Patent ID: 9266317
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: B41F,B41P,B44B

Claim Text:
1. A hot stamp transfer roller assembly comprising: a. a central hub including a body with an upper surface having a central opening and including a multiplicity of attachment receiving members at spaced apart locations on and extending from the upper surface into the central hub, a bottom plate, an exterior circumference including a multiplicity of mating interlocking members extending around at least a portion of an exterior circumference of the central hub and affixed to the bottom plate; b. a replaceable hot stamp transfer roller having an exterior circumferential surface retaining hot stamp transfer foil thereon, the hot stamp transfer roller including a central opening surrounded by an interior circumferential surface which includes a multiplicity of mating interlocking members extending around at least a portion of the interior circumferential surface; c. a cover plate having a body with a central opening aligned with the central openings in the hot stamp transfer roller and the central hub, the cover plate including a multiplicity of openings aligned with the multiplicity of attachment receiving members in the central hub, a multiplicity of attachment members, with a respective one of the multiplicity of attachment members extending through a respective one of the multiplicity of openings in the cover plate and extending into and affixed into a respective one of the multiplicity of attachment receiving members in the central hub aligned with the respective one opening the cover plate; d. the multiplicity of mating interlocking members of the removable hot stamp transfer roller removably interlocked with the multiplicity of mating interlocking members of the central hub; and e. the cover plate removably affixed to the central hub to sandwich the removable hot stamp transfer roller between the cover plate and the plate of the central hub, the cover plate covering the mating interlocking members of the hot stamp roller and the central hub.