Ink roller for a hand-held labelling device

A hand-held labelling device for processing labels sequentially disposed on a label carrier tape, the device comprising:

• a housing;
• an ink roller folding lid mounted to said housing via a folding lid pivot axis;
• a label printing mechanism disposed in said housing;
• transport means, disposed in said housing, for manually operable further transport of the labels to said label printing mechanism;
• a jacket-shaped ink receiving roller having a first end face and a second end face;
• an ink roller axis having a first free end and a second free end,
• wherein said ink receiving roller is disposed on said ink roller axis in such a fashion that said first free end of said ink roller axis projects past said first end face of said ink receiving roller and said second free end of said ink roller axis projects past said second end face of said ink receiving roller;
• a first gripping disk disposed on said first free end of said ink roller axis at a separation from said first end face of said ink receiving roller;
• a second gripping disk disposed on said second free end of said ink roller axis at a separation from said second end face of said ink receiving roller, wherein diameters of said first and said second gripping disks are at least as large as a diameter of said ink receiving roller;
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• an ink roller holding system, said ink roller holding system having a one-piece ink roller rocker which is disposed to be rotatable about a swing axle, said swing axle being mounted to said ink roller folding lid, said ink roller rocker having a first and a second rocker arm, each of which projects in a radial direction from said swing axle, wherein said first rocker arm has a first free end facing away from said swing axle and a second free end facing away from said swing axle, said first free end defining a first notch and said second free end defining a second notch, said first and said second notches cooperating with and rotatably bearing said ink roller axis, said first rocker arm thereby engaging between said first gripping disk and said first end face of said ink receiving roller and said second rocker arm thereby engaging between said second gripping disk and said second end face of said ink receiving roller, wherein said housing, said folding lid pivot axis, said ink roller folding lid, said swing axle, said ink roller rocker, said ink roller axis and said ink receiving roller are disposed, structured and dimensioned in such a manner that, when said ink roller folding lid is pivoted away from said housing, said ink receiving roller pivots out of said housing with said label printing mechanism and said transport means thereby remaining stationary and disposed within said housing.