Punch card controlled web feeding and printing apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR PRINTING A PLURALITY OF GROUPS OF ITEMS EACH HAVING INDICIA COMMON TO ALL THE GROUPS AND ALSO UNIQUE INDICIA OF A DIFFERENT KIND FOR EACH GROUP IN RELATIVELY SMALL QUANTITIES FOR EACH GROUP, SAID ITEMS BEING JOINED TO FORM A CONTINUOUS STRIP, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING: MEANS A CONTINUOUSLY FEEDING SAID CONTINUOUS STRIP TO A PRINTING POSITION AND BEYOND, MEANS FOR RECEIVING A PLURALITY OF PUNCH CARDS AND FOR SENSING THEREFROM DATA DETERMINATIVE OF THE UNIQUE INDICIA OF ONE GROUP OF ITEMS AND DATA DETERMINATIVE OF THE NUMBER OF ITEMS OF SAID GROUP FROM ONE OF SAID CARDS, PRINTING MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUALLY SETTABLE NON-TRAVELING TYPE CARRYING ELEMENTS AND INCLUDING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE INDICIA DETERMINATIVE DATA FROM SAID SENSING MEANS FOR SETTING UP SAID TYPE ELEMENTS TO INDICATE A LINE OF UNIQUE INDICIA TO BE PRINTED, IMPRESSION MEANS FOR CAUSING MOMENTARY PRINTING CONTACT BETWEEN SAID NON-TRAVELING TYPE ELEMENTS AND SAID CONTINUOUSLY MOVING STRIP, POWER MEANS RESPONSIVE TO OPERATIVE OF SAID SENSING MEANS FOR CAUSING OPERATION OF SAID FEEDING MEANS AND SAID IMPRESSION MEANS TO PRINT CONSECUTIVELY A PLURALITY OF ITEMS OF SAID ONE GROUP, ON SUCCEEDING PORTIONS OF SAID STRIP, WITH SAID INDICIA UNIQUE TO SAID ONE GROUP IN PREDETERMINED RELATION WITH SAID COMMON INDICIA, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE NUMBER DETERMINATIVE DATA FROM SAID SENSING MEANS AND RESPONSIVE TO OPERATION OF SAID POWER MEANS FOR PREDEITERMINING THE NUMBER OF ITEMS OF SAID GROUP TO BE PRINTED, AND FOR INTERRUPTING THE OPERATION OF SAID POWER MEANS AFTER SAID PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF ITEMS HAS BEEN