Abstract:
A mold tool for paper relief engraving provides a mold cavity, a mold plunger and a folder for being detachably fixed with the mold cavity and the mold plunger at the inner sides thereof. The mold cavity and the mold plunger are doubly etched to create pattern nests and pattern projections respectively with smooth fine contours and edges such that the relief engraved paper can be tightly pressed in a way of the flat part of the paper being kept without wrinkles and deformation at the nests and the jut up part of the paper extending sufficiently. Hence, the relief engraved configuration presents outstanding sense of beauty especially for making a greeting card.
Abstract:
A flexible counter for an embossing system provides resilient support under a sheet which opposes pressure from a contoured die forming an embossment in the sheet. The flexible counter includes a resilient mat and a fixed bolster which supports the mat. The bolster has a peripheral wall which extends around sides of the mat so that an upper portion of the mat protrudes above the peripheral wall. In addition, the bolster includes support surfaces bounded by recesses. The support surfaces support a bottom surface of the mat, and the recesses receive bulging portions of the mat when compressed under pressure from the die.
Abstract:
The device assists the customer in cleaning residue from their skin and body hair after they use a toilet for elimination, after they receive a cut or abrasion, or from other source. With the device, the person physically transforms toilet paper and other tissue-like paper in real time to have greater texture, density, and wetness, all three of which together facilitate cleaning better than dry paper or than wet paper without such increased density and texture. Being pocket sized and intended for repeated use, the device can be easily carried by or on the person and used in any bathroom or location anywhere without modification to the plumbing facilities, without risk of running out of a supply of pre-moistened wipes, and without damaging the environment or sewage and septic systems.
Abstract:
A flexible counter for an embossing system provides resilient support under a sheet which opposes pressure from a contoured die forming an embossment in the sheet. The flexible counter includes a resilient mat and a fixed bolster which supports the mat. The bolster has peripheral walls which extend around sides of the mat so that an upper portion of the mat protrudes above the peripheral walls. In addition, the bolster includes a resilient bumper that bounds an upper portion of the mat. An upper edge of the bumper is about flush with an upper surface of the mat. The walls have a peripheral channel in which the bumper is disposed. The bumper is formed of a resilient material having higher rigidity than the mat, thereby controlling the flow and stretching behavior of the upper surface of the mat as compressed during an embossing operation.
Abstract:
A flexible counter for an embossing system provides resilient support under a sheet which opposes pressure from a contoured die forming an embossment in the sheet. The flexible counter includes a resilient mat and a fixed bolster which supports the mat. The bolster has a peripheral wall which extends around sides of the mat so that an upper portion of the mat protrudes above the peripheral wall. In addition, the bolster includes support surfaces bounded by recesses. The support surfaces support a bottom surface of the mat, and the recesses receive bulging portions of the mat when compressed under pressure from the die.
Abstract:
An embossing die (60) with a plate and at least one embossing (68) element protruding from a surface thereof. The embossing die (60) may also include at least one cutting edge (167) protruding from the surface of the plate. An embossing system that includes the embossing die (60) may also include a press. The press may be manually operated and may be hand-held or supported upon a flat surface, such as a tabletop. A first member of the press receives the embossing die (60), while a second member of the press provides support for a sheet of material into or from which the embossing die (60) will form a pattern upon biasing the die (60) against the sheet of material. Manually operated presses and die embossing methods that employ teachings of the invention are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A cutting die includes two plastic templates detachably coupled to each other and having patterns formed thereon. At least one of the patterns is provided with a cutting portion for allowing the cutting operation to be performed while imprinting a desired pattern by folding the two plastic templates relative to each other, thereby dispensing with the cutting step otherwise performed after the pattern is imprinted.
Abstract:
The present invention is a hand-held tool for embossing a sheet of paper or other media, and a method for performing the embossing. The tool is preferably a two-ended embossing tool, wherein each end has differently-sized roller ball that rotates/rolls in all directions inside a retainer. Each roller ball is biased outward, for example, by a detent-style spring unit. The preferably spring contacts the ball, so that the ball(s) and the spring(s) is/are the only moving parts of the tool. To use the tool, preferably the user applies pressure to the tool over paper or other media on top of a template with open channels in the shape of a desired design. The ball is received in the channel with the paper or other media lying between the exposed ball surface and the template. A guide surface extends out from the ball to be generally parallel to the surface of the paper beside the channel area. Thus, while the guide surface rests on and slides along paper firmly supported by the template, the ball moves along the paper in the channel, and the force of the ball depresses the paper into the channel of the template, permanently or semi-permanently embossing the paper in the chosen design. The pressure of the ball on the paper is kept substantially even and constant by the spring-biasing system, and the guide surface helps the user to find the areas of the paper over the channel and to stay in the channel without mistakes and without the need for a light-box. Each tip of the tool may also include a ball stop that limits the amount the ball can move into the tool, for preventing the ball from moving so far inward that the retainer inner edge scraps the media. This combination, of even ball pressure, ball diameter nearly as large as the channel width, and guide surface overhanging supported areas of the template, tends to prevent marring, skipping, dragging, tearing, or gouging of the paper.
Abstract:
A unitary paper impression device (10) that is small, light and safe and that ca emboss impressions into paper (12) with ease and minimal effort is disclosed. The device (10) includes a male embossing section (20) which has a contacting face surface (22) and an opposite back surface (27), the face surface (22) being a face plane (28) and at least one outwardly extending projection (23) therefrom. The device (10) also includes a female embossing section (30) which has a contacting face surface (32) and an opposite back surface (37), the face surface (32) being a face plane (38) and at least one complimentary inwardly extending trough (33) therein for receiving each projection (23) of the male embossing section (20). An interconnecting bendable web (40) contiguous with the back surfaces (27,37) is further provided for hingedly connecting the sections (20,30) so that their respective faces (22,32) can mate to impress an image in a piece of paper (12) disposed therebetween.