Cassette for dye impregnated ribbon

A cassette, for use in connection with a device for printing characters on a surface from the stroke impact of a central portion of an endless dye impregnated ribbon such as a typewriter, said device defining a stroke region,

• comprising, in combination:
• a housing defining two chambers, one of said chambers providing a storage region, said housing having a passageway for said ribbon, said passageway intercommunicating with said storage region and communicating with said stroke region, said ribbon being movable between said stroke region and said storage region;
• re-impregnating means disposed in the other chamber and comprising a forked member and being operable for re-impregnating said ribbon with dye by impregnating portions of said ribbon adjacent to said central portion;
• and
• transport means disposed substantially between said chambers and said passageway and operable for transporting said ribbon and for maintaining said ribbon substantially stretched in said stroke region.