Ribbon forwarding apparatus of impact type printer

Abstract

Disclosed is a ribbon forwarding apparatus of impact type printer for printing on a recording paper wound on a platen by moving printing means disposed at a specified position of a carrier which moves along this platen to the printing position, and striking it by way of an ink ribbon, comprising, an elevation table which is mounted on said carrier, has an ink ribbon cartridge and a correction tape cartridge mounted on the upper and lower parts thereof, and is moved up and down to position the ink ribbon at said printing position when printing and the correction tape when erasing, a ratchet wheel which is mounted on this elevation table and drives to selectively change over the ink ribbon feed in printing and ink ribbon feed in erasing, a slider which is mounted on said elevation table and has a feed pawl engaged with said ratchet wheel; and a rocker arm which is perpendicularly disposed on said carrier with one end pivoted on and moves said slider reciprocally, wherein said rocker arm is disposed so that the abutting point of said slider and rocker arm may be shifted to the pivoting point side of this rocker arm along with the movement of said elevation table when erasing to set the feed of the ink ribbon in erasing smaller than the feed of the ink ribbon in printing.

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