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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1976
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1974
James E Blomquist, Riverton, WY (US);
Victor Comptometer Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
For use in a business machine having a printer and a platen for backing documents during printing, a document stop and position indicator mechanism comprising, in preferred form: movable document stop means for vertically supporting a document at a preselected printing position relative to the platen, a manually rotatable drive shaft mounting gearing engaging gear linkage connected to the document stop means for adjusting the document printing position by raising or lowering the document stop means, a flexible band having ends thereof secured to the document stop means, and band guide means, comprising pulleys, for training the band past a viewing point, the band being calibrated to identify thereat the document printing position established by knob rotation of the drive shaft.