Quotables
"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Samuel Clemens
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6880996 | Method and apparatus for printing on smartcards and the like A method for printing on a smart card using the printer of a postage meter is disclosed. The postage meter has a feed mechanism for feeding mail items past a print head and the construction of the feed mechanism is such that the spacing of adjacent feed rollers is g... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6471424 | Printer suitable for printing on a surface other than a printed surface A printer is provided, which comprises a printer body 20 including a paper sheet feeding unit for setting paper sheets therein for printing and a paper sheet discharging unit, and a printer controller 10 of the printer body 20. When setting again paper sh... | 10/29/2002 |
| 5515088 | Method and device for controlling the paper feed in a processor-driven printer The device embodying the invention is intended to equip a processor-driven printer comprising a hopper capable of containing and supporting a freely rotating roll of paper, a guide and drive means enabling the web of paper to be led from the roll to a dri... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5216444 | Apparatus for controlling reference position of paper in a multiple-time recorder and control method thereof In a multiple-time recorder in which different colored recordings are superimposed on a single sheet to draw a multi-colored drawing, the reference position of the recording paper must remain at a same point for each-time drawing of a single color. At an ... | 06/01/1993 |
| 4589143 | Information processing mechanism with combined printing and reading device An information processing mechanism having a combined printing and reading head wherein the reading head is maintained as close as possible to the printing head by providing means for deflecting light entering the reading head so that the organization of ... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4531851 | Mark detector for printers In order to control the movement of a label web to be imprinted past the printing head of a thermal printer, or the like, the label web carries optically detectable marks at predetermined intervals therealong. The label web is comprised of label pieces ad... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4494127 | Apparatus and method for recording both machine-readable and printed information A device for recording both machine readable information and visible information on a recording member such as a time-card or ledger card or pass-book with a strip of magnetic record material on it. The device includes recording apparatus for recording ma... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4363557 | Marking device for shorthand machine A marking device for a shorthand machine selectively marks the margins of the paper tape output of the shorthand machine to denote a portion of the shorthand notes for ready reference. The activating keys for the device are located in close proximity with... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4227644 | Document feed apparatus Stop marks are printed on a document such as a bank passbook to indicate the position of the last data entry. The passbook is fed into the present apparatus until the lowermost stop mark is sensed. The passbook is stopped after a predetermined number of t... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4054198 | Magnetic head control assembly for a magnetic passbook printing system A printing apparatus is provided for printing on a document or bank passbook which has affixed thereto a magnetic stripe on which information with respect to the print operation is written and/or read by a magnetic head scanning assembly. The printing app... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4039069 | Magnetic stripe passbook and scanner for document printing apparatus A printing apparatus is provided for printing on a document, such as a bank passbook, which has affixed thereto a magnetic stripe on the cover on which information with respect to the print operation to be performed is written and/or read by a magnetic sc... | 08/02/1977 |
| 3978964 | Magnetic head control assembly for a magnetic passbook printing system A printing apparatus is provided for printing on a document or bank passbook which has affixed thereto a magnetic stripe on which information with respect to the print operation is written and/or read by a magnetic head scanning assembly. The printing app... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3951251 | Document positioning means for printing apparatus A document positioning device is provided having a document holder or carrier which is driven by a stepper motor to position a document clamped therein for printing thereon. A row of light sources, e.g. light emitting diodes (LEDs) are pre-positioned and ... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3942622 | Document stop and position indicator mechanism For use in a business machine having a printer and a platen for backing documents during printing, a document stop and position indicator mechanism comprising, in preferred form: movable document stop means for vertically supporting a document at a presel... | 03/09/1976 |
