Selectable drive printing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEric Berner Strom, John J Cantrell, Robert Lawrence Winburne
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Abstract
A selectable drive printing device includes a drive selector system to select between driving a print drive system and driving a scan drive system based at least partially on a position of a selector swing arm of the drive selector system. The selectable drive printing device includes a shifter to selectively shift the drive selector system between a scanning system drive position of the selector swing arm and a printing system drive position of the selector swing arm.
Claims20
A selectable drive printing device comprising:
- a drive selector system to select between driving a print drive system and driving a scan drive system based at least partially on a position of a selector swing arm of the drive selector system;
- and
- a shifter to selectively shift the drive selector system between a scanning system drive position of the selector swing arm and a printing system drive position of the selector swing arm, the selector swing arm mechanically coupled to a capping system for a printhead wherein movement of the capping system to cap the printhead moves the selector arm to deliver power to the scan drive system and movement of the capping system to uncap the printhead moves the selector arm to deliver power to the print drive system.
A drive selector system for selecting between driving a print drive system and driving a scan drive system comprising:
- a feedshaft;
- a selector swing arm comprising:
- a first selector gear meshed with a drive gear coupled to the feedshaft;
- a second selector gear;
- and
- a pivot,
- wherein the selector swing arm pivots about the pivot to selectively mesh with a scan drive gear of the scan drive system;
- and
- wherein the feedshaft selectively provides power to all of the print drive system, a capping system of a printhead and, though the selector swing arm, the scan driver system.
A scan drive system of a selectable drive printing device comprising:
- a feedshaft;
- a selector swing arm to selectively engage the feedshaft;
- a number of preliminary scan gears driven by the selector swing arm of the selectable drive printing device when the selector swing arm is engaged with the feedshaft;
- a power take-off (PTO) shaft mechanically coupled to the preliminary scan gears;
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- a scan drive mechanically coupled to the PTO;
- wherein the PTO shaft is perpendicular to the feedshaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.