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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5779376 | Printer carriage drive with movably mounted motor Disclosed is an improved printer and carriage drive mechanism. The carriage motor is mounted at a first side of the printer chassis, and an idler pulley is mounted at a second side of the chassis. The carriage also has a pair of idler pulleys. A single fl... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5061100 | Printer mechanism with vertically displaceable printing means for use with horizontal sheet feed mechanism Front and rear printers for use with a document transport mechanism. The printers are identical in construction with each having a compact housing in which the associated print head is mounted. The housing has first and second side walls, a front wall whi... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4542998 | Character set printing means utilizing rolling pressure contact for printing A printing apparatus is provided which utilizes rolling pressure contact for printing, and includes a plurality of sets of serially arranged character elements mounted for movement on the external surface of a printing drum. Movement of the sets to place ... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4459054 | Shared character selection, escapement and line advance system for serial printer A serial impact printer 11 includes a frame 15 mounted drive motor 47 coupled to a print wheel 31 to effect rotation thereof. The print wheel 31 is mounted on a movable print carrier 29 which serially moves from print position to print position along the ... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4437777 | Printer having plural type wheel assembly In a printer for desk calculators etc., return control means is disposed in order to control return means for resetting a carriage as well as a hammer to a starting position. When a type wheel has been shifted to a specified position in a carry direction ... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4436031 | Serial printer A serial printer having a carriage adapted to be shifted in the direction perpendicular to the direction of feed of a printing paper, hammer means opposing to the carriage across the thickness of the printing paper and adapted to be shifted as a unit with... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4430935 | Printer A serial printing apparatus is disclosed which has rotatable and axially slide-movable type wheels and means for supplying differently colored inks to the respective type wheels. The improvement in the printing apparatus made by the present invention comp... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4109778 | Transmission mechanism, notably for typewriters Angular displacements of a rotary member in, for example, a typewriter are controlled by moving a guide roller to shorten and lengthen the path of an elongate flexible member attached at one end to a rotatable stationary pulley and at its other end to an ... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4051942 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus for an electronic calculator or the like comprises a first type wheel formed with mathematical operator symbols which is fixed to a spline shaft and a second type wheel formed with digits which is slidably mounted on the spline shaft ... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4039067 | Character printing device A printing device employs a printing drum on the peripheral wall of which a plurality of character type are arranged in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction. The axial movement and rotation of the drum are independently controlled by c... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4027764 | Apparatus for confirming the correct impression of printing characters An apparatus for confirming the correct impression of printing characters wherein any of the characters arranged in at least one line circumferentially extending on the peripheral surface of a cylindrical printing drum is designated by controlling the ope... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3964592 | Printing mechanism for printing characters A printing mechanism for printing characters comprises a rotatable hammer confronting through a recording paper the surface of a character pattern bearing body having a plurality of character patterns embossed in a predetermined array on its surface; a st... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3963109 | Single element typehead positioning mechanism A non-homing positioning mechanism to effect type selective movements of a single element typehead by means of coordinate band systems wherein the coordinate band systems are cntrolled by a translator comprising a four armed cross-shaped member unidirecti... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3941228 | Electromagnetically operated printer A printer, suitable for operation by an electric computer, includes a traveling carriage. The carriage carries a type-head that is vertically and rotatably shiftable to properly orient a type element for printing. Movement of the carriage, as well as vert... | 03/02/1976 |
