Full Version: New braille method for signs
From: sprinter [#12]
17 Feb 2005
To: Mike (EJPUBLISHER) [#10] 17 Feb 2005
Actually it was around longer than that. I was a rep in 1996 for the original inventor, he sold the patent to the company offering it now. He sold the glass or plastic balls and a modified fish tank air pump that was rewired to make it a vacumn pump to pick up and hold the bead while you pressed it into the hole. The actual drill assembly was sold by a company in Texas , I think it was ARA awards.
It's a great product if your doing ADA, but it's slow going.
From: Birdman (TBIRD1957) [#13]
17 Feb 2005
To: sprinter [#12] 17 Feb 2005
You are absolute correct.
The original system was from DA Edgerton & Associates. He sold a
product license & kit. I purchased my license in January 1998. He use to run a special each January. If you inquired about the "Edgerton Method" (Brite Dotte) during the year and did not purchase one, he would offer it to you about half off the regualar price. I paid $575.00 for my license. I think it is about $1500.00 now. I do think he use to do the ARA shows, and at one time he had a machine that would drill the hole and insert the raster, see attached JPG file. Artisan Engraving Supply in Arlington, Texas sells the drills and bits. Wouldn't even think of doing braille signs without it.
T J Bird
Bird's Rubber Stamps
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#14]
17 Feb 2005
To: Birdman (TBIRD1957) [#13] 18 Feb 2005
TJ,
Can you please resize that image? It's only about 830 kb over our suggested limit of 50 kb :-)
Thanks,
David Lavaneri
Forum Host/Moderator
From: sprinter [#15]
17 Feb 2005
To: Birdman (TBIRD1957) [#13] 18 Feb 2005
tbird,
That's it. Dave only made a couple of his drill machines....they weren't that great. But using a computerized engraver the concept is fantastic.
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From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#18]
18 Feb 2005
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#17] 18 Feb 2005
Dave,
I had to delete the post of yours with the reduced image for TJ.
It locked me out of the forum twice.
I think the %20, (hex for a space), messed things up. I use WinXP Pro and IE 6.00.2900.
I was finally able to get back on by shutting down my DSL and restarting it.
From: Pedaler (ROYBREWER) [#19]
18 Feb 2005
To: logojohn [#1] 18 Feb 2005
John ,
Your query spawned so many responses that I was hesitant to add my comments; nevertheless...
First, I am a distributor for Accent.
Second, assuming you purchase the manual method (standard), you'll curse all of us for a few days till you "get the hang" of dropping in the balls. But it will be like riding a bike after a few days.
Third, Yes the automatic feeder (as Q1's Fred discussed) works on any of your Xenetechs.
Fourth: (David), the route out method is still very much compliant **if** the right cutter is used. That is, if the "bumps" are rounded and sized within specs.
From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#20]
18 Feb 2005
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#18] 18 Feb 2005
Harvey,
I deleted and resized the 800+K image last night. After resizing I just kept the identification name it had during that process. I think you are very correct in that the %20 in the file name may have been the gremlin that caused our problem with the forum last night.
I have attached the resized image with a more forum-friendly name. Close your eyes and we'll see what happens. 8-)
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#21]
18 Feb 2005
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#20] 19 Feb 2005
It worked without a problem. Thanks.
From: ARAMember [#22]
19 Feb 2005
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#20] 19 Feb 2005
Remember the older label makers that actually "pressed" the letter into the label, and caused a "Raised" effect? It was like a gun, and you spun the dial to the letter you wanted next, and simply squeezed the trigger?
I saw braile done exactly like that in a local hospital. Made by the press method, and must have been done on the exact same gun contraption, because the plastic tape was identical to the tape that goes in my letter gun. I looked for over a month for the gun used to make the braile tape that was on the signs throughout the hospital..... but never found one! I even tried to find out who made the signs.... but no luck!
??????? anyone seen one of these tape guns?
Justin
From: Jim (RETAIL74) [#23]
19 Feb 2005
To: Pedaler (ROYBREWER) [#19] 19 Feb 2005
In my opinion, it takes too long to set up the auto-raster. It's great for big shops that can devote a machine to it. If you have to break it down and set it up multiple times, it's a pain.
I would purchase the kit with Accent's Raster Pen. The pen has the small braille dots loaded into it and puts them in ten times as fast as that little fish pump dispenser. The pen is half the price of the auto-raster.
Product pictures can be found on www.accentsignage.com.
From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#24]
19 Feb 2005
To: ARAMember [#22] 19 Feb 2005
Justin,
You may want to contact the company that makes the Dymo-Tape printers.
From: ARAMember [#25]
19 Feb 2005
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#24] 19 Feb 2005
I did when I looked a couple years ago....and the people I got there, either didn't understand what meant... or didn't want to.
Do you think this idea of doing braile would be ADA compliant?
REWARDEM
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#26]
19 Feb 2005
To: ARAMember [#25] 20 Feb 2005
At Tapecom we used to get that type of label from Lighthouse for the blind. we used them in quantities from 25-2500 at a time. They had to be done on an automatic machine.
(P.S. Do not take that type of tape, affix it to a cassette, apply shrinkwrap, then shrink the wrap. After the shrink process, you have flat tape again. [Now how would I know that?]
From: trophyman (MIKEBERGER) [#27]
21 Feb 2005
To: ARAMember [#22] 21 Feb 2005
I have one that we use to make plates for a blind bowling tournament. It was sold by Scott for their manual pantagraph about 15 years ago. The main problem that we had with it, was that the letter wheel would get out of sync with the embossing wheel. We would take the gun with us to the tournament and do a test strip which one of the participants would read and confirm that it was in sync. The gun allowed us to emboss the braille lettering on the trophies at the event.
We also used it to mark the top front of the door key cards for the hotel that the participants were staying at.
Mike Berger
From: ARAMember [#28]
21 Feb 2005
To: trophyman (MIKEBERGER) [#27] 22 Feb 2005
I'm bettin' that's the one!
Thanks for the info. I'll update the thread as needed for others.
Justin
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