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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robin Louvel, Torpoint, GB;
Assignee:
Bowthorpe-Hellermann Limited, West Sussex, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
118696 ; 118 41 ; 118 44 ; 118242 ; 346 / ; 3461 / ;
Abstract
A marking apparatus for providing individual marker sleeves for cables is arranged to receive tubing and transport it lengthwise of itself past a marking head of the apparatus, the marking head being responsive to command signals supplied to it from a character generation unit to mark the tubing with required indicia or characters. Downstream of the marking head, a cutting mechanism is provided for severing or semi-severing the tubing according to the required individual marker sleeves.