Mailing machine including improved impression roller

Abstract

In a mailing machine including an impression roller, a postage indicia printing drum overhanging the impression roller, and apparatus for rotating the impression roller and drum in timed relationship with one another for feeding a sheet beneath the drum and in printing engagement therewith, wherein the feeding apparatus includes shaft structure on which the impression roller is mounted for rotation therewith, there is provided an improved impression roller. The impression roller comprises: two annularly-shaped inner members made of a soft resilient material, the inner members coaxially mounted side by side on the shaft structure; two annularly-shaped outer member made of a hard resilient material, the outer members coaxially mounted on the inner members; and four annularly-shaped disc members made of a hard resilient material, the disc members coaxially mounted on the shaft structure, each of the disc members dimensioned such that the width thereof is half the width of an outer member, and each of the disc members including a plurality of apertures formed therethrough at equidistantly spaced intervals along a circular line extending coaxially thereof. Preferably, each of the disc members is not more than substantially one-eighth of an inch in width.