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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5647679 | Printer for printing on a continuous print medium A thermal printer for printing on a continuous print medium by ink transfer from a thermal print ribbon has a print head which is pivotally mounted and which is driven in an oscillatory nodding motion by a stepper motor so as to repeatedly to bring a line... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5601022 | Process and device for producing a printing form with a narrow transfer foil In order to permit a printing form to be produced by laser-induced thermotransfer in a simple manner that can be integrated into the printing machine, without the gases which arise during laser imaging detectably disturbing the transfer of material from t... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5490733 | Recording apparatus and method of ink sheet type determination A recording apparatus for performing recording by transferring ink on an ink sheet onto recording medium includes a sensor for determining the type of ink sheet to be used for recording, a recorder for performing recording by transferring the ink on the i... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5424762 | Color printer capable of utilizing a jointed color ink sheet The provision is made of a firmware (F/W: ROM, RAM) which enables an accurate indexing of an ink sheet so that printing is not performed at the joint portion when an ink sheet having a joint is used. Therefore, an ink sheet having a joint can be used, dec... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5293530 | Thermal transfer recording apparatus and facsimile apparatus using the aforesaid apparatus A thermal transfer recording apparatus for performing the recording of an image on a recording medium by transferring ink contained in an ink sheet to the recording medium has an ink sheet, a conveyance unit for conveying the ink sheet, a recording medium... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5281977 | Thermal transfer recording apparatus There is disclosed a thermal transfer recording apparatus capable of regulating the amount of transport of ink sheet according to the selected recording sheet, thereby maintaining uniform quality of image recording. The apparatus is provided with an ink s... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5245354 | Thermal transfer recording apparatus and method with improved ink sheet transport A thermal transfer recording apparatus which performs image recording by causing a recording head to act on an ink sheet so as to transfer ink from the ink sheet onto recording paper. Changes in the take-up amount of the ink sheet, which is fed by being w... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5184151 | Thermal transfer recording apparatus and facsimile apparatus A thermal transfer recording apparatus, which transfers ink contained on an ink sheet onto a recording medium to record images thereon, and comprises a means for conveying the ink sheet and recording medium; recording means for effecting the ink sheet to ... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5162815 | Thermal printing apparatus with tensionless donor web during printing A thermal printer includes motor control apparatus for variably controlling the rotational speed of a take-up spool used to wind-up an expended dye-bearing donor web after passage through a print zone. The donor web is moved through the print zone at a su... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5121136 | Recorder for thermal transfer recording operations A recorder has a feeder for feeding a sheet of recording paper and an ink sheet wound around a circumferential face of a winding member from a supplying roller portion between a recording head and a platen in a state in which the ink sheet overlaps with t... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4739343 | Thermal printing system for postage meter mailing machine application The electronic postage meter includes a microcomputer controlled thermal head opposite a scavenging roller and suitable means of cleaning the scavenging roller. A cassette containing a thermal transfer tape coated on one side with a thermal sensitive ink ... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4426168 | Serial impact printer for multicolor printing A serial impact printer capable of performing multicolor printing at high speed. In this printer an inked ribbon divided into multiple colored bands each along the longitudinal direction thereof is arranged to extend and move in a direction intersecting t... | 01/17/1984 |
