Cutting apparatus and printer

A cutting apparatus comprising:

• a feeder configured to feed a print-receiving medium including an adhesive layer along a predetermined transport direction;
• a fixed blade that has a shape like a flat plate and includes a first blade edge at a lower end;
• a movable blade that has a shape like a flat plate, includes a second blade edge having a substantially V-shape in a view from said transport direction at an upper end, is disposed downstream from said fixed blade in said transport direction, and is configured to slide in a sliding direction crossing said transport direction against said fixed blade and to move along the sliding direction from a standby position on a lower side to a cutting position on an upper side;
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• a guide device that includes an upper guide part and a lower guide part that respectively is disposed downstream from said fixed blade in said transport direction and is configured to guide said print-receiving medium, which is being cut, further downstream,
• the upper guide part including a contact part that is disposed at a position separated from said first blade edge of said fixed blade by a first distance in said transport direction and by a second distance in an upper direction and is configured to make point contact or line contact with an upper surface of said print-receiving medium when a cut-side end portion of said print-receiving medium being cut deforms in an upwardly-bending manner along with said movable blade moves upward, and
• said lower guide part including at least one guide surface that inclines in an inclination direction in which the at least one guide surface inclines downward at a predetermined angle toward a downstream in said transport direction, is disposed to have an interval of a third distance against said contact part in a direction orthogonal to said inclination direction, and is configured to make contact with a lower surface of said print-receiving medium being cut along with said movable blade moving upward,
• wherein said upper guide part includes a first box body that has a shape like substantially rectangular parallelepiped and includes a part of a rear wall and a plurality of first partition walls, wherein the rear wall part has a shape like a flat plate, is located upstream in said transport direction, and includes a corner portion on a lower end surface of the rear wall upstream in said transport direction, and wherein said plurality of first partition walls partition at least a portion of the inside of said first box body into a plurality of spaces in a longitudinal direction, and
• wherein said contact part includes said corner portion of the rear wall part.

A cutting apparatus comprising:

• a feeder configured to feed a print-receiving medium including an adhesive layer along a predetermined transport direction;
• a fixed blade that has a shape like a flat plate and includes a first blade edge at a lower end;
• a movable blade that has a shape like a flat plate, includes a second blade edge having a substantially V-shape in a view from said transport direction at an upper end, is disposed downstream from said fixed blade in said transport direction, and is configured to slide in a sliding direction crossing said transport direction against said fixed blade and to move along the sliding direction from a standby position on a lower side to a cutting position on an upper side;
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• a guide device that includes an upper guide part and a lower guide part that respectively is disposed downstream from said fixed blade in said transport direction and is configured to guide said print-receiving medium, which is being cut, further downstream,
• the upper guide part including a contact part that is disposed at a position separated from said first blade edge of said fixed blade by a first distance in said transport direction and by a second distance in an upper direction and is configured to make point contact or line contact with an upper surface of said print-receiving medium when a cut-side end portion of said print-receiving medium being cut deforms in an upwardly-bending manner along with said movable blade moves upward, and
• said lower guide part including at least one guide surface that inclines in an inclination direction in which the at least one guide surface inclines downward at a predetermined angle toward a downstream in said transport direction, is disposed to have an interval of a third distance against said contact part in a direction orthogonal to said inclination direction, and is configured to make contact with a lower surface of said print-receiving medium being cut along with said movable blade moving upward,
• wherein said lower guide part includes a second box body that has a shape like substantially rectangular parallelepiped and includes a plurality of second partition walls wherein the second partition walls partition at least a portion of the inside of said lower guide part into a plurality of spaces in a longitudinal direction and each of the second partition walls includes an upper slope surface, and
• wherein the at least one guide surface includes a plurality of surfaces that include said upper slope surface of each of said plurality of second partition walls.