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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7168871 | Ribbon takeup device and printer with ribbon takeup device The present invention reduces the peak torque of a motor used in a ribbon takeup mechanism and makes the motor, used for driving, smaller and less costly. A ribbon takeup device includes ratchet wheels (5) provided on ribbon takeup axes (4), a feed cla... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7070347 | Printer with a pivoting gear mechanism A printer, suitable for use in a hand held printer, having a dual direction drive mechanism for driving ink ribbon in a forward feed direction and a reverse feed direction. The drive mechanism is mounted in a printer body, and includes a stationary gear drive assemb... | 07/04/2006 |
| 4332491 | Device for the feed and motion reversal of the ribbon for typewriter cartridges and cartridge therefore A ribbon-feed and motion-reversal device for typewriters and the like comprises an oscillating supporting plate on which a cartridge with the spools carrying the inked ribbon is placed, the supporting plate being coupled to a driving lever driven by a cam... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4265551 | Drive for transporting and reversing an ink ribbon, and for withdrawing the printing head in printing devices In order to enable ink ribbon transport and ribbon reversal on the one hand and on the other hand the withdrawal of the printing head from the platen to be performed by means of only a single motor, a pawl-and-ratchet device is provided between the drive ... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4205923 | Ink ribbon feed mechanism A mechanism for feeding an ink ribbon comprises a pair of ratchet wheels for taking up the ink ribbon, a feed pawl for rendering an intermittent movement to said ratchet wheels, a lever for preventing the backward movement of said ratchet wheels, a revers... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4182576 | Ink-ribbon reversing device An ink-ribbon reversing device for use in a printing machine having an ink-ribbon winding mechanism is provided. The device includes two ink-ribbon spools and associated spool gears mounted on separate spool shafts spaced apart from each other. A drive sh... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4165191 | Web feed, web cutting and ribbon feed means for a stationery mosaic printer This invention is concerned with a mosaic printer, for example, of the needle print head type which comprises a stationary print head and means for feeding an article, for example a web of paper to be printed, in a direction orthogonal to a row of print d... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4051943 | Ribbon cartridge A ribbon cartridge for typewriters having a plurality of type bars which have the respective type fonts or characters at the top portions thereof and which are struck toward a printing point on a platen during the printing operation. The ribbon cartridge ... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4037708 | Multicolor ink ribbon control for a typewriter A typewriter ribbon system comprising a ribbon drive device movable in response to the operation of a control device. The system allows the selection and printing of a specific longitudinal portion of a ribbon in the operative impact area.... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4025830 | Motor control and web material drive system A motor switching and control circuit is disclosed in which the direction of transport of web material transferred between two reels is reversed by detecting a condition requiring reversal, generating a reversing signal in response to the detected conditi... | 05/24/1977 |
| 3954167 | High speed printer Ribbon reversing mechanism in a high speed printer (telecircuitry) including a ribbon driving stepping motor and a print head drive motor both incrementally driven by pulses from the telegraph circuit. The gear ratios in the ribbon drive train are chosen ... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3948382 | Data terminal printing assembly An ink supply means for a matrix printer with means for replenishing the ribbon ink for increased ribbon life and a ribbon transport combining high-speed reversibility and means for preventing ink depletion and for preventing ribbon destruction at the pri... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3939957 | Carriage operated ribbon drive and reverse mechanism A printer arrangement of the type which prints data serially along a line on a record medium by relative impact of type characters and record medium through a ribbon. Printing is a mixture of stop and go printing, essentially a character at a time, and co... | 02/24/1976 |
