Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7349127 | Reading/recording apparatus, reading/recording control method, program for implementing the reading/recording control method, reading apparatus, reading control method, and program for implementing the reading control method There is provided a reading/recording apparatus which is miniaturized, by having a reading device and a recording device share a moving space on a shared conveying path used as both a conveying path for an original and a conveying path for a recording sheet, and whi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7198263 | Dual tray selectable sheet picking assembly An imaging apparatus includes a printhead carrier system including a printhead carrier configured for movement along a scan path, a first sheet picking mechanism, a second sheet picking mechanism, and a selector device. The selector device is configured to select on... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7177962 | Multifunctional apparatus having facsimile and copying functions wherein both functions share the same conveying path when reading and printing data There is provide a reading/recording apparatus capable of ensuring that a reading device and a recording device do not collide when the apparatus is miniaturized to thereby protect the reading unit and the recording unit by having the reading device and the recordin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7077589 | Image forming apparatus Recording medium feeding means includes a recording medium determination device, in which an arm biased by a spring toward recording medium loading means is rotatably attached to a lever rotated by a rotatably driven cam member, two holder segments are rockingly att... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6929414 | Reading/recording apparatus, reading control method, and program for implementing the method There is provided a reading/recording apparatus which is capable of properly conveying originals during original reading operation, even if there exists a state where a recording medium conveying device shares the same space with an original conveying path. A shared... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6871949 | Recording apparatus The present invention relates to a recording apparatus for recording with a recording section including a feeding section for separately feeding recording paper sheet by sheet and a conveyance route extending substantially straight for conveying a recording medium h... | 03/29/2005 |
| 5544966 | Printer with multifunctional paper handling capability Printer with multifunctional paper handling capability having a lambda rear front structure section, a first (P1) paper path for paper front feeding by a first removable tractor set (21), a second paper path (P2) for cut sheet frontal feeding by driving r... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5382104 | Printing apparatus In a printing apparatus comprising a first conveyance system (C1) for conveying a first printing medium (3), a second conveyance system (C2) for conveying a second printing medium (6), and a print head (1) for conducting printing on the first or second pr... | 01/17/1995 |
| 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 |
| 4984914 | Multi-task printer A feeding device for computer printers and the like comprising two platens each provided with respective pairs of drive sprockets and rotatably mounted on a common drive shaft, together with clutch means for selectably connecting said drive shaft to rotat... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4981377 | Printer for use with a continuous form and cut sheets A printer of a type ensuring a rapid and easy shift between a mode for effecting printing onto a continuous form and another mode for printing onto a cut sheet, comprises a delivery unit pivotally supported by a printer body frame. When the delivery unit ... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4832244 | Multiple sheet feed apparatus for a printer A multiple paper sheet feed apparatus, suitable for use with a printer, comprises a plurality of sheet feed mechanisms each of which comprises a sheet feed roller and a clutch spring which selectively assumes either a first operation state for rotatively ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4758845 | Thermal printer carriage-medium transport A thermal printer having a main shaft supporting a carriage mounted with printing mechanisms including a printing head and an ink ribbon peeling member for peeling an ink ribbon off the recording sheet as the carriage travels, and fixedly provided with sh... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4655626 | Electronic printer equipped with detecting device for an exchangeable sheet supplying unit An electronic printer capable of operating in a manual feed mode and being adapted to operate in two automatic feed modes, a first involving operation with a continuous sheet, tractor feed mechanism and a second involving operation with stacked sheet mech... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4615630 | Paper feeding control apparatus An impact printer having a roll platen on which a continuous paper is set and fed by the rotation of the roll platen rotated by a first motor, and a cut sheet is fed on the continuous paper by a feeding mechanism which includes feed rollers rotated by a s... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4572418 | Print paper feeding apparatus A print paper feeding apparatus wherein a discrete print paper is fed by cooperative action of a platen and rollers, while a continuous print paper is fed by cooperative action of a platen and a pin tractor. The print paper feeding apparatus further compr... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4563690 | Thermal printer A thermal printer of the present invention is basically constructed to use roll form printing paper, but able to use also fan-fold form printing paper by mounting to a casing; a guide shaft for fan-fold form printing paper instead of a roll for roll form ... | 01/07/1986 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
