Typewriting machines – Including type-set-assemblage mounted on carrier and... – Including type-faces movable relative to type-face-carrier
Patent
1978-01-27
1979-04-17
Sewell, Paul T.
Typewriting machines
Including type-set-assemblage mounted on carrier and...
Including type-faces movable relative to type-face-carrier
400173, B41J 130
Patent
active
041498097
ABSTRACT:
A rotatable disc type printer for use in conjunction with a typewriter having a movable carrier. The type element or characters are carried on radially extending petals and are arranged at varying distances from the center of disc rotation so as to define a circumferential spiral path. The angular placement or position of each petal or spoke is determined by the following formula: angular placement of i.sup.th petal=360.degree.
.+-. tan .sup.-1 id
L where n defines the total number of petals, d is the character spacing and L is the minimum distance from the center of disc to the print point. The length or distance from the center of disc rotation to the type character or element is defined by: L.sub.i (length for i.sup.th element=.sqroot.i L.sup.2 +(i
d).sup.2 where i
d ids the linear distance of travel of the disc center while rotating from a home position to the position for printing the character carried by the i.sup.th petal. In addition, the vertical center line of each type character is angularly displaced from the petal center line by an angle equal to tan .sup.-1 id
L (i.sup.th element). In essence the disc rotates and linearly moves along a path parallel to the typewriter platen while printing one character for each complete rotation thereof along a line of type vertically displaced above the path of the disc center. Preferably the print point is in vertical alignment with the disc center when in the home position. A plurality of petals are deleted to permit visual observation of the last typed character.
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IBM Tech. Disc. Bulletin, "On the Ply Print Wheel Employing Wide Face Hammer", J. H. Meier et al., vol. 16, No. 6, Nov. 1973, pp. 1689-1692.
SCM Corporation
Sewell Paul T.
Weinberger Ernest F.
Wolson Milton
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