Patent · US Expired

Printer/plotter style system for confined installation and method

US4042939A · kind A · utility

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17Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 12, 1975
Grant dateAug 16, 1977
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Expiry dateSep 12, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T156/1064
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Recording machine such as electrostatic printer/plotter or facsimile plotter includes housing construction and associated operating components whereby overall external width reduction is accomplished without loss of function using liftable lid and method of cross-bracing. Machine serviceable through removable bottom closure panel supporting an electronic chassis. Operating stations, such as recording assembly including both electrostatic latent image recording station and a toner developing station, and web-cutting assembly each includes portions in both lid and base of housing to be yieldingly held together in cooperating relation by hinged latching panel in which the hinge pin supplies spring action to urge and retain the latching panel in its detented position.

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