Printing apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSho Asai, Yushi Kato, Shotaro Watanabe, Takehiko Inaba
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a platen roller conveying a printing medium in a first direction, a peeler peeling off a label from a mount, a support member supporting a driven roller that conveys the mount in a second direction with the platen roller, and a rib portion provided on the support member and guiding the label peeled off from the mount in the first direction. The rib portion includes a first rib, a second rib and a third rib, continuously in the first direction. The first rib is inclined away from a virtual line in the first direction toward an upstream side from the second rib. The third rib is inclined away from the virtual line in the first direction toward a downstream side from the second rib.
Claims10
A printing apparatus configured to perform printing processing on a printing medium, the printing medium having a plurality of labels with an adhesive layer being discretely put on a mount having a long shape, the printing apparatus comprising:
- a platen roller rotatably supported by a platen holder, the platen roller being configured to convey the printing medium in a first conveying direction;
- a peeler member disposed downstream of the platen roller in the first conveying direction, the peeler member being configured to peel off the label from the mount by bending the mount in a second conveying direction, the second conveying direction being different from the first conveying direction;
- a roller configured to convey the mount bent by the peeler member in the second conveying direction with nipping the mount between the roller and the platen roller;
- a support member disposed downstream of the peeler member in the first conveying direction, the support member being configured to rotatably support the roller;
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- a rib portion provided on the support member so as to extend in the first conveying direction, the rib portion being configured to guide the label peeled off from the mount in the first conveying direction,
- the rib portion comprising a first rib, a second rib and a third rib, continuously from an upstream side toward a downstream side in the first conveying direction,
- wherein the first rib is inclined away from a first virtual straight line in the first conveying direction toward an upstream side from the second rib, the first virtual straight line connecting the peeler member and the second rib, and
- wherein the third rib is inclined away from the first virtual straight line in the first conveying direction toward a downstream side from the second rib.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.