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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5104248 | Print wheel shift mechanism for use with a miniature printer In a miniature printer including a carriage for motion along a path in linear reciprocating directions having at least one cam surface, a frame including a projection adjacent to the path and a print wheel having at least two levels of print type, a mecha... | 04/14/1992 |
| 4632581 | Serial printer having trigger mechanism A type wheel stack, a typewheel mounting shaft and a motor are arranged on a movable carriage. The type wheel arrangement is rotatable with and axially movable along the shaft. The motor is coupled to the type wheel stack through a clutch and cam mechanis... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4629345 | Printer cartridge and cartridge retaining means A printer having a daisy type-wheel or the like comprises a carrier longitudinally movable along a platen and a carriage detachably and pivotally mounted on the carrier. Mounted on the carriage are a ribbon cartridge, the type-wheel, a hammer assembly and... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4600324 | Print thimble recognizing system for a serial printer In a printer adapted to receive any of a plurality of petal-type printing thimbles, each of the printing thimbles is provided with a recognition code-forming portion containing a plurality of protuberance-forming positions, the arrangement of protuberance... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4558964 | Print element and printing apparatus using same A printing apparatus having a simple construction is constituted by a print element with a plurality of resilient spokes which have type elements disposed vertically thereon and in two rows around the element and extend upwardly from a disc base in a cyli... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4512674 | Printer cartridge and cartridge retaining means A ribbon cartridge engageable with an upper stopper member of a cartridge receiving apparatus which includes a cartridge body of substantially U-shaped form having at least one front leg member and an engaging member extending from the at least one front ... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4501509 | Printer carriage and hammer assembly An improved daisy-wheel printer of the type in which a hammer contacts a daisy-wheel to print characters is designed so as to facilitate the position setting of the hammer and other movable parts for actuating the type head. According to the design, it is... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4382703 | Print element shifter An improved print element shifting apparatus having a shifting cam movable in an arc for moving a rotatable print element between two positions by means of a shifting solenoid, and for reducing the mid-stroke peak load on the solenoid. A load modifying li... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4351618 | Selection controlled print impression control for single element impact printers The impact velocity with which a single element printer prints is determined by the velocity with which the printing element is propelled toward the record sheet. The mechanism disclosed herein is capable of adjusting the velocity with which a print eleme... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4311400 | Shift sensitive dual velocity mechanism for a printer A single print element of a typewriter has the characters thereon impact a record sheet at one of two velocities depending on the area of coverage of the character. Each character on the print element is selected for printing by movement of one of a plura... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4277188 | Direct keyboard controlled rack shift device for a single element typewriter A device is disclosed for shifting a bifurcated rack from one position to a second position, thereby engaging alternate sides of a bifurcated rack member with a pinion in a spacially fixed position. The rack shift mechanism is controlled by a direct link ... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4225252 | Character selection for single element printer There is disclosed a selection mechanism for a single element printer comprising an operating link connected with the print element for the driving rotation thereof and having a first and a second input portion, and a modifying member having the link moun... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4099106 | Composite pulse motor for a timepiece A compound pulse motor for driving a printer or the like comprising an armature having linear magnetic poles and rotational magnetic poles and a stator having stationary linear magnetic poles and stationary rotational magnetic poles. In operation, the lin... | 07/04/1978 |
| 3952853 | Vertical shift mechanism A pair of electromagnets, each including pole faces separated by an air gap, cooperate with a permanent bar magnet, the ends of which extend into the electromagnet air gaps. Polarization of the electromagnets causes the bar magnet to shift into four possi... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3930569 | Power driven typewriter with flexible type head A power driven typewriter comprising a shiftable carrier supporting a rotatable and axially movable flexible type drum having a plurality of circumferentially extending rows of type characters thereon. Type keys, when depressed, each condition one each of... | 01/06/1976 |
