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US 10,787,333 B2Granted
Roller adapters
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRaimon Castells, Aviv Hassidov, Marcos Arminana
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Abstract
An example roller adapter may comprise a cradle, a first roller rotatably disposed on a top side of the cradle, a second roller rotatably disposed on the top side of the cradle, and an alignment knob disposed on a base of the cradle. The first and second rollers may extend in a substantially parallel direction. The first and second roller may rotatably support a roll of flexible print media.
Claims20
A roller adapter, comprising:
- a cradle;
- a first roller rotatably disposed on a top side of the cradle;
- a second roller rotatably disposed on the top side of the cradle, wherein the first and second rollers extend in substantially parallel directions;
- and
- an alignment feature disposed on a base of the cradle, wherein the cradle comprises a support surface extending from the base of the cradle to a first height that is higher than a top-most surface of the second roller,
- wherein the first roller and the second roller are to rotatably support a roll of flexible print media.
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A roller adapter, comprising:
- a frame having a unitary side structure;
- a first roller and a second roller disposed within the frame and extending in substantially parallel directions, wherein the first roller has a spindle rotatably engaged with a first part of the unitary side structure, and the second roller has a spindle rotatably engaged with a second part of the unitary side structure, and wherein the unitary side structure has an intermediate part integrally connecting the first part and the second part,
- wherein the first and second rollers are to receive and rotatably support a roll of flexible print media such that the flexible print media is continuously fed into an input path of a printer;
- and
- an alignment pivot disposed on an opposite side of the frame from the first and second rollers.
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A system, comprising:
- a printer media table;
- and
- a first roller adapter removably engaged with a top surface of the printer media table, the first roller adapter comprising:
- a cradle;
- a first roller rotatably disposed on a top side of the cradle;
- a second roller rotatably disposed on the top side of the cradle, wherein the first and second rollers extend in substantially parallel directions, wherein the first roller and the second roller are to rotatably support a roll of flexible print media;
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- an alignment pivot disposed on a bottom side of the cradle, wherein the bottom side is opposite from the first top side,
- wherein the alignment pivot removably and pivotally engages with a complementary pivot receptacle on the printer media table to allow rotation of the first roller adapter about the alignment pivot on the top surface of the printer media table.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.