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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1995
Steven M Campbell, Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Richard N Webb, Richmond, VA (US);
Philip Morris Incorporated, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides an apparatus and method of embossing a sheet of material with a background pattern together with additional selectable indicia, wherein the method comprises the steps of removably securing an indicia-bearing element to a first one of embossing rollers and removably securing a yieldable element to a second one of embossing rollers, passing the sheet material through the nip of rigid embossing rollers while synchronously moving the embossing rollers so as to impart a background, embossed pattern to a first portion of the sheet material and secondly imparting additional indicia to second portions of the sheet material by repetitively bringing into opposing relationship at the nip the indicia-bearing element and the yieldable element.