Boss Buddy
Leading Marks is pleased to offer its own system which uses steel type characters to emboss foil tape. The Boss Buddy is designed to improve the efficiency of creating embossed pattern labels for date codes, heat numbers, order numbers and other traceable identification. It is designed to emboss foil and stainless steel tape. The impact press insures consistent definition of the characters with one stroke of the press.

The Boss Buddy makes it simple to produce pattern labels. With consistently embossed characters the end-results provide better legibility of heat numbers, date codes and other traceable cast in identification of cast products.

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Product Overview

The Boss Buddy embossing packages are designed to add efficiency of the pattern shop. Pattern labels are created with ease to quickly produce the daily pours identifying date codes, heat numbers, order numbers and other traceable identification.

The Boss Buddy is designed to emboss foil and stainless steel tape. The impact press insures consistent definition of the characters with one stroke of the press. Other technologies used for this purpose create the character one character at a time using value shop resources and yielding labels with variably defined characters.

The Boss Buddy accessory package easily installs on the base of a spring-loaded impact press.

It includes a feed arrangement that uses manual knobs to guide the foil tape over the type chase fixture and to the opposite side where the foil is cut-off upon the creation of the desired number of legends.

Alternative packages are available for embossing aluminum and stainless steel tags that can be applied to ingots, bars, bins and more.

Boss Buddy Advantages

The Boss Buddy marking system offers 4 primary advantages over similar marking systems:

• Eliminate rotating wheels to mark one-character at a time (like with Dymo or Roovers labeling options).
• Better Legibility
• Quicker labeling
• Material savings

In addition, it is difficult to find parts for older, discontinued systems and manufacturers are looking for more efficient tools to replace rotating wheels which create labels one-character at a time.

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The Boss Buddy is available in two configurations:

1. Boss Buddy Manual is best suited for producing foil pattern labels or tags
2. Boss Buddy+ is a Semi Automatic unit for producing foil pattern labels or tags plus a PLC, safety protocol and customized options.

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The Manual "Boss Buddy"

With hammer like impact characters are embossed into foil tape with legends such as date codes, heat numbers, lot or batch id, order numbers, or other critical data.  Key features include:

• Manual tape feed
• Consistent impressions
• Quick-change of legend details
• Labor savings
• Manual cutting
• Material savings

The Boss Buddy is an excellent replacement for older systems which use rotating wheels to mark one-character at a time, like with Dymo or Roovers labeling options.
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Advantages of the Boss Buddy include:

• Better Legibility
• Quicker labeling
• Material savings

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The semi- automated "Boss Buddy+ "

The same proven process of the Manual Boss Buddy, the Boss Buddy+ system is a semi-automatic arrangement for high volume requirements. It can repeat legends improving cycle time in an almost hands-off workstation. The operator manually sets the messages to be embossed into foil tape.

Common messages include date codes, heat numbers, lot or batch id, and like details helping with the traceability process. PLC programming allows for automating the process for the number of messages to make, message length and spacing between labels.

The Boss Buddy is an excellent replacement for older systems which use rotating wheels to mark one-character at a time (like with Dymo or Roovers labeling options).

​Operators no longer have to “Spin to Win” making labels. With the Boss Buddy packages it is easy to change-over to different character sizes. See your options for type character and chase sizes, along with options for tape width.

With speed and accuracy the Boss Buddy+ system yields results such as:

• Better Legibility
• Quicker labeling
• Material savings

The Boss Buddy+ system also can be equipped with:

• Cutters
• Rewinders
• Table

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Boss Buddy Accessories

Standard Options for Type Fonts and Chases 
Three type chases are designed to match the standard tape options. Each chase has 2.25” wide pocket and accommodates varying character heights, as recommended for tape width. 

Standard Style Type Set
The characters include in the standard “A Style” type set  are shown via the image link.

• ​ETC-(SET)-2A - 80 alphanumeric characters + 10 blanks.
• 3A: 104 alphanumeric characters plus 6 common symbols + 10 blanks
• 5A:  154 alphanumeric characters plus 6 common symbols + 10 blanks

Special Order Fonts, Character and Logos
Standard type is produced with Gothic font with a variety of character heights to choose from.  Special character fonts, logos and symbols are available upon request and are subject to pricing review.

 Aluminum Tape
The 5-mil Aluminum tape with rugged adhesive creates cast impressions with more definition and offers better legibility for the life of the casting. Flat surface applications are well served and the tape proves more pliable on curved surfaces. This tape is easily removed from patterns when the casting process is complete.

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