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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 |
| 6648328 | Sheet transfer device with guide plates and hold rollers To prevent wavy swell from causing in sheet in transferring thereof and avoid wrinkle from being produced in later printing steps, there is provided a sheet transfer machine forward from a printing drum and a press roll. The machine is provided with upper... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6276848 | Thermal printer having integrally formed paper guide and frame A thermal printer for a portable electronic device such as a receipt issuing machine is capable of increasing an angle at which thermal recording paper is wound on a platen roller while decreasing running load and without generating static electricity. Th... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6109806 | Mechanism for preventing recording sheet from contacting print head in printing device A hot melt ink jet printing device 1 includes guides 27 disposed on a printing surface 11 of a platen 12 at both sides of a print area and guides 28 disposed downstream side of the platen 12 in a sheet feed direction F. Heaters 21, 25 are mounted on an un... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5842799 | Recording apparatus with sheet guide A printer is provided with a platen having a sloping plane platen surface, a medium guide path for smoothly guiding paper along the plane including the platen surface, a transparent open/close paper guide positioned above the medium guide path, and two pa... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5222820 | Method and apparatus for improving paper handling in a printer A sheet guide apparatus for a printer comprises a printing head, a platen arranged in opposed relation to the printing head, sheet feed tractor arranged upstream of the platen in a sheet delivering direction, a plurality of guide elements arranged downstr... | 06/29/1993 |
| 4729557 | Sheet feed device A sheet feed device applicable to a recorder such as an ink jet printer or a thermal printer has feed rollers mounted on the same shaft in a spaced relationship and platen blocks mounted in spaces between the feed rollers. A sheet fed along the feed rolle... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4666322 | Record carrier feed device Disclosed is a record carrier feed device in which a guide bar is disposed in a position where the leading edge of a record carrier wound around a platen is on the point of separating from the cylindrical surface of the platen in a direction tangential th... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4630950 | Paper bail for a printer and associated methods of operation thereof Paper bail apparatus for a printer comprising a frame mounted on a non-circular paper bail shaft of a printer and rotatably supporting a pair of rollers for contact with the platen of the printer along two separate lines of contact which are circumferenti... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4498792 | Printing and/or correcting device for printing machines The printing and correcting device is applied to a daisywheel printer and comprises a frame supporting a cartridge for a typing ribbon and a correcting ribbon arranged below the typing ribbon. The frame is able to swing as the result of operation of an el... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4453847 | Record carrier feed arrangement for a printer A feed arrangement for transporting a record carrier around and in intimate contact with a printing platen in a printer. The feed arrangement includes a rotatable guiding member in the form of a paddle wheel having a number of resilient blades mounted in ... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4410291 | Antinoise device for impact serial printers A serial printer is disclosed where the printing is performed by a printing head (22) mounted on a carriage (21) movable along the printing line, a transparent leaf (36) mounted on the carriage presses the printing support (25) (paper) against a platen (2... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4165188 | Ribbon mask and guide for dot matrix impact printers A ribbon mask for a wire or stylus-type dot matrix print head is carried with the print head, positioned between the print ribbon and the printing surface, and has a forwardly-angled integral flange extending from along a portion of the top of the main bo... | 08/21/1979 |
