Cassette-type printing head
AssigneeElm
InventorKeiichi Hori
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Abstract
At least one pulley member which is rotatably positioned in said casing member; a film member which is movably contacted with a heating surface of a thermal head and is movably guided by said pulley in said casing member; a plurality of small holes which is shaped to said film member; a recording ink which is stored in said casing member; said pulley and film members are immersed in said recording ink; said recording ink is housed in said small holes; said recording ink in said small holes of said film member is moved to a corresponded position to a heating surface of said thermal head by rotating said pulley member and moving said film member according to a rotation of said pulley member.
Claims13
A cassette-type printing head comprising in combination:
- a casing member;
- at least one pulley member which is rotatably positioned in said casing member;
- a film member which is movably contacted with a heating surface of a thermal head and which is movably guided by said pulley in said casing member, with portions of said film member being provided with a plurality of small holes;
- a recording ink which is stored in said casing member, with said pulley and film member immersed in said recording ink, said small holes of said film member adapted to accept ink therein;
- said pulley adaped to move said film member with its ink-filled holes across said heating surface of said thermal head;
- said heating surface of said thermal head adapted to jet bubbles of said ink in said holes of said film member onto a recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.