Patent GB-993689-A (GB)
Title: Printing apparatus
IPC: B41J1/16
Filed: 1964-02-27
Abstract: 993,689. Selective printers. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. Feb. 27, 1964 [March 28, 1963], No. 8098/64. Heading B6F. Type-case machines ; type-case actions.- A line-by-line high speed printer is provided with a removable type-case cartridge 25, Fig. 1, which comprises a base plate 30, Fig. 2, having mounted thereon a continuous loop' track in the form of a monorail 31 a straight portion 35 of which has a stabilizer rail 39 separated therefrom by a groove 40 and type elements 50 mounted on the monorail 31. The type elements have depending portions 51, 52 which straddle the monorail and the portion 52 engages in the groove 40 to prevent lateral movement of the type element when struck by a printing hammer. The cartridge 25 further includes a retainer plate 63 the ends of which are cut out to correspond to the contour of wells 43, 44 in the base plate 30 the wells receiving a driving gear 74 and a driven or idling gear 75 respectively. Superimposed on the retainer plate 63 is a cover plate 66, both plates having aligned cut outs 68, 67, respectively, covered by a cover element 69 and serving for removal of the type elements 50. A pair of latch members 70 and 71 are mounted on the cover plate 66 for latching of the cartridge 25 to a stationary frame 26. A type element shield 72, Fig. 9, is mounted on the retainer plate 63 and has a depending portion the inner side of which may be provided with a bevelled guide surface 81 co-operating with a corresponding guide surface 80 on the type element 50. Hammer impression arrangements; electric signals inputs ; syllable and line type-selection.- The striking of a print medium 10 against the type elements 50, the type characters 54 on which may be arranged in accordance with a binary code, occurs under the control of a storage device indicating which characters are to be printed by the hammers 12, Fig. 1, at the various print positions. When a complete set of characters has moved past every hammer position a complete line of-dates will have been recorded on the printing medium 10. The printing hammers 12 are pivotally mounted on a support rod 14 and operated by electromagnets 15 whose armatures 16 displace interconnecting push rods 18 to pivot the hammers 12 forward against the bias of restoring springs 19. The strokes of the armatures 16 are limited by the cores of the electromagnets 15 so that the push rods 18 and hammers 12 move under their own inertia to strike the printing medium. Web, sheet feeding and guiding arrangements.- The printing medium 10 in the form of a web or sheet is advanced past the printing position in line by line increments by a pair of drivingly interconnected pin feed tractors 24 past stationary guides 23, 22. Type, dies and like printing surfaces.-The external surface of the vertical extension 51, Fig. 8, is provided with one or more type characters 54. The arrangement of the type characters on the individual type elements 50 may vary and a larger proportion of frequently occuring characters may be included in an alpha-numerical set of characters. Types and dies cleaning.-The base plate 30 and monorail 31 are provided with grooves 84, 82 respectively, the latter being so designed that it has a transverse wiping edge 85 (Fig. 7, not shown), formed in the upper surface 32 and a wiping edge 86 on the front surface 33 of the monorail 31 so that dust and other dirt particles collecting on the under surface of base portion 53 and bearing surface 57 are removed as the surfaces move over the wiping edges. Ink-ribbon mechanism.-An ink ribbon guide plate and type element shield 72, Fig. 2, for an ink ribbon 11 fed between a pair of rotatable spools.20, 21, is provided on the front portion of the retainer plate 63.