Facsimile recording apparatus

Claim 1

IN A FACSIMILE RECORDING DEVICE OF THE TYPE IN WHICH ELECTRICAL APPARATUS SELECTIVELY ENERGIZES AN ELECTRICAL MARKING CIRCUIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH RECEIVED SIGNALS CONTAINING SYNCHRONIZING AND MARKING COMPONENTS FOR PRODUCING A VISUAL IMAGE CORRESPONDING TO THE SIGNALS ON AN ELECTROLYTIC COPY PAPER MOVED THROUGH THE RECORDING DEVICE, IN COMBINATION WITH THE ELECTRICAL APPARATUS, AN ELECTRICAL PRINTING MECHANISM COMPRISING A CIRCUIT BOARD HAVING A PRINTING SECTION, A PLURALITY OF CONDUCTOR LINES ARRANGED IN A PLANE, PARALLELLY SPACED AND INSULATED FROM ONE ANOTHER ON THE CIRCUIT BOARD, SWITCHING MEANS SEQUENTIALLY CONNECTING THE CONDUCTOR LINES IN THE MARKING CIRCUIT TO APPLY SAID MARKING COMPONENT IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE SYNCHRONIZING COMPONENT OF SAID RECEIVED SIGNALS, AND AN ELONGATED PRINTER ELECTRODE CONNECTED IN THE MARKING CIRCUIT AND EXTENDING IN TRANSVERSE RELATION ACROSS THE CONDUCTOR LINES ALONG THE LENGTHS THEREOF AT THE PRINTING SECTION, THE CONDUCTOR LINES AND PRINTER ELECTRODE RECEIVING THE COPY PAPER THEREBETWEEN FOR PRINTING.