Typewriting machines – Sheet or web – Including programmed-control-system for record-medium feed
Patent
1985-10-25
1988-05-10
Pieprz, William
Typewriting machines
Sheet or web
Including programmed-control-system for record-medium feed
400630, 400708, 4005833, 400578, 400579, 400596, 101233, 271245, 271227, 235479, 235485, B41J 1332
Patent
active
047431296
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a printing apparatus for use as part of a teller terminal in automatic banking equipment for printing a record of a banking transaction on a passbook for the information and retention of the banking customer.
Modern banking practice includes the use of so-called teller terminals for use by individual bank tellers in communicating with a supervisory data processing system. As well as keyboard and display units, it has become the practice to include in teller terminals a printer for printing customer passbooks.
When a passbook is printed, the teller opens the passbook at the latest page and indicates on the keypad which line of the passbook is next to be filled in. The opened passbook is then inserted into the passbook printer and the supervisory data processing system commands the passbook printer to print details on the open passbook at the indicated line according to information fed to the supervisory data processing system by the teller through his or her keypad.
It is the custom in the design of passbook printers to provide a narrow slot wherethrough the opened passbook is fed by hand. This requires some precision of operation and can slow down the customer servicing rate of an individual teller. Further, because the passbook is fed through a narrow slot, there is a maximum thickness to the passbook which can be accommodated as well as a maximum height or length thereto, dependent upon the depth of the slot. Yet further, the passbook must be fed into the slot in a predetermined attitude or else the printer will not function and will print in the wrong place.
It is, therefore, desirable to provide a passbook printer whereon no precision of position of the passbook is required prior to printing, where a thick passbook may be accommodated as well as a thin passbook and wherein correct printing of the passbook may proceed regardless of the attitude of provision of the passbook to the printer.
According to a first aspect, the present invention consists in a passbook printer comprising; a barrier, a conveyor belt, a transport apparatus and a printhead assembly, said printer being operable to print a visible record on a passbook in a sequence of operations including; the raising of said barrier; subsequent to the placing of an open passbook on said conveyor belt, the operation of said conveyor belt for a predetermined period for said conveyor belt to convey the passbook towards said barrier for the passbook to engage said barrier and to have an edge of the passbook become aligned with the barrier in consequence of sliding engagement between said conveyor belt and the passbook; and thereafter the lowering of said barrier for the passbook to be free to pass thereover and the operation of said transport apparatus to engage the passbook to transport the passbook a selectable distance towards said printhead assembly for said printhead assembly to make the visible record at a selectable position on said passbook.
According to another aspect, the present invention consists in a passbook printer according to the first aspect further characterised by the printhead assembly comprising a sensor, moveable transversely to the path wherein said transport apparatus is operable to transport the passbook to detect the transverse position of the passbook, said printhead assembly further comprising a printhead operable thereafter to print the visible record at a selectable distance transversely to said passbook from the point whereat said sensor detects the passbook.
According to another aspect, the present invention consists in a passbook printer further characterised by said sensor being operable to detect a mark on the passbook, said printhead assembly being operable to measure the distance transversely to the path wherein said transport apparatus is operative to transport said passbook between said point whereat said sensor detects said passbook and the point whereat said sensor detects said mark to detect which edge of the passbook has become aligned with said barrier.
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Dupuis Pierre
Keryhuel Alain
Pieprz William
Starr Mark T.
Unisys Corporation
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