Parcel sealing device using thermolabile adhesive tape

In a system for creating a seal on an object or a container therefor, said system comprising a thermolabile tape comprising a thermally distortable carrier film, and a colored adhesive material carried by said film, said adhesive material being meltable at a given temperature, said tape being appliable to the object or container on which the seal is to be placed with the adhesive material abutting the object or container, said seal being created by contacting the tape with a thermosealing device, the improvement wherein said thermo-sealing device comprises:

• a metal plate with a surface having an engraved or raised design of the seal desired to the created on the tape;
• means for heating said metal plate to the melting temperature of said adhesive material;
• heat accumulator means interposed between, and abutting, said heating means and said metal plate for maintaining the metal plate at the melting temperature;
• an elongated handle, one end of which is suitable for being grasped by hand, said heating means and said heat accumulator means being mounted in abutment with each other adjacent the other end of said handle;
• a knurled nut surrounding the periphery of said metal plate removably mounting said metal plate to the other end of said handle in abutment with said heat accumulator means and with said surface containing said design exposed;
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• sleeve means open at both ends surrounding said handle, said handle being supported by and mounted for telescopic movement solely within said sleeve means between a retracted position in which said metal plate is retracted within said sleeve means and a working position in which said metal plate may contact the tape for pressing the heated metal plate onto the tape to create the seal, whereby the pressing of the heated metal plate on the tape distorts the carrier film to form a seal and melts the adhesive material to print an image of the seal on the object or container.