101 |
Unitary photographic lettering and display typography device |
US553893 |
1975-02-27 |
US3959800A |
1976-05-25 |
Murray Friedel |
This apparatus is a unitary photographic lettering and display typography composing device and has as its objective the creation and mechanical combining of two adjacent master and slave photo typographic systems into one unitary, simultaneously controlled photographic, daylight operating lettering composing device that can produce display headings, captions and sub-heads in either English or foreign languages, on a full sheet of photographic paper. Because of its constantly yellow-illuminated character image that develops into a black character image instantly upon exposure to white light and its visible spacing control, its transverse and longitudinal motion adjustability of the photographic paper, it also lends itself to the composition of Semitic and Oriental languages, border designs, overall background pattern tint effects and engineering symbols.Each character is constantly projected in the master unit from a yellow safety light source and is visually spaced to the desired position. The character is instantly developed upon exposure by white light and appears as a black image. The operator continues to compose one character after another without concern as to the sensitized material on which the photographic composition is viewed becoming spoiled and unusable from overdevelopment, overexposure, exposure to extraneous light and/or overall fogging from lengthy interruption during composition. This advantage results from the use of the composing photographic sheet which the operator views only as a basic spacing control sheet and which is discarded when composition is completed. A second sheet of dry photographic paper in an adjacent darkroom slave unit apparatus receives a simultaneous latent image exposure in the exact size, position, spacing or overlap as the developer immersed spacing control photo paper sheet. The dry photo paper is subsequently developed, resulting in a sharp, accurate, identically composed, good contrast, finished duplicate suitable for reproduction.With this unitary twin photographic lettering and display typography composing device, rapid font character selection is achieved by merely rotating a font character selection dial which is connected to the negative film font disks of both systems.A single font shifting lever which shifts from the outer to the inner concentric ring of the alpha-numeric characters on both identical master and slave font character disks at the same time, allows for rapid combining of different types of font characters such as Roman (vertical) and Italic (slanted) for instant mixing of composed words on a common base line.With this photographic lettering and display typography composing device, whether the operator leaves the machine for short or long periods - from less than a minute to longer than a week - the visual images already composed will be retained and the photo paper will not lose its light sensitivity for the balance of the composition. Each latent image of a font character exposed onto the photo paper in the slave unit, after subsequent development within the machine, will be uniform in weight, sharpness, contrast and density. |
102 |
Electro-optical printing system |
US246555 |
1972-04-24 |
US3952311A |
1976-04-20 |
James M. Lapeyre |
A high speed, electro-optical printing system for producing images, particularly images of type characters, on sheet material. A radiation sensitive, image-recording material preferably in sheet form is moved at a controlled speed past an array of relatively small, emitters of radiation actinic to the image-recording material. The emitters are electrically energized selectively and for varying durations to expose and produce images in the image-recording material as it moves past the emitters.The emitters may include light or heat emitting diodes or the ends of optical fibers each optically coupled at its other end with an actinic radiation source. The image-recording medium is carried on a sheet material and the system includes means for moving the image-recording sheet past the array of emitters and a processor for treating the exposed sheet to form a stable, visible image. A computer control system may include a memory containing programs for type characters thus offering the system utility as a high speed printer or it may provide for converting into printed form, electrical signals conveying graphic information. |
103 |
Non-impact printer |
US500826 |
1974-08-26 |
US3934257A |
1976-01-20 |
Arnaldo Pasini |
A non-impact printing system in which a photoconductor is illuminated with a light image of the character to be printed while applying a voltage across the photoconductor and a transparent insulating belt held in contact with the illuminated portion of the photoconductor. This results in the depositing of a latent electrostatic image of the character on the surface of the belt in contact with the photoconductor layer. The belt is then transported past a developing station where the image is developed with a toner and then transferred to plain paper. |
104 |
Bifurcated phototypesetter and headline machine |
US47961574 |
1974-06-17 |
US3918067A |
1975-11-04 |
BOOTH THOMAS ALLAN |
A bifurcated photocomposing machine for composition of both text and display size type in one machine from one font matrix. The composition of one form may follow the other, or if desired, it is feasible to intermix the text and display size type composition by switching from one to the other.
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105 |
Linearity correction circuit for an optical scanning device |
US40835073 |
1973-10-23 |
US3882509A |
1975-05-06 |
NEWTON JOHN E; REIFSTECK ROBERT L |
Apparatus is disclosed for accurately positioning a beam on a page of recording medium in a printer by means of a galvanometerdriven mirror. Compensation for non-linear operation of the galvanometer-driven mirror is provided by varying the magnitude of a correction voltage input to a galvanometer drive amplifier as a function of the position on the page which the galvanometer mirror is positioning the beam.
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106 |
Non-impact printer |
US38260973 |
1973-07-25 |
US3864697A |
1975-02-04 |
DILLON PETER L P; HOESTEREY DONALD C |
A non-impact printing or recording apparatus which is suitable for use with a digital computer is disclosed. The apparatus includes a simultaneous multi-beam acoustooptic light modulating cell adapted to produce a selected number of beams which may be selectively scanned across a photoconductive member to produce latent images of characters, graphical information or other forms of information for subsequent recording on a medium such as paper.
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107 |
System and apparatus for exposing photosensitive engraving plates |
US41941073 |
1973-11-27 |
US3857635A |
1974-12-31 |
NIEHAUS W |
A system for exposing a photosensitive engraving plate of the type used in newspaper printing to produce an image on the plate corresponding to an image on an image surface and preparatory to etching the plate. The system comprises the steps of providing a generally flat transparent screen formed from a transparent layer of material capable of forming an image therein when concurrently exposed to an electromagnetic field and a light image. This screen includes means for selectively creating the electromagnetic field. A generally uniform light source is directed onto the flat transparent screen while the electro-magnetic field is created in the screen whereby the layer is cleared of any image therein. Thereafter, the system includes the steps of focusing the image of the image surface onto the cleared flat transparent screen, while the screen is subjected to the electro-magnetic field until the transparent layer duplicates a transparent negative form of the image on the image surface. The transparent screen, having the negative form of the image therein, is then positioned adjacent a generally flat photosensitive engraving plate and a light is directed through the flat transparent screen onto the engraving plate whereby the plate is exposed with the negative form of the image on the image surface. This exposes the standard engraving plate to the image on the image surface for subsequent etching of the plate for use in a printing process.
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108 |
Automatic photo-composer |
US26795072 |
1972-06-30 |
US3802773A |
1974-04-09 |
SCHNEIDER W |
This invention transfers a graphic image from a reduced film image to the appropriate location on a film photo-composed page. The preferred embodiment of this invention consists of an aperture card (microfilm mounted on computer punch card) handling system for feeding and positioning the reduced image film; an image copying system which projects light through the reduced image and focuses it onto the correct horizontal position on the output photocomposed page; and a system for accurately positioning the photo-composed page film.
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109 |
Recording apparatus |
US3670633D |
1970-11-19 |
US3670633A |
1972-06-20 |
MASON LAWRENCE J; PARADYSZ LOUIS F; CHEN PHILIP L; SIMPSON GEORGE R |
An alphanumeric recording system wherein a character disc having transparent character images thereon is rotated through an exposure zone so that selected characters may be projected by the energization of a flash lamp. The projected image is collimated and directed to a recording zone through which move lens-mirror units at a constant speed intercept the projected image and focus it onto a photoreceptive recording medium. The character disc rotates at a rate such that with the slits therein associated with respective characters inter-character spacing is assured. Dead time in the recording process is eliminated by the use of the collimated projected character image and plural interception of that image.
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110 |
Light beam information presentation control means |
US3636837D |
1970-01-07 |
US3636837A |
1972-01-25 |
MCNANEY JOSEPH T |
Apparatus for controlling the formation and presentation of messages utilizing the high-speed light deflection characteristics of electro-optic light-refractive materials in combination with a longitudinally extended window of a lightlimiting member supported in the path of a light beam. The light beam is deflected vertically and allowed to enter the window whereby a series of vertically oriented side-by-side lines of light may be exposed to the surface of a display medium. But, in the process of doing so, the light beam will be deflected horizontally and beyond the limits of the window so as to effect interruptions in lines of the series which correspond to the formation requirements of a message being presented.
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111 |
Ray typewriter |
US3613532D |
1969-05-01 |
US3613532A |
1971-10-19 |
WILDHABER ERNEST |
This ray typewriter has two main applications. It may serve as a computer output to rapidly produce small-size photographic copies, or also as a typewriter operated by hand from a keyboard. Each type has its own source of radiant energy that is directed through an outlet representing the type. Said sources are arranged in an arc about a common point and their rays are directed towards said point. When activated, images of said outlets are made in a common region containing said point. In a computer output said successive images are reduced in size and placed along lines on a record. In a manually operated typewriter they are directly printed on the record.
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112 |
Impactless typewriter |
US3570380D |
1968-06-07 |
US3570380A |
1971-03-16 |
KAMENSTEIN BERNARD |
An impactless printing system is provided wherein a light source is used to illuminate a thermographic material through a character-shaped aperture in a mask. The light source generates enough heat in the thermographic material to cause it to be transferred, in the character shape to a receiving substrate.
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113 |
Photocomposing apparatus support structure |
US3479934D |
1966-10-11 |
US3479934A |
1969-11-25 |
DELANY JAMES F; WALTER GERARD O |
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114 |
Apparatus for justifying a reproduced line of characters |
US3478659D |
1965-07-01 |
US3478659A |
1969-11-18 |
MINETT ERNEST EVERET; WEIGL JOHN W |
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115 |
Photocomposing apparatus |
US52263266 |
1966-01-24 |
US3401616A |
1968-09-17 |
CROSS RICHARD D |
|
116 |
Apparatus for printing |
US42769365 |
1965-01-25 |
US3392642A |
1968-07-16 |
HORST GERMER |
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117 |
Photocomposing method and apparatus |
US45084665 |
1965-04-26 |
US3368470A |
1968-02-13 |
HIGGASON JR FRANK G |
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118 |
Apparatus for photographically composing advertisements in column format from advertisements on individual cards |
US56695166 |
1966-07-21 |
US3354779A |
1967-11-28 |
BROWN ROBERT N |
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119 |
Apparatus for positioning or printing names in cartographic processes |
US37254664 |
1964-06-04 |
US3323413A |
1967-06-06 |
SCARTH RITCHIE DAVID |
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120 |
Method of type character reproduction |
US35991564 |
1964-04-15 |
US3301125A |
1967-01-31 |
FRANCESCO SIMONCINI |
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