Patent Document ID: 4178583
Application ID: 05888975

Base Claim:
1. A method of rotary printing comprising providing a rotor with a plurality of styli, curving sideways an elongated strip of recording material to conform to the curvature of said rotor, passing said strip longitudinally past said rotor in a direction transverse to the plane of rotation of said rotor, energizing said styli in a pre-determined sequence to form characters on said strip in longitudinal lines and transverse columns, said characters being horizontally aligned in said longitudinal lines, said energizing step including storing in memory character codes representing the characters in a message of a pre-determined length, reading said codes out of memory in the order in which said characters are to appear in successive columns, and utilizing said codes to control the energization of said styli to form the corresponding characters on said strip.

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Claim 2:
2. A method as in claim 1 in which said characters in each line form words and sentences extending longitudinally of said strip.