Abstract:
An indirect thermal transfer printer applies images to label stock with the use of heat activated transfer ribbon. Once an image is printed, a negative of the printed image remains on the exposed transfer ribbon. Heat is applied to the exposed transfer ribbon as it is spooled to obliterate the negative, fuse the ribbon to previously exposed and spooled ribbon, or both.
Abstract:
A printing device includes a printing cassette, and a platen roller. The printing cassette includes: a print tape; an input part into which a drive force is to be inputted; an output part rotatable about a rotational axis extending in a first direction; a transmission mechanism for transmitting the drive force from the input part to the output part; and a case. The case houses therein at least a part of the print tape, at least a part of the input part, at least a part of the output part, and at least part of the transmission mechanism. At least a part of the output part is positioned outside the case. The output part is positioned inside an outer edge of the case in a projection view where the output part and the case are projected onto a plane perpendicular to the first direction.
Abstract:
The disclosure discloses a cutting apparatus including a feeder, a fixed blade, a movable blade, and at least one scraping-off device. The movable blade is configured to slide in a sliding direction crossing a transport direction against the fixed blade and is configured to move along the sliding direction from a standby position on one side to a cutting position on the other side and to cut the print-receiving medium fed by the feeder. The at least one scraping-off device is disposed in proximity to the movable blade and is configured to come into contact from the other side with an adhesive that has adhered to the movable blade and scrape off the adhesive when the movable blade moves from the standby position on the one side to the cutting position on the other side.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a device (11) for the feeding of a printing ribbon (12), comprising a train of three gears having a first gear (13) arranged centrally in the train and meshed with the second (14) and with the third gear (20). The gears (13, 14, 20) are provided for being made to rotate by a driving shaft (17) integral with the second gear (14). In order to increase the feeding force for the printing ribbon (12), the latter is interposed both between the first (13) and second gear (14), and between the first (13) and the third gear (20), in such a way as to follow the profile of the meshed teeth of the gears (13, 14, and 20) and consequently to assume a form with windings. The diameter of the third gear (20) is greater than the diameter of the second gear (14), so that in an intermediate portion (27) between the third gear (20) and the second gear (14) the ribbon (12) is constantly tight.
Abstract:
In the proposed cassette containing an endless inked ribbon, at least one pulling roller is partly supported in a rotatable manner, in at least one slot provided in a wall of the cassette, and is at least partly supported in a rotatable manner in a carriage which is mobile relative to a wall of the cassette and is engaged with elastic means able to urge said roller against abutment means on said slot.
Abstract:
A friction device, preferably for printer-typewriter ribbons, intended to provide engagement between a drive roller and the ribbon and wherein a counter pressure roller is supported by a flexible shaft in the form of a helical spring which is mounted at a distance from the peripheral driving surface of the drive roller which is less than the radius of the counter pressure roller.
Abstract:
A ribbon and tape feed mechanism for a single element typewriter is disclosed. The ribbon feed mechanism and correction tape mechanism are mounted and configured to oscillate with the ribbon and correction tape cartridges when the cartridges and support therefore are tilted to present a portion of the ribbon or the correction tape to the print point of the typewriter for impact. The ribbon feeding and the tilt control of the cartridge is accomplished from a single cam having a plurality of sets of rises. The correction tape feed is driven from a second cam which is only engaged during those machine cycles when the machine is in a correction mode. The control of the correction mode is through the depression of the rear of the cartridge thus effecting the raising of the front portion of the cartridge and the correction tape to its operative position.
Abstract:
A ribbon drive device comprising a rotatably supported drive roller, a rotatably supported idler roller and a device for biasing the idler roller against the drive roller to form a nip therebetween through which a ribbon is fed. The device for biasing the idler roller is positioned to apply a bias force to the idler roller at the longitudinal center thereof. The device for biasing comprises a straight piece of round or rectangular spring wire positioned in a groove formed in the periphery of the idler roller.
Abstract:
An inking ribbon cartridge for printers having two rollers between which a flexible film ribbon is drivingly engaged. The rollers are provided on their outer faces with a friction material, with the hardness of the friction material on the roller in contact with the inked face of the ribbon being higher than that of the friction material in contact with the other face of the ribbon. The friction material may be formed by a synthetic material such that the ratio between the hardnesses of the friction materials on the two rollers is between a half and two-thirds. The friction material on each of the two rollers may be formed by a polychloroprene such that the Shore hardness of the friction material on the roller in contact with the inked face of the ribbon is between 60 and 110.
Abstract:
A ribbon drive device comprising a drive roller cooperating with a floating-type idler ring or roller pivoting and rotating about a support post to provide a nip therebetween through which the ribbon is moved upon rotation of the drive roller. The ribbon passes around the floating-type idler ring, through the nip and around the drive roller. The force on and the tension in the ribbon pulls and pivots the floating idler ring into a wedging position between the support post and the cooperating portion of the drive roller, with the ribbon pinched therebetween.