Title: Syllabic keyboard controlled devices

Abstract: A syllabic keyboard controlled device in which a syllabic keyboard controls a non syllabic printer by means of a storage unit (memory unit). The storage unit comprises a main memory to which the syllabic keyboard transmits through coding matrices pulses which correspond to the characters assigned to the simultaneously depressed keys. The storage unit includes a device for reading in the main memory each code corresponding to a character, to a space, or to a subsidiary operation, and includes moreover a decoding matrix at the output of which is connected : either a non syllabic printer, or a system to produce a permanent or semi-permanent record which may control posteriorily a non syllabic printing mechanism, for example that of a typewriter, that of a Linotype (trade-mark), or a device for photo-composition or for photoprinting.

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Inventors: Gremillet, Jean (Paris 15.degree., FR)

Application Number: 502184
Filing Date: 1974-08-30
Publication_date: 1977-03-08
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Primary Class(es): 400/99 400/478, 400/484
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US Patent Ref:

2770304	Nov, 1956	Tholstrup	197/7.
3073427	Jan, 1963	Gremillet	197/7.
3428747	Feb, 1969	Alferieff	197/19.
3604548	Sep, 1971	Ritzerfeld	197/20.
3643773	Feb, 1972	Holmes	197/19.
3730323	May, 1973	Watanabe	197/82.
3768623	Aug, 1973	Asahi et al.	197/19.

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Primary Examiner: Burr, Edgar S.
Assistant Examiner: Sewell, Paul T.
Attorney: Burns; Robert E., Lobato; Emmanuel J., Adams; Bruce L.