Selectable drive printing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEric Berner Strom, John J Cantrell, Robert Lawrence Winburne
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Abstract
A selectable drive printing device includes a drive selector system to select between driving a print drive system and driving a scan drive system based at least partially on a position of a selector swing arm of the drive selector system. The selectable drive printing device includes a shifter to selectively shift the drive selector system between a scanning system drive position of the selector swing arm and a printing system drive position of the selector swing arm.
Claims15
A selectable drive printing device comprising:
- a drive selector system to select between driving a print drive system and driving a scan drive system based at least partially on a position of a selector swing arm of the drive selector system;
- and
- a shifter to selectively shift the drive selector system between a scanning system drive position of the selector swing arm and a printing system drive position of the selector swing arm.
A drive selector system for selecting between driving a print drive system and driving a scan drive system comprising:
- a feedshaft;
- a selector swing arm comprising:
- a first selector gear meshed with a drive gear coupled to the feedshaft;
- a second selector gear;
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- a pivot,
- wherein the selector swing arm pivots about the pivot to selectively mesh with a scan drive gear of the scan drive system.
A scan drive system of a selectable drive printing device comprising:
- a number of preliminary scan gears driven by a selector swing arm of the selectable drive printing device;
- a power take-off (PTO) shaft mechanically coupled to the preliminary scan gears;
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- a scan drive mechanically coupled to the PTO.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.