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US 4,501,224 AGranted
Continuous tag printing apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Sato
InventorsTooru Shibayama, Hiroshi Kajiya, Mitsuharu Takahashi
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Abstract
A continuous tag printing apparatus is disclosed wherein a strip of tags is not wasted, and cut tags are easily aligned. The continuous tag printing apparatus has a feed mechanism for feeding the strip, a printing mechanism for printing desired information on the strip, and a mark applying mechanism for applying a mark on a side surface of a portion of the strip, which portion corresponds to a partition tag which indicates a change in printing contents.
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A continuous tag printing apparatus, comprising:
- a feed mechanism for feeding a strip of tags in a feed direction along a feed path;
- a printing mechanism along the feed path for printing desired information on each of the tags;
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- a mark applying mechanism along the feed path and disposed in the feed direction from the printing mechanism for applying a mark on a portion of a side surface of the strip at a location which corresponds to a portion of the strip at which information being printed on the tags changes.
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