Housing and recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKaoru KOIKE, Toshio KUMAGAI
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Abstract
A housing includes a hollow body case having a communicating portion that communicates the interior and the exterior with each other; a first shaft accommodated in the body case and supporting a recording medium wound into roll form; and a second shaft accommodated in the body case and taking up the recording medium that is let out from the interior of the body case to the exterior from the first shaft via the communicating portion and again introduced from the exterior of the body case into the interior via the communicating portion. The second shaft is movable relative to the body case so that the shortest distance to the inner circumferential surface of the body case increases as the second shaft takes up the recording medium.
Claims6
A housing comprising:
- a hollow body case having a communicating portion that communicates the interior and the exterior with each other;
- a first shaft accommodated in the body case and supporting a recording medium wound into roll form;
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- a second shaft accommodated in the body case and taking up the recording medium that is let out from the interior of the body case to the exterior from the first shaft via the communicating portion and again introduced from the exterior of the body case into the interior via the communicating portion, wherein
- the second shaft is movable relative to the body case so that the shortest distance to the inner circumferential surface of the body case increases as the second shaft takes up the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.