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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 1983
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel R Sparks, Temple City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Becton Dickinson and Company, Paramus, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400496 ; 4004951 ;
Abstract
A space bar construction is provided for low profile keyboards which will accommodate, with the same construction, from a 1 to 3 space bar up to a 1 to 9 space bar. The arrangement provides a leveling system for the space bar to maintain exactly equal the depressed distances of the space bar at each end thereof through the utilization of a torsion spring for the leveling wire. The torsion spring imparts a constant loading in the leveling wire, and consequently the key top to avoid any noisy 'play' between the parts. The unit is assembled complete as a self-contained module for later insertion into a low profile keyboard.