US3673955A - Means detecting non-rebailed print hammers to recycle the bailing means - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- B41J9/00—Hammer-impression mechanisms
- B41J9/44—Control for hammer-impression mechanisms
- B41J9/52—Control for hammer-impression mechanisms for checking the operation of print hammers
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- Pulfrey [73] Ass1gnee: Nortec Computer Devices, Inc., Southboro, Assistam g Coven Mass- AttorneyDanie1 M. Rosen 22 F'] d: 1 22,1 7 l 1 y 9 0 57 ABSTRACT ⁇ 21]
- Appl' SL103 A printer is disclosed having a number of hammers aligned along a transverse axis which hammers are in a cocked posi- [52] US. Cl. ..101/93 C, 235/58 P, 197/187 tion awaiting a print signal, means for simultaneously bailing [51] Int. Cl.
- This invention relates to printers having means to detect hammers which have not been properly positioned and more particularly to such printers having means to properly position hammers so improperly positioned upon detection of such condition.
- High speed printers require hammers which must be actuated at the precise time that type is moving into the print position. In order to assure proper actuation, the hammer must be positioned so that it may receive the full driving force and impact the paper with proper velocity at the proper time.
- hammers are driven by electromagnetic means.
- some printers employ hammers which are mechanically bailed and held in the cocked position obtaining the drive force by springs which are under tension when the hammers are cocked.
- springs which are under tension when the hammers are cocked.
- the stored energy in the cocked spring either aids the electromagnetic drive or has sufiicient'energy in itself to drive the hammers to impact. In any case it is important that the hammers be precisely positioned prior to application of drive or release pulses.
- the invention may be accomplished by optical detecting apparatus positioned along the line of print hammers just forward of the hammer faces when in their preprint position. If radiation from an emitting source is blocked by a hammer and not received at the other end of the line of hammers one or more hammers are improperly positioned.
- Each hammer 11 contains an arm .13 supported by two reed springs 15 in a suitable base or frame 17.
- a flat striking face 19 impacts one of: the print medium; ribbon; or type carrier (not shown), compressing them together to cause printing.
- the hammers 11 are shown in a rest position.
- a bailing arm 21 is driven counter-clockwise about shaft 23 by bailing motor 25 to cause bail bar 27 which extends the length of all the anus 13 to contact the bottom surface of arms 13 to push them against magnetic pole pieces 29.
- the hammers are held in the cocked position by the magnetic field emanating from pole pieces 29. Bailing bar 27 is returned to the position shown.
- coil 31 on pole piece 29 receives a pulse of electrical energy over leads 33 sufficient to counteract the holding force of the pole piece 29 and the hammer is released from the cocked position to an impact or print position forward of the rest position shown.
- the released hammer arm 13 rebounds from the print position, is suitably damped by means (not shown) and returns to the rest position. After a print cycle is completed, hammers that are released during that cycle are rebailed.
- an electro-optical system is placed along an optical axis 35 parallel to the transverse axis of the hammers 11 just forward of the location of striking faces 19 when the arms 13 are in the cocked position.
- the electro-optical system includes a light emitting diode 37 having a lead 39 from its anode and a lead 41 from its cathode connected to the printer logic circuitry 43, a collimating lens 45 is placed proximate to the diode 37 and a photosensitive transistor 49 having emitter and collector leads, 53 and 55, connected to the logic circuitry 43, is placed at the other end of the line of hammer arms 13.
- the effect is one produced by no signal received by logic 43. If any of these conditions occur, the logic 43 reactivates the bailing motor 25 to cock these hammer arms 13 which are blocking the transmitted light. Following the completion of the rebailing cycle, the diode 37 is again pulsed to determine if all hammers are in the cocked position. The rebailing cycle may continue N times where N is any positive integer between zero and a high value dependent upon the particular logic 43 employed. Following the last ineffective bailing cycle the logic 43 emits a signal over lead 46 to an alarm 47 which notifies an operator that a failureexists. The signal over lead 46 also shuts down the printer, awaiting attention from an operator. Shut down is generally not a complete loss of power since any data stored in the printer might be lost if all power were removed,
- the logic 43 may consist of any suitable response mechanism for accomplishing the foregoing functions.
- the logic may comprise a plurality of relays which will respond to the radiation signal for activating the bailing motor 25 and the alarm 47, as well as energizing the diode 37 in response to the end of a bailing cycle.
- Other modes of operation will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and the actual construction of such logic is not part of the invention.
- shut down may occur after the initial bailing cycle or after any number of rebailing cycles.
- the electro-optical system is only activated for a short period following a bailing or rebailing cycle. Therefore the life of the system is enhanced.
- the system is a fail safe system since any failure in the electro-optical system will cause the lack of a proper signal to logic 43 and will cause the alarm 47 to be activated.
- Typical elements that may be used in the electro-optical system are: Gallium Arsenide High Efi'rciency Emitting Diode available from the Radio Corporation of America, identification number 40736R, which diode emits infra-red radiation; Double Convex Lens available from Edmund Scientific Co.; and NPN Silicon Photo Transistor available from Motorola Corporation, identification number MRD 450.
- a printer having a print cycle and a bailing cycle comprising a plurality of print hammers each individually actuatable during a print cycle from a first to a second position for printing, repositioning means engageable with each of said hammers for repositioning said hammers from said second position to said first position during a bailing cycle, optical generating means providing an optical beam along an optical path along an axis intersecting a print hammer in said second position, detecting means positioned in said axis for detecting an absence of said optical beam after a bailing cycle indicating a hammer present in said second position after a bailing cycle and means responsive to the detection by said detecting means of said absence of said beam for reactivating said repositioning means.
- said optical generating means includes a source of radiation and said detecting means an electro-optical transducer to receive said radiation whereby said radiation is blocked by at least one of said hammers which is not in said first position.
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- 2. The printer of claim 1 wherein said detecting means is coupled to means for deactivating said printer if any one of said hammers is not in said first position after a bailing cycle. 3 The printer of claim 2 wherein said detecting means is coupled to means for reactivating said means for repositioning if any one of said hammers is not in said first position after a bailing cycle and said detecting means is coupled to said deactivating means for deactivating said printer after said moving means has been reactivated N times, where N is any positive integer.
- 4. The printer of claim 7 wherein said optical generating means includes a source of radiation and said detecting means an electro-optical transducer to receive said radiation whereby said radiation is blocked by at least one of said hammers which is not in said first position.
- 5. The printer of claim 4 wherein a collimating lens is placed along said optical path between said source and said transducer proximate to said source.
- 6. The device of claim 5 wherein said source of radiation is a light emitting diode and said transducer is a photo cell.
- 7. The printer of claim 10 wherein said optical generating means is momentarily gated on after activation and reactivation of said means for repositioning.
- 8. The printer of claim 7 wherein said first position of said hammers is a cocked position.
- 9. The printer of claim 8 wherein said second position is a rest position.
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Cited By (9)
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US3811615A (en) * | 1973-03-12 | 1974-05-21 | Ncr Co | Recording device control system |
US3874287A (en) * | 1973-06-05 | 1975-04-01 | Honeywell Bull Sa | Printing machines |
US3905294A (en) * | 1973-02-16 | 1975-09-16 | Pertec Corp | High speed line printing apparatus |
US3998313A (en) * | 1973-04-16 | 1976-12-21 | Docutel Corporation | Paper web and ink ribbon feed control for character printer |
US4044668A (en) * | 1975-05-16 | 1977-08-30 | Printronix, Inc. | Print hammer mechanism |
US4233894A (en) * | 1978-06-02 | 1980-11-18 | Printronix, Inc. | Print hammer mechanism having dual pole pieces |
DE3228546A1 (en) * | 1981-07-30 | 1983-03-03 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, Osaka | PRINT WORK |
US4379428A (en) * | 1979-07-24 | 1983-04-12 | Burroughs Corporation | Hammer locating and operational means |
US4675841A (en) * | 1974-12-23 | 1987-06-23 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Micro computerized electronic postage meter system |
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US3905294A (en) * | 1973-02-16 | 1975-09-16 | Pertec Corp | High speed line printing apparatus |
US3811615A (en) * | 1973-03-12 | 1974-05-21 | Ncr Co | Recording device control system |
US3998313A (en) * | 1973-04-16 | 1976-12-21 | Docutel Corporation | Paper web and ink ribbon feed control for character printer |
US3874287A (en) * | 1973-06-05 | 1975-04-01 | Honeywell Bull Sa | Printing machines |
US4675841A (en) * | 1974-12-23 | 1987-06-23 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Micro computerized electronic postage meter system |
US4044668A (en) * | 1975-05-16 | 1977-08-30 | Printronix, Inc. | Print hammer mechanism |
US4233894A (en) * | 1978-06-02 | 1980-11-18 | Printronix, Inc. | Print hammer mechanism having dual pole pieces |
US4379428A (en) * | 1979-07-24 | 1983-04-12 | Burroughs Corporation | Hammer locating and operational means |
DE3228546A1 (en) * | 1981-07-30 | 1983-03-03 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, Osaka | PRINT WORK |
US4472072A (en) * | 1981-07-30 | 1984-09-18 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. | Printing apparatus |
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