Printer
AssigneeCopal Company Limited
InventorMunetaka Shimizu
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Abstract
A printer of the type in which a receipt paper and a journal paper are arranged in parallel to each other, after the receipt paper and journal paper have been transferred in a horizontal direction, the receipt paper is passed through a vertically moving cutter device and issues from the printer in a horizontal direction whereas the journal paper is turned upwardly and wound about a take-up roll; printing drums for the receipt paper and the journal paper are disposed below a horizontal paper transfer plane and printing devices for the receipt paper and the journal paper are disposed above the horizontal paper transfer plane to print on the undersurfaces of the papers, which makes it easy to mount an optical printing drum position detector on the printer.
Claims11
A printer of the type in which printing is effected on a receipt paper and a journal paper disposed in parallel to each other, characterized by means for transferring said receipt and journal papers in a horizontal direction, a cutter device adapted to move vertically so as to cut said receipt paper into receipt paper sections after the transfer of the receipt paper, means for guiding said cut receipt paper sections out of said printer in a horizontal direction, a take-up roll for winding said journal paper about the roll after the journal paper has been turned upwardly, separate printing drums for said receipt and journal papers disposed below a horizontal paper transfer plane and separate printing hammers for said receipt and journal papers disposed above said horizontal transfer plane to effect printing on the undersurface of the papers in cooperation with said printing drums, respectively.
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