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APPARATUS FOR HIGH SPEED PRINTING OF IDENTICAL INDICIA ONTO A PLURALITY OF FORMS WHICH ARE CONNECTED TOGETHER AS A CONTINUOUS STRIP, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A FRAME INCLUDING STATIONARY SUPPORT MEANS UPON WHICH THE STRIP IS ADAPTED TO MOVE, THE SUPPORT MEANS HAVING MEANS DEFINING A PRINTING STATION, MEANS MOUNTED ON THE FRAME FOR FEEDING THE STRIP ALONG SAID SUPPORT MEANS TO CAUSE THE INDIVIDUAL FORMS TO SUCCESSIVELY REGISTER WITH THE PRINTING STATION, A CHASE HAVING MEANS FOR REMOVABLY HOLDING A TYPE PRINTING ELEMENT THEREIN, MEANS MOUNTING THE CHASE ON SAID FRAME ADJACENT THE PRINTING STATION FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN A PRINTING POSITION IN WHICH A PRINTING ELEMENT HELD IN THE CHASE IS NORMALLY DISPOSED IN SUBSTANTIAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE SUPPORT MEANS AND AN ACCESSIBLE POSITION IN WHICH THE PRINTING ELEMENT IS DISPOSED AWAY FROM THE SUPPORT MEANS AND IS ACCESSIBLE TO AN OPERATOR FOR MANUAL REMOVAL FROM THE CHASE, MOMENTARY IMPACT PRODUCING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME ADJACENT THE PRINTING STATION BUT ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STATIONARY SUPPORT FROM THE CHASE, SAID IMPACT PRODUCING MEANS INCLUDING A STRIKING MEMBER MOVABLE TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CHASE A DISTANCE SUFFICIENT RESPECTIVELY TO STRIKE THE STRIP AND FORCIBLY ENGAGE IT IN MOMENTARY PRINTING CONTACT WITH THE PRINTING ELEMENT AND TO RELEASE THE STRIP FROM SAID PRINTING CONTACT FOR MOVEMENT THEREOF BY SAID FEEDING MEANS WHILE THE PRINTING ELEMENT IS HELD IN SAID PRINTING POSITION, AND MEANS FOR REPETITIVELY ACTUATING SAID IMPACT PRODUCING MEANS INDEPENDENTLY OF MOVEMENT OF THE CHASE AND IN TIMED COORDINATION WITH OPERATION OF SAID FEEDING MEANS TO CAUSE THE STRIKING MEMBER TO OPERATE IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE SUCCESSIVE REGISTRATIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL FORMS WITH THE PRINTING STATION WHEREBY A PLURALITY OF IDENTICAL FORMS ARE PRINTED FROM THE PRINTING ELEMENT WITHOUT MOVEMENT OF THE LATTER.