摘要 |
<p>A passbook page turning mechanism includes a page turning station (12) provided with upper and lower rotatable rollers (38,40), independently movable parallel to a feed path (21) for the passbook (18). For feeding the passbook (18), the upper and lower rollers (38,50) grip the passbook (18) and move in synchronism parallel to the feed path (21). The upper and lower longitudinally movable rollers (38,40) serve as apparatus to turn the pages of the passbook (18). At the page turning station (12), the lower roller (40) is displaced along the feed path (21) from the upper roller (38) and is raised to flex the passbook (18). The upper roller (38) is rotated to initiate page turning and then moved parallel to the feed path (21) to complete the page turning operation, after which the passbook is moved to the printing station (10). The mechanism also provides for turning one or more pages in the opposite direction from the direction of a normal page turning operation.</p> |