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US 11,607,895 B2Granted
Printing apparatus including a detachable star wheel
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYuki Inoue
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a head configured to discharge an ink onto a continuous sheet to form an image; a platen including a support face that supports the continuous sheet; a star-wheel-unit holding unit disposed at a position that is downstream of the head in a transport direction of the continuous sheet and is opposed to the support face; and a star wheel unit configured to be attachable to and detachable from the star-wheel-unit holding unit and to support a plurality of star wheels configured to press the continuous sheet on a side of the support face.
Claims6
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a head configured to discharge an ink onto a medium to form an image;
- a platen including a support face that supports the medium;
- a star-wheel-unit holding unit disposed at a position that is downstream of the head in a transport direction of the medium and is opposed to the support face;
- and
- a star wheel unit configured to be attachable to and detachable from the star-wheel-unit holding unit and to support a plurality of star wheels configured to press the medium toward a side of the support face,
- wherein the star wheel unit includes a lever portion that is configured to be displaced so that the star wheel unit is attached to or detached from the star-wheel-unit holding unit, the star wheel unit moving in a direction that is opposite of the transport direction when being detached to thereby cover a portion of the platen that is not covered when the star when unit is attached and moving in a direction that is parallel to the transport unit when being attached.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.