Cassette
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKentaro Murayama
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Abstract
A cassette includes: a printing tape roll into which a printing tape as a medium to be printed is wound; a feed spool being rotatable and around which an ink ribbon to be used for printing on the printing tape is wound; and a take-up spool being rotatable to take up the ink ribbon fed from the feed spool. The feed spool and the take-up spool are located on one side in a first direction with respect to the printing tape roll. The first direction is a width direction of the ink ribbon wound around the feed spool. At least a portion of the feed spool and at least a portion of the take-up spool overlap the printing tape roll in the first direction.
Claims13
A cassette comprising:
- a case including a plate separating a first space and a second space;
- a printing tape spool located in the first space, the printing tape roll being rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction;
- a printing tape including a first part and a second part;
- an ink ribbon roll located in the second space, the ink ribbon being rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction;
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- a take-up spool located in the second space, the take-up spool being rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction, the take-up spool configured to take up an ink ribbon from the ink ribbon roll,
- wherein the first space and the second space are arranged along the first direction,
- wherein the first part of the printing tape is wound around the printing tape spool, and
- wherein the second part of the printing tape extends from the first space to the second space, the second part of the printing tape extends in an inclined manner relative to the first axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.