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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7201522 | Printer cartridge A printer cartridge suitable for use in a cartridge-based printer houses and dispenses a roll of label media, and includes a housing having a top wall and a bottom wall. A yoke pivotally mounted between the top and bottom walls for pivotable movement about a pivot a... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7066670 | Printing method and apparatus A printer (24) for printing upon a continuous web of print receivable media (18) is provided. The printer includes a print head (28) having a media drive assembly side and a media drive assembly for moving the media across the print head. The me... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6910819 | Printer cartridge A printer cartridge suitable for use in a cartridge-based printer houses and dispenses a roll of label media. The cartridge includes a housing having a top wall and a bottom wall. A yoke pivotally mounted between the top and bottom walls for pivotable movement about... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6602007 | Pin tape for scrap removal A pin tape has a series of pins mounted on a pin tape, which can then be releasably secured at a desired position in a printing process and produce more efficient collection of scrap paper, thereby enhancing the efficiency of the crane process.... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6183406 | Printer tractor paper feeder and ironer A paper stacker for use with a printer which prints connected sheets that are to be stacked in a folded relationship having a surface for receiving the paper with a frame surrounding the paper that is raised in relationship to the paper in order to mainta... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6168332 | Transfer printing station with adjustable-width paper conveyor means A transfer printing station is provided which has two pairs of tractor drives movably arranged side-by-side on two drive shafts. During operation with only a single paper web, the unused tractor drives can be moved to a lateral parking position. The two p... | 01/02/2001 |
| 5868507 | Plotter having sprockets for driving sheets relative to a tool carriage and a fixed sheet support extending between the sprockets In a sprocket-driven plotter, a pair of drive sprockets are spaced apart from each other and keyed to a common sprocket shaft, and a drive motor is drivingly connected to the shaft to rotatably drive the sprockets, and in turn move the sheets engaged by t... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5816722 | Printer and tractor device therefor A printer allowing attachment and detachment of an external device for improving a paper feed system. The printer allows either an automatic sheet feeder for successively feeding a plurality of cut sheets of paper or a tractor device for feeding a continu... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5810494 | Apparatus for working on sheets of sheet material and sheet material for use therewith An apparatus for printing, cutting or otherwise working sheets of sheet material has a friction sheet advance mechanism and a sheet loading mechanism in advance of the feed mechanism having rows of sprocket pins cooperating with complementary rows of spro... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5791794 | Transfer printing station for parallel processing of two recording medium webs A printing station includes pins for engaging into edge perforations of continuous paper. The pins are mounted on a toothed belt at the gaps between the belt teeth. A two part pin mounting has a portion engaged between the teeth of the belt.... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5746525 | Printer and tractor device therefor The present invention is directed to a printer and comprises a printing mechanism, a paper guiding path connecting with the printing mechanism, a driving source for a paper conveying system, an output gear connected to an output shaft of the driving sourc... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5718526 | Printing method and printer using game A method and an apparatus for selecting printing either continuous paper or single sheet paper in a printer having a printing section at which each paper may be printed. Continuous paper is fed on a first path to the printing section. Sheet paper is fed o... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5573337 | Printer with device for noise leakage reduction To provide a printer in which leakage to the outside of noise produced inside the printer during printing using continuous paper is made low. A printer having a cut sheet feeder 5 which automatically feeds paper into a printing portion 4, an opening for c... | 11/12/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5516221 | Quick-attaching edge trimmer for pin-feed paper systems A paper edge trimmer for a printer using pin-feed paper with holed edges has a edge trimmer body that fits on a support member in close proximity to a feed roller. In several embodiments, the body has two opposing portions joined by an integral hinge and ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5244293 | Method for positioning web-shaped recording substrates in printing devices An occurring positioning error is electronically corrected during the positioning of edge-perforated continuous form paper (10) in a print position (PP) relative to a print station (13) of a printing device (1). Edge perforation holes (EH1 . . . EHv) on t... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5199806 | Apparatus for feeding individual sheets of paper as well as continuous fan fold paper utilizing a platen A paper feeding apparatus for feeding fanfold paper to a printer is provided. A cylindrical platen is rotatably mounted in the printer. A paper feeding tractor is provided upstream from the platen in a paper feeding direction. A power mechanism drives the... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5158380 | Apparatus for the transport of paper in printers Apparatus for the selectably alternative feeding of single sheets and of endless webs of paper in a printer includes a guide roll (7), and first and second groups (8, 9) of friction rollers concurrently movable between first and second positions to define... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5129748 | Compact printer having sheet and tractor media selections A sheet or tractor media handling system for a compact printer having a housing, a cut-sheet supply station and a rotatable print platen constructed and located to feed top sheets from said supply station through a print path ingress past a print zone and... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5127568 | Lid for sheet feed tractor In a sheet feed tractor, a lid confines a paper sheet on a frame surface when the paper sheet is conveyed on a belt. The lid is constructed so that it can overrun and return to its normal open position. The lid is constructed so as to include a lid member... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5123762 | Split tractor clamp for an impact printer A printer tractor drive assembly is specified having a belt with pins which engage paper which is to be moved across a print station. The assembly includes a split lid covering the paper being driven. One portion of the split lid can be opened to expose a... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5122004 | Printing system with a function of printing on labels A label separating system for separating labels from a backing web after the labels have been printed is disclosed. This system utilizes the paper holding roller which is used for holding paper against the platen as it is printed and a separating roller u... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5100251 | Paper tractor mechanism A paper tractor unit is disclosed. The tractor unit which is movably provided for a support member can be selectively moved between a position at which a continuous paper is fed and a position from which the paper is drawn, a paper drawing drive roller an... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5087142 | Sheet feeder for printers including means to control and detect the sheet A sheet feeder for a printer selectively feeds a continuous sheet and a cut sheet to a printing mechanism including a platen and a print head. The continuous sheet is fed by a pair of pin tractors and the platen while the cut sheet is fed only by the plat... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5069565 | Computer printer for printing labels and tags having vertically orientated tractor feed A portable personal computer printer adapted for printing heavy print media such as tags and label stock by drawing the media vertically through the printer without substantial bending of the media.... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5069564 | Printing system A printing system prints characters or figures on a label removably adhered to a backing web on a platen roller. Separating rollers are disposed on the downstream side of the platen roller. A backing web with labels fed out from the platen roller after pr... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5064305 | Pin platen mechanism A pin platen mechanism includes coiled springs mounted in respective retaining holes formed in a sprocket wheel for biasing respective sprocket pins to the outside at all times. A cam groove in a cam member has freely fitted therein projections of the spr... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5059049 | Device for adjustment of a printer For a simple adjustment of a printer from paper sheet transport to endless paper transport mode and conversely, an adjustment assembly is adjustable through selective engagement by a ram of the print head carriage according to the carriage position and is... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5048987 | Paper guide for tractor feed printers An accessory for use with perforated paper of the type used in electro-mechanical printers having a tractor wheel feed mechanism facilitates inserting the leading edge of a length of paper into the tractor feed mechanism. The paper guide accessory consist... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5034758 | Dust shield for a printer A dust shield for preventing paper dust from fouling a printer and printhead mechanism is disclosed. In a sprocket-wheel paper drive printer, the sprockets are at least partially encased as they enter and exit the holes in the paper. Paper particles are t... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5030024 | Sheet feeding device in a printer A printer system having a sheet feeding device for selectively feeding one of a single sheet and a continuous includes a platen arranged adjacent a printing unit; a sheet detector disposed on a sheet feeding path along which the single and continuous shee... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5017943 | Thermal transfer type color printer In a thermal transfer type color printer, an ink film on which plural color inks are sequentially painted in its longitudinal direction is sequentially transported forward between an ink film supply roll and winding roll, while a printing paper is repeate... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4934849 | Apparatus for feeding recording paper forwardly and backwardly An apparatus for feeding recording paper forwardly and backwardly in a printing apparatus comprising a pair of paper feed devices, one on each side of a printing unit. The upstream paper feed device is lower in forward feed speed than the downstream paper... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4896980 | Paper advancing system for high speed printers A method and associated apparatus for quickly and accurately advancing paper between the platen and printing mechanism on a line-by-line basis in a high speed printer for printing lines of text including a platen and a printing mechanism disposed adjacent... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4859098 | Paper feeder for a printer A paper feeder for a printer which is adapted for feeding both continuous printing paper and cut sheet printing paper. A second frame which may carry the platen supports the rear end of a first frame which in turn supports the tractor feeder in such a man... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4834277 | Paper feeding in printers The paper feeder incudes an upstream friction roller pair for single sheet feeding, a pushing tractor for endless sheet feeding, and a common downstream (behind the platen) friction roller pair. Each pair has one roller mounted on a pivot lever and the tw... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4828417 | Printer housing A printer housing which can be adapted for both cut sheet printing paper and continuous printing paper without replacing any of its paper guide members with any external paper guide members. The printer housing comprises a first cover which is pivotably s... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4828157 | Pin tractor assembly A pin tractor assembly for feeding a medium having feed perforations such that the perforations engage drive pins provided on an outer surface of a rotating endless belt which engages a pair of wheels rotatably supported between two spaced-apart frames. T... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4799812 | Computer page place marker A flexible elongated transparent computer page place marker having a longitudinal marking surface for locating specific printed lines of information on a standard printed computer page and raised projections extending from the underside thereof for engage... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4752145 | Variable length paper guide for paper tractors in printer facilities The device for paper guidance in printing facilities comprising a paper tractor that transports continuous form paper comprises a plurality of paper guide elements displaceably arranged on a transport shaft dependent on the width of the paper. Compression... | 06/21/1988 |
