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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7976232 | Printer for feeding a cut sheet and a continuous sheet A sheet guide member is provided on an upstream side of a second pinch roller holder in a sheet transport direction, so that even in a state where a first pinch roller holder is lowered at a time of a continuous sheet mode, a sheet is smoothly sent to a second pinch... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7001017 | Drive roller releasing apparatus for ink-jet printer A drive roller releasing apparatus for an ink-jet printer includes a drive roller separating mechanism at a drive roller to transport a printing material to a feed roller, to separate a pinch roller from the drive roller, and a controller to control the drive roller... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6030134 | Edible paper printer A printer (10) is modified to effectively remove the center tension rollers (154', 254', or 354') so as to avoid adversely impinging on edible paper (14) along the paper path (32) of the printer (10). A tray (282) may provide a wall (290) to define an off... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5913622 | Clutch for rotational synchronization between input and output elements of a printer during engagement/disengagement clutch cycles In a printer having multiple paper paths, each path is provided with a clutch and a tractor to advance paper between a printhead and a striker bar, the paper being selectively advanced along the paper paths. Each clutch has a timing pulley driven by a cog... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5121867 | Paper transferring apparatus for an electrophotograph type printer A paper transferring apparatus in an electrophotograph type printer includes rollers for transferring out papers from a hopper and through a transferrinng section to a discharge port, as well as first and second tractors for transferring continuous papers... | 06/16/1992 |
| 4944620 | Printer device for duplicate slips and the like A printer for printing data on an original slip and on a copy slip in which both are dropped into a guide chute. Feed and pinch rollers having a higher degree of friction that the friction between the slips tend to drive both slips along the chute and pas... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4789258 | Paper feeding and transport through printers Multiple paper sources, including several single sheet channels and a tractor driven endless sheet channel, feed a common channel; the single sheets are friction roller driven upstream from the common channel. The common channel is curved and feeds past a... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4735521 | Drive apparatus for a printer mechanism A drive apparatus for a printer mechanism including a printhead comprises first and second print medium drive means for feeding first and second print mediums past the printhead, a main drive gear rotatable in a first direction for driving the first print... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4662765 | Integrated printer and paper feeding apparatus There is illustrated and described a printing device having an integrated paper feeding apparatus adapted for supplying individual sheets of paper to the printing device to effect printing thereon. The integrated printer and paper feeding apparatus for th... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4639154 | Dual station printer mechanism A dual station printer mechanism (10) including a first feed roller (22), a second feed roller (24), drive means (16) having an output shaft (20) for driving the first and second feed rollers (22, 24) and coupling means in the form of one-way clutches (34... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4417825 | Print drive medium for line/series printers An improved print medium driving mechanism for a line or serial printer adapted for advancing either individual cut sheets or a continuous web having regularly spaced perforations preformed along its edges. The driving mechanism operates in either a frict... | 11/29/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4205770 | Selective feeding of record media A stepping motor drives an input shaft in a predetermined clockwise or counterclockwise direction and a pressure roller shaft is movable into engagement with rollers on the input shaft. The center roller of the input shaft is movable out of engagement wit... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4173420 | Paper feeding mechanism in a printer The paper feeding mechanism in a printer has a paper feeding roller and a pressure roller cooperating with the paper feeding roller so as to feed a paper sandwiched therebetween for the printing operation of the paper, and the pressure roller is mounted o... | 11/06/1979 |
| 3966037 | Equipment for handling different forms for an accounting machine The invention concerns a form handling device for an accounting machine wherein a continuous form, a journal form and an accounting card are independently supplied on the printing platen.... | 06/29/1976 |
