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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4102267 | Feeding of sheets and cards in a rotary duplicator machine capable of whole-page and linewise printing Sheets upon which the entire text on a printing form mounted on a printing drum is to be printed are fed to the printing drum via a sheet infeed transport path. Cards upon which only portions of the text are to be printed are fed to the printing drum via ... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4091910 | Method and apparatus for embossing cards and sheets An electronically controlled embossing machine for embossing alpha-numeric characters on flexible sheets such as, for example, plastic or metal credit cards or nameplates. Embossing is accomplished by two constantly rotating embossing wheels which carry r... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4090063 | Franking machine comprising an electronic counting system A mail franking machine comprises a totalizing device having electronic ms for recording at least a predetermined number of lower-order digits of the total printed franking values. An electronic recording counter receives values to be recorded from a dec... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4078484 | Automatic actuator for normally manually operable selector elements Apparatus for automatically actuating manually operable selector elements, such as the type which normally are found on a manually operable postage meter. A carriage is provided and is movable between an initial, start position and an end position. Plural... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4077318 | Apparatus for printing upon moving sheets, paper or the like with automatic typesetting A printing apparatus including a plurality of movable flexible endless belts incorporated in a plate drum which are aligned side by side, each of the endless belts being provided with spaced printing type on its outer peripheral surface and arranged side ... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4073231 | Selective label printer A label printer of the type employing a stencil covered cylinder in which the stencil may have any one of plural arcuately spaced apart indicias cut therein separately printed therefrom. The label printer includes means for indexing the printing cylinder ... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4069757 | Programmed operation of rotary duplicator machine capable of whole-page, paragraphwise and linewise printing upon whole-page sheets and smaller-format cards or slips The printing form on the printing drum of the machine bears an image in the form of a multi-line text. A counterpressure element can be moved to an operative position to effect transfer of the whole text onto whole-page sheets or transfer of individual li... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4058056 | Microprocessor controlled card reader/printer In this full duplex card reader/printer, a transport mechanism carries a card first past a read head at a constant rate and then incrementally past a printer. Under microprocessor control a message is printed on the card which is responsive to data read f... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4050374 | Meter setting mechanism For sequentially setting independently-rotatable spur gears which are coupled to print wheels in a postage meter, a yoke carrying a selectively-driven master gear is shifted along an axis parallel to the common axis of the adjacent gears. A rack attached ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4037531 | Rotary printing machine The printing machine includes a cyclically moving printing member having a printing surface, particularly a rotating printing roller carrying a lithographic printing form, and an inking arrangement for inking the printing surface. A counterpressure member... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4034669 | Postage meter setting mechanism A setting mechanism for a postage meter for use in a continuous mail sorting and postage imprinting system which automatically weighs and meters each piece of mail. The system is designed to rapidly handle a large quantity of mixed mail. Mixed mail is con... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4027585 | Document imprinter A document imprinter, especially for labels, tickets, tags, and the like, including a rotary printing unit having several banks of printing means and corresponding respective setting mechanisms therefor the latter including viewing windows arranged so tha... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4019617 | Printing device A printing device including a printing station for printing on labels which may be in visually and machine readable formats, comprises rotatable typewheels and pressure rollers which can be brought into engagement for printing on the label while advancing... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4015701 | Apparatus for driving a document through an encoder station A document encoding system transmits an incoming document at a high transport speed. When the document is received at an encoding station it is first stopped and registered and then retransmitted for encoding at a relatively low speed, the exact value bei... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4007359 | Postage meter A postage meter is disclosed which features a rotatable printing drum. The print wheel(s), registers, and postage value selector are all supported by the drum to provide a reduction in parts. The postage meter is more reliable due to the reduction of part... | 02/08/1977 |
| 4002117 | Rotary copying machine A rotary copying machine adjustable for a full page printing respectively line printing of sheets from a printing form on a rotatable printing drum has a device for moistening the sheets to be printed, and wherein the stroke of a piston pump for supplying... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3999852 | Copying apparatus capable of both-side printing A copying apparatus capable of both-side printing comprises automatic feed means, copy medium transport means, change-over guide means shiftable between a first position for one-side printing and a second position for both-side printing, and copy medium s... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3995546 | Rotary duplicating machine A rotary printing roller supports a printing form and a rotary counter-pressure roller is adjacent the printing roller. One of the rollers is movable to and from a printing position in close proximity to the other roller to define with the same a printing... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3987722 | Dual printing with single master supply source Duplicating equipment is provided for printing on both faces of the same sheet or, in the alternative, making two impressions on the same face (e.g., in different colors) by means of two printing heads. Both printing heads are served with masters from a s... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3965815 | Setting mechanism for a postage printing device A setting mechanism for sequentially setting the print wheels in a postage printing device. The setting mechanism is electrically controlled so as to interface the postage printing device with a computerized or electronic postage system. The setting mecha... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3937642 | Labeling device with an installation for marking labels A label applying turret having label support pads, a label marker and a pressing platen for pressing the label against the marker. The marker is mounted on the turret to rotate therewith and faces outwardly against the inwardly facing side of the label. I... | 02/10/1976 |
