Title: Printer with indexed orientation of print head relative to web movement

Abstract: The invention contemplates a non-rotary printing machine which accommodates continuously moving web along a single path of movement, for recycled precision imprinting of specially characterized information; the printing involves cooperative use of a printing-head unit on one side of the web and a printing-hammer unit on the other side of the web, and these units are indexibly positionable to enable the machine to print the characterized information in a selected one of at least two different alignment orientations with respect to the direction of web movement.

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Inventors: Dingman, Arthur E. (Little Ferry, NJ, US)

Application Number: 014556
Filing Date: 1979-02-23
Publication_date: 1980-12-30
Assignee: Autographic Business Forms, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ)
Primary Class(es): 101/79 101/93.27, 101/93.37, 101/102, 101/110, 101/278, 101/292
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US Patent Ref:

3254596	Jun, 1966	Shorp et al.	101/102.
3306186	Feb, 1967	Voos et al.	101/110.
3351005	Nov, 1967	Giori	101/70.
3376811	Apr, 1968	Grintz	101/288.
3730085	May, 1973	Beck	101/93.
3837276	Sep, 1974	Reichert	101/316.
4034607	Jul, 1977	Cartwright et al.	101/316.

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Primary Examiner: Coven, Edward M.
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Attorney: Hopgood, Calimafde, Kalil, Blaustein & Lieberman