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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322762 | Tape-like object feeding device and label tape printing device A tape-like object feeding device in accordance with the present invention comprises a feeding mechanism 7 for feeding a tape-like object toward an outlet and a cutting mechanism 8 for cutting the tape-like object fed by the feeding mechanism. An eject... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7295343 | Digital photo album with image modification and internal printing A digital photo album 901 has image enhancement provided by a pre-programmed set of characteristics on a removable image enhancement card and includes a body section 902 connected to a display screen 904. The body 902 houses control circu... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7213993 | Thermally activating device and printer apparatus A thermally activating device has a pair of conveyor rollers which convey a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet while sandwiching the sheet therebetween, and a guide member provided at an anterior stage of the conveyor rollers for abutting on one surface of the heat-sensi... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215441 | Digital photo album with image enhancement and internal printer A digital photo album 901 has image enhancement provided by a pre-programmed set of characteristics on a removable image enhancement card and includes a body section 902 connected to a display screen 904. The body 902 houses control circu... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7190492 | Serial recording system printer and control method A serial recording system printer continuously records a plurality of pages on a continuous recording sheet repeatedly fed/stopped and conveyed with a constant conveyance step width. A cutter is disposed on a downstream side of a print head so that the position of t... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7151622 | Image reading and recording apparatus An image reading and recording apparatus is provided with a carriage having the drive switching gear, which transmits driving power to a reading drive gear train only in a drive switching position. Then, when a reading command is issued, the carriage moves to this d... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7095526 | Automatic layout method for full-bleed printing The invention is an improved method of automatically laying out a print job to be printed on a printer having a multiplicity of available media sizes. The method utilizes the ability of the printer to print full-bleed on at least some of the four edges of the paper ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6942215 | Paper transferring mechanism utilizing a swing gear and controlling method thereof The paper transferring mechanism includes a drive gear coaxially coupled with a rotation shaft of a motor, a pick-up gear coupled with a shaft of a pick-up roller to separately feed the paper sheets, and a feed gear coupled with a shaft of a feed roller to outwardly... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6684743 | Staggered gear for bi-directional operation A gear drive system for a printer designed to print upon a continuous roll of paper and having a blade used to cut off printed portions of paper from the paper roll is implemented. The gear drive system consists of a drive shaft 330, a slip clutch 401, a ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6295142 | Semiconductor apparatus and method for producing it In order to prevent a decrease of yield due to a discontinuity of a wire or a short between upper and lower metal wires in production of a TFT matrix panel having pixel capacitors and TFTs and produce the TFT panel in a good yield without decrease of an a... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6281981 | Image printing apparatus In order to obtain a print area from a printing start position to a printing end position in the longitudinal direction of printing paper without leaving any margin in the lateral direction of the paper, the width of a heater line of a thermal head (1a), ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6182550 | Staggered gear for bi-directional operation A gear drive system for a printer designed to print upon a continuous roll of paper and having a blade used to cut off printed portions of paper from the paper roll is implemented. The gear drive system consists of a drive shaft 330, a slip clutch 401, a ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6026723 | Roll paper feeding apparatus An inventive apparatus for feeding rolled paper comprises rolled paper, a feed roller for feeding the rolled paper, a cutting unit for cutting the rolled paper, a driving source for actuating the feed roller and the cutting unit, a first gear train interp... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6018618 | Image recording apparatus and method capable of removing a leading end portion of received image data An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a rolled paper, and for cutting the rolled paper on which the image has been recorded to a standard size. The image recording apparatus includes a detection device for detecting a length of an image t... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5973793 | Image recording apparatus with means for cutting a standard paper size based on an image size An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a rolled paper, and for cutting the rolled paper on which the image has been recorded to a standard size. The image recording apparatus includes a detection device for detecting a length of an image t... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5812276 | Reproduction of medical image on web-like reproducing material In reproducing medical images which are supplied in digital form and which vary in size, a web-like reproducing material is used. The reproducing material is cut at variable lengths in correspondence with the sizes of the images.... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5767984 | Facsimile apparatus with paper cutter A facsimile apparatus advances recording paper from a roll of recording paper (1) to a cutter (3) which cuts the paper to a length equal to the number of lines necessary for printing a single full page of an image. The facsimile apparatus has first throug... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5671065 | Paper conveying and automatic cutting device for a facsimile apparatus which uses a single bi-directional drive motor A device for conveying and automatically cutting paper in a facsimile apparatus. When a motor rotates forwardly, a roller for conveying paper rotates, and when the motor rotates reversely, the paper is cut. A stationary cutting edge of an automatic cutter... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5663804 | Image processor having recording paper cutting control Transportation of a document (P1), transportation of a recording sheet (P2), activation of a cutter system and simultaneous transportation of the document (P1) and recording sheet (P2) are carried out by a single motor (M) in an image processor (1). A fir... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5661566 | Method for making a plurality of printing plates A method for making a plurality of printing press page printing plates using a drum type raster scanning plate making machine involves making a number of separate printing plates from each sheet of plate making material handled by the machine, thereby inc... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5557311 | Multi-page signatures made using laser perforated bond papers Brochures, pamphlets, books, and the like containing a plurality of laser-perforated paper which has been folded and bound (in either order) on the lines of perforation have, among other things, substantially improved compressed, lay-flat properties (i.e.... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5447383 | Tape printing apparatus having manual tape cutting device with suspension of printing A tape printing apparatus having a detection member which detects movement of a tape cutter to its tape cutting direction. A control system is provided for stopping tape feeding and tape printing operation when the detection member detects the movement of... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5437512 | Transport device for separated sections of a continuous recording substrate from a recording mechanism In a device for transporting sections (28) of a recording substrate from a recording mechanism, the recording mechanism has a cutting unit (12) for separating the sections (28) from the recording substrate. The cutting unit can be moved, in a cutting stro... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5315398 | Automatically adjustable sheet member cutting device A cutting device includes a mechanism for receiving and cutting a sheet member between two blades, a motor for driving the mechanism, and a mechanism for detecting the operational state of the cutting mechanism. If the cutting operation cannot be complete... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5292603 | Image holding member and apparatus which uses the same The present invention discloses an image bearing member having a surface layer comprising a high-melting point polyester resin, a cured resin and an antioxidant, and an apparatus which uses the same.... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5268766 | Facsimile apparatus with two different sized paper supply rolls having timer/counter to choose primary supply roll to prevent curling A facsimile apparatus which includes a control part, first and second rolls of first and second recording sheets of different sizes, a platen roller being driven to transport a recording sheet selectively being fed from either the first roll or the second... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5257114 | Image communication apparatus with rolled record sheet cutter An image communication apparatus comprises a cutter for cutting a record sheet, a detector for detecting a length of a received image, a setter for setting a length for a predetermined size and a controller for comparing the length for the predetermined s... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5229827 | Image recording apparatus with sheet stackers An electrostatic plotter includes a housing having a side to be confronted by an operator. A recording head is disposed in the housing for recording a latent image on a recording paper supplied from a roll of recording paper disposed in the housing near t... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5223940 | Image recording apparatus with control of cutter blades and retraction of recording medium web in response to detection of a cut sheet An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium, includes an: image recording device for recording an image on a recording medium, a conveying device for conveying the recording medium, and a cutter for cutting the recording medi... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5182650 | Information processing apparatus capable of connecting printer An information processing apparatus capable of connecting a plurality of types of printers including an ink-jet printer, includes a connection unit for electrically connecting a printer, a discrimination unit for discriminating a type of printer connected... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5172238 | Image recording apparatus with selection between a simultaneously present rolled sheet conveyor and cut sheet conveyor where printing is performed on the inside of lower surface of the respective sheets The recording apparatus includes a continuous rolled sheet supply and cutter and a stacked pre-cut sheet supply, both sheet supplies have a conveyor for feeding the respective sheet to a recording area. Recording is performed on the inside surface of the ... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5140446 | Paper jam detection method A paper jam is detected by detecting the operating time of cutter, using the difference between the operating time in case there is recording paper and the operating time in case there is no recording paper when the cutter carries out its cutting operatio... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5115322 | Guiding mechanism for a facsimile for preventing jam of heat-sensitive recording paper In order to prevent jam of the heat-sensitive recording paper in a facsimile, there is disclosed a guiding mechanism comprising a plurality of elongated ridges formed on the guiding surface so as to considerably reduce the contacting surface between the g... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5099290 | Continuous paper printer with monitoring time period in which the paper feed speed is lower than when printing A continuous-paper electrophotographic printer prevents the printed paper from being either scorched or needlessly paid out during periods when printing is halted to enable receipt of a next batch of printing data. This is accomplished by reducing the pap... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5074449 | Paper cutting apparatus A paper cutting apparatus for use in combination with a facsimile telecommunications machine to neatly and efficiently sever paper dispensed from a facsimile machine. The apparatus of the present invention is usually of a unitary construction and includes... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5072306 | Sheet feeding device for facsmile apparatus A compact and efficient facsimile machine sheet feeding device can automatically select either roll or cut sheet paper supplies in response to received signals indicating the size of the remotely located original document being electronically transmitted ... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5068743 | Facsimile recording apparatus with page cutting or continuous feed mode depending on mode setting or on number of pages to be received A facsimile apparatus including: a mode setting unit for setting one of a cut-off mode in which a recording paper on which received image data is recorded is cut off page by page and discharged, and a continuous mode in which the recording paper is contin... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5036359 | Method and apparatus for supplying material in web form Method and apparatus for determining the width and location of stored rolls of receiving material in web form, in which an unrolled initial strip of an inserted roll is fed past a measuring device disposed along a transport path provided jointly for recei... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4975781 | Apparatus for preventing paper clogging in a recording device A recording apparatus of the type using a roll of recording paper in which recording paper unrolled from the roll is cut by a rotary cutter after completion of a recording operation and thereby a section of recording paper on which recording has been effe... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4969016 | Device applicable to an image recording apparatus for feeding a rolled recording medium A device installed in an imsge recording apparatus for pulling out the leading edge of a rolled recording medium such as a rolled paper and then cutting the recording medium at a predetermined length as measured from the leading edge to feed the resulting... | 11/06/1990 |
