Selectable drive printing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEric Berner Strom, John J Cantrell, Alexander David Laws
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Abstract
A selectable drive printing device includes a feedshaft to selectively drive a print drive system and a scan drive system, and a shifter to selectively shift a drive selector assembly of the selectable drive printing device between a scanning system drive position wherein the scan drive system is driven and a printing system drive position wherein the print drive system is driven. The shifter is coaxially and rotatably coupled around the feedshaft. Further, the shifter selectively drives the print drive system and the scan drive system based on an angular position of the shifter about the feedshaft.
Claims14
A selectable drive printing device comprising:
- a feedshaft to selectively drive a print drive system and a scan drive system;
- and
- a shifter to selectively shift a drive selector assembly of the selectable drive printing device between a scanning system drive position wherein the scan drive system is driven and a printing system drive position wherein the print drive system is driven,
- wherein the shifter is coaxially and rotatably coupled around the feedshaft, and
- wherein the shifter selectively drives the print drive system and the scan drive system based on an angular position of the shifter about the feedshaft.
A drive selector assembly for selecting between driving a print drive system and driving a scan drive system comprising:
- a feedshaft;
- and
- a shifter coaxially and rotatably coupled around the feedshaft, the shifter to, based on an angular position of the shifter about the feedshaft, selectively shift the drive selector assembly between a scanning system drive position wherein a scan drive system is driven and a printing system drive position wherein a print drive system is driven.
A method for driving a selectable drive system of a printing device, the method comprising:
- with a shifter coaxially and rotatably coupled around a feedshaft and in a scanning system drive position:
- engaging a drive swing arm coupled around the feedshaft to move a capping system of the selectable drive system to a capping position;
- and
- engaging a selector swing arm with a scan drive system;
- and
- with the shifter in a printing system drive position;
- disengaging the selector swing arm from the scan drive system;
- disengaging the drive swing arm to move a capping system of the selectable drive system to an uncapped position and drive the printing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.