Typewriting machines – Key-board or key lever-actuating mechanism
Patent
1991-07-09
1992-08-25
Crowder, Clifford D.
Typewriting machines
Key-board or key lever-actuating mechanism
400477, 400489, 400492, 235145R, 200 5R, B41J 508
Patent
active
051413434
ABSTRACT:
An extensible and compressible keyboard for application in computer, calculator, typewriter, and other similar applications where storage space is a premium. The keyboard provides adjustable spacing between the keys whereby a compact storage unit is expanded to a full-size, full function, and normally spaced standard keyboard or, as importantly, to a size which best fits the fingers of an individual user.
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Roylance Byron D.
Roylance William H.
Crowder Clifford D.
Funk Stephen R.
Roylance William H.
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