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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 1984
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1983
Clinton E Hooper, Brookfield, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A disposable inking cartridge in combination with a housing for transferring ink to a secondary surface, including a housing having a pair of sidewalls, each of the sidewalls having a locating guide, wherein the locating guide includes at its trailing end a leg forming an acute or perpendicular angle therewith, an applicator roller rotatably mounted in the housing for transferring ink to a secondary surface, and a disposable inking cartridge lockingly mountable in the sidewalls of the housing. The cartridge includes a floating spindle translatable in a direction perpendicular to the locating guides in the housing sidewalls, an inking roller rotatably mounted on the spindle and engagable with the applicator roller, and a pair of sidewalls, each of the sidewalls having a locating guide, wherein the cartridge locating guide includes at its trailing end a leg forming an acute or perpendicular angle therewith, and wherein the cartridge locating guide slidingly engages the housing locating guide, whereby when the cartridge is inserted into the housing the legs of the cartridge guide pass the legs of the housing guides and are urged upward by the floating spindle into locking engagement with the housing sidewalls.