US 5,333,959 AGranted

Printing device including a cassette accommodation chamber for accommodating cassettes of different thicknesses

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKoshiro Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Nagao, deceased, Sumiko Nagao, Administrator

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Abstract

In a cassette accommodation chamber of a printing device, a cassette accommodating a tape-shaped member is detachably mounted. The cassette accommodation chamber has a bottom surface, and an entrance opening opposite to the bottom surface. In the accommodation chamber, cassette receiving members are provided for receiving the cassette in such a fashion that, if a relatively thin cassette which accommodating a relatively thin cassette in said accommodation chamber, the thin cassette is positioned away from the bottom surface of said accommodation chamber. Namely, the cassette is positioned such that the surface of the cassette is positioned at the substantially same position regardless of the thickness of the cassette.

Claims13

Dependent claims

In combination, a printing device formed with a cassette accommodation chamber and a cassette positioned within said accommodation chamber, said cassette being one of a plurality of cassettes of predetermined thicknesses accommodating therein tapes of predetermined widths, respectively, for printing;

said printing device comprising:
a bottom surface of said accommodation chamber,
an entrance to said accommodation chamber opposite to said bottom surface,
cassette receiving means provided in said accommodation chamber for receiving a selected one of said cassettes of any one of said predetermined thicknesses, and
cassette mounting means within said cassette receiving means for mounting said selected cassette;
and
said cassette having means thereon for cooperating with said mounting means so that a top surface of said selected cassette, opposite to a surface in confronting relationship with said accommodation chamber bottom surface, is at substantially the same position regardless of which one of said plurality of cassettes of predetermined thickness is selected.

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said printing device comprising:
a bottom surface of said accommodation chamber,
an entrance to said accommodation chamber opposite to said bottom surface,
cassette receiving means provided in said accommodation chamber for receiving a selected one of said cassettes of any one of said predetermined thicknesses,
cassette mounting means within said cassette receiving means for mounting said selected cassette, and
a head member protruding upwardly from the bottom of said accommodation chamber, a portion of said head member being located within said cassette;
and
said cassette having means thereon for cooperating with said mounting means so that said head member portion underlies a top surface of said selected cassette, opposite to a surface in confronting relationship with said accommodation chamber bottom surface, regardless of which one of said plurality of cassettes of predetermined thickness is selected.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.