Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an erasing apparatus includes a paper feed tray configured to feed a sheet, a reading unit configured to read an image on the sheet, an erasing unit configured to erase the image on the sheet, a cutting apparatus configured to cut the sheet allowed to be cut, a reject box configured to accumulate the sheet which is judged to be not-reusable and a control unit configured to judge the category of the sheet based on the output of the reading unit and change the conveyance destination of the sheet according to the category of the sheet.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a erasing apparatus includes: a paper feeding section configured to feed a recording medium on which a erasable image is recorded to a conveying path; a conveying section configured to convey the recording medium along the conveying path; a erasing section configured to erase a color of the image on the recording medium; a sensor configured to detect the recording medium conveyed through the erasing section by the conveying section; and a control section configured to perform, if the sensor detects occurrence of a jam of the recording medium, control to convey the recording medium present in the conveying path.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a erasing apparatus includes: a paper feeding section configured to feed a recording medium on which a erasable image is recorded to a conveying path; a conveying section configured to convey the recording medium along the conveying path; a erasing section configured to erase a color of the image on the recording medium; a sensor configured to detect the recording medium conveyed through the erasing section by the conveying section; and a control section configured to perform, if the sensor detects occurrence of a jam of the recording medium, control to convey the recording medium present in the conveying path.

Abstract: A pushbutton controlled correction tape assembly includes a casing having therein a correction tape assembly having an application head, a pushbutton assembly received in the casing to selectively extend the application head of the correction tape assembly out of the casing so as to apply a correction tape to a surface.

Abstract: Provided is a transfer device capable of maintaining a constant tension of band-shaped ribbon from the start till the end of operation requiring no action by a user. While band-shaped ribbon (F) is being supplied, a feed shaft unit (4) and a feed drive gear (3) rotate. In accordance with their rotations, a movable plate (6) screw-retreats so that the interval between the movable plate (6) and the surface of the feed drive gear (3) is increased in the axial direction. Consequently, the force of a coil spring (5) is reduced and the braking force (a force to press the surface of the feed drive gear (3) to stop its rotation) is gradually decreased.

Abstract: A film transfer apparatus includes a mechanism which is adapted to prevent a reverse rotation of a take-up reel (8) for a tape. The mechanism is formed of a check claw (29) and reverse rotation preventing teeth (30). The check claw and one of the teeth are engaged with each other firmly and reliably. When the check claw should be broken or deformed to cause the function thereof to become incomplete, only the member provided with the check claw needs to be renewed easily by a simple operation. A check pin (23) inserted from the outer side of a cartridge unit (2) into a cylindrical retainer shaft (20) on which the take-up reel is rotatably mounted is combined in one body rotationally with the take-up reel. The check pin is engaged in a reverse rotation preventing manner in a tightly winding direction with respect to the cartridge unit.

Abstract: A hand device for transferring a film, of, for example, adhesive, covering, or colored material, from a backing strip to a substrate. A supply spool and a take-up spool for the backing strip are rotatably mounted in a housing. An applicator tip is arranged on the housing and includes an application edge around which the backing strip runs. Furthermore, a brake mechanism, active during the functional operation of the hand device is provided. The brake mechanism has a locking device which interacts with one of the spools. To guarantee a compact design and economical fabrication, the locking device is arranged to be integral with the applicator tip.

Abstract: A coating tool has a printer head capable of securing a smooth traveling of a transfer tape having a correcting paint or a paste applied thereto by preventing adhesion of the transfer tape to the printer head thereby securely transferring and coating the correcting paint or paste to the surface of a target object.

Abstract: A clutch mechanism having an easy-to-manufacture and inexpensive constitution, by making use of frictional engaging force in thrust direction, in a coat film transfer tool of automatic winding type. At least at the feed reel side, a clutch mechanism is provided between a driven member of a tape winding portion and a drive side rotary gear for rotating and driving it, and its power transmission makes use of the frictional engaging force in thrust direction between the driven member and drive side rotary gear. This frictional engaging force can be set by properly adjusting the dimensional relation in thrust direction between the mutual constituent members, and therefore the designing and manufacturing conditions of the constituent members are less strict, manufacture is easy, assembling is easy, and hence the manufacturing cost and device cost can be lowered.

Abstract: A refill type coat film transfer tool, specifically a tape cartridge for a coat film transfer type having a support main body of lightweight and simple structure, capable of replacing a coat film transfer tape easily, securely and promptly. The support main body has a support base plate for rotatably supporting the opposite side ends of rotary shafts of the pay-off reel and take-up reel supported detachably and rotatably on a rotary support shaft of the case of the coat film transfer tool, and this support base plate has a flat skeletal structure having an outer contour corresponding to the inner contour of the case. Therefore as compared with the conventional plastic container, the rate of use of materials in the entire device of the support main body itself is substantially curtailed.

Abstract: A device for winding correction tape in a corrective film dispenser comprising a supplying reel and winding reel arranged between upper and lower cases and a tape guider projected through the front ends of the cases through which a correction tape with a coating of correction film applied thereon is fed from the supplying reel to the winding reel and wherein said winding reel with a gear is arranged in the front of the cases and the supplying reel is arranged in the rear of the cases, and wherein a first auxiliary reel with a gear is arranged between the winding reel and the supplying reel and is engaged rotatively with the gear of the winding reel, and a second auxiliary reel is arranged between the supplying reel and the first auxiliary reel, said correction tape being fed from the supplying reel to the winding reel via circumferential surface of the auxiliary reels.

Abstract: A coating tool has a printer head capable of securing a smooth traveling of a transfer tape having a correcting paint or a paste applied thereto by preventing adhesion of the transfer tape to the printer head thereby securely transferring and coating the correcting paint or paste to the surface of a target object.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for filling a void in a printed image which has been printed by a thermal transfer printing process employs of a heat-sensitive pigmented material on a foil. A piece of the foil is provided with a dot of the pigmented material having the same color as that bordering the void to be filled and approximately the same size as the void. The foil is positioned on the printed image, with the dot facing and superposed over the void. Heat is applied to the back of the foil, opposite to the dot, while at least the heated portion of the foil is pressed against the image to transfer the pigmented material from the foil to the void in the image. Instead of a dot, the pigmented material can take the form of an image and be transferred from the foil to a receptor material.

Abstract: A correction tape roller device which can be easily refilled is provided. It is difficult to shorten the distance between the first and second shafts in the conventional tape roller device of the prior art thereby causing the prior art device to be of a relatively large volume. The correction tape roller device of the present invention uses an inscribed plate and a pinion which reduces the distance between the first and second shafts and improves the an entire spatial use efficiency. A tape guide can be disassembled from a main body of the correction tape roller device, as necessary, and the angle of assembly can be altered, which facilitates correction of typographical errors on paper.

Abstract: A tape cartridge detachably attached to a refill type coating film transfer tool that allows replacement of coating film transfer tapes, and formed in a compact size and simple structure using fewer components. The tape cartridge has a compact size and simple structure, comprising a pay-out reel with a coating film transfer tape wound thereabout and a winding reel for collecting a used tape rotatably provided in a support base in a form of a flat plate, and the reels are detachably engaged, respectively, with a pay-out rotation part and a winding rotation part rotatably provided in a case of the coating film transfer tool for integral movement therewith. In order to replace a tape cartridge, the support base is placed on the rotation parts, while the reels are in engagement with the rotation parts, respectively, then, the tape is set to a head.

Abstract: This invention relates to a correction tape adhesiver for correcting a mistyped letter comprising a rotatable tape guider which may turn its direction according to the gripping posture and/or using direction of the user. Said tape guider is formed separately from the case at the backside edge thereof and combined with the guide sill so as to ensure rotation of the tape guider to the certain extent.

Abstract: A thermal transfer printer with an erasing function for recording data by use of heating energy. Included are a signal generator to generate a signal to instruct the erasure; a heating energy generator; a memory in which generation patterns of heating energy to be generated from the heating energy generator are stored; and a controller to control the heating energy generator in a manner such that a plurality of different generation patterns are read out of the memory on the basis of the erasing instruction from the signal generator and different heating energy is generated from the heating energy generator a plurality of times on the basis of the generation patterns, thereby erasing recorded patterns. The heating energy generator gives the heating energy to the recorded patterns through a correctable ribbon which can print and erase. With this printer, the data recorded by variable lengths in the proportional spacing mode can be certainly erased.

Abstract: A printer device is provided with an erasing portion for erasing recorded items of a medium on which characters or figures have been recorded, and a recording portion for printing or copying the surface of the medium having passed through the erasing portion by color fading ink or toner.

Abstract: A printing apparatus system includes a plurality of type units each having a plurality of type elements and each being different from the others. Each type unit may be mounted in the apparatus. A detector detects which of the type units is so mounted and produces a detection signal representative thereof. The printing pressure with which each type element is imprinted on a print medium is determined in accordance with the particular type wheel mounted in the apparatus as indicated by the detection signal. Additionally, the amount of advance of an ink ribbon for imprinting a type element on a type unit is determined in accordance with the particular type unit mounted in the apparatus, again as indicated by the detection signal.

Abstract: A numbering and reading system with record having two-dimensional erasable bar code or a removable label with a two-dimensional bar code is disclosed. The bar code can be PDF417.

Abstract: An instrument for transferring coating film onto a surface requiring transfer printing.

Abstract: A recording apparatus such as an ink jet printer or bubble jet printer consists of a recording head to record by discharging an ink to a recording paper; a conveying device to convey the recording paper; an instructing device to instruct to convey the recording paper in the direction opposite to that upon recording; and a conveyance controller to control the conveying device so as to inhibit the backward conveyance of the recording paper in the case where the recorded ink is not fixed yet when the recording paper is conveyed backward in response to the instruction of the backward conveyance. The discrimination regarding whether the recorded ink is not fixed yet is performed on the basis of the elapsed time after the recording by using a timer.

Abstract: A recording apparatus has a memory for storing information entered from a key input device, whereby the stored information can be used to rapidly and precisely position erasing means at a previously recorded indicium for erasure thereof. The apparatus may also have at least one drive system which controls the printing pressure, the amount of printing ribbon feeding, or the amount of printing sheet feeding, and a memory for storing information to regulate the drive systems. One embodiment of the apparatus is an electronic typewriter.

Abstract: A hammer driving mechanism in a printing is arranged to prevent double striking during erasing operations. A controller is provided to control the hammer drive means or a stopper based upon whether an erase command or a print command is received.

Abstract: A thermal transfer material comprising at least a support, a first ink layer, a second ink layer, a third ink layer and a fourth ink layer disposed in this order on the support, wherein the first ink layer predominantly comprises a water-soluble polyester resin, the second ink layer is capable of causing separation from the first ink layer on heating, and third and fourth ink layers predominantly comprises a thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: A thermal transfer recording apparatus capable of image recording and image correction using a self-correction ribbon. In image recording the ribbon is lifted off from the recording sheet immediately after heating, while in correction the ribbon is lifted off with a delay from the sheet so that the ribbon develops sufficient adhesive force by cooling. The delay is caused by a lever member or the like, movable between a protruding position for correction and a retracted position for recording, and provided on an ink ribbon cassette or on the recording apparatus itself.

Abstract: A feed wheel 10 provided at front and rear sides thereof with an intermittent gear 10b and a notched gear 10d, is formed on one end portion of a cylindrical cam shaft 5 for moving a printer, with a mesh-prevention side 10c left at its center. A switch cam 11 for moving a ribbon cassette upwardly and downwardly is integrally formed on one end portion of a guide shaft 4 of the printer. A notched pinion 9 having a feed gear 9a and an intermittent feed gear 9b arranged alternately on its peripherals surface is also slidably mounted on the end portion of the guide shaft 4. When the printer is moved to a two-color shifting position in accordance with a program, the printer pushes the notched pinion 9 for movement against a compression spring 8, so that the intermittent feed gear 9b and the feed gear 9a of the notched pinion 9 is brought into mesh with the intermittent gear 10b and the notched gear 10d of the feed wheel 10, respectively, to rotate the notched pinion 9 in order to pivot a switch cam 11.

Abstract: A document processing apparatus comprises an element for editing input character data an element for recording and outputting the input or edited character data, and an element for erasing the recorded and output character data. A plurality of different erasing systems are provided for the erasing element. The optimum erasing system is selected from the plurality of different erasing systems of the erasing element in accordance with predetermined processing conditions of the apparatus. The recorded and output character data is erased. The optimum erasing system can be selected in accordance with the printing system of the recorded characters, dot density, presence or absence of the character data in the memory, and presence of superimposed characters so that the low electric power consumption and the optimum erasing quality can be realized.

Abstract: A method of printing with an automatic replacement includes the steps of specifying a memory; setting a sheet of paper on which a character group stored in the memory specified has been printed, to a printer having a carrier; inputting a search text and a replacement text and storing them; retrieving the character group from the head of characters to the end one character after another to recognize whether the character group has an element identical with the search text; calculating a position on said printed sheet each time the retrieving is performed; moving the carrier to the position calculated when the character group has an element identical with the search text; erasing a part where the element identical with the search text is printed on the printed sheet; and printing the replacement text in a blank from which the element has been erased without changing the contents of the memory.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of erasing printing by a thermal transfer printer which is capable of erasing printing on paper. A printing area is divided into a plurality of small areas extendedly disposed in the direction in which a carriage moves. These small areas are divided into a plurality of erasure units made up of a plurality of small areas spaced apart from each other. The erasure operation is divided into two or more operations performed on each unit whereby erasure of printing is reliably performed and damage to paper is suppressed to a minimum.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including a print mechanism for printing key-input print information; an eraser for erasing a character or symbol printed on a recording medium with the print mechanism; a first memory for storing the key-input information; a second memory for storing information on a print object erased with the eraser; and an erasure controller for controlling the eraser in accordance with a comparison result between the erased object information stored in the second memory and the key-input information stored in the first memory.

Abstract: A typewriter includes a carriage arranged for reciprocating travel, a receiving arrangement mounted on the carriage, a drive arrangement mounted on the carriage, and a ribbon cartridge receivable in and removable from the receiving arrangement and operatively connectable with the drive arrangement, and an XY-plotter receivable and removable from the receiving arrangement when the ribbon cartridge is absent from the receiving arrangement. The XY-plotter includes a stylus holder for supporting a plurality of styli; a first force-transmitting arrangement operatively connectable to the drive arrangement for moving the stylus holder such as to place a selected stylus in a standby writing position; and a second force-transmitting arrangement operatively connectable to the drive arrangement for moving the selected stylus in contact with the record carrier.

Abstract: The typewriter is equipped with the capability to check or verify the spelling of words as they are typed and the typewriter may also upon request from the operator provide candidate words from which the operator may select a word to replace a misspelled word. When a candidate word is selected, the typewriter electronic controls check the spelling of the misspelled word and delimit the zone which contains the erroneous characters. Only the characters that are within this bounded zone are erased from the page and the character which fit within the zone in the new or correctly spelled word are printed, eliminating the need to remove characters which are outside the zone and which are correct in the original word and will be correct in their position in the correctly spelled word.

Abstract: A printing device that detects misspelled words which contains a counter for counting a period of time after a detection of misspelling of the character string executed by a spelling check and a print controller for controlling a print head member so as to execute print operations in case that a value counted by the counter reaches a predetermined value.

Abstract: In a text editing device, provided is an improved so-called wordout function, a word lying across two lines can be erased at one time with a single key operation. In case that a hyphen is located at the end of the line, it is determined that two divided parts of a single word are located on two lines.By detecting a hyphen between two character strings, these two strings are erased at one time as two parts included in a single word.

Abstract: Disclosed is a text processing system such as a word processor and an electronic typewriter. The disclosed system comprises memory means for storing character data and shift data indicating a character be printed on a line shifted upward or downward from a standard print line. Control means is operated to move a print head along the standard print line when a space or backspace key is operated, but is not operated to feed a print sheet even when the shift data are stored in the memory means for a character on which the print head is currently positioned.

Abstract: Method for removing a marking from a stratum surface involving the steps of superposing a pellucid film including a heat-softenable polymeric material over a marking so that the marking is in contact with the polymeric material and irradiating the marking and film with light energy to heat the marking and soften the polymeric material to thereby transfer the marking to the film.

Abstract: A method for correcting mistypes in an electric typewriter, wherein a printing type corresponding to a character to be corrected is struck a plurality of plural times onto a character, with a correction tape intervening between the printing type and the character, is disclosed. According to this method, a shifting operation of the correction tape is started after moving a carriage and the printing type to the position corresponding to the character. Then, when the shifting operation has been completed, the striking operation of the printing type is performed to correct the character.

Abstract: A typewriter having an automatic erasing function, having an erasing device responsive to an erasure-start key, for effecting an erasing operation to successively erase the characters printed by a printing device, and a controller responsive to the erasure-stop key, for permitting the erasing device to interrupt the erasing operation. The typewriter has an input buffer for storing input data which is entered through a keyboard while the erasing device is operated, the typewriter. The typewriter may be arranged so that the input buffer is cleared upon operation of an erasure-stop key. The above arrangement may be adapted to erase successive words on a display device as character and space data are retrieved from a memory. In this case, a device may be provided to suspend a continuous erasing operation for a predetermined time each time the space data representative of a space between the words has been retrieved from the memory after at least one character has been erased.

Abstract: A postage meter utilizing an offset printing roll. A die plate carried by the roll has a first region for receiving thereon fixed information such as the city and state, and a second region for receiving thereon variable information such as the date and postage amount. At the beginning of a revolution of the printing roll, the second region is depressed and an inking roll applies ink to the first region. Then the second region is moved into the plane of the first region and an ink jet printing device projects ink droplets onto the second region to form the variable information thereon. The quality of the printed form of the variable information is sensed. If acceptable, a document is printed. If unacceptable, the first and second regions are both wiped clean and the entire operation is repeated. The cleaning operation can employ an hydrophilic oil which is applied to the printing roll.

Abstract: An eraser of the present invention comprises a magazine having set therein a carriage means for mounting a freely turning first reel loaded with an erasing ink transfer tape and a second reel for winding up the used erasing ink transfer tape and a head for bending or curving the erasing ink transfer tape before it is wound up by the second reel wherein at least the bent or curved portion of the tape is projecting with respect to the magazine. The known defects of the conventional erasing ink, such as requiring a relatively long waiting time before rewriting, difficulty of rewriting due to brush unevenness and inconvenience caused by drying and solidifying of erasing ink as well as the fatal defect of the conventional eraser of transfer type that it is usable only for typewriter, is eliminated with present invention. The invention provides a handy eraser that is quite easy to use.

Abstract: Method for resetting the print head of a typewriter or similar machine to a starting position. In a processor-controlled typewriter or similar machine, the steps of a vertical repositioning of the recording medium are added and stored. If the added value indicates an upward movement of the recording medium, this value is cancelled as a character is printed. If, contrarily, a downward movement of the recording medium is indicated, the value is retained. Moreover, the current horizontal position of the printing head and, when it is repositioned horizontally, also the position of the last printed character, are stored. Upon initiation of an automatic reset function of the printing head to the end of the printed text, after a repositioning in horizontal and/or vertical direction, for instance for purposes of a correction, the stored information is evaluated for activation of the printing head drive and the recording medium drive.

Abstract: In a printing apparatus with a correction ribbon, a ribbon placement mechanism comprising a holder swingably supported on a carriage adapted to move along a printing line and holding a printing ribbon and a correction ribbon; a first lever supported on the carriage so as to be swingable between a first position and a second position; a first electromagnet for shifting the first lever from the first position to the second positon; a second lever supported on one end of the first lever so as to be swingable between a working position and a resting position; a second electromagnet for shifting the second lever from the resting position to the working position; and a coupling means coupling one end of the second lever with the holder, wherein the printing ribbon is selected and placed at a print position through operation of the first electromagnet, while the correction ribbon is selected and placed at the print position through the swing motion of the holder when both the first and second electromagnets are actu

Abstract: Disclosed is a non-tacky lift-off tape for letters or characters printed or typed in error comprised of a resin and amine wax coating applied to a film substrate.