Patent · US Expired

Line feed carrier return mechanism for movable printing point typewriter

US4388007A · kind A · utility

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3Claims

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Assignee

Triumph-Adler A.G. fur Buro- und Informationstechnik · DE

Inventors

Heinz Meier · Hohenhausen, DE
Egon Zurawski · Berlin, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 24, 1981
Grant date	Jun 14, 1983
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 24, 2001

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB41J19/94
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a movable printing point typewriter wherein line feed mechanism on a stationary platen is driven by type element carrier drive mechanism, provision is made to detect the distance of the carrier from an established left margin and, if it is too short, to move the carrier first in escapement direction a sufficient distance from the left margin and then in carrier return direction so that a line feed can be completed before the carrier is returned to the left margin.

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