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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6789482 | Printing method, recording medium containing a program for applying the printing method, printer, printer driver, POS terminal, and POS system Color graphic-based receipts can be issued from a color printer without changing a monochrome, text-based application. The printer generates background image data by laying out multiple copies of unit image data representing a unit image used to build the background... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6644873 | Printing apparatus and printing method There are provided a printing apparatus and a printing method which are capable of setting the print line width on a tape such that the widths of the print lines are adapted to the ruled line spacing defined by a predetermined standard, as well as discrim... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6496275 | Character printing method and device There are provided a character printing method and device. There are defined print size alternatives to be selectively set to a print size of a printing area of a printing object on which is to be printed part or all of a character group including at leas... | 12/17/2002 |
| 5993086 | Character printing apparatus having judging means The character printing apparatus according to the present invention, in which an input character string is printed on a print medium, includes: eligible-subject-component-character displaying means for displaying an eligible subject component character; s... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5647676 | Document processing device having ruling function A document processing device including a keyboard for inputting various data and instructions, a print mechanism for printing on a print medium dot pattern data which are developed in a print data buffer, a memory for storing input data of characters and ... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5393147 | Tape printing device for printing characters and frames An operator inputs characters from a keyboard. The characters are stored in the form of character codes. The operator sets an overall frame and a partial frame to decide characters to be enclosed in the frames by editing character codes symbolically displ... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5108203 | Printing apparatus including error correction and memory means, for printing vertical and horizontal form lines A printing apparatus includes a print wheel having a vertical lien character, a minus symbol character, and an underline symbol character. A first control moves a carriage on which the print wheel is mounted at one of two pitches and a second control adva... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5044796 | Bidirectional printing method in accordance with vertical breaks The invented bidirectional graphics printing method includes software which first receives data describing at least part of an image to be printed, and then looks for breaks in the image. When a break is detected, bidirectional printing is allowed if such... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4983052 | Adjusting vertical line length in frame printer A printer with a frame-printing function can automatically print out a frame with horizontal lines and vertical lines well-conformed to each other. The memory device of the printer stores externally input format data including data of line spacing, data o... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4963042 | Horizontal line position adjusting in frame processing device In a text processing device, provided is an improved tabulation function. The vertical positions of horizontal ruled lines dividing two rows are calculated based upon the intervals existing between these columns. If the row interval is expanded or changed... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4946299 | Document processing apparatus A document processing apparatus has a printer for printing characters; a keyboard used for inputting characters such as alphabetical characters, symbols and numerical characters; attribute imparting circuitry for imparting an attribute to characters input... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4941108 | Interface for sending printer request signals to a printer Code data is converted to an intermediate code data, the intermediate code data is stored in an intermediate code buffer memory, the intermediate code data is converted to picture element data, the picture element data is stored in a page buffer memory an... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4906114 | Electronic typewriter An electronic typewriter has a function of making a rectangular frame, which is composed of a horizontal line and a vertical line. To make a frame in the course of the sequential input of characters, an operator moves the printing position to the upper le... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4773953 | Method for applying a creative design to a fabric from a Singapore Dammar resin coated transfer sheet A method for creating personalized, creative designs or images on a fabric such as a tee shirt or the like using a personal computer system. The design is first created by hand on the monitor screen of the computer system. The design so created is then pr... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4715006 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus such as a dot printer has a built-in character generator built in the printer and for generating a standard type font pattern signal, a removable character generator removable from the printer and generating a specific type font... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4710885 | Generating figures in a document formatter directly from a declarative tag A method for generating a graphical figure in a textual markup language used for document composition. A special tag in the mark-up language calls a procedure. The procedure consists of drawing a series of contiguous rectangular boxes, of very small exten... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4682902 | Writing plotting apparatus with keyboard A writing-plotting apparatus comprising a keyboard including a mode selector for selecting a writing or plotting mode, a carriage carrying a pen movably toward and away from a sheet of paper, a first memory for storing character pattern data representativ... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4606664 | Control of movement of printing base line A method of, and system for, efficiently managing a temporary base line move operation to obtain an aesthetically pleasing and understandable equation and sub/super-script printout, and avoid excessive keying and indexing calculations. A single control is... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4565461 | Pitch-changeable, cam-actuated paper feed for serial printer The printer includes a print head moveable in a lateral direction perpendicular to the feeding direction of a sheet of recording paper. The print head is supported on a carriage which is reciprocably driven. Different paper feed pitches are selectable dep... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4542384 | Electronic equipment with a printer Electronic equipment with a printer has a special graph print mode designation means, in which, when a special graph print mode is designated by the special graph print mode designation means in a graph data input operation, the print density of the corre... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4244657 | Font and method for printing cursive script A font of alphabetical letters is disclosed herein which is to be employed for the printing of cursive writing script. The font is characterized by the fact that all of the letters are formed to combine with sets or subsets of individual letters of the fo... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4181444 | Device for printing out indices and powers in typewriters A device is disclosed for index and exponent impression printing in typewriters. An exponent or index switching key has associated with it an edge detector, and parallel thereto, a state detector. A time function element which triggers a gate circuit for ... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4140404 | Printer for bowling score computer A dot printer compatible with a bowling scorer system is disclosed wherein game score data is stored for a plurality of bowlers; one character of such data for each bowler is converted to a dot matrix compatible format; and a columnar portion of each conv... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4031519 | Printer A printer responds to channel commands including coded data received over a channel from a data processing unit by printing characters represented by the coded data using an electrophotographic printing arrangement. The coded data received by the printer ... | 06/21/1977 |
| 3970183 | Random access line printer An impact printer of the dot matrix type capable of printing in either the forward or reverse direction. Means are provided for determining the position of the print head at any given instant. Upon completion of a line of print the print head is abruptly ... | 07/20/1976 |
