Abstract: To the end of allowing an image makeup process to be easily and efficiently carried out even when different image makeup functions are to be applied to different regions of a single original image without requiring a plurality of region designating sheets, a region designating sheet Sw carrying region designating images is photoelectrically read, the region designating images of the region designating sheet Sw are displayed on a display unit, region designating data for specifying the regions to which image makeup functions are to be applied is obtained through a specifying process conducted on the region designating images displayed on the display unit by using a touch panel, available image makeup functions for each of the regions specified by this specifying process are displayed on the display unit, and the image makeup functions are applied to the designated regions by obtaining image makeup function designating data through a specifying process conducted on the list of image makeup functions displayed o

Abstract: In a fluid container comprising a container main body, a first piston member which defines a fluid containing chamber of a variable internal volume in cooperation with associated walls of the container main body, and a content expelling tube for conducting the content of the fluid container to a content outlet, a second piston member is placed inside the content expelling tube so that the second piston member may be moved inside the content expelling tube to take out the content from the content outlet when the first piston member has reached its stroke end and the content inside the fluid containing chamber has been all taken out. Thus, the content expelling tube may be conveniently employed for guiding the movement of the first piston member without reducing the inner capacity of the fluid container.

Abstract: To provide a stencil printing device of a multi printing drum type which can be reduced in size without complicating the path of conveying printing paper and without compromising the ease of maintenance, a plurality of printing drums are arranged along an inclined line of a prescribed angle of inclination, and the path of conveying printing paper between each pair of adjacent printing drums is defined, for instance, as a straight line. A plate making unit, a plate ejection unit and a paper feeding unit are arranged in the space defined above and below the inclined line along which the printing drums are arranged so that a compact design may be accomplished.

Abstract: In a squeegee device for supplying ink in a stencil printing device from the interior of a cylindrical, ink permeable printing drum which rotates around an axial line thereof with a stencil master plate wrapped around the outer circumferential surface thereof, to prevent a squeegee blade from developing a juddering movement relative to the cylindrical printing drum, and to allow the squeegee blade to sufficiently intimately contact the inner circumferential surface of the printing drum so that printing ink may be supplied to the printing drum by a prescribed amount in a stable fashion at all times, a thin spring plate is placed on a reverse surface of the squeegee blade made of a rubber-like elastic material which is in engagement with the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical printing drum.

Abstract: A device for disposing paper and other information carrying media which reads information printed on each sheet of paper, and stores the read information, shreds the paper sheet from which the information has been read. Thus, the paper may be shredded or otherwise destroyed, but the information carried thereby may be retained in an electronic storage device, and reproduced if desired. Since each sheet of paper may carry information not only on one side thereof but may carry on two sides thereof, it is preferred that the device comprises two reading units so that one of them may read information from one side of the paper while the other reading unit reads information from the other side of the paper.

Abstract: A printing paper supporting table having an inclined and adhesive printing paper supporting surface is provided with printing paper peeling plates which can selectively project upward from the printing paper supporting surface and a gate member for preventing the downward movement of the printing paper at a lower edge of the printing paper supporting surface by projecting upward from the printing paper supporting surface, and a stencil master plate supporting member for supporting a planar stencil master plate is placed above and opposite to the printing paper supporting surface. Further provided is a pressure applying unit for pressing the printing paper supporting table against a stencil master plate supporting member.

Abstract: Ink leakage from the trailing edge of the stencil master plate is avoided and a stable ink supply is ensured when using a D-type printing drum including a concentric cylindrical part extending over a major part of an entire circumference of the printing drum and defining an ink permeable region, a non-concentric cylindrical or planar part extending over a minor part of an entire circumference of the printing drum and having a central axial line different from that of the concentric cylindrical part, and an outer circumferential surface on which a stencil master plate is to be mounted without losing the benefit of reducing the displacement of the press roller.

Abstract: In the disposal device for paper documents according to the present invention, the feeding of paper that is to be disposed can be done either automatically with a feeding unit or manually from a manual inlet. Therefore, the disposal of sensitive paper documents can be carried out sheet by sheet by placing the paper on the automatic paper feed unit while paper documents which do not require any security measures may be manually fed into the disposal device for an immediate shredding process. Therefore, the present invention allows both appropriate and efficient disposal of paper documents without regard to whether the paper documents to be disposed require security measures or not.

Abstract: A process for producing a thermal stencil master sheet for stencil printing, which sheet, even when a thermoplastic film affording superior perforation properties but having low mechanical strengths is used therefor, can prevent the film from being broken to thereby improve its productivity is provided, which process comprises a step of laminating thermoplastic films onto both the surfaces of a base film, a step of bonding porous substrates onto the thermoplastic films and a step of stripping the thermoplastic films bonded to the porous substrates from the base film.

Abstract: An apparatus for disposing of a used thermal stencil master sheet, in a superior disposing efficiency and secret-retainability, and a process for disposing of the same are provided, which apparatus is provided with a stripping nail for stripping a used thermal stencil master sheet wound up on a stencil body therefrom, a waste stencil box for encasing the stripped master sheet and rolls for waste stencil for feeding the master sheet into the box, and is characterized by providing a means for heating the master sheet so that it is heat-shrinked and/or melted within the box, and which process comprises discarding the used master sheet of a thermal stencil master sheet, and heating the used master sheet so as to subject it to heat-shrinkage and/or melting.

Abstract: A mimeographic printing machine general comprises: a rotary plate cylinder for supporting a stencil on an outer circumferential surface thereof and having a perforation for passage of ink, the plate cylinder being rotatable with the stencil; means for supplying the ink to an inner circumferential surface of the plate cylinder; a squeegee movably received in the plate cylinder so as to come into and out of contact with the inner circumferential surface of the plate cylinder, the squeegee being operable to squeeze the ink from the supplying means toward the outer circumferential surface of the plate cylinder through the perforation of the plate cylinder; and a rod-shaped member rotatably received in the plate cylinder. The rod-shaped member is located behind the squeegee in the rotating direction of the plate cylinder and is movable with the squeegee for jointly holding the ink.

Abstract: A used master disposing apparatus comprises a receptacle for receiving a discharged master, a pressing member vertically movably mounted in the receptacle, and a device for vertically moving said pressing member. The pressing member compresses the master when the pressing member is lowered. The pressing member has a pressing surface, an area of which decreases when it is raised.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device is provided for taking up and feeding a plurality of sheets one by one by a selectively driven sheet feeding roller from the stack thereof positioned on a sheet feeding base to a register roller and for transporting the sheet to an image developing and processing device at a predetermined timing by the register roller; the feeding device comprising a movable sheet guide member provided between the feeding roller and the register roller which is adapted to be displaced by the curving deformation of a sheet between the feeding roller and the register roller in the direction of the growing of the curving deformation. The feeding device may further comprise a detector for sensing the displacement of the sheet guide member to determine based upon the displacement that a predetermined curvature of a sheet has been reached, and a control for stopping the rotation of the feeding roller in response to the detection by the detector so as to prevent the sheet from deforming excessively.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus furnished with an overhead projector has an image projecting function and an image-forming function. The image processing apparatus is designed to detect the movement of an original support table or a reflection-type focusing plate during projecting of an original. The result is that the original support table is free from being heated by the focusing plate and also that the focusing plate is free from any deviation of its axis of light, thus preventing the reflected light from striking on the eyes of the operator.

Abstract: A rotary mimeographic printing apparatus comprises a rotary drum for mounting on a peripheral surface thereof a perforated stencil, a clamp pivotally supported on the rotary drum for clamping one end of the stencil in such a manner that the stencil may be wound around the peripheral surface of the rotary drum in response to rotation of the rotary drum, structure for removing the stencil from the rotary drum after printing is finished, and a stencil guide disposed above the rotary drum and engageable with the clamp so as to move following the pivotal movement of the clamp.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising: an input unit for inputting an image of an initial original; a support table on which the initial original is to be set, the support table being movably mounted along the input unit; a reflection-type focusing plate on which an OHP (overhead projector). original is to be set, the focusing plate being disposed along side the input unit; an image forming unit disposed under the focusing plate for forming on a sheet an image inputted from the input unit to provide an OHP original; and a projecting unit disposed above the focusing plate for projecting an image of the OHP original set on focusing plate.

Abstract: The stencil duplicator includes: a cylindrical porous rotary printing drum and a means for selectively rotating it in a preferred direction; a means for clamping the leading edge of a stencil master along a generator of the printing drum; a means for supplying printing ink to the inner surface of the printing drum; a press roller means for pressing a paper sheet to the outer surface of the printing drum with a progressive rolling action; a means for feeding a paper sheet between the printing drum and the press roller means; a means for making a stencil master, including a light transmitting plate, a light source which selectively illuminates the light transmitting plate, and a pressure plate facing the light transmitting plate, with the light transmitting plate and the pressure plate being selectively able either to be separated or pressed together; a means for feeding the leading edge of a stencil master which has passed between the light transmitting plate and the pressure plate towards the clamping means s

Abstract: A thermal printing system which makes printing by selected ones of a plurality of thermal dot generating means being actuated at selected dot areas in a matrix of dot areas according to input formation for printing provides printing in either normal image forming mode or reversed mirror image forming mode by the relative order of sequential decoding of the input information for printing and of sequential actuation of the thermal dot generating means according to the decoded printing information signal being switched over in two ways.

Abstract: A magnet strip extends along a line on the peripheral surface of a printing drum of a rotary stencil printing device and parallel to the rotational axis thereof. A clamp strip, made of a material which is magnetically attractable, can be selectively positioned as lying against and along the magnet strip with a leading edge of a stencil master for stencil printing interposed therebetween so as to clamp the leading edge of the stencil master to the printing drum, or removed away from the magnet strip so as to release the stencil master. Thereby the stencil master can be conveniently retained to the printing drum in a manner which is suitable for automation, and does not require any reinforced lug portion along the leading edge of the stencil master.

Abstract: A magnet strip extends along one generator of a printing drum of a rotary stencil printing device. A clamp strip, made of a material which is magnetically attractable, is hinged to said printing drum along a line substantially parallel to said one generator thereof, near one side of said magnet strip, so that said clamp strip can be pivoted either so as to lie against and along said magnet strip, with a leading edge of a stencil master for stencil printing interposed therebetween so as to clamp the leading edge of the stencil master to the printing drum, or so as to be removed from said magnet strip so as to release the stencil master. Thereby the stencil master can be conveniently retained to the printing drum in a manner which is suitable for automation, and does not require any reinforced lug portion along the leading edge of the stencil master.