Magnetic recording and editing typewriter

Claim 1

An editing typewriter comprising: typewriter elements consisting of a platen supporting successive ones of aligned print record members and printing type spaced from said platen; means actuatable for selectively operating said printing type to produce a line of type on a said print record member including means for stepping one of said typewriter elements with respect to the other of said typewriter elements to effect character spacing within said line of type; magnetic recorder support elements consisting of a magnetic record support and a magnetic head support positioned adjacent one another and mounted for relative movement in a predetermined direction; a magnetic record distinct from said print record member and supported on said magnetic record support; a recording head mounted to said magnetic head support; a reproducing head mounted to said magnetic head support and displaced from said recording head in said predetermined direction by an integral number of spaces in terms of said character spacing; structural means linking said steppable one of said typewriter elements with one of said magnetic recorder support elements to thereby step said magnetic recording head in said predetermined direction relative to said magnetic record support for recording a line of information on said magnetic record in response to actuation of said printing type operating means to produce an original line of type; means for operating the editing typewriter in a reproducing mode wherein said information in said magnetic record is scanned by said reproducing head at least one character space in advance of actuation of each selected printing type; and means responsive to said scanning for operating said actuatable means, whereby said original line of type is identically and alignedly reproduced on a successive one of said print record members, as said reproducing head is stepped over said magnetic record in response to operation of said printing type.