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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7300220 | Hand-separable ribbon spool assembly A hand-separable ribbon spool shaft assembly adapts a plain ribbon spool so as to provide drive and location functions. The shaft assembly is composed of at least two shaft parts that are assembled to the ribbon spool and cooperate to provide a manual hand-action lo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 6309118 | Ink ribbon An ink ribbon adapted to be used for a sublimation type thermal transfer printer, said ink ribbon comprises a ribbon-shaped substrate, ink layers formed on a surface of said substrate and containing dyes, sensor marks formed on said surface of said substr... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6224276 | Ink ribbon cartridge including ink ribbon damaging means and rotation direction restricting means The reuse of an ink ribbon is prevented and the image quality and the proper paper feeding operation are secured by providing an ink ribbon damaging means to a ink ribbon cartridge of a color video printer. For example, a ring cutter is provided to the sp... | 05/01/2001 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4990007 | Single-run typewriter ribbon cartridge having a reverse winding arrangement An ink ribbon cartridge for use in an office machine includes a housing; a ribbon; a supply reel for storing unused ribbon wound thereon and a take-up reel for storing used ribbon wound thereon, a drive roller rotatably supported in the housing; and an ar... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4773774 | Printer with erasing ribbon control function Disclosed is a printer having a correction ribbon tape for correcting printed characters. A plurality of characters printed in the same print position can be corrected in one step of feed of the correction ribbon tape.... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4684276 | Individual sheet feeder device for printer A printer device for the individual feed of pre-printed sheets or tickets through a sheet guide channel to a printer platen of an associated printer comprises at least two sensors. The at least two sensors are connected to the inputs of a control processo... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4647238 | Printer with a control for feeding disposable ribbon with minimum waste length A printer using a disposable ribbon which is fed from a feed section toward a take-up section of a feeding device upon completion of printing of each line of characters. The printer comprises a memory for storing position data representing a feed-side end... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4606661 | Proportional vertical and horizontal ribbon tracking for impact printers A method of and apparatus for proportional ribbon (23) tracking on a printer (20), the printer (20) including a carrier (30) upon which implements of printing, for example the printwheel (25), ribbon (23) and hammer (28) are all mounted for translation op... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4558963 | Feed rates and two-mode embodiments for thermal transfer medium conservation Conservation of ribbon 40 is achieved by underfeeding ribbon 40 relative to movement of thermal printhead 16. Pressure of printhead 16 may be low enough that smearing from a typical ribbon 40 does not occur. Gears 208, 210, 212, 214 and 216 may be positio... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4329072 | Ribbon feed and lift mechanism for a typewriter In a daisy wheel or rotary print wheel typewriter, a single motor (stepper motor) is employed to accomplish both ribbon lift and feed for typewriter ribbon and correction ribbon loaded in a cartridge assembly. A single motor drive moves a cartridge assemb... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4319850 | Method and means for storing typing ribbon A method of respooling used typing ribbon of the type comprising an ink, a binder and a plastic substrate is disclosed wherein the substrate is stretched after the ribbon has been typed upon in a preferential direction to a degree such that the ribbon und... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4131372 | Endless fabric ribbon cassette for typewriters or like machines A fabric ribbon cassette wherein an endless folded fabric ribbon is drawn across the printing point of a typewriter or like machine by feed gears which are couplable to and driven by machine mounted feed gears which are also designed to feed cassette supp... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4033445 | Ribbon feed device for office machines A ribbon feed device for a ribbon in a cartridge, comprises means for supporting the cartridge with spools therein engaged on hubs of the device, guide means for guiding a length of ribbon looped out of the cartridge, and a single control member operable ... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4010839 | Cartridge for a ribbon of a typewriter or like office machines A cartridge for a carbon ribbon of an office machine, comprises a container in which are rotatable a feed spool and a take-up for the carbon ribbon. The carbon ribbon passes from the feed spool out of a first aperture and back into the container through a... | 03/08/1977 |
| 4007823 | Typewriter correction materials employing adhesives Typewriter correction materials employing adhesives including a base strip of light-transmitting material. A transfer strip having a coating of ink thereon is bonded to the base strip and a character-removing strip having a coating of an adhesive thereon ... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3977512 | Ribbon cassette and ribbon advance A cassette for a printer for supplying mobius loop ink ribbon to the print head which includes a means for inking the ribbon as it is returned to the cassette and a means for storing the ribbon by randomly stuffing the ribbon in convolutions therein. The ... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3960259 | Ribbon cartridge for typewriter, calculating, accounting or like office machines A cartridge for an ink or carbon ribbon of an office machine comprises a container of parallelepipedal form in which a pair of spools are rotatable for the ink or carbon ribbon. A part of the ink or carbon ribbon extends through one aperture to the exteri... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3935939 | Automatic threading of a typing ribbon A holding device for temporarily holding the free end of a typing or printing ribbon to permit it to be automatically wound around the core of a takeup reel in an automatic ribbon fastening system. The reel has one flange part provided with a threading sl... | 02/03/1976 |
