Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7874749 | Apparatus, method, and control program for turning the pages of a passbook A page turning apparatus of a passbook printer, which detects a turning error or the like at the early stage of turning irrespective of the size and characteristics of passbooks and allows retry of turning in a short time. The apparatus includes: a passbook conveyin... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7275881 | Control of dual printing mechanisms A printing system comprising: a printing device having first and second similar printing mechanisms; first and second similar holding means for holding respective first and second rolls of label stock in a position to pass the first and second printing mechanisms re... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7267498 | Six-sided printing method An improved sheet printer is provided capable of simultaneously printing both on a “main” surface of a sheet of print media and along edges of that same sheet of print media, such that when the sheets are stacked after being printed, a predetermined image will a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7061298 | High voltage to low voltage level shifter A shifter circuit comprises, in one embodiment, an input voltage divider stage comprising multiple transistors arranged in a transistor stack defining a plurality of intermediate nodes. The transistor stack is connected between an input signal and ground and has at ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6655287 | Printing apparatus and printing method A printing apparatus has a take-out shaft and a rolling-up shaft to supply an intermediate transfer ribbon provided with a transfer layer having a first area in a prescribed pattern and a blank and transparent second area, a printer portion to print presc... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6632034 | Printing machine for booklet-like medium A printing machine for booklet-like medium (2) is disclosed as having a booklet resting surface (4) to which a sheet insertion passage (5) is opened, a booklet pressing unit (10) which presses booklet-like medium, which is centrally unfolded on the bookle... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6398431 | Page-turning device, and printer using same In a page-turning device for a printer, arms are provided at the ends of a support shaft, and a pair of rollers are fitted around a roller shaft that is located between the distal ends of arms. Springs are attached to the base ends of the arms to press th... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6152628 | Sheet supply apparatus with feed protrusions for skew correction A sheet supply apparatus adapted for use with a recording apparatus such as a printer. The sheet supply apparatus comprises a frame having a sheet conveying surface, a shaft rotatably arranged above the sheet conveying surface, and a plurality of protrusi... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6099175 | Method and apparatus for printing text on a booklet-like article The invention relates to a process for printing text on a sheet of a booklet-like article in a text-printing station, in the case of which the booklet-like article is arranged in a swung-open state in a cassette (10) and fed to the text-printing station. ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6048114 | Method of printing on the edge of a book A method of providing at least one indicia on the edges of a plurality of stacked leaves assembled one on top of the other to form a book or pamphlet, each respective leaf having marks thereon on at least one face of the leaf adjacent said edge, the assem... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5823688 | Printer including improved print head control A plurality of lines are printed by the print head of a printer which is moved in a predetermined print direction on a sheet placed on a planar supporting surface wherein the sheet is fed perpendicular to the print direction. The print head is slidably mo... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5806991 | Method and printing apparatus for printing the front and/or back of individual sheets of a product in book or booklet form The invention relates to a method and to a printing machine for printing the front and/or back of individual sheets of a product in book or booklet form which is transported by means of a conveyor arrangement. In this case the sheet to be printed is first... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5441589 | Flat bed daisy wheel hot debossing stamper A dual station hot debossing stamper for a report or book cover includes a print engine having a character finger daisy wheel forcer and a logo die forcer which are actuatable independently by a common servo motor through respective gear trains. The print... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5286956 | Printer having page-turning apparatus for passbooks and with page-turning capability even after initial deformation of sheets to be turned In a printer for passbooks or the like, a passbook or the like, which is brought in on a transfer path, is stopped at the position of a page-turning roller, where a sheet is turned over by the operation of the page-turning roller. When a sheet is turned o... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5156465 | Printer for printing information on center-folding type book in open state A printer is used for printing information on a center-folding type book when the book is in the open state, and comprises a printing head, a platen movable toward and away from the printing head, and feed rollers for moving the opened book through the pr... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5146238 | Line-type thermal printing apparatus for printing on a sheet having different thicknesses A line-type thermal printing apparatus includes a thermal head for recording on a sheet whose thickness is even in the feeding direction thereof and uneven in the print line direction. The apparatus also includes a platen having a platen body portion that... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5142129 | Passbook transport mechanism A passbook transporting or conveying mechanism has front gripping rollers for gripping the passbook in unprinted areas thereof and for moving the passbook to a printing station. The front gripping rollers are caused to be moved along guide rods in a rearw... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5040908 | Passbook printer with line find mechanism A passbook printer has a print head movable along a printing station and in opposed relation to a platen for printing data on the passbook. The printer has an optical reading head assembly which is movable independent of the print head and in a direction ... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5017026 | Apparatus for automatically exchanging a passbook An apparatus for derailing with a passbook having a plurality of data recording surfaces, includes a passbook recording unit in which data is recorded on the recording surfaces of the passbook introduced in a conveying passage of the apparatus via an acce... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4930911 | Flat-bed heated finger daisy wheel hot debossing stamper A peripheral or stand-alone computerized stamp printer is provided particularly for office use in which a print assembly including a pressure cam and leaf spring arrangement is associated with a heated print head which contacts and impresses a daisy wheel... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4776711 | Booklet printer Two print heads each having a plurality of print elements arranged over a print width to allow printing of a predetermined area by a print scan operation are arranged one for each one of adjacent pages bordered by a seam line of a booklet along which a pl... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4346883 | Document positioning and feeding apparatus for high speed printers The present invention relates to document positioning and feeding apparatus for high speed printers, such as normally associated with data processing systems. The document feeding apparatus is particularly adapted to provide high quality, high speed print... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4279413 | Drive mechanisms for passbooks A flexible drive mechanism for positioning bank passbooks and similar objects is disclosed for use in conjunction with identification and entry posting apparatus. The functioning of the drive mechanism is made flexible by the use of eight rollers, four of... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4143977 | Print station apparatus A platen assembly for a print station apparatus, which comprises first and second indepently movable platen units for holding recording medium so as to compensate for thickness of the medium, a third platen unit interposed between the first and second pla... | 03/13/1979 |
| 3978964 | Magnetic head control assembly for a magnetic passbook printing system A printing apparatus is provided for printing on a document or bank passbook which has affixed thereto a magnetic stripe on which information with respect to the print operation is written and/or read by a magnetic head scanning assembly. The printing app... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3951251 | Document positioning means for printing apparatus A document positioning device is provided having a document holder or carrier which is driven by a stepper motor to position a document clamped therein for printing thereon. A row of light sources, e.g. light emitting diodes (LEDs) are pre-positioned and ... | 04/20/1976 |
