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Class 400/525 - Card holder carrier by platen


Subclass of Class 400 - Typewriting machines
Definition: Subject matter wherein the retaining means is supported
No. of patents: 13
Last issue date: 06/20/2006


NumberTitleIssue Date
7063013Card-flipping device for use in card printers
A card-flipping device for a card printing apparatus is provided. The card-flipping device comprises a card-carrier unit for transporting the card in a vertical direction, a motor drive means for moving the unit in the vertical direction, and an actuator assembly in...
06/20/2006
7004461Device for isolating and feeding the lowest sheet in each case from a stack
In a device for isolating and feeding the lowest sheet (1) in each case from a stack (2), with pushing-out elements (9) which grip the rear edge (3a, 3b) of the sheet (1) and transport it through, under a front...
02/28/2006
6776542Ticket issuing system
A ticket issuing system for facilitating processing and printing of citations. The ticket issuing system includes a housing being designed for being held in a hand of a user. An information assembly is positioned in the housing. The information assembly is designed ...
08/17/2004
6105493Elevator card transporting mechanism for a printer
The present invention provides a transport mechanism, and method, for transporting plastic cards, such as credit cards, identification cards, and the like, past a printing apparatus within a printer. The transport mechanism includes a lifting and rotating...
08/22/2000
5882127Card printer and method of printing on cards using the same
A card printer includes a card supply mechanism (20) for forwardly feeding cards one after another from a stack thereof held by a card stocker (21), a card carrier table (20) having an upper surface for supporting each of the cards fed from the card suppl...
03/16/1999
5667316Card printing apparatus
An apparatus for printing plastic cards consists of a thermal transfer printing station including ribbon and a thermal printhead for printing an image on a receptor surface of a receptor card, and a guided carriage for transporting the receptor card benea...
09/16/1997
5516218Card printer
A card printer is provided which comprises a printhead, a carrier table reciprocatively movable along a movable path in facing relation to the printhead, a drive mechanism for reciprocating the carrier table, a card transfer mechanism for successively fee...
05/14/1996
5468079Printer for printing on cards
A printing apparatus comprises a card transport mechanism for printing on a card-like medium. A slider is provided having a card stop against which one edge of the card stops and a holding mechanism holds the card to the slider. A guide frame is further p...
11/21/1995
5423619Card printing apparatus
When a magnetic head is fed in one direction by a card stage, ID information recorded in a magnetic stripe on a lowermost one of vertically stacked cards in a card stock unit is read by the magnetic head. Then, the lowermost card is carried by the card st...
06/13/1995
5326179Apparatus for producing an information recording card
The card producing apparatus which records magnetic data or printed data on many cards, which washes the cards and records predetermined data on predetermined areas of the cards so that there will not develop erroneous recording, and which rejects cards i...
07/05/1994
4813799Document printing aid for microcomputer printers
The invention is a document printing aid for microcomputer printers. The invention includes a flexible mask of material, larger than the document to be printed, with an outline of the document on the face of the mask. The printing aid is inserted into a m...
03/21/1989
4487645Sheet carrier for tractor-feed printers
Prior art methods of transporting sheets of paper such as letterhead sheets through tractor-feed printers have included the use of glue, and of vacuum, to hold the sheet onto a carrier. (The carrier has a series of holes along each of its edges characteri...
12/11/1984
3985852Method of making tubular plastic sleeves
Method of making marker assemblies comprising an elongate denticule whose flat, pendent tines bear in snug and slidable relation heat recovered sleeves which conform to the flattened configuration of the tines. After positioning generally tubular heat rec...
10/12/1976
 
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