Burroughs, Inc.

The Standard Register Company

James D Peglow

William H Mowry, Jr

Philip G LaDue

Norman H Preston

Jerry Hans Lehmann

Richard L Mills

Aniel G Sitole

A guard is used to close the gap between the print ribbon and a check supported by the platen in a check writing machine. The guard inhibits paper or metal shims from entering the gap to receive the check amount and payee data thereby protecting the printer from issuing blank checks which could later be filled out to create a counterfeit document.

Blank document guard in a check writing machine

The disclosure relates to item or document signing apparatus for imprinting a legally acceptable signature and/or date, etc., upon individual items or documents fed on demand thereto at high speed from an input to an output hopper in a stop-start operation. An adjustably positionable item stop mechanism permits the printing of the data at selectable locations along the longer dimension of the item. Both date and signature imprinting means are simply efficiently and easily demountably removable and replaceable permitting alteration and/or rapid change of the imprinted data. Novel to be automatically maintained regardless of document thickness.

High speed printing apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Canandaigua, NY, United States of America

James D Peglow