Roller marker

摘要

A marking machine of the type having a powered rotary marking head provided with heated raised indicia brought sequentially and repeatedly into contact with a pigment source and a linearly moving workpiece to be imprinted by the indicia. The device is provided with a rotary drive train which may be geared to the workpiece drive and is equipped with adjustment mechanisms within the train providing for both rotary angle adjustment of the head with respect to the drive input and rotational speed adjustment varying the rate of rotation during each rotation of the head to adjust to different spacing between imprints while maintaining proper imprint speed.