EP0766858B1 - Imprimante servant a imprimer des caracteres appropries sur des documents en mouvement introduits manuellement, par exemple des documents de voyage, des titres de transport, des factures, etc. - Google Patents

Imprimante servant a imprimer des caracteres appropries sur des documents en mouvement introduits manuellement, par exemple des documents de voyage, des titres de transport, des factures, etc. Download PDF

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EP0766858B1
EP0766858B1 EP95916835A EP95916835A EP0766858B1 EP 0766858 B1 EP0766858 B1 EP 0766858B1 EP 95916835 A EP95916835 A EP 95916835A EP 95916835 A EP95916835 A EP 95916835A EP 0766858 B1 EP0766858 B1 EP 0766858B1
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Roberto Chieruzzi
Alfredo Teghesi
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B11/00—Apparatus for validating or cancelling issued tickets
    • 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
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/28—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing downwardly on flat surfaces, e.g. of books, drawings, boxes, envelopes, e.g. flat-bed ink-jet printers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B1/00—Machines for printing and issuing tickets

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  • the present invention relates to the field of printers and more precisely to a printer for typing desired characters on manually entered documents such as travel and transport documents, invoices, etc., while in movement.
  • stamping and cancelling machines which are designed so that the document is entered into a slot and, once it reaches the correct position for printing, a punch blocks it in order to allow a printing head to operate. Upon completion of printing, the punch releases the document so that it can be extracted.
  • Making the printing head moveable involves the incorporation of suitable means to move the head in correlation to the characters which are progressively typed on the document.
  • suitable means to move the head in correlation to the characters which are progressively typed on the document.
  • These means of various types not described in detail inasmuch as they are well-known, are sufficiently reliable and precise. However, they involve a greater complexity of the printers suited to these objectives.
  • printers of this type Another inconvenience of printers of this type is that while a very short time is sufficient for printing, a much longer time is normally needed for entering and extracting the document.
  • the document is entered in a direction orthogonal to the line of characters to be printed and, therefore, it is necessary for the user to slide the document through the opening of the slot, enter it all the way, realize that the printing has taken place and extract the document.
  • queues often form of people who, at the same time, wish to have their tickets cancelled.
  • the seconds of waiting which pass between the extraction of one ticket and the entry of the next determine whether or not a queue will be formed. Notwithstanding the fact that the majority of people carrying out this operation do so on a daily basis, queues form all the same.
  • scanners In order to avoid insofar as possible the formation of queues, in the similar field of magnetic cards, scanners have been created which provide for the entry of the card in a slot which runs longitudinally to the advancement of the person holding the card as he walks. The card is slid along the slot while a magnetic scanner contemporaneously reads the data encoded on it.
  • Means for detecting the speed of advancement of the card are unnecessary since the scanner is able to read the data as long as the speed of advancement remains within a certain, sufficiently broad interval.
  • An existing printer as described in EP 252575 Al, is capable of printing desired characters on a web of tickets on both sides. It comprises fixed printing heads and an optical sensor that indicates the speed and position of individual tickets in the web. The web is cut or torn into tickets in a second moment, after the printing. However, neither the documents can be separated before printing, nor can be manually entered one at a time.
  • Another printer described in EP 0249212 A2 can be hand held and can print desired characters on a fixed paper surface. It has a printing head integral to the body of the printer and has an encoder associated with a roller signalling to a control system its position or its speed.
  • the first object of the present invention is therefore to provide a printer for typing desired characters on manually entered documents held by a user and which need to be printed while in movement one at a time.
  • the second object of the present invention is to provide a printer for typing desired characters on manually entered documents which does not require means for moving the printing head and which, therefore, is less complex and expensive than the currently existing printers of the same type.
  • the third object of the present invention is to provide a printer for typing desired characters on manually entered, moving documents which is also able to considerably reduce the waiting time for users.
  • the printer according to the present invention the novel feature of which is that the printing head is associated with a decoder for detecting the speed of advancement of the document with respect to the head, the document when manually passed being able to advance in a direction parallel to at least one line of characters printed by the printing head in correlation to the speed of advancement.
  • the printing head does not move with respect to a printer support.
  • the decoder is advantageously a roller connected to an encoder and rolling on the document, an element for pressing the document against the decoder and the printing head being provided to facilitate the rolling of the roller and allow for printing.
  • a slot into which the document is to be entered is advantageously defined by the pressing element and the support on which the printing head and the decoder are mounted.
  • the slot runs parallel to the direction of advancement of a person carrying the document so that said person, without stopping, is able to advance the document by partially entering it in the slot and sliding it as he walks to accomplish the printing.
  • sensor means are provided which are connected, along with the decoder, to electronic means for the control of the printing head, which can be, for example, of an ink jet, thermal or needle type.
  • a sensor 3 to signal the presence of a document 4, and a decoder 5, suited to roll on document 4 as it passes through a slot 6 defined by support 1 and a pressure plate 7 which faces support 1, are also provided.
  • Plate 7 is resiliently connected to a fixed support 9 by means of springs 8 which press it with a pre-established force against support 1 so that document 4, when passing in slot 6, is in contact both with decoder 5 and head 2.
  • the pressure just described can be exercised, instead of by plate 7, by other pressure means such as dragging rollers, which are also resiliently suspended.
  • FIG. 2 A preferred embodiment of the printer according to the present invention is shown in figure 2.
  • printing head 2 Upon passage of document 4 in slot 6 by a user who holds the document in his hand as he passes it through the slot, printing head 2, although fixed in place, prints a line 10 of characters on the face 4a of the document. The printing occurs in correlation to the speed at which document 4 advances in the direction of the arrow F since decoder 5, associated with printing head 2, has already detected the speed. Document 4 advances in a direction parallel to the line of printed characters 10.
  • the second object of the invention is also accomplished since the printing head does not move with respect to a printer support and the user himself produces the relevant movement between the document and the head to allow for printing.
  • a further advantage is the possibility of introducing document 4 in either of the two opposite directions of slot 6, using a single encoder able to distinguish the direction of advancement of the document.
  • support 1 can be configured with printing head 2 and decoder 5 located side by side, with the addition of a further sensor 12 to the already provided sensor 3.
  • first sensor 12 upon detecting document 4, activates printing head 2, while second sensor 3 signals the end of the advancement of the document.
  • sensor means are provided connected, along with the decoder, to electronic means of control of the printing head, which can be, for example, of an ink jet, thermal or needle type.
  • decoder 5 and sensor 3 are connected to microprocessor control means 13.
  • the control means command printing head 2 which can be, for example, of an ink jet or thermal type, by means of an appropriate driver 14 on the basis of the signal coming from sensor 3 through an amplifier 15 as well as on the basis of signals coming from decoder 5 through a decoder 16 of the direction of the movement of document 4.
  • Control means 13 are able to operate on the basis of program means loaded in a memory 17.
  • the printing head 2 can be, for example, of an ink jet, thermal or needle type.
  • the printing head while not having to move, must comprise sliding means for an ink ribbon. Therefore, in the case of a needle printing head, the block diagram of figure 5 will be modified as indicated in figure 7, with the addition of a cartridge 18 connected to control means 13 by a driver 19 of a known type.

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Claims (10)

  1. Imprimante permettant d'écrire des caractères (10) déterminés sur des documents (4) introduits manuellement tenus par un usager et qui nécessitent d'être imprimés un à un, comprenant une tête d'impression (2) montée sur un support (1) sur lequel lesdits documents (4) sont passés manuellement, caractérisée en ce que ladite tête d'impression (2) est associée à un décodeur (5) de la vitesse de glissement en rapport à la tête d'impression (2) du document (4) pendant que ce dernier est en mouvement, ledit document (4) lorsqu'il est passé manuellement avançant dans une direction (F) parallèle à au moins une ligne de caractères (10) devant être imprimés sur le document (4) lui-même en corrélation avec ladite vitesse de glissement.
  2. Imprimante selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle ladite tête d'impression (2) ne se déplace pas par rapport au dit support (1).
  3. Imprimante selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans laquelle ledit décodeur est un rouleau (5) roulant sur le document et connecté à un codeur (16).
  4. Imprimante selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle un élément de pression (7) est prévu pour presser le document (4) contre le décodeur (5) et la tête d'impression (2) qui font corps avec ledit support (1) facilitant de ce fait le fonctionnement du décodeur (5) et permettant l'impression.
  5. Imprimante selon la revendication 4, dans laquelle ledit élément de pression (7) et ledit support (1) définissent une fente (6) pour l'insertion dudit document (4).
  6. Imprimante selon la revendication 5, dans laquelle ladite fente (6) est parallèle à la direction (F) d'avancement d'une personne portant ledit document (4), de façon que ladite personne, sans s'arrêter, puisse insérer le document partiellement dans la fente (6) le faisant glisser dans le but de provoquer l'impression (10).
  7. Imprimante selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle sont prévus des moyens de détection (3) de la présence dudit document (4) qui sont connectés, avec ledit décodeur, à des moyens électroniques (13) de commande de la tête d'impression (2).
  8. Imprimante selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, dans laquelle ladite tête d'impression est d'un type à aiguilles, avec un ruban-encreur prévu pour se déplacer en correspondance avec elle.
  9. Imprimante selon les revendications 1 à 7, dans laquelle ladite tête d'impression est d'un type à jet d'encre.
  10. Imprimante selon les revendications 1 à 7, dans laquelle ladite tête d'impression est d'un type thermique.
EP95916835A 1994-04-15 1995-04-13 Imprimante servant a imprimer des caracteres appropries sur des documents en mouvement introduits manuellement, par exemple des documents de voyage, des titres de transport, des factures, etc. Expired - Lifetime EP0766858B1 (fr)

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ITFI940066A IT1269093B (it) 1994-04-15 1994-04-15 Stampante per riportare caratteri voluti su un documento in movimento introdotto manualmente
ITFI940066 1994-04-15
PCT/IT1995/000055 WO1995028689A1 (fr) 1994-04-15 1995-04-13 Imprimante servant a imprimer des caracteres appropries sur des documents en mouvement introduits manuellement, par exemple des documents de voyage, des titres de transport, des factures, etc.

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