Data recording system

Claim 1

A printing recorder system including a printing recorder machine, comprising: a plurality of separate form holders, each said form holder being a plate configuration having retainer surface means for removably holding a printing device card and other printing devices, said form holder providing printing devices to the exclusion of the printing recorder machine and configured to hold a form thereon in pressure printout relationship to said printing devices; a base track with means to guide said form holder along said track in a print path; a frame supporting said track and projecting a cantilever beam transversely of said path over said track from a position lateral of said track; a roller platen having bearing support means for mounting said platen in a fixed position on said beam and extending transversely of said path over said track; said cantilever and platen being unyielding under printout conditions of making impressions from printing devices to the extent that the spacing of said roller platen from said printing device during printout is independent of the presence or absence of print characters on said printing device and said roller platen is spaced above the level of printing devices passing thereunder out of contact only enough to prevent the roller and form from smudge printing in the absence of print characters and will produce uniform print pressure on all areas of a printing device where there are such characters; and whereby, the recorder is open to one side of said print path to allow said form holder to present a portion thereof for impression printing with the remainder projecting from the frame and to pass along said track from one side of the frame to the other, the platen being held rigidly above said path and any size form may be printed in a continuous straight line pass-through movement with selected data arranged to the requirement of the form and with any portion of the form which exceeds the capacity of the recorder track projecting through said open side of the recorder formed by said cantilever beam.