Burroughs, Inc.

Sycor, Inc.

Christopher O Lada

Anthony Horak

Felix A Rachiatore

A ribbon drive for an ink printer ribbon housed in a cartridge and mounted on a reciprocating print head carriage is disclosed. The ribbon drive includes a vertically oriented drive shaft supported on the carriage for rotary motion. A pair of hubs are supported one above the other on the shaft by oppositely operating one-way clutch bearings. Each of the hubs has coiled therearound a constant force, self-coiling band spring. An end of each of the band springs is secured to the printer frame. As the print head carriage translates, the drive shaft is alternately driven by the hubs as the springs wind and unwind therefrom.

Ink ribbon drive for data printers

Air assisted document stacking apparatus wherein document items are moved into a directional control channel including a pair of rotatable rollers operating in offset relationship with respect to an elongated drive belt effective to entrain and move said items into a stacker pocket, the latter having means for applying positive air pressure to said pocket so as to move incoming items out of the path of following items entering the pocket and for applying negative pressure to said pocket for closely stacking items together in said pocket by removing residual air from between said items.

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Christopher O Lada