Patent Document ID: 3959780
Application ID: 05566457

Base Claim:
1. A printing control device for a printing apparatus, comprising, in combination: input means for feeding character signals and word positioning signals to distinguish one word from another, each word being constituted by at least one character signal; memory means coupled to said input means for storing the character signals in the same predetermined order as they are applied to said input means; means for detecting the word positioning signals each time they are fed from said input means; control means for reading out the character signals in a manner of word-by-word from said memory means, in response to the detected word positioning signals in the same order as they are stored in said memory means; printer driving means driven by the outputs fed from said detecting means; and printer means driven by said driving means for printing characters in a manner of word-by-word, including in each word the characters corresponding to the respective character signals read out by said control means in the predetermined order.

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Claim 2:
2. The printing control device according to claim 1, wherein said memory means includes a dynamic shift register including a plurality of memory units, each of which has a memory capacity of one character, forming a circular loop, and storing the character signals in series; and said control means includes a detector which detects the first one of the character signals stored in series in said memory means by selectively sensing the presence and absence of the character signals at both of any two adjacent ones of said memory units, and means for eliminating, after completion of the character printing, the character signals that have been detected by said detector and read out from said memory means.