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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182163 | Label roll positioning device of barcode printer A label roll positioning device is provided for a barcode printer and includes at least one slide rail, at least one positioning rail, and at least one pair of roll retainers. The slide rail and the positioning rail are arranged in a parallel manner inside a housing... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7967516 | Portable printer and methods This is disclosed a portable printer that is easy to load with an ink ribbon cartridge and record members web supplies, that is simple, has relatively few parts, is lightweight and has a small footprint. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7524120 | Tape printer A tape printer capable of separating a print head and a platen when the print head and the platen adhere to each other while the tape printer is stored with a tape cassette uninstalled, keeping a holding member at a pressing position. A cassette cover has a pressing... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7438487 | Printing method and printing program In printing onto a creased paper with a fold portion, a printing method of the invention performs a warning step (S203) that gives a warning about the need of smoothening out of the fold portion; and a printing step that starts printing after the warning is g... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7404683 | Printer In a printer, when a cover is closed, a paper issuing path, and a paper setting path are formed downstream from a cutter mechanism in a paper transport path. The paths are switched over by a movable guide. During a normal printing process, the movable guide is swung... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7404684 | Roll sheet holder and tape printer A tape printer includes a roll sheet holder storage part of which a bottom is formed with a positioning recess which is rectangular in plan view and long sideways and has a predetermined depth. A discrimination recess rectangular in plan view is provided between the... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7399132 | Digital textile printer A digital textile printer includes front and rear feeding devices driven by a transfer axil within a driving panel of the front and the rear of a base to prevent distortion and wrinkle phenomena generating defective printing to perform effectively the textile printi... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7367372 | Printer There is disclosed a hand-held labeler for printing and applying labels and for printing tags. The labeler has a keyboard, a display, a scanner, and a battery-containing handle. The labeler is user-friendly and compact. The labeler can be easily loaded with label an... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7350992 | Center-justifying spindle assembly Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of di... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350463 | Spindle assembly Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of di... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7334884 | Recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus A printer shaped like a slim box includes a carriage which reciprocates in a main scanning direction on its front section. Ink cartridges separately from the carriage are detachably provided in an ink cartridge unit in a row in the main scanning direction above a ma... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331542 | Film unwind system with hinged spindle and electronic control of web tension A film supply apparatus supplying film in a foam-in-bag system having a film feeding device for feeding film from a film source to a location for bag formation, a bag forming apparatus, a foam material dispenser positioned for feeding foam material for reception in ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7311255 | Magnetic detection device A magnetic detection device has a roller unit to which conveying rollers are attached, a fixing unit that installs the roller unit movably in the direction to contact to or leave away from a magnetic head, and eccentric shafts that are provided rotatably between the... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303269 | Recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus A printer shaped like a slim box includes a carriage which reciprocates in a main scanning direction on its front section. Ink cartridges separately from the carriage are detachably provided in an ink cartridge unit in a row in the main scanning direction above a ma... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7284925 | Printer module for a printing array A printer module for use with like printer modules to form an array of printer modules includes a housing that defines a print media inlet and a print media outlet. A chassis is positioned in the housing. A print engine is mounted on the chassis to carry out a print... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284923 | Printer, a supply unit for the printer, and a member for accommodation in the supply unit A printer including a print unit, a supply unit for holding a web of receiving material wound into a roll, a system for unwinding the web and transporting it for printing to the print unit, which supply unit is adapted to carry an elongate member on which the roll i... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7255255 | Method and system for positioning guide arms in a strip fabrication assembly A method of dispensing a strip product using a strip fabrication assembly, by entering arm positions for guide arms of the assembly into a guide arm controller device, moving the corresponding guide arms of the strip fabrication assembly to the respective arm positi... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7216866 | Sheet transport path switching mechanism A sheet transport path switching mechanism includes a movable guide to be moved rotatably about a support shaft parallel to the width direction of a transport path so as to selectively take either a main posture where the movable guide directs a sheet to the downstr... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213993 | Thermally activating device and printer apparatus A thermally activating device has a pair of conveyor rollers which convey a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet while sandwiching the sheet therebetween, and a guide member provided at an anterior stage of the conveyor rollers for abutting on one surface of the heat-sensi... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7198419 | Apparatus and method of performing double-sided printing A method and an apparatus for forming an image on a medium having first and second surfaces wherein an image is formed on the first surface of the medium using a printing unit. After the image formation on the first surface of the medium is completed, the medium is ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7186043 | Linerless web utilizing apparatus and methods having dual function stripper element There is disclosed a printer with an arrangement for assuring that a linerless tacky adhesive-backed web is reliably fed. The printer has stripper elements which terminate at tip portions which extend into the platen roll to initially cut grooves in the platen roll,... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7128291 | Spool having an extractor bar A spool suitable for winding material thereon includes an axially extending body having a proximal end and a distal end joined by an outer surface. An extractor bar is mounted for slidable movement relative to the body for urging material wound onto the body toward ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7093933 | Ink-jet printer Many holes are formed in a platen that supports a paper. A suction fan generates suction force through these holes to thereby bring the paper into close contact with a surface of the platen. Ink ejection regions to which printing heads eject ink are set on a paper s... | 08/22/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7063472 | Sheet skew correcting apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet skew correcting apparatus, incorporated in a printer or the like to correct a phenomenon of obliquely feeding a sheet called skewing. The apparatus includes a transporting path in which the sheet is transported, a pair of registration rollers, a pair of timi... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7059794 | Methods and apparatus for bursting perforated paper stock Methods and apparatus for bursting perforated paper stock are provided. A feed mechanism is provided for feeding perforated paper stock in a feed direction along a paper path in a printer. The perforated paper stock has sections separated by perforations. A loop are... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7033097 | Portable printer having automatic print alignment A portable printer for printing on a roll of paper or label stock is provided having automatic print alignment with the width of the roll. The portable printer has a housing having a compartment for receiving the roll, a cover to access the roll, and a centering mec... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7011463 | Printer A printer having a roll paper compartment 8 for housing a recording paper roll and a movable divider 83 for adjustably setting one side of the roll paper compartment 8 to adjustably accommodate different widths of roll paper and to facilitate pl... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6987523 | Paper feeder and printer A paper feeding apparatus of this invention comprises a feed roller and a paper holding member for nipping and feeding roll paper; and a first paper guide that has a first guide surface against which the roll paper outputted from the feed roller is pushed. The first... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6981766 | Ink-jet printer Many holes are formed in a platen that is so disposed as to confront a printing head. A suction fan disposed under the platen generates suction force through the holes formed in the platen to thereby bring a paper into close contact with a surface of the platen. On ... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6959891 | Dispenser for multiple rolls of sheet material A dispenser for storing and dispensing rolled sheet material is provided. The dispenser has a housing which holds at least one roll of sheet material therein. The housing has a portion of an outer surface which is positioned against a support surface. The housing al... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6904843 | Jam resistant printer bezel An anti-jam bezel is provided for dispensing a flexible substrate from an output slot. The output slot has a front portion for outputting the flexible substrate and a rear portion for receiving the flexible substrate from a transport. A guideway diverges away from t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6829970 | Tape guide device for automatic roll tape cutter Disclosed is a tape guide device for an automatic roll tape cutter, the toll tape cutter including a tape feed-out unit housed in a case for feeding out a roll tape loaded in a tape loading portion thereof through a plurality of guide rollers from a supply roller th... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6799507 | Web printers A web printer has a buffer for adjusting the traveling position of the web under its slack status, a tension assigning unit for assigning fixed tension to the web delivered from the buffer, a device for detecting the traveling position of the web delivered from the ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6652173 | Ticket dispensing mechanism A ticket dispensing mechanism (40) includes a drive (42) receiving sheet material (24) from a supply (22). The drive advances the sheet material. A printer (48) prints ticket information on the sheet material as it is advanced by the drive thereby to form... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6622622 | Adjustable paper guide device Disclosed is a paper guide device suitable for a label printer. The paper guide device comprises left and right guide members defined, on one side surfaces thereof facing each other, with guide grooves which receive and guide both widthwise edges of paper... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6609844 | Portable printer having automatic print alignment A portable printer for printing on a roll of paper or label stock is provided having automatic print alignment with the width of the roll. The portable printer has a housing having a compartment for receiving the roll, a cover to access the roll, and a ce... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6602008 | Print-medium transport unit A print-medium transport unit including discharge rollers, a paper guide, and a lock member. The discharge rollers transport post-printed paper toward an outlet and can hold the leading end of the paper. The paper guide is placed upstream from the dischar... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6565273 | Printer that accomodates rolled paper having various widths A printer that is able to accommodate rolled papers of different widths. The printer includes a rolled-paper holder and a partitioning member. The rolled-paper holder includes a bottom wall having a first contact bottom portion and a second contact bottom... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6565274 | Sheet printing and discharging apparatus A diverter is integrated into a printer apparatus having a feed mechanism for feeding the sheet from a supply location through a printer mechanism to a collection location, and a presenter mechanism for drawing the sheet from the collection location to a ... | 05/20/2003 |
