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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:
Oct. 17, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ernest J Torok, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400489 ; 400486 ;
Abstract
A keyboard for a word processor is disclosed that combines a Universal (qwerty) keyboard with touch type editing means. Editing functions are those that provide cursor movement (e.g. the arrow keys) or the delete or insert functions. Touch typing means are those that can be accessed rapidly without large arm movements and while at least one finger of each hand remains on a home key. Touch type editing can be provide most easily by adding keys accessed by the thumbs, the only digits underutilized in the Universal keyboard configuration. A preferred embodiment is a Universal keyboard with editing keys placed between the space bar of that Universal keyboard and the operator.