Thermographic reproduction apparatus wherein the original data is stored on a rotating cylinder

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING DATA ON A THERMO-SENSITIVE WEB COMPRISING A SOURCE OF INFRARED RADIATIONS, ARRANGED TO EMIT RAYS AT A PREDETERMINED EXPOSURE AREA, A FIRST MEANS INCLUDING AN ARCUATE SURFACE AND CONSTITUTING DATA STORAGE MEANS HAVING CHARACTERS TO BE PRINTED ARRANGED IN HORIZONTAL AND VERTICALLY ALIGNED ROWS, A WEB OF SENSITIVE THERMOSETTING PAPER FOR POSITIONING BETWEEN SAID EXPOSURE AREA AND SAID FIRST MEANS, AN ENDLESS BELT INCLUDING A PORTION PASSING BETWEEN SAID SURFACE AND SAID SOURCE, SAID BELT BEING PENETRABLE BY SUCH RADIATION AND MOVABLE TO PRESS SAID WEB AGAINST SAID SURFACE TO EFFECT PRINTING, A SECOND MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID BELT AND SAID SOURCE AND MOVABLE TO SELECTIVELY BLOCK OR PERMIT PASSAGE OF RADIATION RAYS, AND ONE OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND MEANS INCLUDING INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS INDEPENDENTLY ADJUSTABLY MOVABLE AND CORRESPONDING IN NUMBER AND POSITION TO THE NUMBER AND POSITION OF THE ROWS OF CHARACTERS THAT EXTEND VERTICALLY.