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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Norbert Lais, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Assignee:
Mannesmann VDO AG, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 9/00 ; B41J 2/325 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 9/00 ; B41J 2/325 ;
Abstract
In the proposed tachograph, a thermal print head ( ) and a feed roller ( ) are spatially separated from one another. A starting section ( ) of the printing material ( ), which section projects by a suitable length, is automatically clamped between the thermal print head ( ) and the feed roller ( ) when the drawer ( ) closes. One of the closure gaps of the drawer ( ) is designed as an output slot ( ) for the printed documents produced.