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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7303366 | Three part blind fastener The current invention is directed to a three piece blind fastener comprising a mandrel 40, a tubular body portion of 10 and a radially extending flange 14, wherein the cylindrical body 10 is mounted on an elongate stem 42 of the ma... | 12/04/2007 |
| 5263782 | Print hammer arrangement in dot line printer minimizing number of hammers simultaneously fired A dot line printer has a plurality of print hammers accommodated in a hammer bank, which make dot impressions on a sheet of print paper as the hammer bank reciprocally moves in a print line direction perpendicular to the direction in which the sheet of pr... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5152616 | Miniature printer A miniature printer is provided which can print characters in additional different character sets of fonts by combining several character sets which are included in the printer on a type drum or type belt. The printer includes a mechanism for selecting pa... | 10/06/1992 |
| 4967662 | High speed printer with interposer High speed impact line printers comprise a continuously moving type carrier, such as an endless belt or band having engraved type characters movable at constant speed parallel to a row of print hammers. A print medium such as a continuous paper web and an... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4921365 | High speed shuttle printer An improvement to a dot matrix printer of the shuttle variety wherein a printhead is oscillated from side to side within a printer base. The shuttle is disposed within a ballistic energy transfer device mounted for oscillating movement from side to side i... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4796202 | Speeding mapping of print characters in a microprocessor controlled bank printer Four microprocessors type Intel 8051 collectively map one print buffer containing 136 ASCII character codes, each of a nominal 64 different types, into the control of 136 print hammers at an associated 136 columnar print positions. The print hammers are c... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4759647 | Dual pitch impact printer A printer for printing both standard pitch and condensed pitch characters which includes print hammer faces which have a single wide section for standard pitch characters and a double wide section for printing condensed pitch characters. Using this hammer... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4683818 | Print element control A control for a dot matrix shuttle printer executing a sinusoidal velocity traversal across a line on a print medium comprises calculating the instantaneous position locations of the print elements during such traversal by making use of a lookup table. A ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4625638 | Dot matrix line printer A dot matrix line printer comprised of a main frame assembly and a shuttle frame assembly hinged thereto for limited pivotal movement around a horizontal hinge axis. The main frame assembly carries a paper drive subassembly and an adjustable platen subass... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4601241 | Dot line printer A dot line printer in which, as its head carriage is driven, a plurality of printing heads arranged on the head carriage at equal intervals are moved in a direction perpendicular to the sheet feeding direction, to print on a printing sheet set on the plat... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4599007 | Reciprocating drive mechanism A reciprocating drive mechanism, capable of producing a substantially trapezoidal velocity profile, reciprocates the hammer banks of a dot matrix printer, or printers in general, at a relatively high frequency (40 HZ), and a high constant velocity (34 to ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4539905 | Dot matrix line printer and print element driver assembly therefor A dot matrix line printer incorporates plural print element driver assemblies each including N electromagnets driving N print rods, with each electromagnet having a local magnetic circuit that includes a working air gap and a passive air gap; a permanent ... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4532862 | Print hammer bank Disclosed is a free-flight hammer, impact-printing apparatus including a shifting hammer bank having a plurality of interchangeable hammer modules. Each hammer module includes a plurality of individual linear motion, slidable hammers which are mounted in ... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4525084 | Device for adjusting position of printing head of printer A device for adjusting the position of the printing head of a printer has a leaf spring received in a groove formed in the carrier of the printer. The spring is bent into a doglegged form such that the spring force is applied to both ends of the carrier b... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4507002 | Printing timing correction device in shuttle type dot line printer A printing timing correction device in a shuttle type dot line printer wherein a shuttle is reciprocated in directions perpendicularly intersecting a direction of feeding printing paper, printing needles regularly arranged on the shuttle are projected to ... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4494885 | Compact printer A compact printer having a typefont belt constituting a typefont wheel maintained under tension on a support, wherein the platen is rendered displaceable in a direction away from the typefont wheel after the completion of the printing operation, and the f... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4480541 | Control system for dot matrix line printer A control system for a dot matrix line printer/plotter apparatus for producing hard copy printout of digitally represented data. The apparatus utilizes one or more hammer banks, each mounted for reciprocal linear movement across a paper web moving therepa... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4463672 | Printing apparatus having stain preventing means The apparatus of the present invention is provided with a stain preventing element provided between a print drum and a hammer and adapted to shield alternate digits to be printed, said stain preventing element being shiftable in the transverse or advancin... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4462702 | Dot matrix line printer A dot matrix line printer comprised of a main frame assembly and a shuttle frame assembly hinged thereto for limited pivotal movement around a horizontal hinge axis. The main frame assembly carries a paper drive subassembly and an adjustable platen subass... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4421430 | Dot printer A printing mechanism is provided with a counter-balanced hammer bank such that the hammer bank and a counterweight are oppositely reciprocated by a pair of coaxial, identical, orthogonally oriented cams. Vibration of the printer even at high speed can be ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4399748 | Multiplexed hammer dot band matrix printer Hammers impact dot front elements on a moving band and drive them into a printing medium. The pitch between two dot font elements is assigned to two adjacent hammers in this invention. An electronic control is used so that adjacent hammers cannot be fired... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4398459 | Bar code printer with automatic mechanical parity A bar code printing device with mechanical generation of a parity or check character. The mechanism is indexed by moving a plurality of push buttons or levers which when individually moved, engage a code belt which is connected to a parity generating mech... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4386563 | Printing system having staggered hammer release In an impact printer system in which various hammer springs mounted in side-by-side relation along a reciprocating hammer bank are selectively released to cause an impact tip mounted at the upper end of the hammer spring to impact a paper or other printab... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4379428 | Hammer locating and operational means An apparatus is provided, for use in an impact printer, in which printer it is required that an impact producing hammer, or assembly of such hammers, be operable in more than one location, whereby the hammer or assembly of hammers is moved between operati... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4373439 | Character ring-selecting type printer Character rings mounted on a common shaft and having a plurality of circumferential character columns thereon, are opposed by a platen including recessed portions. A recessed portion faces non-printing character columns when the platen presses against one... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4359937 | Dot matrix printer A dot matrix printer is provided which has a row of hammer elements having horizontal impactor bars aligned at upper and lower levels and in partial overlapping relation with adjacent impactor bars. A row of print elements is also provided which alternate... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4357867 | Multiple coil hammer actuator system A print hammer actuator system for a dot matrix line printer comprising a plurality of coils greater than the number of dot imprinting hammers to be actuated by the coils is disclosed. The coils (C1, C2 . . . C80 or 61, 62, 63 . . . 69) are mounted side-b... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4328747 | Character ring-selecting type printer A character ring-selecting type printer for printing m laterally spaced columns includes less than m character rings with lateral spacing between adjacent character rings. The character rings are translated in unison to enable one character ring to print ... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4327638 | Magnetically actuated equipment Magnetically actuated impact equipment useful for high speed printers, punches or the like, is disclosed. Actuating magnets formed of materials characterized by wide hysteresis loops such as samarium-cobalt and mischmetal cobalt are disclosed. As disclose... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4315460 | Drum type line printer The disclosure concerns a drum type line printer for printing bar codes in a line. The drum type line printer includes information bars which are arranged in a preset numnber of files or bar code characters in a line. Two files or bar code characters of c... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4286517 | Printer magnetic interference prevention system A magnetic interference prevention system in a printer comprising a plurality of print hammers whose hammering surfaces are disposed in a straight line and a plurality of printing magnets arranged adjacent one another to drive each of the print hammers re... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4278019 | All-points addressable dot printer An all-points addressable dot printer has rows of sloped parallel anvils on a rotating drum. Alternate rows slope in opposite directions for bi-directional printing with a single row of hammer blades. The blades which are spaced apart, are shifted bi-dire... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4266479 | Multi-function mechanical printer drive means A bi-directional printed circuit motor is coupled to drive at least a pair of one way clutches which selectively actuate one or more utilization devices dependent on the direction of the motor. The utilization devices may, for example, include a print ham... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4250807 | High speed printer with stain preventing member between alternately spaced hammers A printing apparatus has a motor, a character drum rotated by the rotational force of the motor, a printing paper feed mechanism operable by the rotational force of the motor, and a mechanism for shifting hammers and a stain preventing member integral wit... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4248148 | Time shared shifting print hammer assembly A plurality of print hammers are mounted on a horizontally movable carriage and adapted to scan a plurality of column positions of an impact printer. Each print hammer is provided with an energizible electrical coil which moves horizontally with the print... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4236447 | Printing column number limiting device A device for limiting the number of printing columns in a printer in which a group of printing data codes transferred from a data source are successively compared with a group of type codes which are determined in correspondence to the instantaneous posit... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4235167 | High speed dual pitch impact printer An impact printer is capable of printing at either ten characters per inch or fifteen characters per inch by changing the type character carrying member. The print hammers are spaced at the same distance apart as are the type characters on the carrying me... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4233894 | Print hammer mechanism having dual pole pieces A print hammer mechanism which forms a magnetic path between the opposite fixed and free ends of an elongated resilient hammer element using a permanent magnet, a first pole piece terminating in a pole tip adjacent the free end of the hammer element and e... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4230039 | Drum printer with helically arranged type sets A printing apparatus includes a type drum the outer circumferential surface of which has a first set of type including a plurality of type faces arranged in a counter-clockwise spiral and a second set of type including a plurality of type faces arranged i... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4227455 | Suspension arrangement for an oscillating body A body, which oscillates or vibrates at resonance, is suspended from a support structure so that it has spatially linear motion along an axis for a relatively short distance. The body has two connected portions spaced from each other along the axis of mot... | 10/14/1980 |
