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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7124799 | Lamination apparatus and method of use A lamination apparatus and method of use, and more particularly a lamination apparatus for automatically laminating photographs onto album pages is provided. The lamination apparatus includes a holder slidably mountable on a main body and having an exit region in co... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120381 | Image-forming machine A copier comprising rolled paper accommodation units in which the rolled papers are installed, paper feed rollers and paper conveying rollers for conveying the papers delivered from the rolled papers along a paper conveying passage, a cutter and an image-forming mea... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7093932 | Ink-jet recording device and control method thereof A reference position of any size recording sheet P within a sheet feeding cassette is located on a front surface side. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7005030 | Printing and laminating apparatus An apparatus includes a printer and a laminator operating in line with said printer, and a feeding device arranged along the media path between the printer and the laminator for feeding to the laminator the media that is outputted from the printer. The feeding devic... | 02/28/2006 |
| 5902059 | Printer A print head 6 is disposed next to a transportation path for transporting a cut-sheet form V. A guide frame 17 with a guide member 17a projecting into the transportation path away from the print head 6 is disposed on the cut-sheet form V insertion opening... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5480245 | Gaming device with an improved paper supply system A gaming device is shown having a controller that controls the operation of the gaming device and a printer that records events on paper in response to the controller. A first magazine is provided for holding fan folded paper to be input to the feed mecha... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5295752 | Printer using double sheets of pressure sensitive paper A printer using double sheets of pressure sensitive paper includes a casing having an opening at its upper portion, a paper guide disposed in the opening of the casing, and a paper support disposed under the opening of the casing. The paper guide separate... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5152623 | Printer accommodating two types of printing sheets A printer which can accommodate both continuous sheets and cut sheets includes both a continuous sheet path and a cut sheet path. A printing section is provided in common for the continuous and cut sheets. A manually slidable continuous sheet guide plate ... | 10/06/1992 |
| 4900173 | Method and apparatus for feeding sheet A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding a sheet to a recording station by means of rollers, comprising an automatic OHP sheet feeder, wherein the fact whether a sheet being fed is an OHP sheet or a separating sheet is discriminated; if the sheet is the OHP ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4813800 | Paper feed apparatus for printer A paper feed apparatus includes a plurality of guide ribs formed on a printer top cover disposed above a platen, the guide ribs being aligned along the axial direction of the platen, and a discharge roller is arranged between each pair of the guide ribs. ... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4655625 | Single station printer for printing on plural record media A slip/receipt printer is provided with a separator bracket attached at one side thereof to a forms compensating arm in cantilever manner. The separator bracket is biased by magnetic means toward the arm to provide a precise path for receipt paper. A slip... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4568950 | Postage meter-thermal tape pressure and drive control printer A postage meter which includes a thermal print head for printing indicia, postal value, and the like is disclosed. In accordance with the invention, thermal elements in the thermal print head are electronically pulsed in appropriate serially timed patters... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4421428 | Thermal printer The thermal printer pertinent to the present invention is of the type in which a heat sensitive paper having a coating of heat sensitive material on the upper side and a coating of heat fusible ink on the backside is used. A thermal head is brought into c... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4376589 | Multi-ply unglued paper drive apparatus Paper drive apparatus for multi-ply unglued paper wherein a centrally disposed pin wheel member is rotatable in contact with a backup member the latter having a central groove or slot into which the pins of the pin wheel member are rotatably receivable. U... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4266121 | Receipt slip issuing apparatus Disclosed is a receipt slip issuing apparatus for an automatic transaction system in which an identification card path crosses a blank path through which a two-ply details slip blank is fed, and a transcription mechanism for transferring card-borne inform... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4229113 | Shared document feed station A shared document feed station includes a common drive mechanism for normally advancing a receipt tape through a receipt tape zone and for selective operation to advance an alternative document through an alternative document zone. Document detectors sens... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4216719 | Printing machine paper drive Device for the insertion, drive and ejection of sheets of paper in a printer, comprising at least one automatic paper insertion path and at least one manual insertion path for cards or sheets, these paths terminating in an insertion point in the impressio... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4165191 | Web feed, web cutting and ribbon feed means for a stationery mosaic printer This invention is concerned with a mosaic printer, for example, of the needle print head type which comprises a stationary print head and means for feeding an article, for example a web of paper to be printed, in a direction orthogonal to a row of print d... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4109779 | Media positioning means for a printer A media positioning means for a printer having first and second transport mechanisms which are positioned in opposed relation with each other to form a common throat therebetween. Each of the first and second transport mechanisms includes first and second... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4074797 | Single station, plural function printer A single clutch and associated actuator mechanisms in a drive line for providing selective driving or feeding of at least two printing media for independent bi-directional movement of the media in the operation of a plurality of printing functions. The dr... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4059256 | Loading rack for minicomputer In a method and system for feeding prefolded recording web to a business machine, such as a computer, a plurality of receptacles containing the recording web are stored on upper and lower shelves of a portable rack positioned adjacent the computer. The sh... | 11/22/1977 |
