Ink roller cover device of portable type label printing applicator
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Sato
InventorsMasanori Otsuka, Yoshisada Takahashi
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Abstract
An ink roller cover device of a portable type label printing applicator so that the ink does not dry-up easily in stored or standby state by closed storage of the ink roller. An ink roller is stored in a cover including a fixed cover part which can cover and store a part of a roller body in a standby state of the ink roller and a complementary movable cover part which covers and stores the other parts of the roller body when the cover parts are closed in a standby state of the ink roller. The movable cover part is capable of exposing the roller body towards a printing device in an operating state of the ink roller. An operating lever moves the ink roller with the movable cover part away from the fixed cover part.
Claims9
An ink roller cover device of a portable type label printing applicator, the label printing applicator including:
- a label application device operable for applying a label to an object;
- an operation lever for operating the label application device;
- a printing device connected to and activated by the operation of the operation lever causing the printing device to print a label;
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- an ink roller with a body configured to retain ink and to apply ink to the printing device, the ink roller being connected to the operation lever and the lever being configured to move the ink roller by the operation of the operation lever between a standby state, and an operating state in which the ink roller applies ink to the printing device,
- a fixed ink roller cover fixed to the label application device, the fixed cover is shaped and configured and positioned to store a part of the ink roller body in the standby state of the ink roller;
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- a movable ink roller cover shaped and configured to store other parts of the ink roller, shaped and configured to cooperate with the fixed cover for together providing closed storage of the ink roller body between the movable and the fixed covers in a standby state of the ink roller, and the fixed cover being movable by the operation lever and being configured to expose the ink roller body towards the printing device in the operating state of the ink roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.