EP0008378B1 - Dispositif d'enregistrement commandé par un operateur - Google Patents

Dispositif d'enregistrement commandé par un operateur Download PDF

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EP0008378B1
EP0008378B1 EP19790102637 EP79102637A EP0008378B1 EP 0008378 B1 EP0008378 B1 EP 0008378B1 EP 19790102637 EP19790102637 EP 19790102637 EP 79102637 A EP79102637 A EP 79102637A EP 0008378 B1 EP0008378 B1 EP 0008378B1
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Dean Stanley May
James Michael Rigotti
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International Business Machines Corp
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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
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/36—Blanking or long feeds; Feeding to a particular line, e.g. by rotation of platen or feed roller
    • B41J11/42—Controlling printing material conveyance for accurate alignment of the printing material with the printhead; Print registering
    • 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
    • B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
    • B41J13/26—Registering devices
    • B41J13/30—Side lays or gauges

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  • the invention relates to operator controlled recording apparatus, such as printing apparatus, and more particularly to recording apparatus for recording on discrete documents such as rectangular sales slips.
  • the curved portion leads to a contiguous substantially vertical portion having a second reversible tractor feed mechanism comprising two sets of co-operating rolls for advancing the account card into a printing station comprising a printing head and a platen.
  • a second reversible tractor feed mechanism comprising two sets of co-operating rolls for advancing the account card into a printing station comprising a printing head and a platen.
  • the account card is withdrawn downwardly from the printing station after printing is effected and is returned back over the same path within the apparatus to exit into a pile in an exit pocket.
  • the Kienzle apparatus has disadvantages. Thus, from the operators point of view it is difficult to retrieve the account cards individually from the exit pocket and, in fact, the Kienzle apparatus is not intended to be used in this way.
  • the Kienzle apparatus has the disadvantage of being mechanically complicated and requiring the interrelated operation under program control of three feed mechanism.
  • the program causes operation of a clutched feed mechanism to initiate feeding movement of a selected card to a first reversible tractor feed mechanism which passes the card to a second reversible tractor feed mechanism.
  • the second tractor mechanism advances the card to the recording station.
  • the second tractor mechanism maintains a grip on the trailing end of the card - so that it can withdraw the card when reversed - while the leading end of the card projects as a free standing entity into the recording station.
  • the invention provides such apparatus having a single feed mechanism comprising only one set of drawing-and-delivery rolls.
  • the invention provides operator controlled recording apparatus for recording matter on a discrete document entered into the apparatus by the operator and comprising a document transport path along which the document is transported to a recording station, said transport path comprising document-receiving-and-guiding surfaces including an initial, externally accessible, entry, substantially horizontal, flat surface on which the operator can position a document to be entered, followed by a contiguous upwardly directed, curved surface within the apparatus casing which subtends an angle of substantially 90 degrees and changes the direction of movement of an entered document from a generally horizontal direction to a generally vertical direction, and a contiguous substantially vertical surface, characterised in that the apparatus comprises a single set of drawing-and-delivery rolls for drawing the document through the recording station and for delivering the document out of the apparatus, said rolls being located within the apparatus casing above the recording station so as to engage the leading end of the document, after that end has been pushed by the operator through the recording station, to pull the trailing portion of the document through the recording station and to deliver the document
  • the apparatus is printing apparatus and comprises a print head 20 which may be reciprocated on a center line 22 by any suitable propelling mechanism.
  • the print head 20 may be of the wire or ink jet printer type, for example; and it is disposed opposite a platen 24 for printing an elongate rectangular sales slip or other discrete document 26 resting against the platen 24.
  • the motion of the print head 20 on the center line 22 may be sensed by any suitable sensing means, such as a sensor 28.
  • the apparatus comprises a lower guide 30 providing a document-receiving-and-guiding surface.
  • the guide 30 comprises a nearly horizontal flat guide plate portion 30a, a vertical flat guide portion 30b and a curved guide portion 30c formed on a radius 30d connecting the guide portions 30a and 30b and extending for about 90 degrees.
  • the apparatus also comprises an inner guide 32 which has a vertical surface 32a extending parallel with the guide portion 30b to provide a vertical passage A between these two surfaces, a horizontal guide surface 32b and a guide surface 32c extending upwardly at an angle with respect to the surface 32b, with the surfaces 32b and 32c being disposed opposite the curved portion 30c of the lower guide 30.
  • the guide 32 also has a surface 32d extending upwardly and at an acute angle with respect to the guide portion 30a so as to provide a document receiving throat 34.
  • An aligning rail 36 for the document 26 forms one end of the throat 34 and acts to guide the document 26 into the apparatus.
  • a keyboard 38 is provided in front of and below the aligning rail 36 and horizontal guide portion 30a as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
  • a pair of document drawing-and-delivery rolls 40 and an opposite pair of pressure rolls 42 are provided in the passage A between the surface 32a and guide portion 30b.
  • the pressure rolls 42 are held in forceful but yieldable relationship with the rolls 40 by any suitable means.
  • the drive rolls 40 are propelled from a motor 44 through spur gears 46 and 48.
  • the motor 44 is preferably of the electrical stepping type.
  • a pair of document sensors 50 and 52 are disposed at the bottom of the vertical passage A, and a pair of sensors 54 and 56 are disposed at the upper end of the passage A.
  • the motor 44 is under the control of controls 58; and controls 58 are under the control of sensors 28, 50 52, 54 and 56.
  • the keyboard 38 is connected to a memory 60 of any suitable type as by means of data transferring bus 62.
  • Memory 60 is also connected to the print head 20 as by means of data transferring bus 64 and has control connections with controls 58.
  • the document 26 In order to print the document 26, it is placed on the horizontal portion 30a of the lower guide 30 in a substantially horizontal disposition. The document is then manually pushed so that its forward end contacts the curved guide portion 30c, and the document is thus bent against whatever inherent resilience the document material may have and moves upwardly in the passage A. The forward end of the document 26 when it passes between the sensors 50 and 52 causes the controls 58 to so operate on the motor 44 that the motor drives the rolls 40 and thus the pressure rolls 42 at a continuous speed.
  • the sensor 28 connected with the controls 58 assures that the motor 44 cannot be effective to provide another increment of rotation of the rolls 40 until a print line has been completed. Succeeding lines of print, such as line b, c, d, etc., are printed on successive increments of rotation of the rolls 40.
  • the controls 58 may also be under the control of the keyboard 38 so that a reciprocation of the print head 20 does not take place until a line of print has been put into memory 60 by means of keyboard 38.
  • the line of print a is first keyed into the keyboard 38 and is put into memory 60.
  • the print head 20 then traverses across the document 26 and prints the first line a.
  • the rolls 40 are then effective to move the document 26 upwardly in the passage A for an additional increment; the keyboard 38 then has its second line of print entered into it and thereby into memory 60; and the print head 20 is then reciprocated and prints the second line of print b on the document 26.
  • the document 26 is incrementally moved upwardly in the passage A; and the succeeding lines of print c, d, e, etc., are printed by the print head 20 as it traverses across the document 26.
  • the apparatus is provided with an opening 66 in its top so that there may be a line of sight 68 toward the platen 24.
  • a line of sight 68 toward the platen 24.
  • the printing apparatus allows the operator to lay the document 26 on a flat, substantially horizontal, bed (guide portion 30a) and to push it away from him into the machine, which is very natural from the operator's standpoint.
  • the operator places the document 26 in contact with the aligning rail 36, which is on the right side of the line of movement of the document 26, into the apparatus; and the document 26 is thus registered in its proper line of movement.
  • the document 26 is pushed straight in toward the back of the machine with a slight pressure sideways, to the right as seen in Fig. 2, to maintain registration of the document.
  • the portion 30c of the lower guide 30 is formed on a generous radius (30d); and this may be, for example 1 t inches (4.44 cm) to route the document 26 upwardly in passage A without any substantial manual force required in order to cause the document to bend through substantially 90° and without any permanent deformation or bend lines being provided in the document.
  • the sensors 50 and 52 just above the radiused portion 30c of the guide 30 start the rolls 40 which need not be lifted or lowered to be effective; and once the document is under control of the rolls 40, the operator can relax his force to move the document upwardly through the vertical passage A.
  • the document 26 is then automatically incremented through the printing transaction and is ejected out of the top of the passage A and out of the top of the machine to be readily available to the operator.
  • Each of the line of print as it is caused by the keyboard 38 is readily visible, right side up, to the operator on the line of sight 68 as head 20 moves along the centre line 22 off of the line of print just printed, so that the operator can determine whether the line of print is without error.
  • the printing on the lines a, b, c, d, e, etc. appears to the operator in order in which the printing was keyed in from the keyboard 38 and can be immediately read as the document exits the machine. Since printing is done as the document is moved in a single direction through the machine, the document may be of any reasonable length with a correspondingly great number of lines of print.
  • the document In the event that a document is accidentally dropped into the document exit slot (the vertical passage A) from the top of the machine, the document may be easily retrieved either by moving it upwardly out the passage A or off of the substantially horizontal flat guide portion 30a if the document moves far enough and around the curved guide portion 30c.
  • the guide portion 30a is located just above the keyboard 38, so the guide portion 30a is not only easily within reach for retrieval of documents but also is within easy reach for inserting documents into the machine or printing in the usual manner.

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1. Dispositif d'enregistrement commandé par un opérateur pour enregistrer des données sur un document particulier introduit dans le dispositif par l'opérateur et comprenant un chemin de transport de documents le long duquel le document est entrainé vers une station d'enregistrement, ledit chemin de transport comportant des surfaces de réception et de guidage de documents comprenant une surface plate (30a) initiale d'entrée, extérieurement accessible et pratiquement horizontale sur laquelle l'opérateur peut disposer un document à introduire, suivie par une surface incurvée (30c) contigüe et orientée vers le haut à l'intérieur du carter du dispositif, qui sous tend un angle d'approximativement 90° et transforme le mouvement généralement horizontal d'un document introduit en un mouvement généralement vertical, et une surface pratiquement verticale contigüe, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif comprend un ensemble unique de galets d'en- trainement (40, 42) pour entrainer les documents au travers de la station d'enregistrement (20, 24) et pour sortir le document du dispositif, lesdits galets (20, 24) étant disposés dans le carter du dispositif au dessus de la station d'enregistrement (20, 24) de façon à saisir l'extrémité avant du document après que cette extrémité ait été poussée par l'opérateur dans la station d'enregistrement, pour tirer la partie arrière du document au travers de la station d'enrigistrement (20, 24) et pour délivrer le document en sortie par le dessus du carter de l'appareil de façon à pouvoir être facilement saisi par l'opérateur.
2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la station d'enregistrement comporte des moyens d'impression comprenant une tête d'impression et une platine, la tête d'impression (20) étant disposée à côté de la partie verticale du chemin de transport et près de la position de l'opérateur, caractérisé en outre en ce que le carter du dispositif contient la tête d'impression et en ce qu'il a une forme, un agencement et des ouvertures qui permettent à l'opérateur depuis sa position de voir les données en cours d'impression ou immédiatement après leur impression.
3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en outre en ce que des moyens de détection du premier document (50, 52) sont prévus pour détecter le document pendant l'introduction de celui-ci par l'opérateur et pour amorcer le mouvement d'avancement continu du document par les galets d'entrainement (40, 42) et en ce que des seconds moyens de détection (54, 56) sont prévus pour détecter le document après qu'il ait été ainsi avancé d'une manière continue sur une distance prédéterminée et pour amorcer le mouvement d'avancement par increments du document.
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