Cassette
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKentaro Murayama
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Abstract
A cassette includes: a case including a first layer and a second layer and having a head space at the first layer; and a roll disposed at the second layer and into which a medium to be printed is wound about a rotation axis in a winding direction. The medium to be printed includes a to-be-printed layer and a release layer, and is disposed at the case such that the to-be-printed layer is on an inner side thereof and the release layer is on an outer side thereof in the winding direction. The case has a conveyance path for conveying the medium to be printed. The conveyance path is defined such that the medium to be printed is conveyed in the winding direction from the roll to the head space through an opening defined at a boundary between the first layer and the second layer in the case.
Claims12
A cassette comprising:
- a case including a first case and a second case;
- a tape roll disposed at the second case and into which a tape is wound about a rotation axis, the rotation axis extending in a first direction;
- and
- an ink ribbon roll disposed at the first case and into which an ink ribbon wound about a second rotation axis, wherein:
- the case has a conveyance path for conveying the tape;
- the first case and the second case are arranged in the first direction;
- the first case includes an arm having an outlet configured to allow the tape to be discharged, the arm being spaced apart from the tape roll in the first direction;
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- the conveyance path is defined such that the tape is conveyed from the tape roll to the arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.