Abstract: The present invention uses heat-sensitive paper with an adhesive face and plural kinds of identification portions, arranged in the longitudinal direction, provided on the reverse thereof and has a feed portion setting up a relative motion between the heat-sensitive paper and a punch, which is driven by a drive portion for making a perforation in the heat-sensitive paper. It further has a drive timing changing means for changing timing of the drive of the drive portion during the relative motion according to the kind of the tag to be issued so that a perforation is made in a desired position of the heat-sensitive paper, whereby, when the tag after being issued is folded in two and its end portions are stuck together with adhesive, the identification portion looking out of the perforation is made to be the identification portion corresponding to the kind of the tag, and thus, the kind of the tag is made identifiable at a glance.

Abstract: An improved electronic data recorder for use in a vehicle includes a housing having a pair of connectors. The housing encloses a modular converter, a printer module, a continuous roll of paper, a modular paper advance mechanism, conversion electronics, and memory and computation electronics. Also included in the housing are a driver code input keypad, a clock and date display, and keys for selecting a variety of functions. The data recorder connects to a free end of a rotatable odometer-speedometer cable between a rotating part of a vehicle to which the cable is attached and the vehicle odometer-speedometer. The data recorder also connects to the vehicle battery and ignition switch. The rotational motion of the cable is communicated into the housing of the data recorder by one of the connectors and from there into the modular converter. The converter converts the rotational motion into a plurality of unique electrical signals representative of mileage.

Abstract: A printing system for a boarding pass and/or a baggage tag comprises an operating unit; a housing; a control unit in the housing receiving instructions from the operating unit; and two printing units in the housing controlled with the control unit. One printing unit includes: a roll of printing paper strip; a feeding mechanism for drawing out the paper strip; guide members for the strip; a dotting printer for printing characters on the strip; a cutting unit for cutting the strip after being printed; and an ejecting mechanism for ejecting the printed and cut printing paper strip as a boarding pass or a baggage tag from the housing. The other printing unit includes: a roll of a second printing paper strip, and a similar feeding mechanism, guide members, dotting printer, cutting unit, and an ejecting mechanism for ejecting the printed and cut second printing paper strip as a baggage tag from the housing.