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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:
Feb. 02, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerald N Walter, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ; G01D / ; B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346134 ; 400602 ; 400625 ; 346104 ; 271184 ; 271209 ;
Abstract
A card ejecting apparatus for a thermal printer includes a rotatable drum having a clamp which holds a card when the drum is rotated in a first printing direction and releases the card when the drum is rotated in the opposite ejecting direction, a spring having a hooked free end, a transport mechanism which receives a card as it is being ejected from the drum and drives it into the hooked free end of the spring to cock such spring, and such cocked spring propelling such card onto a stack of cards.