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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 |
| 5198836 | Compact line thermal printer A line thermal printer is assembled in a pair of side frames opposed to each other a given distance according to a given width size of a printing medium. A guide frame is sandwiched between the pair of side frames for guiding the printing medium. A platen... | 03/30/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5186558 | Portable printer with receptacle for data communication terminal A portable printer has a housing of impact resistant plastic material. The housing forms a printer cavity and a terminal cavity. A handle is integrally formed as part of the printer housing. Edges of housing elements forming the printer cavity are substan... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5180232 | Modular printer system Basic elements of a modular printer system may comprise a rectangular open frame with receptacles for a printer module and computerized terminal module, and with an external configuration for receiving modular components such as a carrying handle, a suppo... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5163766 | Printer device Disclosed is a printer device including a printer body and a battery section. The printer body is provided with a paper accommodating portion for replaceably accommodating printing paper. A driving circuit section is located on one side of the paper accom... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5160943 | Printing systems The invention provides a number of improvements useful in printers which may be of the fixed, portable or hand-held types. In one aspect, the printer, which comprises a housing, a printing unit, means for feeding to said printing unit a substrate onto whi... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5152624 | Printer, in particular matrix pin printer The print substrate support (3) and longitudinal guides (4) for a print-head slider (7) are disposed in parallel at the invention printer. A controllable paper-guide drive motor (10) is furnished for the paper guide (9; 9a) and a drive motor (11) is furni... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5149211 | Printers and ancillary systems Improved printers are disclosed which are characterized by means for inputting data which is arranged to function without the use of an alpha-numeric keyboard. The data inputting means may be a cursor moving device operating in conjunction with a graphics... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5112149 | Velocity responsive head driving control apparatus of manual sweeping printer A manual sweeping printer has a linear thermal head and sweeps in a direction perpendicular to an arranging direction of the thermal head, thereby performing printing. The printer alternately drives two adjacent heating elements to perform 2-time-division... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5111216 | Tape supply cartridge for portable thermal printer A tape supply including a replaceable tape supply cartridge for a portable, hand held thermal printing or transfer device having a receiving pocket, a supply of tape, a tape pathway aligned with the printhead and the mechanism for sensing relative movemen... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5110226 | Battery operated data entry terminal device and printer attachment A portable printing data entry terminal device includes a portable data entry terminal unit which has a display and keyboard for manual entry of data and control instructions. The data entry terminal unit is powered by a rechargeable battery pack which is... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5093675 | Hand-held recording apparatus A hand-held recording apparatus for image recording on a recording medium by manual movement comprises a main body, a thermal head provided in the main body and having plural heat-generating elements for image recording on the recording medium, an ink she... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5092688 | Portable barcode printer A barcode printer is provided constructed out of rectangular, extruded aluminum stock. The mechanical components are mounted directly to the stock frame of a main housing section which eliminates the need for a separate internal mechanism housing and an e... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5073054 | Electronic dictionary with vertical keyboard An electronic dictionary or language translator is in the form of a thin electronic device, preferably at least 3"×6" in size so that it may be placed in a book and used during reading. The electronic device has a relatively large display area and its ke... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5069562 | Continuous paper autoloading mechanism for thermal printer A continuous paper autoloading mechanism for a thermal printer comprises a continuous paper supply section, a paper feeder, a pitch sensor for detecting the pitch of labels or tags detachably attached to the continuous paper and for producing pitch signal... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5063451 | Hand held recording apparatus with window on lower body portion for viewing recording position A recording apparatus for effecting recording on a recording medium is portable and capable of bearing against the recording medium. The recording apparatus comprises recording means for effecting recording on the recording medium, and control means for c... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5052832 | Print head and roller biasing mechanism for a hand held thermal printer A hand held printer for printing on a print paper when the printer is manually moved over the surface of the paper is provided, including a print mechanism supported within the housing to print inputted characters and drawings on the print paper upon manu... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5033882 | Circuit for conserving power of a backup battery Circuitry including a first and second source of electrical energy provides a continuous supply of electrical energy to a volatile memory circuit utilized within an electrical apparatus. The circuitry includes an on and off switch and allows for the first... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5032030 | Apparatus for applying information to photographic materials and the like A portable apparatus for applying information in the form of words, numerals and/or other characters to the frames of diapositives has a housing with a pocket which receives a frame to be provided with information. A stop arrests the frame in an optimum p... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5024541 | Manually operable sweeping-type printing apparatus A manually operable sweeping-type compact printer apparatus has an input section, a display section, an electric circuit section, and a printer unit. All these components are incorporated in a housing. The printer unit includes a print head, rollers, an e... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5020928 | Ribbon guiding mechanism A hand held printer for printing on a print paper when the printer is manually moved over the surface of the paper is provided. A single manually manipulatable housing supports an input for imputting characters and drawings to be printed and a display for... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5015324 | Hand-held labeler There is disclosed a hand-held labeler having a housing with a handle, a thermal print head for printing on labels of a composite label web, a platen roll cooperable with the print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for app... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5013388 | Hand-held labeler There is disclosed a hand-held labeler having a housing with a handle, a thermal print head for printing on labels of a composite label web, a platen roll cooperable with the print head, a delaminator for delaminating printed labels, an applicator for app... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5006002 | Portable printing apparatus with movable paper feed gate Portable printing apparatus is disclosed that includes a portable, weather-proof housing adapted to be carried by a user as by a shoulder strap. The housing is made up of two separable housing sections joined at releasable interfitting weather-proof joint... | 04/09/1991 |
| 5002410 | Printing apparatus In a manually sweeping type printing apparatus having a lighter weight than a force in printing, the printing operation is effected without applying any external depression load. The printing apparatus includes a thermal head a piezoelectric actuator whic... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4999016 | Hand recording apparatus A hand recording apparatus for recording images on a recording medium by manual operation has an encode plate and a photosensor for detecting the movement of the apparatus body, a thermal head driven so as to record an image conforming to an image signal ... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4977829 | Printing apparatus with finger-engageable recess providing a carrying handle Printing apparatus composed essentially of molded plastics material which has relatively few parts, is easy to manufacture and maintain, and is lightweight and portable. The apparatus is illustrated as being of the table top type which can print both stan... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4962430 | Image reading body and image formation body detachably mounted to a control body An image forming apparatus comprises a control main body, and reading and recording main bodies detachable to the control main body. The reading main body includes a first memory for storing a read image data memory of original. The recording main body in... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4947262 | Hand-held manually sweeping printing apparatus A hand-held manually sweeping printing apparatus includes a manually manipulatable housing. A data input section, a memory, a printer head, a roll of ink ribbon, and an encoder are mounted within the housing. When a user holds the microcopier and sweeps i... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4933867 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus connected to a data processing device includes a printing section having a printing head, a detector for detecting the moving velocity of the printing head and a control circuit integrally incorporated therein. The control circuit ser... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4915027 | Hand-held manually operable printing apparatus A manually operable sweeping-type compact printer apparatus includes a key entry unit, a display unit, a memory unit, an encoder and a printer unit which are mounted on a manually manipulatable housing. When the housing is manually moved over a printing m... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4901164 | Hand scanner type image input/output device with reciprocably supported roller and thermal head A hand scanning type image input and output device includes a main body adapted to be moved by hand to scan an object, such as a manuscript, and having an enclosed readout head adapted to read out the information on a desired portion of the object via an ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4899228 | Manually sweeping apparatus with image sensor A small-sized copying apparatus has a housing (1). As the housing (1) is moved, an image data-reading circuit (15, 56, 57, 58) receives the light reflected from an original illuminated by a light source (11), and the image data obtained from the light is ... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4871269 | Portable label printing applicator apparatus A system for inputting label related information and for printing and applying labels to articles or the like is constituted of a self-contained label printer unit, a separate self-contained data inputting unit and a self-contained power supply unit which... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4868676 | Manual copying apparatus A manual or handy type copying apparatus including an image reading section for reading an image of an original document to be copied, and a printing section for printing the image read by the image reading section onto a transfer material, and arranged t... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4857716 | Patient identification and verification system and method A patient identification system for relating items with patients and ensuring that an identified item corresponds to an identified patient. The patient identification system includes a computer system (42) interconnected to a plurality of remote terminals... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4856090 | Light communication equipment A light communication equipment comprises a photo-sensor for sensing a modulated light signal, a processor for demodulating the light signal sensed by the photo-sensor and processing it, and a keyboard having a plurality of keys for instructing processing... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4846924 | Method and apparatus for converting hand-held thermal labeler to a table top printer There is disclosed a thermal hand-held labeler which can be converted to a table top printer by using method and apparatus according to the invention. The labeler has modular components which can be detachably connected to each other, and the modular comp... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4839742 | Reflected-character printing apparatus A printing apparatus comprising a keyboard which inputs characters, symbols, etc., to the apparatus and a display which displays the input characters, symbols, etc. A CPU supplies to a printing head dot pattern information in accordance with the informati... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4830522 | Electronic hand labeler with thermal printer and plural cutters A versatile hand held thermal printer has a hinged bottom cover which can be opened to provide easier access and loading of a roll of labels into the thermal printer. In a first mode of operation, printed labels emerge through the front of the label print... | 05/16/1989 |
