BE624778A - - Google Patents

Description

       

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  Printing device for recording information.



   The present invention relates to an apparatus for printing information on a printing medium and, in particular, to a printing apparatus for recording and invoicing the various credit sales transactions carried out at cash dispensing stations. gasoline or other similar establishments using a system of cards called "credit cards" provided by the customer.



   In the current practice of sales recording devices at gas stations, the operator first fills out a blank billing form with the information entered on the customer's "credit card", generally using for this purpose , a manual plate type recording device used in department stores. The completed formula is then attached to a fastening plate or other system to hold the formula,

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 so that the operator can fill in the various relative data
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 to sales made. At the same time, the operator fills in the relevant Information, such as the date and the name of the seller who has reread the Sale.



   The present invention proposes to considerably reduce
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 "take the necessary steps for these transactions, by eliminating the attachment board or any other system for maintaining the invoice, and replacing it with a board with a printing plan intended more particularly to receive the card bearing the seller's number and address, attached to said board, the latter being furthermore equipped with a push-in to receive the customer's credit card. The printing medium is then placed on the printing board , above the identification cards of the seller and the customer, and the operator then records the sales in the invoice form in the spaces provided for this purpose.

   This printing board is intended for
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 cooperate more partcul1;: rÛ) .. E-nt with a special recording device which can be placed near the petrol pumps and which, in short, has a bcîtif-r 1'ecte.nguJ (-read with an opening on its front face intended to receive the printing plate.



   When the operator has written each sale on the printing medium, which is provided with an interlayer carbon sheet,
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 the f.reC1atrf! ur device is set so as to print the total amount of the sale and the printing zone board with its printing support, on which are placed the cards of the seller and the customer, is inserted in the recording device at
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 t.l: I1VnS the front opening of it.

   Said board being co'plHt3Ir, cnt located in place duns 1j> rnl1chin>, a roller device advances to the tornati rue # ent on the printing medium to exert on it sufficient rolling pressure to print the various embossed indicia of the seller's identification card and the Customer's credit card on the printing medium *

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 as well as the total amount of the sale and the date, thanks to the action of the carbon paper interspersed in the pages of the invoice form.

   The actual recording device includes date rollers and print bars set to indicate the. amount of the sale and which are placed below the printing plane board, when the latter is fully inserted in the machine, and which project upwards through suitable openings provided in said board , in order to bring the various indices in relief on it in contact with predetermined parts (the printing medium, so that - when the roller device passes over it - it will print this information there.

   After the roll has completely passed over the print medium, the print plane board is simply removed from the recording device, / all information being accurately printed thereon in one quick operation.



   Accordingly, the object of the invention is to provide a separate print recording device and a print plane clipboard intended to cooperate together in order to print the desired information onto a medium. printing, this system making it possible to considerably accelerate the recording of sales in installations such as, for example, the. gas stations.



   According to the invention, the printed record of the desired information on the print medium will effect this virtually without the possibility of error or jamming due to improper interplay of the print medium in the apparatus. In addition, the actual printing operation can be carried out at a relatively high speed, as soon as the board has been mounted with a credit card and an invoice form, so that in points of sale with short periods of intense activity, any delay and loss of time resulting from waiting necessary to

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   1 * recorded from previous sales is completely eliminated.



   By virtue of this arrangement, it is possible to provide a certain number of these printing plane boards for the different sellers using, in cooperation, a single recording device, when the purchase price of recorders additional costs cannot be justified, due to only periodic activity.



   The printer recorder according to the invention, of the type described above, and which can be used with several printing plane boards, is provided so that each of these boards can handle various sizes of formats and various thicknesses of printing. customer credit cards, as is often the case with mutual arrangements between the Selling Companies.



   In addition, the information printed on the printing medium is done with great precision and very clearly and can then be "read" by suitable machines.



   The recording device according to the invention is provided with a mechanical locking system which makes it impossible to insert a clipboard into the recorder without first adjusting the latter to indicate the amount of the sale to recorder and which automatically resets the amount printing mechanism to zero each time the board is removed from the recorder.



   The above-mentioned printer recorder makes it possible to print on the print medium the amount of the sale simultaneously with any other desired information, such as that generally provided on the customer's credit card.



   Finally, the recorder according to the invention is of economical construction, fast operation, solid, and allows a clean and clear pressure.



   Other characteristics of the invention will emerge

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 of the description which follows and of the accompanying drawings in which: - FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a printer recorder according to the invention, showing the printing plenum board about to be inserted into the apparatus; - Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a printing plane board used in the apparatus of FIG. 1; - Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lower part of this board;

     - Fig. 4 is a plan view, on a larger scale, of the printer recorder shown in FIG. 1, the housing being removed in FIG. 5 is a front elevational view of the device of FIG. 4; Fig. b is a view of the underside of the device of FIG. 4; - Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the apparatus of FIG. 1, following line 7-7 thereof; - Fig. 8 is a sectional view of the device of FIG. 5 along line 8-8 thereof;

       - Fig. 9 is a sectional view taken generally along line 9-9 of FIG. 5, the printing board being shown in the fully inserted position; - Fig. 10 is a sectional view, on a larger scale, of the device of FIG. 9, following line 10-10 thereof; Fig. 11 is a partial sectional view of part of the device shown in FIG. 10, the printing plane board being shown partially withdrawn;

   - Fig. 12 is a partial sectional view, similar to that of FIG. 11, but taken at a slightly higher level, showing the various elements in their reset position when the printing board is completely removed from the recording device ;.

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  - the Fis. 13 is a sectional view of the device 1 # - 'the. 12, taken along a, - line 13-13 of the latter;
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 - Fig. 14 is a sectional view of the device of the
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 Fit ;. 12, the length of line 14-14 thereof; the Freeze. 15 is a perspective view of the rouleatix device of the printer recorder;
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 - Fig. the is a sectional view taken through the
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 lower left corner of the device. "1. 4, showing the roller device and the printing bars bent in
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 more details;
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   Tax. 17 is a partial sectional view of the device
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 roller tif, on the underside of the printer recorder *
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 in the position of printing a date on an invoice; '"- 1 Fin. 18 is a sectional view of the device of the Fiiez. 12, taken on line l-18 thereof; - Fig. 19 is a sectional view similar to that of the Fiiez. 18 , showing the position of the various reset elements, when the risers of a vante have been placed on the nuntratrice wheels; - Snow 20 is a sectional view similar to that of Fig. 19, showing in position des> 5l Orients de ren, so zero # ppyaa that these made turn aut () Mt1f'lue'1lent the rotating num.wheels to bring them back to their position 'ra; - the Fi. 21 is a sectional view the device of 1 Fip ,. 4 following the line 21-21 of the latter;

   - the Fie. 22 is a sectional view of the device of the Fis * 4, taken along ln 11; ne bzz thereof;
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 .. End * 23 is a sectional view of the device of the
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 Fie. 22 following line 23-23 of this right: 1st; - Fig. 24 is a sectional view of the F1e. 9th take
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 along line 24-24 thereof.
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 Referring first to In Fig. 1, we represent a

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 recorder printer 26 follows the invention, which comprises a housing 28 provided with an opening cover 30 suitably fixed - to the upper face of this housing, numbering wheels 34-42 protruding with their toothed edges through the openings in the cover.

     This also has several rectangular windows 44 directly adjacent to the openings, to allow visual indication of the position in which each of the wheels is placed. As will be seen below, a curved plate bearing the numbers 0 to 9 is attached to each of these wheels and placed below the windows, the number to which the wheel is set being thus seen through the window. correspondent 44.



   A rectangular opening 46, provided on the left face of the casing 28, allows the manual insertion of a printing plane board 48, in order to print 1 desired information on an invoice 70 attached to said plan. In reporan-c then more particularly in Figs. 2 and 3, there is shown a preferred embodiment of a printing plane board 48 constituted by a flat rectangular plate 50, molded for example, in one piece, from a light alloy. One of the ends of the plate 50 forms a handle 52 allowing the operator to easily grasp the plate to perform the various printing operations which will be described later.

   The upper planar surface of the plate 50 constitutes the printing plane and the various indicia protruding above the upper face will be considered to lie in said printing plane.



   The upper face has a hollow or depression 54 of rectangular shape to receive the identification plate which can indicate, in the form of protruding indices, in relief, in the printing plane., The name and the address. of the firm, the seller or other. user of the recorder 26. Since the. idea plate titication of the treating firm forms a semi-permanent part

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 recorder, it can be suitably fixed by screws or an adhesive material in the recess 54.



   Another depression 56 is provided to receive the customer's credit card, with suitable retaining tabs 58 and 60 provided, extending beyond the depression 56, to hold the card in place. Depressions 54 and 56 have a depth approximately equal to the thickness of the customer's thin and credit card ID plate, respectively, so that the raised indicia thereon protrude at the bottom. above the face of the plate 50, in the printing plane.

   A suitable notch 62 may be provided at the edge of the plate 50, near the recess
56, to facilitate insertion and removal of the customer's credit card, a similar notch 64 being provided on the opposite edge of the plate 50 to facilitate removal of the invoice form
70 intended to be placed on the recesses 54 and 56. Flanges 66 and 68 are fixed on the plate 50, their inner edges being slightly spaced above the plate in order to allow the establishment of the invoice form 70 in the below these edges (Figs. 1 and 9).

   The flanges 66 and 68 prevent the invoice 70 from lifting and moving longitudinally on the plate 50 and the ears 58 and 60 come into contact with one of the edges of the invoice to place the latter transversely with respect to it. to the plate. '
A rectangular opening 72 is provided on the. plate
50 to allow the raised indicia of the date rollers provided inside the recorder 26 to protrude through the opening in order to imprint the date on the invoice, as will be seen later in more detail. detailed.

   Another rectangular opening 74 is made in the plate 50 to allow the raised indicia on the print bars mounted in the recorder to protrude upwards through this opening to ensure the printing of the amount. of the sale on the invoice, retort it

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 will be seen in more detail below. Plate 50 also comprises a horizontal bar 78 with tabs arranged at each of its ends 80, and a tab 82 in the center, each of these tabs protruding downwardly below. of plate 50.



  It will also be noted that the front half of the plate 50 is widened, in order to constitute lateral projecting support flanges. 84 and 86, along each side of the plate.



     Eu. Referring to Figs. A to. 7, it can be seen that the operating elements of the recorder are mounted inside the housing 28 on a base plate 90 resting, in a raised position. on several arms 92 attached to it and arranged below it.,.



  The front corners of the base plate have sleeves 94, mounted below it, and positioned to receive shaft ends 96 (Fig. 1) intended to pivotally support the cover 28 on it. the base plate 90. By virtue of this mode of construction, the housing 28 can be tilted up and forward, thus exposing all the active elements enclosed in the housing.



  A suitable locking button 96 - or the like - (Fig. 7) may be provided to removably lock, in the closed position, the housing 28. Fn referring to Figs. 4, 5, 7 and 9, there is seen a pair of spaced guide plates 100 and 102 mounted on the seat plate 90, on the left side thereof (Fig. 5), extending from it. front tooth to the rear of said plate. A pressure plate 104 of the roller assembly, preferably in a single molded piece, of light material, provided with ribs, rests on the upper edges of the guide plates 100 and 102 to which it is fixed by means of 'a number of bolts 106 or other similar fasteners.

   The guide plates 100 and - 102 are each provided with a longitudinal groove 108 on their outer face extending parallel to the base plate 90, and curving upwards at its right end, said to be indicated on 'FIG. 7. The guide plates are also provided with grooves 110,

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 on their inner faces, below the grooves 108, in order to receive the support flanges 84 and 86 of the printing plane plate during the insertion 'thereof into the housing, in.
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 view to ensure its precise guidance.

   The right end of the grooves 110 (Fig. 7) opens at 1 It before the recorder and suitably tapered parts 112 are provided at the ends of the guide plates 100 and 102, in extension of the three walls of the register. each
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 slot 110 to facilitate the insertion of the support edges 8; 4. # and 86 of the printing plane in these slots 110 '
A roller system 114 is slidably mounted between guide plates 100 and 102. As clearly indicated on
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 the Fic. 15, this SYStèt1C ... shown alone in this figure - comprises two cylindrical steel rollers 116 and 118 rotatably mounted on axes 123 and 122, respectively.

   Axis 120 rests, at each
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 extr6! 'tl, on a caliper 124 mounted on the axle 122, below it. Note that the roulepu. lower 116 comprises') ga1etnent an annular groove or slot 126 near its right end thereof, for reasons which will be indicated later.



   Each extracted- from the pin 122 rests on a stirrup 128, the other end of which is fixed on the pin 130. An integral element 132 is mounted between the stirrups 128 and comprises on its central part
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 1 milks a pcire of calipers 14 fixed in the center of the axis 130. A 9 - let convenFble 136 is not rotatable on this axis, between the calipers 134, and is intended to roll inside a slot 1,: 8, on the underside of the pressure plate 104 (indicated more clearly -
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 ment in Fig, 16).

   Thanks to this system, and when the roller assembly 114 withdraws and advances between the guides 100 and 102, as will be seen below, the roller 136 prevents the device from pivoting about it. a vertical axis, with a degree of rub-;
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  A push bar 139 is reread with coulls2erent to the axis \ 130 by a pair of arms extended towards the rear 140 and 142,

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 having sleeves 114 and 146 formed; on their free ends, pivotally connected to the axis 130. The arms pass through
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 slots 145 re-inflated # in the part bzz to prevent it from interfering with said arms. The arm 140 has a greater downward deformation than that of the arm 142. in order to constitute a shoe 148 extending downwards from the left end of the bar 139 in order to provide the support thereof. in a posi-
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 tion at a higher level relative to the plan of im9t8tSion "as will be seen below.

   A pair of spring coils 150 and 152 are rotatably mounted on axis 122 between struts z8 and 124. Referring to Figs. 15 and 16, it can be seen that each coil comprises a sleeve 154 rotatably mounted on the shaft 122, a spring
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 , flat winding greenhouse, 156j being arranged around 3 this varnish-r axis. The inner end of the spring is fixed to the sleeve 154 and its outer end 158 leaves completely therefrom, passing through the opening 160 in the pressure plate 104 (more clearly indicated in Figs. 5 and 7). , and is suitably fixed to the upper face of this plate, for example by a screw 162.



   Referring now to Figs. 15, 16 and 17, or notice that each of the axes 122 and 130 protrude beyond the
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 external faces of the calipers. 128, to constitute the ends of the shaft3 sliding in the grooves 10b on the internal fac6 of the guide plates 100 and 102. The roller assembly is thus mounted to slide between the guide plates, so as to move from the position shown in solid lines to the right of FIG. 7
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 to the shaded position, to the left of this iigxjj1.



  Of course, the roller 136 rolls in the notch 138 - during this movement in order to precisely guide the entire system to.
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 y yes water.-The part g * ffifrra3trē¯X5% of the underside of the pressure plique 104 juts down, between the spring coils' ..



  150 and 152, depending on the total length of the pressure plate

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 except at the right end thereof (seen in Fig. 7) which
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 tapers upwards. Due to this device, the shaft 122 can freely overlap towards the figure eight with the right end of the groove 108, without being hampered by the central part 162, but as
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 As the roller assembly moves to the left, below the flat horizontal part of part 1b2, the roller 118 will rub against the lower side of the center part, rolling over it. - Here in the way h drive the roller llb in rotation which comes into frictional engagement with the roller ilbe The position taken by the rollers. 8 and Ild,

   when located below the flat horizontal part of the central member 162, is more clearly shown in FIG. 8.
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  HOrlIl6J: eM (,. \ Nt, the set at rc> u1cc, u, x will be retained in the position shown in solid lines on 1- Flg. 7. When the planchette with plane it impression 48 is inserted in the grooves 110 of the inner face of the guide plates 100 and 102, the tapered portions 112 which guide the support flanges 84 and bb in the
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 grooves 110, bar 78 and lugs 30 of the end of the board contact the push bar 133 of the roller system, retort shown in FIG. 'the so that said system will be pushed to the left, as the clip 48 is forcibly inserted into the recorder.

   Of course, the spring coils 150 and 152 will unwind in order to elastically resist this movement and thus achieve a restoring force so as to bring the roller assembly back to their starting position,
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When the, 3 leading edges of the support flanges 84 and 8b come into contact with the inclined surfaces 170 at the ends of the notches 110, the leading edge of the board will be brought in by a
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 downward movement of the wing, in the shaded position, the legs 80 and the bar 78 advance downward through
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 an opening 172 in the base plate 90, As soon as the

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 front face of the printing plane board falls into the opening 172, the handle 52 can be lowered by the operator,

   in order to advance the tab 82 projecting from the underside of the board, downwards, passing through an opening 180 in the base plate, in order to actuate the lever 182 and bring it into the position shown in FIG. 8. The rear extracts of the support clamps release a raised face 388 at the front end of each opening 110, in order to allow the lowering of the handle 52.



   Lever 182 is pivotally mounted below pin 90 on a pair of downwardly facing tabs 184 to egot 186, these tabs being suitably secured to the underside of plate 90. A finger 188 advances toward the bottom. up, from the right end of lever 182, in a position which presses it against plate 90 and causes it to partially overlap on opening 180 when said lever is in the position of FIG. 7, a second finger 190 protruding upward from the left end of lever 182 through a suitable opening 192 at the ari0rew of the base plate.

   When the roller system 114 is brought under sliding tension in its rearmost position, as shown - in shadow - Fig. 7, a protruding part 194 provided on the internal face of the arm 140 is superimposed on the finger 190. Therefore, when the lever 182 rotates clockwise, as a result of the action of the tab 82 on the underside of the printing plane board, retort described above, the finger 190 comes into contact with this projecting part 194 and pivots the push bar 139 upwards, so that the latter releases the front edge of said board, against which it was previously applied.

   The wound springs 150 and 152 can then freely drive all of the rollers forward, above the invoice 70, in order to print the desired information thereon. The spring coils 15J and 152 can be of any type susceptible to

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 ble to impart the desired front drive to the roller assembly,
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 tI! \ r7'Js have been stretched backwards due to the insertion of the printing plane board. We can, for example, use
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 for this purpose, a flat coil spring is used, which in this case gives complete satisfaction.



  Previously, the upper roller 118 is in rolling contact with the lower side of the lower portion of the lowered center member 162 of the vacuum plate while in engagement with the lower roller 116. This is indicated previously. the latter being thus rotated, it rolls on the upper face of the printing plane board so that any sliding movement between the lower roller and the invoice 70 is eliminated during the printing operation . It will also be noted in Figs. 7 and 8, that a small tapered shoulder 196 is provided on the underside of the central part 162, so that the front part thereof (i.e., the right end, FIG.

   7 and 8)
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 is at a level 1-'e, re-rent lower than its rear part.



  As a result, and as the rollers 118 and 116 move over the bill 700, this shoulder 196 gives rise to an adverse wedge effect. effectively increasing the rolling pressure on the invoice 70, in order to improve the printing operation.
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  When all of the rolls have completely passed through the part of the invoice intended to be the 14th "the curved right end of the lob grooves lifts the rollers 118 and 116 multiplied by releasing the printing plane board. to put them in the position shown in solid form in Fig. 7.



  Said board can then be removed by lifting it, to remove the tabs SO and 82 from their respective notches and by pulling it out of the recording apparatus. Since the push bar 138 is pivotally connected to the axis 130 by the arms 140
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 and 1.2, as described above, it can swing freely

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 upwards, to allow the board to be lifted this way. When the latter is removed, the support flanges 84 and 86 slide over the flats 388 and the legs 80 then slide over the top face of the base plate 90, to ensure that the bar 78 and the side bottom of the printing plane clear the numbers and characters protruding in the printing plane.



   As soon as this board is completely withdrawn, the push bar falls, so that the shoe 148 rests again
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 directly on the base plate 90. The shoe 148 serves to keep the power bar in an elevated position above the printing field, so that, as the bar. pus: oir moves backward as a result of the insertion of 'My board to the printing plane, it will in time release all the clues -' protruding from the surface of the. plate 90 in the plan of itmpres ,. if we. It will also be noted that the drive ratio between the rollers 116 and 118 makes a pria- operation possible; tically free of rubbed from the whole a. rollers.

   The upper roller is in rolling contact with the underside of the central member 162 of the pressure plate and the lower roller is in rolling contact with the printing plane, so that the only friction of existing slipping occurs in the bearings formed by the axes 122 and 130.



     -Referring to Fig. 9, this shows a plan view of the printing plane board 48, in the position which it assumes when it is fully inserted into the recorder.
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 manager. ¯ìgur: -è¯p-reJientl8.irem.ent the way in which invoice 70 is retained below flanges 66 and 68, and applied
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 contre les legs 56 ex 60, as well as how to print information on the invoice, that is to say the identity of the customer on the lower part of his credit card, the identity of the finished , the date and amount of the sale printed in the lower right corner

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 of the invoice by a number of printing bars 200-208.



  The invoice is of the usual type, having several sheets with interleaved carbon sheets, in order to achieve the impression as the rollers apply the invoice against the raised indicia protruding above the top face of the plate 90 and in the printing plan.



     Coone indicates above, the customer's credit card and the firm's identity card are admittedly real, in plastic or other suitable material, placed in the depressions 54 and 56 on the upper face of the planchette with printed plan. tion, while the date and amount of the tent are printed on the invoice by appropriate date rollers, the printing bars being arranged below the base plate 90, with its numbers and characters going up , through the openings .72 and 74, menasses in the board 48, in the printing plane.



     Retort can be seen more clearly in Figs. 6 and 18, date rollers 210, which can be set in advance to imprint the date on the invoice, are mounted on a suitable frame 212, mounted to pivot on legs 214 by a lug 216.



  An angled bracket 218 is also fixed to the lower face of the plate 90 and the horizontal rim 220 of which is disposed under the element 222 of the frame 212 ,. to allow screwing an adjustment set 224 on the horizontal flange, this Screw then abutting against the element 222 in order to precisely adjust the dirt of the date rollers 210 through an opening 225 made in the base plate and in the printing plane. This device also makes it possible to easily rotate the date rollers upwards on the frame, in the position shown in shadow in FIG. 17, to allow the operator to change the rollers from the position above the plate 90, when the housing 28 is tilted out of the way.

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   Referring next to Figs. 5 to 8 and 16, it is seen that each printing bar 200-208 is constituted by curved segments bearing the numbers 0 to 9 on separate bosses provided on their upper surface and teeth 230 on their curved lower surface.

   As best seen in FIG. 8, each printing bar 200-208 has a rectangular cross section, the upper part being narrower than the lower part, in order to constitute upward facing shoulders on each side of each printing bar and which come into contact. sliding with the lower side of the plate 90, the narrower upper parts of the printing bars projecting through the separate openings 232 in the base plate, disposed immediately below the opening 74 of the printing plane board, when this is in the fully inserted position of FIG. 8.

   As can be seen better in Fig. 16, edges 231 of apertures 232 and edges 233 of opener 74 are chamfered to provide more space for the print bars. A box at. printing bar 234 is fixed above the plate 90, and has side walls 236 and 238 and an arched bottom wall 237. By this construction, each of the bars is retained by the housing and the face. bottom of base 90 to prevent sliding movement of the lohg in a curved path, the upward facing shoulders of the engaging printing bars slide with the underside of plate 90 in the vicinity of each of the openings 232.



     The left end of a curved pull rod 239 (looking at Fig. 5) is pivotally connected to the right end of each print bar 200-208 and extends below plate 90 .. L 'extracted right from] each pull rod 239 is pivotally connected to a tab 241, projecting downwardly, from the right end of a number of racks

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 240-24.

   The five racks overlap in an open notch 250! T "'l1 <.1.; Ected in the base plate 90 and are constrained to move linearly by downwardly facing groove clips 254 and 256, secured to the underside of plate 90. As shown in Fig. 5, rack 240 and print bar 200 are in their far left position, and for
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 chan; 4r the indications of the exposed printing plate to #assure printing, it is necessary to move the rack 240 to the right.

   Referring to ¯la Fig. 16., we Volt here that the. ¯ ¯ -b "print 202 and its pull rod 239 is in the extreme right position taken by a print bar when its r {..: J. corresponding line is antenna in the extreme right position this rack being the one bearing the reference 242.



   One will notice. at this point that a guide blade 260 is provided below the print bar housing 234 and has
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 spaced arms 262 at one end thereof, pivoting to the outer faces of walls 236 and 238 of the print bar housing. The other end of the blade 260 has a protruding, upwardly facing finger 204 passing through an opening 266 # in the curved bottom wall 237 on the housing, as
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 we can see it more clearly in Fig. 16.

   The finger 264 is wide enough to wear on each of the .200-208 type bars and has a cutting edge at its upper end that fits one of the teeth 230 of the curved bottom edge of each of the print bars, in order to fix and place precisely each of these printing bars, as well as the indications on them exposed during the printing operation.

   The adjustment of the printing bars, with a view to changing the indices to be printed
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 molt, is done by rotating 1 .. dividing blade downwards, to disengage the teeth of the printing bars, so that the racks 240-243 can be actuated to move
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 the print bars, eome on .lu will see later.

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   Referring more particularly to FIG. 16, it will be appreciated that the annular groove 126 in the lower roll 116 is arranged to prevent printing of more than one indication at a time on the upper curved face of each printing bar. The indications on each side of each print bar for printing an indication cannot be accidentally printed, since only a limited length
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 of the roller 116, that is to say that between the groove 126 and the right end of the roller, moves on the indications intended to be printed.

   Assuming each of the indications of bars 200 and 202 shown in FIG. 16 begins with the number 0 on the first boss of the left end of its upper surcharge
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 and ends with the number 9 on the woodwork f: .nal on the right end of- sa. upper surface, we will see that * .e number 9 on the bar (the impreas: your 200 and the number 0 on the print bz.rre 202 will be printed and that the number 8 on the 200th bar will not only be its the highest position is below the annular groove 126 of the roller, so that the number.
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  1 on print bar 202 will not be printed, since it is beyond the right end of the roll.



  How the z guide lmae is third is shown more clearly in Figs. 5 to d. Note that the 'side wall ± 33 comprises a pair of open -spaced1 sleeves, 271, oriented downwards, on which is mounted a rod µt inversion of movement 2'3 ,, pivoting, with the aid of journals 275 protruding outward from each side of this link and / or fitted in the open sleeves 2'lolo An adjusting screw 277 2st -tssée on the front end of the link 273 and abuts against the underside of the front end of lever 182.



   The other end of the link 273 is provided with a lug projecting upwards from an off-center part of the link, so as to release the lever 182 and come

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 rest against '±' swivel end of lane 260.

   Thanks to this device, when the lever 182 is lowered by the lever 52 of the printing plane board, and after the insertion
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 full of it in the recorder, as previously indicated, the downward movement of the forward end of lever 182 will cause link 273 to rotate clockwise.
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 watch, CO;, 1 .:

  10 indicates in Figs. 7. and 8, from the position shown at 1h Hg. 7 towards the End position. 8, so as to rotate the divider, from a position where it disengages the teeth along the edge of the printing bars (indicated by lines
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 full on the Fie. 5), in the shaded position of Fig, 5, in which it engages with one of the teeth of each of the printing bars, in order to fix them with the desired precision,
 EMI20.5
 coune indicated previously.

   Referring to Figs, 4 and 5, it can be seen that the racks 240-248 which actuate the printing bars 200-208 respectively, are each moved independently, in a reciprocating motion, by a spur gear 280 actively connected thereto, each of these spur gears being actively connected. Holds the numbering wheels 34, 42, so that the rotation of each of these numbering wheels to a chosen position moves a print bar determined to the same position.



    In particular, each of the spur gears 280 is attached to a frame 282 rotatably mounted above the shackle plate 90 by means of a number of forward facing sleeves attached to the adjacent base plate. front ends of
 EMI20.6
 shafts and a number of "rearward facing Sleeves 286" which receive the shaft near the rear end thereof.

   A bevel gear 283 is attached internally to each shaft and comes into active engagement with a bevel gear 290 attached to the right side of the wheels 3-42. Therefore, the rotation of
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 each of the numbering wheels moves in one movement

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 reciprocating racks 240-248 to actuate the printing bars, as previously indicated. In particular, the rotation of the numbering wheel 34 actuates the print bar.
208, wheel 36 drives print bar 204, wheel 40 drives print bar 202, and wheel 42 drives print bar 200.



   Each of the numbering wheels also has a dE plate! trigger 292 on its left face as shown in Fig. 4. whose teeth resiliently engage with a click 294 provided on the upper end of an elastic arm 296 suitably fixed to the plate 90 by means, for example of screws 298 - as can be seen more clearly in Figs. . 22 and 23.

   The click 294 and the detent plate 292 cooperating with each of the numbering wheels, hold the particular number properly fixed in the printing plane in position until it is forcefully moved by the subsequent rotation of the numbering wheel. the profile of the trigger plate 292, as well as the number wheel 42 are more clearly represented on the
Fig. 22; it will be noted, in particular, that the dimensions and the shape of all the numbering wheels are identical.

   It will also be noted that each of the numbering wheels has a curved opening 300 formed in the upper part thereof and opening out at its edge 302, and that the lower part of each of the numbering wheels is oriented downwards, through a notch 304 formed in the plate 90, and terminates in a radial solid edge 306. With particular reference to
Fig. 4, it can be seen that the recorder also has a reset bar 308 and a drive reset bar
310, the two bars extending freely through the arched hole
300 from each of the 34-42 numbering wheels.

   The berre 308 is pivotally connected to a shaft 309 by parallel arms 12 and

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 314, with suitable split rings attached inside
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 of a '.: or; 4 ;, in the vicinity of each end of the shaft, for) "... int mi1' the arms 312 and 314 and prevent them from moving l; x1n] ± !!: ent Bar 310, likewise, is pivotally connected to shaft 309 by a pair of parallel arms 318 and 320 which fit between arms 312 and 314 of the reset bar.



  The shaft 309 is mounted above the plate 90 by means of vertical supports 311, or in the vicinity of each of the ends thereof and each of the numbering wheels 34-42 is rotatable on
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 the rua9 tree.



  C'jirj-ie 1n'11 <:. u6 more clearly in Fig, 6, a locking bar 322 is suitably attached to the lower part - of lr. plate 90, for example to the screw core 32,4 in a position such that it can be applied to the radial edge 306 of each of the numbering wheels, in order to limit the rotation, in the opposite direction to them. 'one enters, from each
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 wheel in the position shown in FIG. 18.

   Thanks to this device, the bar 308 can pivot relative to each of the wheels 34-42 until, until it hits the inner edge.
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 326 of the curved openings 300; after (; 1.101, the subsequent rotation of the renise bar to zero will cause each numbering wheel to rotate towards the zero position represented.
 EMI22.5
 feel on the Fi ±, 1S.

   From ..; u, the bar 310 can be pivoted in a position t'xt.r.c, counterclockwise as shown in If. position in which it will come to rest against the reset bar 308. Narrow given that the bar 310 is superimposed on the bar 303, it will come into contact with the latter and cause it to rotate with it if the bar of
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 reset is in an internal position and the zero reset entry bar moves to its extended position, unlike them clockwise. The bar 310 and the bar bzz constitute what we could (;:; 11 ±: 1 (> 1 'a function of

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 reset, as will be seen in more detail below.



   Figs. 4 and 18 show the numbering wheels in their zero position and the bar 308 and the bar 310 are in the position corresponding to that taken before the insertion into the recorder of a vacuum plane 48.



   In this position, the number 0 of each wheel is
 EMI23.1
 placed below the aforementioned windows 44 (Fis. 1) in the cover 30. When the wheels 34-42 are rotated to indicate the mount & rL "Jw" sale, the reset bar 308 is rotated clockwise ("" one against (Fig. 19) and its final position! will be determined $ er the numbering wheel which is rotated by the largest quantity. \ Comz;

  ie indicated in FIG. 19, the wheel 36 immediately behind the numbering wheel 34 is fully. turned until its' ... leading edge 302 abuts the right edge of the locking bar 322, and this position is set to indicate) the number 9, The inner edge 326 of the curved opening 300 of . numbering wheel 36 therefore moves bar 308 to the position shown in FIG. 19, bar 310 remaining at / rest
 EMI23.2
 during this movement.

   After insertion of the sheet, - .. tkatte i print plane in the recorder and after completion of the printing carried out by the roller assembly li4 committee indicated above, the withdrawal of the plank activates a mechanism. appropriate, which will be described later, and which rotates automa-. Only bar 310 from the position of Fig. 19 to position j of FIG. 20, in the rr: uenant its initial position, couune indicated. on the Pige 18.

   Since the bar 310 is superimposed on the;
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 bar 308, as we specified previously., it will cause this: ## last by rotating dar, .s counterclockwise, so as to drive this last bar in this direction, to bring it back in the position shown in FIG. 18. This

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 Reopening counterclockwise of course automatically leads to dimensioning each of the number wheels.
 EMI24.1
 targe to their initial zero position.

   Therefore, each time the printing plane board is removed from the recorder, each of the number wheels is automatically
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 ra.rHnf'e in zero position.



  The! T'c {'n1s! Ne rl'act1onnem (! Nt of bar 310 is represented more clearly in Figs. 4 9 and z 14. It includes a plate b. Enfs..7..È: e 330 Shows sliding through a hollow 332 jp <5m ge in plate 90. A rack is formed at 334 along the right edge of plate 330 and actively engages a spur gear 336 attached to arm 320 of bar 310, so
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 that the sliding movement of 1: .. p13'lLlo 330 will rotate the latter. A suitable coil spring 338 - or the like - is attached at one end to a lug 340 on the end.
 EMI24.4
 moth of the rack plate, its other end being easily fixed to the base plate 90, so as to stress elastic, .. quer'1l .:

  nt the plate po to the position shown in Fig. 9th the rear edge thereof abutting against the rear wall of the depression 322. It will also be noted that the guide plate 102 is superimposed on the left edge of the plate 330 (Fig. 14, noted), in order to facilitate the maintaining said plate in the depression 332.



   A pawl 342 is pivotally mounted to the plate 330 by means of a post 344 and a screw 346 - or other similar method of fastening - and its pivoting end protrudes through an opening 248 in the form. the wall of the guide plate 102, so that the pivoting end of the pawl is in the superimposed position on a triangular notch
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 350 formW on the right edge of the printing plane board when the latter is completely inserted into the recorder, cojwih shown in FIG. 9.

   A lug 352 projecting towards the

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 up from the central part of the pawl 342 comes into a position of engagement with the outer wall of the guide plate, in order to limit the advancement of the pawl through the opening 318 in the position of the pin 9. A coil spring 354 is also mounted on the upright 344, one of its ends coming into contact with the pawl in order to urge the latter elastically towards the guide plate 102.

   In reality, when the printing plane board is mounted flat on the base plate 90 (Fig. 8), it is housed below the protruding end of the pawl 342, but when said board is raised beforehand. its removal to release the tabs 80 from the opening 172 of this plate, the pawl 342 protrudes directly into the triangular notch 350. Consequently, the board having been withdrawn, it comes into contact with the point of the pawl so as to slide the rack plate 330 from the position shown in Fig. 9 to the position of Fig. 11.

   This forward movement of the rack plate rotates the spur gear 336, in order to tilt the bar 310 from the position of FIG. 19 in that of Fig. 10 and thus automatically reset the wheels? number 34-42, as previously indicated. As plate 330 is advanced in this way, the pawl is gradually brought out of engagement with the triangular notch 350 by means of the leading edge of the opening 348.

   When the rack plate reaches the freeze position the swivel end of the pawl is pulled back far enough to disengage the triangular notch 350 and allow the printing plane board to be completely removed from the rack. recorder. As soon as the point of the pawl clears the notch 350, the coil spring 338 automatically returns the plate there. rack in the position of 336, 9, thus tilting clockwise the bar 310 level with its position of FIG. 18. Therefore, and each time the printing plane is removed,

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 each of the nu wheels ;; (rott4gc and print bars are automatically reset to zero.
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  According to another characteristic of the invention, an automatic stop is provided for pocketing the insertion of the
 EMI26.3
 pli-nchutte pim impression in the recorder when the deckhouses of nm'1..rotqe 3-4.2 are each in their zero position. Therefore, before the insertion of chain plank
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 in the recorder, the amount of a sale must be printed
 EMI26.5
 on the invoice is indicated on the receipt of the number typed. By referring to the Fis. 11 to 13, there is provided z for this purpose a bar 360 pivotally mounted on legs 362 projecting from the guicpt-e plate 10.- using a vertical lug 363.

   The anti-clockwise pivoting movement of the tarre is limited by a projection 364 provided on the end.
 EMI26.6
 Rear thereof, and a suitable coil spring 366 is dis-
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 placed between the gu1dne plate 102 and the bar 360 in order to solicit elastic / in nor: 1Ellcwt'nt 1) E. bar to the position shown in shadow in Fig. 11. A lug 368 protrudes from one side of the neighboring bar at its forward end through an opening 370 in Here 'p1l \ l! uo guide 102 and in the r, orre lOd ae 1k internal face of the guide plate. The location of the lug 368 in the opening z70 is also shown on Fi,;. 7.

   It will be remembered that the standard 108 is the one in which the axes 122 and 1 "0 of the roller assembly 114 pass through. It is therefore consequent when the bar 3 & 0 is in the position shown on the Fixed. 12, the lug; t> 8 will come into contact with the axis 130 after having re ,, ioussc, behind by a limited distance r, r: r the insert plane board, in order to inspect the insertion of 1s board at printing plane when the n # 1eroid wheels are in zero position.
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  However, after the sale amount has been indicated
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 on the nunérotsge rouvs, the bar 360 will take the re- position.

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 presented on the Fixed line. 11 in order to return the lug 368 to the rear, so as to allow the free movement of the roller assembly towards its extreme rear position. To ensure automatic control of the bar 360, a click 376 has been attached to the arm 314 of the return bar 308 in a position where it engages a detent groove 378 of the outer edge of the bar 360, when the recovery bar is in the position of
 EMI27.2
 Fig. 18. In this position, each of the ntuaerotage wheels is obviously set to. zero.

   The click z76 being engaged in the detent groove, the bar 360 is retained in the position shown in 1-'igas 12 and 14, so that the slang e68 will prevent the roller assembly from moving backwards, as indicated previously. '. However, when an amount has been placed on the. ; numbering wheels, the recovery bar is rotated
 EMI27.3
 counterclockwise, as indicated above, which releases click 378 from the detent groove and allows coil spring 366 to swing the bar into the shaded position
 EMI27.4
 of Fig. 11, where. the lug 368 is withdrawn from the batch groove, in order to allow the movement of the roller device in its extreme rear position.



   In order to better understand the general operation of the printer recorder of the invention, a detailed description will now be given. Un will assume that we have a
 EMI27.5
 planchette à plan d'1mpre.ion with an identification plate of the firm already mounted in the depression 54 (Fig. 2) of the plan. chette, in order to record a given sale on an invoice: the card is then swiped.: the customer's credit in depression 56
 EMI27.6
 of 1p. planehette, under the retaining brackets 58 and bu. A suitable invoice form 70 is slipped onto the board, under retaining edges 66 and 68, in the position shown in.



  Fig. 9, so as to cover the relief characters of the plate
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 i.a = f rmt identification of the customer's credit card.

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  It will be appreciated that Formula 70 also covers openings 72 and 74 through which the date rollers and printing bars operate, respectively. The Total Amount of a sale to be recorded on the invoice is then placed in the machine, by manually turning the numbering wheels 34-42.



  For example, if the sale amounts to Dol. 4.50 to be recorded, the wheel 38 is brought to the position corresponding to the number 4, below the window 44 (FIG. 1) associated with this number, the wheel 40 is. brought to number 5 and? .a wheel 42 remains at zero.



     The spinning support of the numbering wheels rotates the recovery bar 308, thereby disengaging the click 376 from the detent groove 378 to allow the bar 360 to pivot away from the guide plate 102 and recall the 'lug 368 of the groove 108 provided on the internal face of the guide plate. Of course, when the bare wheels, metering 38, 40, and 42 'are laid in this manner, the printing bars 204, 202 and 200, respectively, will also be laid on 4, 5 and 0, the racks 244, 242 and 240, respectively, being offset an appropriate distance by the corresponding spur gears 280, in response to the rotation of the numbering wheels 38, 40 and 42, for laying the print bars. .



   We can then introduce the board h printing plane 48 into the opening 46 (Fig. 1), the support flanges 84 and 86 of the board being guided in the grooves 108 of the internal surfaces of the guide plates. 100 and 102 by the tapered portions 112 of the front ends of the guide plates (these tapered portions being visible in Fig. 5). When the board is seated in the opening 21, the suspended bar 78!) Its forward end contacts the push bar 139 and pushes the roller assembly 114 back, against the elastic force of both. coil springs 150 and 152.

   The planchette

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 being thus pushed by the machine, will alienate. maintained above the base plate 90 by the two legs 80 of its front end and by the two raised flat parts 388, in front of the grooves 110 and which come into sliding contact with the support brackets 4a 84 and 86 of the planchette. It is obviously necessary to support the board in this way when it is introduced into the printing field, in order to ensure that it releases the numbers and characters on the printing bars and date rollers when it passes through. above those.



   With the board being fully inserted into the machine, its front edge is lowered by the inclined camming edges 170 (Fig. 8) so that the tabs 80 and the intermediate bar 78 fall into the opening 172 of the board. base plate. At this point, the board support flanges 84 and 86 disengage the raised, raised flats 388 from the openings 110.



  The lever 52 of the board can then be lowered, in order to bring the board into the position shown in FIG. 8, and the tab 82 on its underside rotates the lever 182 from the position shown in FIG. 7 in the position of FIG. 8. The pivoting movement of lever 182 simultaneously rotates lever 273 below the front end thereof, to bias the cutting edge of the pivot end of guide blade 260 to come in. taken with one tooth of each printing bar, in order to fix them in place precisely and prevent them from moving, the finger 190 mounted on the rear end of the lever 182 coming into contact with the projection 194 to rotate the push bar 138 upwards,

   so that shoe 148 clears the leading edge of the board to allow coil springs 150 and 152 to advance the roller assembly over the bill. In this way, by lowering the lever 52, the advancement movement of the roller assembly is initiated. ,

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 EMI30.1
 Retort prc (.de.'1Ullent indicated, a printing pressure is established by a wedge effect due to forcing the rollers 116 and 118 through the small space between the top of the printing plane board and the lower side of the central part *
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 162 of printing plate 104 "with the central portion lowered to the right of shoulder 196 (Figs.

   7 and 8) in order to achieve this wedge effect above the part to be printed on the invoice. It will be understood that the embossed indications on the customer's credit card and on the identification card of the
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 line and embossed numbers on the 210 date rollers and 200-204 printing bars, all protruding above the surface of the printing plane board, will provide high pressure points as you go. that the roll 116 rolls over the invoice form. In this way, the indications in
 EMI30.4
 relief will be printed on the invoice grgoe with the action of the carbon insert paper placed between the copies of the fac-
 EMI30.5
 turne.

   When the roller assembly returns to its forward position, the rollers are quickly raised to the position shown on the Fie. 7 by the upwardly curved extrlrait4s of the grooves 1c5t3 in which the axis 122 slides. The printing plane board can then be lifted to release the tabs 80 and the bar 78 from the opening 172 of the printing plate. 'seated.

   This upward movement moves the triangular notch 350
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 above the point of the pawl 3 <42 so that, as the printing plane is withdrawn it moves the plate ii crona.l1 ... ler 330 from the position shown in FIG. 9 in that of
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 Figs. 12 to 14, in order to pivot the bar 310 counterclockwise, looking at FIG. 20, to return all the wheels from n (first step: to the zero position, as previously indicated.

   At this time, the point of the ratchet is pulled out far enough to tear off the triangular notch 350, so that the printing plane board can be

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 completely withdrawn, the spring 338 being able to return the rack plate 330 to its position shown in FIG. 9, e return of this plate rotating the bar 310 in .la. position
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 of Figs. 18 and 19.

   Of course, when the return bar 30-S is returned to its extreme position, in the counterclockwise direction (Fig. 18), the click 376 thereof comes.
 EMI31.2
 engaged with the trigger groove 378 of the zaal bar, to bring the lug 368 back into the groove 108 and prevent the insertion of the board into the recorder before a new sales lift is placed on the numbering wheels.



   In order to prevent the rapid movement of the bar!
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 recall 308, causing the numbering wheels to return to zero position, bounce the recall bar after the wheels reach zero position, and stop abruptly
 EMI31.4
 due to the fact that the radial edge 306 thereof abuts against the stop bar 322 below the ass3 plate, is, as previously indicated, such a rebound being, moreover, likely release the click 376 from the throat of
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 trigger 378 and thus disable the non-zero afterpressure character of the recorder, a shoulder is provided
 EMI31.6
 radial 390 (Fig. 21) on the periphery of the m07F \ u of the arm 312 of the return bar.

   A lever 392 having an upwardly oriented tab 394 at its end, is pivotally mounted on: will base 90 by means of a screw 396 or other similar fastener (Figs. 4 and 21,
 EMI31.7
 in particular), and a suitable spring 398 is provided for ground. . elastically licit the lever 392 towards the arm 312.

   Another
 EMI31.8
 vertically disposed tab 400 is formed on the left edge of lever 392 near the right end of bar 310 Tab 400 is folded away from the end of bar 310 so that when the bar moves of the position
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 shown in Fig..21 downwards, in a position where Alle 1 abuts against the base plate 90, its right end

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 will come into contact with the tab 100 and will rotate the lever
392 in the position of FIG. 4.

   However, when the bar
310 moves counterclockwise, in response to the removal of a board 48 from the recorder 26, the lever 392 is free to swing against the arm 312, so that the tab 394 will slide sharply below the shoulder 390 to prevent the return bar from rebounding.



   However, the bar 310 is still free to rotate counterclockwise as shown by the return of the rack plate 330 to its starting position (Fig 9) and returns the lever 392 to the position of FIG. 4 just before coming up against the plate 90.

   The upper end of the tab 394 is thus removed from under the shoulder 390 to allow the return bar 308 to pivot freely, when the numbering wheels are rotated to pose a new sales amount;
Although in the preferred embodiment of the invention a rack and gear system is used to transform the rotational motion of the numbering wheels 34-42 into a linear motion for laying the printing bars.
200-208, it goes without saying that other suitable mechanisms could be used to achieve this movement, without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, a return system, "Bowden" cable or other similar mechanism could be used to achieve this transformation.

   Likewise, although the device of the invention uses energy stored in a pair of coil springs 150 and 152 to obtain the actuating force intended to return the roller assembly to its forward position, to effect the operation. In printing purification, it goes without saying that other systoles could be used such as, for example, an electric motor, an air cylinder or an electric solenoid.

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   When it is desired to use an electric motor to generate the driving force of the roller assembly, an endless reducer must be provided to drive the spool, at which one end of a chain or cable order would then be fixed. Roller bar 139 of the roller assembly would be eliminated to allow inserting board 48 completely into the machine, which assembly then remains in the front of the machine.

   In place of the push bar 139, a different bracket should be provided to which the other end of the control cable would be fixed, When the board is ... fully inserted into the machine, and the handle 52 is When lowered, a contact pair of a switch cooperating with lever 182 could be triggered to start the engine. The control cable, by winding around the spool, will thus exert a traction on the roller assembly, driving it above the printing plane to print the invoice. When the roller assembly has reached the end of its rearward movement, a second switch, sensing the rear position of the roller assembly, will stop the engine.

   The board will then be removed and a second pair of contacts of the second mentioned switch could be used to energize the electric motor in the reverse direction, as soon as the board is lifted and removed, to allow the control cable to unwind. 1 and spring coils 150 and 152 to return the roller assembly to its forward position. Due to the use of a ,. worm, you have to reverse the electric motor to allow. the spring coils to return the roller assembly to its forward position.

   However, by adjusting the unwinding of the control cable in this way, effective regulation of the speed with which the roller assembly is returned to its forward position will be obtained. An additional electrical interlock can be easily implemented in the form of a switch

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      in one of the board entry guides, to prevent reverse control of the electric motor before printing plane board no is fully withdrawn from the recorder.



   It will further be appreciated that the pressure plate of the roller assembly may be hingedly mounted at its front end to allow it to be pivoted upward, and thus to allow access to the interior of the. printing area. In this way, and in the event that 1% insertion of a folded or torn bill could cause the roller assembly to jam, it will be easy to release. A latch could be provided on the rear edge of the pressure plate, to keep the plate locked in its printing position during normal operation of the apparatus.



   It goes without saying that numerous variations and modifications could be carried out, without departing from the scope of the invention.


    

Claims (1)

CLAIMS. EMI35.1 --anlwwwW www..yrrwr.AIHrW r-w.- 1. Apparatus for printing information on a printing medium, characterized in that it comprises, in combination, a housing, a board with removable printing plane in said housing and intended to carry said printing medium on the EMI35.2 upper surface of ce7.l.a-ai ,, several indiaattcns Rn reis..¯ (or embossed) 'projecting above the upper face \ of the board and coming into contact with the lower face of said up-. printing port, and a device mounted in said housing, for automatically exerting pressure on said support -the printing, to print the information of said indications, in relief on this printing medium when said board with printing plane is housed in said casing. 2. Apparatus for printing information on a printing medium, characterized in that it comprises, in combination, a. recorder printer, a removable printing plane board disposed in said recorder printer and intended to carry EMI35.3 said printing medium on the upper face of this: lle-o; l, several raised or embossed indications protruding above EMI35.4 the upper face of said planchette flat and coming into contact with the underside of said printing medium, at least one of said embossed indications being mounted in said recorder and advancing upwardly through predetermined openings made in said board and a device in EMI35.5 the recorder-printer to automatically exercise a 1Y "'' 1! 'session above said printing medium in order to print the information j of said embossed indications on this printing medium, EMI35.6 3. r, nHral, for printing informs like on a printing support, characterized in that it comprises, in combination, a housing, a removable printing plane board shown inside said housing and intended to carry ledits printing support. <Desc / Clms Page number 36> on himself. upper face, several indications in relief projecting above the upper face of said board and in contact with the underside of said printing medium, a roller assembly slidably mounted in said housing and provided so as to roll on the printing medium in order to exert pressure on it and print the information of the indications EMI36.1 embossed on the iir.oresslon backing, and a system sensitive to the insertion of the. printing plane board in said housing to actuate 7.'ezxs: TlbJ.e roulissux, to pass this assembly on said printing medium. 4. Device for printing information on a medium EMI36.2 printing, Cf \ Nctt.r1s in that it comprises, in combination not, a printer recorder * intended to receive inside a board with printing plane, on the upper face of which "is applied, a print medium, print bars in the recorder for printing the amount of a sale on said EMI36.3 print support, a one hundred ¯ print bar ordering system. tion, intended to establish them on the amount of wind ... to be printed, of the rollers not mounted in said recorder to automatically exert pressure on said printing medium in order to print thereon EMI36.4 1 Mf information, and a reset system., Sensitive to the withdrawal of the printing plane board, to allow automatic resetting to zero position of said printing bars. 5. Apparatus according to claim 4, characterized in EMI36.5 . that it comprises a shutdown system on said recorder, sensitive to said reset device, in order to prevent the insertion of the printing plane board in the recorder, when the bars printing are set to the zero position, 6. Device for printing information on a medium EMI36.6 r3lienlYtg $ 'j¯br ;, CinC !! r..É = in this case it includes a box, a device of I1 this box to receive and put in place a plan of plan of. printing, a sa'11blar, e roller r; onté in <Desc / Clms Page number 37> said casing so as to effect a linear back and forth movement above the position which will be occupied by the printing plane board, and a device sensitive to the insertion of this board into this casing to actuate this roller assembly and cause it to move to the position intended for title occupied by the printing plane board, .in order to exert a rolling pressure on a printing medium carried on said printing plane board and to print information thereon 7. Recorder printer, characterized in that it comprises a base plate, back parallel guide plates, spaced apart from each other, arranged across one of the sides of this base plate, a plate pressure mounted above these guide plates, a roller assembly slidably mounted between said guide plates and rolling against the bottom side of this pressure plate, a system on said recorder for receiving and positioning a board with printing plane on the base plate between the guide plates, and a device sensitive to the positioning of said board on this base plate, to actuate said roller assembly. and roll it over this board after the latter has been placed in the recorder, in order to print information on an invoice form mounted on the upper face of this board. 8. Printer recorder, characterized in that it comprises a base plate, parallel guide plates spaced apart from each other, arranged across one of the sides of this base plate, the front to the rear thereof, a groove formed on the internal face of each of said guide plates, arranged substantially parallel to the base plate and curving. upwards at the front end of the groove, a pressure plate mounted above the guide plates and arranged between them ,! an assembly. ;; . with rollers having shaft ends arranged laterally <Desc / Clms Page number 38> EMI38.1 ment and towards the outside, from the opposite sides thereof, said assembly of feasting rollers slidably mounted between the plates EMI38.2 of ['; u1'lúr: e and said shaft ends being disposed slidably in said nornes, this roller assembly rolling on the lower side P'1l' of the pressure plenum, a device on said recorder to receive and set up a printing plane board on the base plate between the guide plates and a system for automatically moving the roller assembly from back to front, after the positioning of the board, for exerting rolling pressure on the invoice form and printing desired information thereon, said curved ends of said EMI38.3 forces rapidly lifting the roller assembly after passing over the invoice form, to facilitate removal of the board from: the recorder. 9. Printer recorder, characterized in that it comprises a base plate, guide plates arranged in parallel and spaced from each other across one of the sides of the printer. EMI38.4 this front seat plate - at the rear of it, a pressure plate shows above its guide plates and arranged between (el1es-c1, a roller assembly comprising an upper roller and a lower roller rotatably mounted on parallel shafts in frictional contact with each other, EMI38.5 a device perm.nattant to mount they slid said roller assembly between these guide plates to effect a movement EMI38.6 sliding from front to back, the upper roller rolling on the underside of the pressure plate, a system on said EMI38.7 recorder for receiving and positioning a plane of 1! 1YJr551 on the base plate between the guide plates, and a device for automatically activating the roller assembly from back to front to roll the lower roll onto a future formula placed on the upper surface of the board and print desired information thereon. <Desc / Clms Page number 39> 10. Printer recorder according to claim 9, characterized in that it comprises an annular groove in the surface of said lower roller in the vicinity of one of its ends, curved printing bars bearing embossed indications on their upper curved face. and mounted below said seat plate, a portion of said curved upper surfaces projecting upwardly and passing through an opening in the seat plate at a sufficient distance to extend upwardly therethrough. an opening in the printing surface board, so as to come into engagement with the lower side of the invoice form placed thereon and a device for mounting said printing bars to perform a sliding movement along a curved path and selectively put in place each of these markings embossed below the portion of the lower roll, between the amular groove and the end of the roll adjacent thereto. 11. Recorder according to claim 10, characterized in that it comprises a guide blade intended to removably secure each of the printing bars and prevent it from moving, and consequently to fix the embossed indications carried. by the bars in the correct printing position * 12. Recorder-printer, characterized in that it comprises a base plate, parallel guide plates t spaced apart from one another, arranged across a back side of this base plate, 'front to rear, a pressure plate mounted above and disposed between the guide plates, a roller assembly slidably mounted between the guide plates and rolling on the underside of the pressure plate, printing bars slidably mounted below the base plate and projecting upwards through openings in the base plate, wheels bearing indications rotatably mounted on this base plate, a training system <Desc / Clms Page number 40> ment connecting these wheels to said printing bars, so that the rotational movement of the wheels causes the printing bars to slide, and a system for automatically advancing the roller assembly from back to front , after the placement of a printing plane on the base plate, between the guide plates, to exert pressure on the lino formula of post invoice on the upper face of the plate, in order to 'print them there. desired information. 13. Recorder-printer according to claim 12, characterized in that it comprises a reset device on said recorder, in order to recall each of the wheels bearing indices in their zero position, in response to the withdrawal of the plane d-plane. 'printing out of the recorder, 14 ,. Recorder-printer according to claim 13, characterized in that it comprises a shutdown system responsive to the operation of the reset device, to prevent the insertion of a printing plane board in the recorder when said wheels bearing indications are in the zero position. 15. Printer recorder according to claim 14, characterized in that it comprises a rebound preventing system, cooperating with said reset device 8, to ensure that the wheels bearing indications rebound when they have were quickly returned to their zero position. 16. Recorder printer, characterized in that it comprises a base plate, parallel guide plates, spaced apart from each other, arranged across one side of the base plate of the printer. 'front to rear, a roller assembly slidably routed between these guide plates and rolling into contact with the underside of said pressure plate, a spring resiliently biasing said roller assembly forwardly. the base plate, a push bar '- <Desc / Clms Page number 41> watch pivoting on said assembly, at the front of the roller assembly, and carrying a tab directed downward on one of its sides, slidably supported on this base plate, a guide groove formed in the internal face of each of these guide plates to receive support cheeks of a printing plane board, to guide the insertion of this board into the recorder, which comes into contact with the push bar in order to push the roller assembly backwards when the board is inserted by force, meeting the force of the spring which tends to bring said assembly forward. cam rollers arranged on the rear ends of said guide grooves, in order to apply the front edge of the board flat against the base plate, when the board is fully inserted into the recorder, a system sensitive to the fall of the board flat against the base plate in order to raise the push bar and clear the front edge of the plan ... chette, to allow the roller assembly to roll forward in response to the solicitation of the spring mounted thereon and print the desired information on an invoice form provided on the upper face of said board, and a device for rapidly lifting the roller assembly into its front position ,. to facilitate the removal of the clip from the recorder. 17. Apparatus intended to print required information on an invoice form, characterized in that it comprises, in combination, a printer recorder comprising a system for receiving and placing a planchette planchette. printing, so as to be able to print desired information on an invoice form provided on this clipboard, of the printing bars in said recorder intended to come into contact with the lower side of this invoice in order to print thereon the amount of a sale made, a set of rollers intended to roll on the side, upper of said invoice and exert pressure on <Desc / Clms Page number 42> glue to perform the printing operation, several wheels of EMI42.1 lev.vrot'-çe: ront e3 rotating in said recorder, a system of - (. r4tratnt: itrit to link select! vC'1 (int each of these wheels of TlI1r.I / .rotH! O Them say print bars, so that the amount of 1 wind? a lnmr1n: .er by said printing bars can be established by rotating each of the numbering wheels, a stop device to limit the rotational movement of each of these numbering wheels in a determined direction towards a EMI42.2 position ziro, a re'1rrc to zero the drive to drive each of the numbering routes in said direction to the zero position, and a device for automatically driving said drive bnr. resetting in said direction, in response to removal of the print plane clip from the recorder, EMI42.3 within rn'1 ('l1st at the zero position each of the wheels ae naked: ttt! rotation each time during the withdrawal of said planchet- te. ldo apparatus for inpvimer'desired information on a form of an invoice, characterized in that that it comprises, in oO "1'binlli.: on, an i: n, ri.r recorder, equipped with a system for receiving and mastering in position a board with a printing plane in order to print of .1nfor.1! the \ tionR fsSrc '. on an invoice form mounted on said sheet, "key print bars in said recorder intended to come in contact with the lower side of this invoice for: 11 \ 1pr1, "I \ if the Amount of one sale, a set of rouiccux intended to roll on the upper side of the said invoice and to exert a Pressure on it to effect EMI42.4 the operation c1'i "p: spring, plul '! letll's wheels of nwit'i4otale "are rotating on the recorder, a drive device.! nenent to connect each of the wheels of the rott1ee to said printing bars, so that the amount to be printed by these bars can be established by rotating each of the numbering wheels, a stop system to limit the rotation of each <Desc / Clms Page number 43> of these wheels, in one direction determines, towards the zero position, a reset drive bracket mounted pivoting on said recorder and able to come into contact with each of these numbering wheels to drive them in this direction \ given against of said stop system to the zero position, said drive bar being intended to disengage the numbering wheels when it is rotated in the opposite direction, a tack. rack and pinion slidably mounted on the recorder and coming into driving contact with said reset drive bar to rotate it in said direction and in the. opposite direction an elastic system for resiliently bouncing said rack plate in a return position, in which said drive bar is rotated in the opposite direction in the normal reset position, and a device on said rack plate in contact with the pad to the drunkenness when it is removed from the recorder, in order to advance said rack plate to pivot said reset bar in said direction to set each of the numbering wheels to zero, so that - when said board is completely removed from the recorder - the rack plate will be resiliently biased and returned to its return position to rotate the drive bar in said direct :! it is reversed to its normal rest position, thus allowing the free rotation of each numbering wheel in order to lay the print bars so as to indicate a different amount of sale. 19. Printer recorder, characterized in that it comprises a base plate, a device on this plate for receiving and positioning a printing plane board above the base plate so as to printing desired information on an invoice form provided above said clipboard, printing bars slidably mounted below. <Desc / Clms Page number 44> of the base plate, and protruding upwardly through an opening in the base plate so as to contact a part of the bill disposed above an opening EMI44.1 of the planchette when cellf .: ..c1 is completely inserted into the recorder, several numbering wheels mounted on said base plate to -turn- around a common axis, a system of Emtra! n E-lt to connect each of the wheels to numbering to said print bars, so that the amount to be printed by these bars can be changed by rotating the numbering wheels, these numbering wheels, comprising aligned grooves EMI44.2 in arc-de-cerclex a bar of training of resetting to z4ro crossing the gorpe dants ChflCUIW of the wheels.de numbering, ladito barre. ' .- d'ontrt'.ne; lf: nt being ipontéc pivoting on this base plate and 'being able to pivot first in a first direction to turn the numbering wheels in position 1, Óro and nsu1ta-su1vn¯. a second direction in a normal rest position, without turning any of these numbered wheels, a roller assembly not slidably mounted on this base plate so as to roll over the bill form when the board EMI44.3 printing plane is fully inserted into the recorder to print on it the information of (.sirpes, an arfr: ril.lre plate slidably mounted on 1p base plate and in drive contact with In bsrr : reset drive, an elastic device for flexibly biasing said plate to EMI44.4 crt.tird 11th to a retracted position, in which said drive burre is in its normal rest position, a pawl fitted !! pivoting on this crest plate and in contact with the printing plane board when the latter is withdrawn from the er¯rc;, i tr t; ur, in order to advance said plate -à (: rl; : dl1èr9 and rotate the drive shoe in this rrfr :: direction and automatically rotate each of the numbering wheels to its zero position, thus returning the plate <Desc / Clms Page number 45> rack to its return position, by said plastic device after complete withdrawal of the board out of the recorder to rotate the drive bar and groove in its normal rest position, in which each number wheel is again free to be rotated to change the amount of the sale made to be indicated by the print bars. 20. A recorder-printer according to claim 19, characterized in that it comprises a reset bar passing through the groove in each of the numbering wheels and surmounting said reset drive bar, the recuse bar at. zero being pivotally mounted on said base so as to be pivoted in this first direction by the drive bar and in the second direction in response to the rotation of the numbering wheels, and a stop and lock device on said plate d 'seat moving towards a first position by said reset bar when it is in the zero position, in order to prevent the introduction of a printing plane board into the printer recorder, and not being able to move into a second position by any of the numbering wheels when said reset bar has been pivoted into that second position by one of the numbering wheels, in order to allow free insertion of 'a printing plane board. 21. Process for printing desired information on a printing medium comprising several sheets of paper with interleaved carbon sheets, characterized in that it consists in setting up an invoice form on a printing plane board, inserting Indite clipboard into a printer recorder, contacting the underside of the invoice form with embossed raised indications, and rolling a roller assembly over the invoice form, in response to the insertion of said clipboard in the recorder, to mark <Desc / Clms Page number 46> on it the indications in relief. 22. A method of printing desired information on a printing medium having several sheets of paper with interleaved carbon sheets, characterized in that it consists in providing a board with a printing plane in which has been provided. at least one opening, to place the invoice form on said board so as to cover said opening, to insert the board on which the invoice form is located in a printer recorder, to pass a printing element through from the recorder to. through said opening in the printing plane board, so that the raised indications of the printing element come into contact with the underside of the invoice form, and automatically actuate an application element. pressure from the recorder to exert pressure on the upper side of the invoice form to print thereon the information of the raised indicia of the printing element. 23. A method of printing desired information on an invoice form having multiple sheet of laminated paper. carbon spacers, characterized in that it consists in providing a printing plane board having two depressions of rectangular shape at its upper surface, and two .rectangular openings near them, to put in position a card of 'identification of the seller in one of the depressions and lb the customer's credit card in the other depession, to set up an invoice form on said printing plan board and to cover these cards and these openings, inserting said board into a printing recorder, projecting the date rollers of the recorder through one of the openings, so as to bring the numbers and characters in relief on them into contact with the underside of the invoice formula, to advance print bars bearing numbers and characters <Desc / Clms Page number 47> Raised tori indicating the Amount of a sale through the other opening, so that the numbers and characters in relief come in contact with the lower side of the invoice form, to roll a roller assembly on the upper side of said invoice formula in order to exert pressure on it. and printing the desired information thereon, and removing said board and said invoice from the recorder, after passing the roller assembly thereon,