Abstract: A hand operated imprinter for imprinting using a credit card, onto a document, comprising a base member having a panel forming a document supporting surface, a reciprocative roller carrier member transversely spanning the base member and movable longitudinally over the document supporting panel of, the carrier member having opposite side portions flanking opposite sides of the base member, the roller engaging a document when positioned on the panel overlying the base member having tracks at opposite sides of the base member longitudinally spanning the length of the base member for movably supporting and guiding the carrier member the track having a first horizontal track surface paralleling the panel and an inclined downwardly and outwardly facing second track surface having outwardly diverging upper and lower side faces, the portion of said base member at each side thereof lying between said first and second track surfaces defining a truncated triangular rib formation, and said carrier member having a pair o

Abstract: Electric motor driven imprinter apparatus for imprinting characters from a character imprint source member onto document sheets or the like, including a housing having a driven roller moved back and forth transversely across an imprint station, a horizontally slidable carrier block member and a changeable cassette carried by the block member having a changeable vertically slidable roller block member and a roller rotatably carried thereby. A pair of spaced apart rotatable sprockets and an endless drive chain having a spud projecting therefrom and provided for driving the carrier block member and roller block member back and forth through advance and return strokes spanning the imprint station.

Abstract: A document activated imprinter apparatus for imprinting characters from a credit card comprising a housing with entrance and exit slots, imprinting means, a carrier member with a flat upwardly facing surface, receiving and positioning means, guiding and reciprocating means and forward drive means.

Abstract: A varible data imprinting machine having an elongated flat printing bed section providing a document supporting surface and having a print wheel pack formed of closely adjacent peripherally notched print wheels, an imprinting carriage moveable through advance and return strokes longitudinally along the document support surface and an elongated rack section perpendicular to the printing bed section subadjacent the wheel pack having a number-indicating rack control panel projecting therefrom and including a plurality of toothed racks coarse manually adjusted longitudinally in the rack case to rotatably index the print wheels to number-printing positions. The rack case includes a pivoted centering blade activated by carriage movement to fine adjust the racks as the carriage leaves parked position and interlock means provided to latch the carriage at parked position following an imprinting cycle until one of the racks is readjusted.

Abstract: A variable data imprinting machine having an elongated flat printing bed section providing a document supporting surface and having a print wheel pack formed of closely adjacent peripherally notched print wheels, an imprinting carriage movable through advance and return strokes longitudinally along the document support surface and an elongated rack case section perpendicular to the printing bed section subjacent the wheel pack having a number-bearing rack control panel projecting therefrom and including a plurality of flexible band-like toothed racks coarse manually adjusted longitudinally in the rack case to rotatably index the print wheels to number-printing positions. The rack case includes serpentine elongated guide slot trackways sized to receive and guide the toothed racks for their longitudinal wheel-indexing movement.