Burroughs, Inc.

Norman H Preston

William H Mowry, Jr

Wilson P Rayfield

Henry M Korytkowski

Frederick H Dear

Ronald Worden Ferguson

Jerry Hans Lehmann

Frank L Muster

James D Peglow

Richard L Mills

Ward L Karns

Aniel G Sitole

A modular high speed printing system for printing alphabetic and numerical information upon individual items or documents fed individually or in series through the modules. A feeder module performs accounting functions as to the number of documents processed, provides multiple or single mode document feeding and is adjustable to accommodate different size documents. The system also includes one or more printing modules for printing machine readable repetitive data, machine readable consecutive data, repetitive alphanumeric information and consecutive numeric information. A document receiver module adjustable to different size forms is also provided. The printing modules employ common document drive systems including an adjustable document end stop to permit horizontal placement of the information on the document. Vertical positioning of the information on the document is accomplished by means of adjusting the print mechanisms. The individual modules can be selected for operation in active or bypass modes and single cycle or flow feeding modes.

Modular high speed printing system

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

Rochester, NY, United States of America

Norman H Preston