delivering print receiving members singly and in succession from a magazine through the printing zone in respective registration with the master elements, each print receiving member being disposed outwardly of the associated master element relative to the heating element, the movement of a print receiving member toward the printing zone initiating movement of the associated master element to the printing zone;
- (c) intermittently advancing a predetermined length of flexible tape provided with a heat transferable printing medium through the printing zone in timed relation to the delivery of an associated master element and print receiving member to the printing zone;
- (d) and simultaneously pressing the flexible tape, associated master element and print receiving member together during movement thereof through the printing zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.