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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7811013 | Media guide Various embodiments and methods are disclosed relating to one or more media guides configured to guide a surface being printed upon relative to a manually moved print device. ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7399129 | User interface for a hand-operated printer A hand-operated printer includes a body. A printhead is mounted to the body. A display device is mounted to the body, and a user interface is communicatively coupled to the display device. The user interface provides a user input to the display device that is based ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7302888 | Method and apparatus for rotational media printing An apparatus for use in printing to a rotational media having a surface to be printed to and being rotatable about an axis extending away from the surface is provided. The apparatus includes an engaging arrangement to engage the rotational media so as to impart cont... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7175354 | Inkjet printing device There is provided an inkjet printing device, which is provided with a holding unit that is used to hold a substrate to be subjected to printing operation, and an inkjet head that ejects ink onto the substrate held by the holding unit. The holding unit is movable bet... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7153051 | Tape printing apparatus, tape printing apparatus charger and tape printing apparatus charging system A tape printing apparatus that can be set smoothly into a tape printing apparatus charger from a free angle by gripping the top face section and the bottom face section of the tape printing apparatus such that the front side face section faces downward and the right... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7137750 | Recording apparatus There are provided a suction unit which sucks a recording medium, and a unit which changes sucking force of the suction unit according to the property of the recording medium. Hereby, since the sucking force of the suction unit can be set according to a state of the... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7101096 | Tray for transferring recording media, and recording apparatus A transferring tray for a printing apparatus for printing on one major surface of a recording media having disc shape, wherein the printing apparatus includes, a carriage having a printing head, reciprocating in a main scanning direction, a transferring unit transfe... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7101097 | Apparatus and method for pad printing The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for a printer includes a housing; a print engine, within the housing, for transferrin... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099032 | Printer control based on detection of envelope-sized print medium In performing a printing operation, upon designating the type of paper by inputting it, a paper type table is searched to determine whether the designated type of paper requires a special printing operation, such as reverse feeding and printing. If the above-mention... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6971806 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for pad transfer The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for a printer includes a housing; a print engine, within the housing, for transferrin... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6923368 | Automated system for filling in and delivering offence tickets A system for filling in and delivering offence tickets which includes a portable input device (12) provided to a police officer (10), an offence ticket which is a tamper-resistant, contact-free smart card (14) adapted to be presented in front of... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6857803 | Printing system web guide with a removable platen A printing system that includes a web guide having a preprinting section which guides a substrate into the printing system, and a postprinting section which maintains tension in the substrate as the substrate moves through the printing system. A printing section is ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6789889 | Inkjet printing media handling system with advancing guide shim Accurate advance of a media sheet is achieved by carrying the media sheet on a belt loop. An upstream pinch roller holds the media sheet to the belt upstream of the print zone. A downstream pinch roller holds the media sheet to the belt downstream of the print zone.... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6776542 | Ticket issuing system A ticket issuing system for facilitating processing and printing of citations. The ticket issuing system includes a housing being designed for being held in a hand of a user. An information assembly is positioned in the housing. The information assembly is designed ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6767148 | Optical disk adapter for optical disk label printers A disk adapter A is equipped with first and second adapter halves 1 and 2 to be detachably disposed in a disk-placing dented portion 54 provided in a disk tray 53 of a label printer 51. One of the adapter halves 1 and 2 | 07/27/2004 |
| 6709175 | Thermal printer method of operation for compact disks and other media A thermal transfer printer having a print head and a media support platform in the form of a removable tray that is displaced relative to the print head, the media support platform having a rigid support surface for a media item having a non-rectangular configuratio... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6695445 | Printer for large sheets of print media A printer is arranged to be self propelled for movement on a surface of a sheet on which printing is to take place. The printer is independently driven, while the sheet is held stationary, and does not have to be fed the sheet. The sheet can be oriented i... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6666600 | Printer having detection and correction of tilt using skew correction There is provided an apparatus which can make a correction such that paper will not be fed in a tilted state without a need for any special mechanism. A moving mechanism C1 is driven to move a printing head 41 toward a platen and to urge the printing head... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6637960 | Vacuum holddown device for hardcopy apparatus A vacuum holddown device for a hardcopy apparatus, comprising a printing platen with a pattern of through holes and an underlying vacuum chamber, further comprises a member located therebetween and having a substantially similar pattern of through holes, ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6554514 | Conductive heating of print media Heat is uniformly conducted to print media in an ink-jet printer in conjunction with the uniform application of vacuum pressure to the media for supporting the media as it is conveyed on a heated belt through the printer. The heat is applied to the media ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6296403 | Dual-mode printer for flexible and rigid substrates A dual-mode printer for printing on both flexible and rigid substrates includes a table providing a substantially planar support surface for supporting a substrate. A flexible-substrate feed system is configured to feed a flexible substrate in a given fee... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6145980 | Multiple-zone inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes a ball roller assembly for driving a paper-supporting platen along the width and length of the paper supported by the platen. A stepper motor activates the ball roller assemblies in response to drive signals from a motor driver.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6065884 | Binder strip printer and method A printer and method of printing on a substrate such a binder strip used for binding a stack of sheets. A platen provides support for the strip, with the strip being supported on the platen at opposite ends by strip supports. A print head mechanism is mou... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6036380 | Printer having a plastic platen An inkjet printer includes a plastic platen and a structural member extending upward from the base of the printer. The printing surface is supported by the upper surface of the structural member. This surface is held flat to within very tight tolerances. ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5947614 | Printing system with mechanism for attachingly supporting recording medium A printing system having a mechanism for fixing a large scale recording medium in a vertical orientation on an electrostatically adsorption plate provided on a base. The fixing mechanism includes a main holding unit provided on the base, a supplementary h... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5863140 | Printer platen assembly for a handheld printer A self-adjusting printing assembly for accommodating generally planar media of differing thickness comprising a printing head for placement of indicia on said media, a guide assembly positioned adjacent said printing head for guiding said media to said pr... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5797687 | Paper stacker activation for printer input/output A printer with paper stacker activation. A platen is mounted on the drive roller for both rotation and translation. When fully to the right end of its travel, the platen is engaged with rotation stops which position the platen a fixed distance from the pr... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5478163 | Method for guiding a document in a document-processing unit The invention relates to a method for guiding a document in a document-processing unit, in particular a printer with a document-transporting channel. For dependable guiding of the leading edge of even arched or creased documents into the transporting chan... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5371680 | Accounting book automatic entering device An accounting book automatic entering device, by which, when it is used for business processing in an accounting system, linked with an output device of a computer, trade data can be recorded in lines directly succeeding the last line of the preceding rec... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5370465 | Method and apparatus for printing traffic citations A method and apparatus for printing traffic citations or the like. An impact printer is supplied which prints with a print head onto an approximately 3.25" wide paper strips and senses the movement of the paper through the printer. A plate is provided to ... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5336004 | Dot printer A dot printer includes: a platen and a printing head encased in a printer case in the vertical direction; a paper housing portion provided laterally of the platen; a feed roller disposed laterally of the printing head for feeding a paper taken out of a pa... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5188464 | Hand-held bar code printer for envelopes and labels A pocket sized, electric powered bar code printer has a slot for receiving an envelope or label, interchangeably. The slot and an end stop thereof are situated so as to enable the user to easily locate the label or the lower left corner of the envelope re... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5133616 | Printing machine A printing machine comprises a frame for supporting a pair of roller shafts spaced apart at a predetermined distance from each other and, a flat platen disposed between the roller shafts. An endless sheet-feeding belt made of an elastic material is stretc... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5110225 | Manual printer A manual printer has a casing of a shape suitable for mounting on a table, a guide rail installed in the casing, a guide member movably connected to the guide rail, a base supported on the cursor and projecting outwardly through a front opening of the cas... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5080509 | Envelope printing mechanism The elements of a printing mechanism, including a platen, print head and drive motors, are constructed and arranged to provide a clearance permitting an envelope to remain entirely in a flat condition in a plane tangent to the platen at the location of th... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4978979 | Wheel supported carriage for a scanning plotter A carriage for a scanning ink jet plotter has at least two roller supports which ride on the platen or on the drafting surface to maintain a constant spacing between an ink jet mounted on the carriage and the drafting surface to improve resolution of the ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4948283 | Apparatus for processing and printing document A document processing printing apparatus such as a word processor has a main body constituted by a box-like frame. The frame includes a top surface serving as a flat paper supply guide surface. A print output unit included in the frame has at least one pa... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4828406 | Portable ticket issuing device A portable device for storing information as well as printing and dispensing multiple part tickets, such as traffic or parking violations tickets, includes a manually operable arrangement, for selecting and feeding a ticket from a stacked source of ticket... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4718783 | Thermal printer A printer characterized in that a paper feed path for guiding a record paper to a printing position formed between a platen and a head is disposed on the same plane on the whole including the printing position and portions before and behind the printing p... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4718782 | Thermal printer A printer wherein when in printing, a platen and a head are opposedly disposed by a carriage, said printer comprising a bottom plate on which said platen or said head is disposed, and a body hinged to said bottom plate and designed to include said carriag... | 01/12/1988 |
