Multi color wire marker
AssigneeThe Whitaker Corporation
InventorWerner Lothmann
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Abstract
A multi color wire marker comprises a base, a slideway, a carriage housing to which are mounted rollers for respectively feeding and gathering hot foil colored tape, a main ram housing and an anvil against which a wire to be marked is supported. A plurality of rollers carrying different colored tapes are mounted on the carriage housing whereby anyone of the colored tapes can be chosen to mark the wire by indexably moving the carriage housing until the appropriate tape is lying between the ram and the anvil. The ram which is heated to an adjustable temperature is then pressed against the tape which presses the wire against the anvil, the heat and pressure making colored products mounted on the tape melt off and color mark the wire.
Claims7
A multiple color wire marker and an associated longitudinally extending wire to be color marked, characterized in that the multiple color wire marker has a base to which is movably mounted a carrier of a plurality of depositable colored products, the carrier indexably movable along the wire such that any of the colored products may be deposited thereon in a predetermined position, whilst the portion of wire to be marked is held in a static relation to the base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.