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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7214897 | Illuminated keyboard with illuminated patterns displayed on top surface of keyboard An illuminated keyboard with illuminated figures being formed on the top surface of the keyboard including: a top cover, a bottom cover, a plurality of keys and an electroluminescent board. The top cover accommodates the keys and is combined with the bottom cover. T... | 05/08/2007 |
| 5791792 | Ideographic typewriter and method Ideographic typewriter and method in which a set of characters are printed on a keyboard panel in optically readable form and scanned to provide a bit map of a character which is to be printed. A printer is actuated in accordance with the bit map to form ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 4813798 | Lighting arrangement for typewriters or printers Described is a lighting arrangement for typewriters or printers, which is arranged on a light shade member (4, 14) above the printing or typing mechanism well. For that purpose a fluorescent tube (6) may be disposed in a separate tube (7) at the front edg... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4722621 | Keyboard assembly and recording apparatus A keyboard assembly for selecting characters to be recorded includes a substrate carrying an array of characters arranged on one face thereof. A character selection device moves between advanced and retracted positions along each of two axes of the array ... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4626117 | Typewriter A typewriter comprises a carriage (1) sliding parallel to a platen (3). The typing device (2) operates in a printing zone which is displaced along this platen (3). The casing (7) of the machine is open above the platen (3) and has a transparent anti-noise... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4447148 | Edge printing device An Edge Printing Device is utilized adjacent to the exposure station of a document reproducing apparatus having an auxiliary document handling apparatus mounted over the exposure station. The documents, moving over the exposure station drive a friction ro... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4428695 | Cartridge with self adjusting pressure roller and end of ribbon detection means A cartridge which contains two spools. The supply spool has wound about it a printing ribbon and the take-up spool being used for wrapping the used ribbon. The cartridge has a ribbon exit at one location and a ribbon entry at a remote location to define a... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4385461 | Sequentially highlighting copy holder This sequentially highlighting copy holder employs fields of light as the frame of reference for an operator of a keyboard machine in keeping the place in the text of a document page. The page is affixed upon the copy holder for processing and is illumina... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4015343 | Testing apparatus A person being tested looks into a mirror through which is exhibited on a surface displaced upwardly from the striking row a previously prepared sheet of paper inserted into a conventional typewriter. The path of viewing passes through a Dove prism or oth... | 04/05/1977 |
| 3981388 | Automatic bottom margin signal system for typewriters A device for detecting the trailing end of a sheet inserted in a typewriter including a rod adjustably mounted on the carriage, extending below the platen and a transparent table for carrying the sheet. A reflective plate is positioned above the table, an... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3931761 | Method of continuous printing of documents A process and printer are described for the rapid printing of documents, wherein the paper is continuously moved in front of static pinpoint printing heads covering the entire section of the printing surface, transverse to the direction of movement of the... | 01/13/1976 |
