Abstract: An apparatus for driving fence posts. An inner pipe is received within an outer pipe for coaxial sliding relative thereto. The outer pipe is mounted on a vehicle in a substantially upright position. A cable is journaled over a pulley mounted on the top of the inner pipe. One end of the cable is fixed to the outer pipe while the other end is wound on a winch mounted on a platform attached to the outer pipe. A spring biases the inner pipe upwardly in order to maintain the journaled engagement of the cable and the pulley. When the winch is turned on, the inner pipe is forced downwardly thus driving into the ground a fence post positioned within said outer pipe beneath said inner pipe.

Abstract: Tab codes produced at a typewriter keyboard are converted to a form for text storage that includes travel distance and destination information. By using a multiple section code with distinct tab code identifier bytes on either end, the overall tab code can be embedded with normal single byte character codes in a text string and processed specially during forward or reverse operations with storage. For forward operation on a text string, coded destination information is extracted from a preselected byte of the multisection code, upon detecting the tab identifier, and special logic, first extracts the destination information, and then automatically passes over the remainder of the code to arrive at the next code of the text string. By so indicating the tab destination in the tab code, a tab operation is enabled to be independent of the active tab settings at the time of playback.

Abstract: Line end adjustment decisions for a typewriter printing from test storage are based on a set of zones that are defined along the line respective of appearance considerations for the right margin. The potential end location for each successive word ready for addition to a line is calculated and such end location is compared to the previous word's end location, by reference to the appearance zones, for determining whether or not the word should be assigned to the next line (i.e., whether or not a carrier return is inserted). By so identifying the word end positions that bracket a word with respective corresponding zones, decision logic, based on preferred responses to the various zone combinations presentable by such end points, is enabled, effectively, to impose an overall pattern of preferred line ending decisions to establish a right margin.

Abstract: Paper insertion apparatus for indexing a typewriter to a desired first line printing position is triggered using a position detector cooperating with an operator movable paper hold-down bail. When the paper bail is moved to a withdrawn position relative to the paper feed path, the detector produces a signal that causes a logic processor to access, from a dedicated storage location, a code indicating paper advancing increments corresponding to a desired first line printing position. The processor then commands an indexing drive to advance that number of increments. In a preferred implementation, the operator can condition the typewriter to receive a new first line code into storage by means of the keyboard.By so using the presence of the paper bail in a withdrawn position to input the operator's paper insertion request, problems of automatically clearing the path for the leading paper edge are averted and the natural association of the paper bail with paper handling is exploited.

Abstract: Described herein is a feature and the electronics and logic necessary to implement a paragraph indent feature on an electronic typewriter which is improved and more advantageous than previous routines which accomplished similar results. Paragraph Indent is beneficial to the operator in that it automatically positions the printing carrier at an indented level for setting off typed material so that the left edge of the indented material does not extend to the normal left margin. The typewriter under electronic control stores in memory, upon an appropriate command, a temporary left margin to which the carrier will return when the typewriter is operating under the paragraph indent mode. The operator may enter the Paragraph Indent mode from the keyboard by keying an alternate function or code signal together with a tabulation or tab code signal.

Abstract: On electronic typewriters which have the ability to record into a small working memory the escapement of the characters which are keyed at the keyboard, it is many times advantageous to be able to reposition the carrier at the rightmost end of the typed material automatically. This is particularly advantageous when it has been necessary to back the carrier up along the printed line for purposes of erasing, correcting or inserting material into that line. Disclosed herein is an electronic typewriter which is controlled by the electronic logic such that the depression of a selected control key will result in the carrier moving from a position within the typed text on a particular line to the right most position the carrier has occupied within that line during earlier typing.

Abstract: Printing operation sequences (e.g. code sequences representing phases of text) entered along with identifier codes by means of typewriter keyboard are stored for selective individual retrieval and may be replaced on an individual basis as the needs of the typewriter operator may dictate. By using a special end loading procedure for adding new sequences, both storage overlapping and build-ups of unused storage locations between sequences are avoided so that storage integrity is maintained while storage usage remains, nonetheless, efficient.In a preferred implementation, individual sequence retrieval capability is achieved by including in the respective sequences a common delimiter code along with a sequence identifier code. During bulk code transfers that occur when changes are made to the stored sequences, such delimiter and identifier codes are shifted routinely without being distinguished from the sequences they separate.