Pen position regulator
AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorTakashi Onozato
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Abstract
A pen exchange mechanism is disclosed, by which a plurality of pen chuck mechanisms holding pens on a carriage are disposed, and a slider is engaged with the carriage at a position corresponding to a pen, which should print, among said pens, printing being effected while driving a pen chuck mechanism at a position corresponding to the slider together with the pen by means of a pen driving mechanism.
Claims2
In a pen position regulating mechanism, in which a pen is held by a pen chuck mechanism holding said pen inserted towards a surface to be printed and freely movable in the direction perpendicular to said surface to be printed so that the extremity thereof is in accordance with a mounting reference position predetermined therefor, the improvement wherein it comprises further a simultaneous movement distance regulating member, which regulates the distance over which said pen chuck mechanism can move towards said surface to be printed at the same time as said pen, when said pen is inserted in said pen chuck mechanism, and a separate movement distance regulating member, which regulates the distance over which said pen can move alone in the same direction after said pen chuck mechanism has been stopped.
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