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(11) EP 0 611 658 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
18.01.1995 Bulletin 1995/03

(43) Date of publication A2:
24.08.1994 Bulletin 1994/34

(21) Application number: 94102405.1

(22) Date of filing: 17.02.1994
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: B41J 11/20
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE GB SE

(30) Priority: 19.02.1993 JP 30634/93

(71) Applicants:
  • HITACHI, LTD.
    Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101 (JP)
  • HITACHI ASAHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Owariasahi-shi (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Murakoshi, Minoru
    Moriyama-ku, Nagoya-shi (JP)
  • Kato, Akihito
    Enokimaecho, Anjo-shi (JP)

(74) Representative: Patentanwälte Beetz - Timpe - Siegfried Schmitt-Fumian - Mayr 
Steinsdorfstrasse 10
80538 München
80538 München (DE)


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    (54) Apparatus for printing a passbook or the like


    (57) This invention relates to an apparatus for printing a passbook or the like in which platens are pressed against vertical stitch passbooks or the like which are different in width, along the back surface to perform printing. A sleeve shaft 37 is rotated by rotation of a motor 18, and eccentric sleeves 20 are rotated through springs 36 from the sleeve shaft 37 so as to press a left platen 9 and a right platen 10, thereby supporting left and right pages of an open passbook 1 or the like. Also, a plurality of divided platens 11 are provided surrounding a stitched portion of the passbook, so that printing can be performed in accordance with the position of the stitched portion which may be changed by a difference in width of passbooks or the like.






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