Printing machine

Claim 1

A PRINTING MACHINE FOR INDICATING INFORMATION ARRANGED ON INFORMATION PRINTING PLATES, WHICH COMPRISES IN COMBINATION A FRAME, A FRAME PLATE, A GUIDE PATH FOR THE INFORMATION PRINTING PLATES, WHICH GUIDE PATH IS DIRECTED OVER THE FRAME PLATE, A DELIVERLY MAGAZINE ARRANGED AT ONE END OF THE GUIDE PATH AND SECURED TO THE FRAME, A COLLECTION MAGAZINE ARRANGED AT THE OTHER END OF THE GUIDE PATH AND SECURED TO THE FRAME, CONVEYOR MEANS ARRANGED ON THE FRAME AND ADAPTED TO MOVE SO AS TO CONVEY A PRINTING PLATE FROM THE DELIVERY MAGAZINE TO THE GUIDE PATH AND FURTHER SUCCESSIVELY TO MOVE INFORMATION PRINTING PLATES LOCATED THEREIN AND TO GUIDE THE TO THE DELIVERY MAGAZINE, A PRINTING RAM, MEANS MOUNTING SAID RAM ON THE FRAME FOR RECIPROCATING PERPENDICULAR TO SAID GUIDE PATH BETWEEN A RAISED POSITION RELATIVE TO THE GUIDE PATH, AND A LOWERED PRINTING POSITION WHERIEN SAID RAM CONTACTS A PRINTING PLATE IN THE GUIDE PATH, DRIVING MEANS FOR MOVING THE PRINGINT RAM BETWEEN SAID RAISED AND LOWERED POSITIONS, GUIDE MEANS MOUNTED ON THE FRAME AND ADAPTED TO GUIDE MATERIAL TO BE PRINTED OVER THE FRAME PLATE AND UNDER THE GUIDE PATH IN THE REGION OF THE PRINTING RAM, TO PERMIT TRANSFER OF THE INFORMATION ON A PRINTING PLATE LOCATED IN THE GUIDE PATH TO THE MATERIAL TO BE PRINTED BY ACTUATION OF THE PRINTING RAM, SAID PRINTING RAM CONSISTING OF FIRAT AND SECOND RELATIVELY MOVABLE PARTS WHICH ARE GUIDED TOGETHER AND A SPRING DISPOSED BETWEEN THE PARTS AND ADAPTED TO URGE THEM APART, SAID GUIDE PATH BEING CONSTRUCTED OF ELASTIC MATERIAL YIELDABLE AT LEAST IN THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF THE PRINTING RAM AND CONSISTING OF FIRST AND SECOND RAILS WHICH ARE SUPPORTED ON THE FRAME PLATE IN DOWNWARDLY YIELDABLE MANNER AT LOCATIONS REMOTE FROM THE REGION OF THE PRINTING RAM.