ELECTRONIC CASH REGISTER Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: trading equipment, receipt register ribbon drives. SUBSTANCE: device has keyboard, receipt register ribbon drive which is driven by step electric motor, mechanism for cutting printed receipt from receipt register ribbon, and control unit of step electric motor which has inputs for forward and backward rotation. In addition device has unit which supplies reverse signals to step electric motor for movement by angle which corresponds to distance L from printed receipt cutting region to printing region. This design results in possibility to reverse step electric motor by information input signal in order to return receipt register ribbon from cutting region to printing region for next receipt. EFFECT: spare use of receipt register ribbon. 3 dwg