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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6926347 | Pickup truck with cab-over-engine and goods or passenger transport platform A pickup truck with a cab-over-engine and a platform for goods and passenger transport is provided wherein the platform comprises at least one longitudinal drop-level lower loading plate, and adjacent to each lower loading plate, at least an upper loading plate, rai... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6244768 | Resilient elastomeric line printer platen having outer layer of hard material A line printer with a hammerbank having print hammers with printing tips and a ribbon supported for impact by the tips for printing on media and a metal platen for supporting the media. An elastomer on the metal platen supports the media and has a layer o... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5613789 | Platen for impact printer A platen for an impact printer includes a hollow metal pipe having a hollow interior and inner and outer surfaces. A layer of elastic material covers the outer surface. A metal rod is inserted into the hollow interior and has an outer surface spaced from ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5310270 | Printing method for dot impact type serial printer A dot impact type serial printer is provided with a print head which has a plurality of print wires for printing an image. The print wires required to print a particular image are thrust toward a platen successively upon receiving a print timing signal, w... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5286124 | Platen knob A platen knob includes a first hollow cylinder having one bottom wall, a second hollow cylinder extending from the interior surface of the bottom wall coaxially with the first cylinder. The second cylinder is fitted on a shaft of a cylindrical platen thro... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5106218 | Printer with a substrate support, in particular matrix pin printer The printer with a substrate support (1) is furnished with a layer structure in a print support cross-section (11). The layer structure comprises a metallic print bar (13), a vibration-attenuating damping layer (14), and a metallic intermediate layer (15)... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5069566 | Acoustically dampened striker bar for impact printers and methods of assembly A striker bar assembly includes a striker bar body having a recess at each of its opposite ends opening through top, bottom and end wall surfaces. The striker bar body has a flat impact surface perpendicular to the top and bottom surfaces. Generally T-sha... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5032035 | Platen roll core A platen roll core has a plurality of roll elements, and spacers interposed between adjacent roll elements of attenuation of propagated vibrations. The core, seen in terms of vibrating system, is equivalent to the sum of vibrating systems independent of o... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5013170 | Plastic platen for typewriters or similar office equipment A method of producing platens for typewriters and similar office equipment. Conventional platens often include a large number of individual parts and are relatively expensive because of their high assembly and finishing costs. According to the invention, ... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4981381 | Platen roller with composition giving increased durability A platen roller includes a core member and a rubber member which covers the circumferential surface of the core member. The rubber member is arranged to have a hardness value of 95&#b1;3, JIS A, at 20° to 25° C. on the basis of JIS K6301-5.2 and a rebou... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4927280 | Platen roller A platen roller comprises a solid cylindrical base body which has rotating shafts secured to both ends thereof and a hard elastic layer which is applied to the outer circumference of the solid cylindrical base body. The ratio of diameter of the solid cyli... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4887923 | Platen roll There is provided a platen roll low in generation of noise with keeping superior printability which comprises a shaft and a single layer of rubber composition concentrically and tightly applied around said shaft or two layers of an inner layer of a resin ... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4737046 | Core member for platen roll A platen roll core member including an axle part, an external tube part coaxially disposed around the axle part and webs extending therebetween having a plurality of projections formed by at least one surface extending rectilinearly in the axial direction... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4573816 | Elastic bearings for shafts Elastic bearings supporting bearing bushings for shafts are mounted in recesses in plates of a machine frame. The elastic material is shaped so that, in at least one predetermined direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the shaft, its dimension i... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4453848 | Noise-reducing platen A noise-reducing platen comprising a circular cylinder, a hub disposed along the longitudinal axis of and within the cylinder, and walls for dividing the annular region between the cylinder and the hub into a plurality of separated longitudinal channels e... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4318452 | Noise-reduced constructional unit of a device The impact beam of a mechanical printer is constructed for noise dampening and yet exhibits a high resistance to wear. The beam unit comprises a block of dampening material which is held along a carrier support wall. A strip of metal is arranged along an ... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4279525 | Calculator printer having an acoustic noise suppressor An acoustical noise attenuating platen for an impact printer including lead material fastened with a thermoplastic compound to the rear surface of a non-rotatable bar.... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4247213 | Platen for printing devices A noise-reducing hollow platen having a hard external tube filled with steel or lead spheres.... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4215946 | Impact receiving structure for impact type printing mechanism An impact receiving structure for an impact type printing mechanism, in which vibration members for guiding along branched paths the vibration of an impact receiving face member, which is vibrated by the striking energy of a printing hammer, are provided ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4197024 | Acoustical damping for printer An apparatus for damping the acoustical impact noise traveling along a length of paper as it passes through a printer including resilient urethane foam rollers in engagement with a large proportion of the width of the paper with a pressure damping roller ... | 04/08/1980 |
