Carriage ejection mechanism and carriage retaining mechanism
AssigneeTokyo Pigeon Co., Ltd.
InventorKunio Kido
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Abstract
A carriage ejection mechanism has a drawer, which moves back and forth between a stock position and an eject position, a plurality of carriages contained inside the drawer in a slidable manner in the direction in which the drawer moves and in a vertically stacked manner, and a slide control device that slides the carriages relative to the drawer. The slide control device slides upper carriages relatively more towards the stock position than the lower carriages such that the plurality of carriages are positioned successively staggered in a stair-like manner in the eject position.
Claims21
A carriage ejection mechanism comprising:
- a drawer that moves back and forth between a stock position and an eject position;
- and
- a plurality of carriages contained in the drawer,
- wherein the plurality of carriages are ejected successively staggered in a stair-like manner in an eject operation of the drawer.
A carriage ejection mechanism comprising:
- a drawer that moves back and forth between a stock position and two eject positions;
- and
- a plurality of carriages that are contained inside the drawer,
- wherein the carriages are ejected successively staggered in a stair-like manner with a first eject mode in which the drawer moves to a first eject position, and a selected one of the carriages and other ones of the carriages therebelow are ejected in a stacked manner with a second eject mode in which the drawer moves to a second eject position.
A carriage retaining mechanism in a housing including a plurality of carriages and a drawer that contains the plurality of carriages in a slidable manner and moves the plurality of carriages outside the housing to an eject position, the carriage retaining mechanism comprising:
- a retaining device that retains the carriages in the drawer stacked in a staggered manner towards a back of the drawer in sequence from a bottom one of the carriages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.