Printer
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMotohito TSUCHIYA
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Abstract
A printer includes a body including a label sheet storage location and a cover rotatably attached to the body and covering the storage location when closed. The cover includes a roller having a shaft that is used for conveying the label sheet when the cover is closed and a peeling bar extending above the roller. The body includes a pressing member extending along the direction and pressing the sheet against the bar for peeling a label from the label sheet and a release lever arranged at an end of the pressing member. The release lever has a recess and rotates between a first position at which the shaft fits into the recess and a second position at which the shaft is released. The release lever rotates from the first to second positions to open the cover when a release button is pressed.
Claims20
A printer, comprising:
- a body with a sheet storage location that that accommodates a label sheet;
- a cover that is rotatably attached to the body and covers the sheet storage location when closed;
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- a release button for opening the cover when the cover is closed, wherein
- the cover includes:
- a roller including a shaft and configured to convey the label sheet when the cover is closed, and
- a peeling bar extending above the roller along a longitudinal direction thereof, and
- the body further includes:
- a pressing member that extends along the longitudinal direction and, when the cover is closed, presses a part of the label sheet conveyed by the roller against the peeling bar so as to peel a label from the label sheet,
- a release lever at an end of the pressing member in the longitudinal direction, the release lever having a recess and configured to rotate between a first position where the shaft of the roller held in the recess and a second position where the shaft is released from the recess, and
- the release lever rotates from the first position to the second position to open the cover when the release button is pressed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.