Printer
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi Kitahara
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Abstract
A printer comprises a housing which is composed of a box-shaped main body section with an opening on one surface thereof and a cover for opening and closing the opening of the main body section and forming a paper discharge port between the cover and the main body section at the time the cover is located at a position to close the opening; a storage section houses a roll paper; a printing section carries out printing on the paper; a cutter which has a cutting edge used to cut the paper; a support section which supports the cutter in a manner of freely moving between a use position at the time of cutting the paper by the cutting edge and a non-use position close to an edge of the paper discharge port with respect to the use position.
Claims20
A printer, comprising:
- a housing comprising
- a main body section with an opening on one surface thereof;
- a cover for opening and closing the opening of the main body section;
- a paper discharge port between the cover and the main body section at the time the cover is in a closed position with respect to the opening;
- a storage section configured to house a roll paper;
- and
- a printing section configured to carry out printing on the roll paper;
- a cutter comprising a cutting edge for cutting the roll paper;
- and
- a support section configured to support the cutter in a manner of freely moving between a use position at the time of cutting the paper by the cutting edge and a non-use position close to an edge of the paper discharge port with respect to the use position.
A portable printer, comprising:
- a housing comprising
- a main body section with an opening on one surface thereof;
- a cover for opening and closing the opening of the main body section;
- a recess;
- a paper discharge port between the cover and the main body section at the time the cover is in a closed position with respect to the opening;
- a storage section configured to house a roll paper;
- and
- a printing section configured to carry out printing on the roll paper;
- a cutter comprising a cutting edge for cutting the roll paper, the cutter configured to enter the recess as a non-use position;
- and
- a support section configured to support the cutter in a manner of freely moving between a use position at the time of cutting the paper by the cutting edge and the non-use position close to an edge of the paper discharge port with respect to the use position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.