Triumph Werke Nurnberg A.g.

Triumph-adler A.g.

Helmut Gottsmann

Rolf Theilen

Gunter Scheinpflug

Disclosed is a printing plane adjusting mechanism for a typewriter or similar machine wherein a paper handling system including a platen defining the printing plane is finely as well as coarsely adjustable by a single lever relative to a printing element to establish a predetermined normal distance between the printing plane and printing element or varied distances other than normal to accommodate paper packs of varying thickness. Adjustment of the normal distance or gap is effected without loosening or tightening screws.

Printing plane adjusting mechanism

A typewriter having a carriage return line indexing key to initiate in parallel a powered carriage return and a powered line indexing operation is provided with linkage associated with the carriage return action which assures initiation of the line indexing operation should the keylever depression be sufficient to initiate a carriage return operation but insufficient to initiate the line index operation.

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Nuremberg, Germany

Helmut Gottsmann