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Document issuing apparatus for printing a set of transaction control slips for each of many transactions

Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp
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Filing: 1984-02-09
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Granted: 1986-08-05
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Expires: 2004-02-09
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Abstract

Abstract A document issuing apparatus wherein images of different forms and images of data to be printed on the forms are stored in memory. Form images and data images are combined, edited, and printed to produce a series of sets of transaction control slips in an order dependent upon classification information contained in the data to be printed.

Inventors

  • 👤 Saburo Suganuma
  • 👤 Hiroyuki Kataoka

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-10-23 23:28
CPC Classifications
G; G07; G07B; G07B1/00; G07B1/02; G06; G06F; G06F40/00; G06F40/10; G06F40/166; G06F40/174; G06Q; G06Q20/00; G06Q20/08; G06Q20/20; G06Q20/209

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim 212 words
A document issuing apparatus for printing item sale and delivery control information for each of a plurality of transactions, involving the sale and delivery of an item, which information is presented on an order form for each of a plurality of transactions, onto an individual set of transaction control slips for each transaction, said apparatus comprising: (a) optical means for reading from a plurality of said order forms, item sale and delivery control data representing transaction control information for a plurality of transactions, said control data including item classification data; (b) storage means for storing said sale and delivery control data; (c) processing means for ordering said sale and delivery control data for said plurality of transactions in response to said classification data contained in said transaction control information for each transaction, and for organizing said sale and delivery control data for each transaction into a format compatible with the format of said transaction control slips; and (d) printing means for simultaneously printing both said transaction control information for each transaction and format data representing the format of said control slips to form a set of said transaction control slips for each transaction, said set of transaction control slips being printed in an order determined by said classification data for each transaction.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 212 words
A document issuing apparatus for printing item sale and delivery control information for each of a plurality of transactions, involving the sale and delivery of an item, which information is presented on an order form for each of a plurality of transactions, onto an individual set of transaction control slips for each transaction, said apparatus comprising: (a) optical means for reading from a plurality of said order forms, item sale and delivery control data representing transaction control information for a plurality of transactions, said control data including item classification data; (b) storage means for storing said sale and delivery control data; (c) processing means for ordering said sale and delivery control data for said plurality of transactions in response to said classification data contained in said transaction control information for each transaction, and for organizing said sale and delivery control data for each transaction into a format compatible with the format of said transaction control slips; and (d) printing means for simultaneously printing both said transaction control information for each transaction and format data representing the format of said control slips to form a set of said transaction control slips for each transaction, said set of transaction control slips being printed in an order determined by said classification data for each transaction.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 93 words
An apparatus as recited in claim 1 further including a classifying sheet holder for containing sheets which are adapted to distinguish said sets of transaction control slips bearing one form of said item classification data from sets of transaction control slips bearing another form of said item classification data; and wherein said printing means includes means for supplying one of said sheets from said classifying sheet holder whenever printing of sets of transaction control slips bearing certain item classification data has been completed to distinguish said sets from subsequent sets of transaction slips.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 34 words
An apparatus as recited in claim 1 further including a plurality of bins and including a sorter for distributing said sets of transaction control slips into said bins in accordance with said classification data.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 41 words
An apparatus as recited in claim 1 wherein said apparatus further includes print indicating means for indicating when said printing means has completed outputting a group of sets of transaction control slips in accordance with a certain form of classification data.

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