Abstract: The apparatus can deal with graphs obtained as a computer output and comprises recording means controlled by a computing unit in response to the generation of each point of the graphs for recording in a memory an indication of its location in the graphs, addressing means for addressing said recording means so as to record the subsequent location indications being recorded adjacent and in the same order of the representation of the points made by said displaying or plotting means, and shifting means conditioned by said addressing means when the recording of a point is addressed for causing the shifting in said memory of the indications of all points following said recorded point in said order. The graph so recorded is plotted under the control of means which reads said memory in sequence. The memory is organized in cells, each one adapted to receive at least one of a group of points of a predetermined subarea of the plot.

Abstract: A fusing rolls fixing unit having a toner antisticky liquid supply device wetting the surface of the fixing rolls to prevent adhesion of toner particles thereto. The antisticky liquid supply device is discontinuously operated for applying liquid to the fixing rolls only one time for each copy-run executed.

Abstract: An angular position transducer for a rotating member comprising a notched disc connected to said member, an opto-electronic pair for sensing the angular position of said disc and a supporting shell for said pair which is fixable on the support of the rotating member coaxially to said member. The disc is fixable directly to the rotating member at a predetermined position with respect to the shell, and comprises a thin flexible lamina guided on its periphery by a guiding element adjacent to the notches. The flexibility of the lamina compensates for any disalignment and axial displacement of the rotating member. The position signal is periodic and is sent to the terminals of a reference resistor. A control circuit modifies the value of the resistor in order to stabilize the peak value of the position signal within predetermined narrow tolerance limits.

Abstract: A variable configuration accounting machine having a central processor unit (CPU) of an LSI (Large Scale Integration) microprocessor type and a plurality of peripheral units selectively connectable to the CPU which gives a selected configuration to the machine. The CPU is connected to a pair of memories. The first memory stores instructions and data, and the second memory stores microprograms. The capacity of both memories is variable according to the number and type of the peripheral units connected to the CPU for a given configuration of the machine. In the second memory is permanently stored an initialization microprogram that, when activated by the operator, automatically causes the identification by the CPU of the number and type of peripheral units connected to the CPU.

Abstract: An ink ribbon cartridge for a printing machine of the type which includes a carriage moving in a direction parallel to the line of typing and a needle printing head, which can move on the carriage perpendicular to its direction of movement to advance and retract the head with respect to that on which printing is effected. The cartridge is supported by the carriage and includes a container having a cover, a base and a series of inner walls which bound an opening to house the needle printing head. The cartridge comprises two arms to guide out a portion of an inked ribbon near the head. The container arranges the ribbon in loose folds and supports a pair of rollers for the single directional feed of the ribbon. A tensioning unit in the cartridge includes a roller borne by a coupling having two ends housed and guided in corresponding slots of the base and of the cover, substantially parallel to the direction of movement of the head in relation of the carriage.

Abstract: A piece of metal furniture in sectional units comprises a base, two side panels, and a rear panel assembly. the assembly of these pieces is very simple and can be done by unskilled persons and without the use of any special tools or equipment. The base comprises complementary elements and locking devices which cooperate with corresponding parts of the side panels to allow the parts to be assembled and to be locked together, while taking up any relative play therebetween. The units are all of substantially parallelepipedal shape, resulting in less space being needed either for storing or for transport. The rear panel assembly is a modular assembly of individual rear panels wherein at least one dimension of the rear panel assembly is a multiple of the dimension of the base. Rear panels have the side edges which are suitably folded and shaped so as to interconnect with one another and with corresponding edges of the side panels.

Abstract: A platen for a typewriter, is rotated intermittently by pulsing a winding to establish flux between poles of a stator and a rotor, which rotates through a fixed angle and then back to a datum position under the action of a spring. The magnetic flux also engages an electro magnetic clutch formed by the rotor and a part rotationally fast with the platen so that the platen is rotated only during the forward rotation of the rotor. The stator, rotor and said part are all coaxial with the platen and may be housed inside the platen.

Abstract: An electrophotographic copying machine having duplexing mode of operation and first and second selectively enabled sheet supply stations. The first supply station has a feeding device which turns the copy sheet to be fed upside down before delivering it to the conveyor moving the copy-sheet toward transfer station. In the duplexing mode of operation sheets fed from the second station are one side imaged along the copy-sheet path and are collected in the first section. Then one side imaged copy sheets are fed from the first supply station and are imaged on the other side along the copy-sheet path. A storage tray with adjustable stops is provided in said first supply station to handle copy sheets of different formats.

Abstract: A serial printer comprises a carriage 1 movable along a printing line by a motor MC with a feedback transducer FBC signalling increments of carriage advance. A daisy wheel 2 carries characters to be printed and is rotated by a stepping motor MS with a feedback transducer FBS. In order to maximize printing speed without complex control of the carriage speed a control unit signals when the carriage 1 reaches each printing point in response to feedback pulses from FBC, whether fixed or proportional spacing is used. If the motor MS has by then completed character selection, as determined by counting feedback pulses from FBS, the carriage is not stopped and printing takes place on-the-fly. If character selection has not been completed, the carriage is stopped and printing is effected when character selection is completed.

Abstract: In a generator of strobe signals an electret is interposed between a fixed and a movable armature moving with a translatory or rotary movement. The strobe signals are generated by the electrostatic induction of the electric charges trapped in the electret according to a selective flux pattern.

Abstract: In a computer wherein a central processor and at least one peripheral controller have access to a memory, this latter is divided into two simultaneously accessible zones, namely a private zone accessible by the processor and a direct access zone accessible both by the processor and by the peripheral controller. A logic unit synchronizes the controller's access to the direct access zone with the processor's access to the private zone, the controller's access being delayed, if necessary to occur simultaneously with the processor's access. The peripheral controller's access is thereby achieved without interruption of processor operations.

Abstract: The printing unit includes a daisy wheel typecarrier tranversely movable with respect to the paper. The various operations and printing functions are actuated by electronic means controlled by a mechanical memory, which through an electromechanic transducer causes a set of electronic controls to selectively control a set of linkages.

Abstract: A precision transducer for position measurements comprises a pair of supports, one of which is movable with respect to the other. Each support is provided with an electric winding constituted by equidistant serially connected printed circuit conductors extending transverse to the direction of movement. The winding of one of the supports comprises a plurality of groups of conductors connected in series and intercalated with the conductors of the other group(s). Each group of conductors is printed on one face of a substrate, the other face of which bears auxiliary conductors connecting the conductors of the groups in series, through metallized holes formed through the substrate. The substrate is bonded to the said one support after the printing of the auxiliary conductors on the said other face, the groups of conductors being printed on the said one face after the substrate has been bonded to the support.

Abstract: A dot matrix printing device for electronic calculator comprising a plurality of electrically heatable dots of an insulating plate aligned therebetween and spaced according to a constant pitch to print the digits of the calculator amounts. A symbol dot is located adjacently to the terminal digit dot which prints the least significant digit of the amount, aligned with the other dots of the plurality. The symbol dot is spaced from the terminal digit dot by a distance greater than the constant pitch of the other dots and prints the explanatory symbols of the amounts leaving a blank between the digits and the symbols of the amounts.

Abstract: A non-impact printing device with selective emission of solid ink particles is disclosed. A rod 19 of solid ink is pressed by a spring 20 in an insulating housing II against an end wall with a nozzle 13 therein. A pulsed high voltage applied between the ink rod and a counter-electrode 16 (which can be behind the paper 25) causes ink particles to be eroded from the rod and ejected through the nozzle on the paper. Printers are described which employ incremental line-feed paper movement, movement of printing devices as just described along the printing line, and selective control of the high-voltage pulsing such as to form characters by a dot matrix technique.