Tape feed mechanism having ribbon inked surface directed toward ribbon spool
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshiaki Nagao, Atsuhiro Kobayashi, Mikio Sakuma
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Abstract
A tape feed mechanism comprising a storage cassette having at least two tapes, a tape feed device and a guide arrangement. One of the tapes is an inked ribbon having an inked surface that is directed toward the spool about which it is wound.
Claims6
A tape cassette to be detachably inserted in a tape printing device having a printing head for printing characters and symbols onto a tape recording medium using inked ribbon, said cassette comprising:
- a tape recording medium;
- an inked ribbon;
- an adhesive tape;
- a cassette case member for accommodating the tape recording medium, adhesive tape and the inked ribbon therein;
- an inked surface of said inked ribbon and a noninked surface opposite to said inked surface;
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- a ribbon feed spool for feeding the inked ribbon, said ribbon feed spool having the inked ribbon wound thereon with said inked surface directed toward said ribbon feed spool.
A tape cassette to be detachably inserted in a tape printing device having a printing head for printing characters and symbols onto a tape recording medium using an inked ribbon, said cassette comprising:
- an inked ribbon;
- a tape recording medium;
- an adhesive tape;
- a cassette case member for accommodating the adhesive tape, tape recording medium and the inked ribbon therein, said inked ribbon having an inked surface and a noninked surface opposite to said inked surface;
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- a ribbon takeup spool for taking up the inked ribbon after printing, said ribbon takeup spool having the inked ribbon wound thereon after printing with the inked surface directed toward said ribbon takeup spool.
A tape cassette to be detachably inserted in a tape printing device having a printing head for printing characters and symbols onto a tape recording medium using an inked ribbon, said cassette comprising:
- an inked ribbon, an adhesive tape and a tape recording medium;
- a cassette case member for accommodating the tape recording medium, adhesive tape and the inked ribbon therein, said inked ribbon having an inked surface and a noninked surface opposite to said inked surface;
- a ribbon feed spool for feeding the inked ribbon, said ribbon feed spool having the inked ribbon wound thereon with said inked surface directed toward said ribbon feed spool;
- a ribbon takeup spool for taking up the inked ribbon after printing, said ribbon takeup spool having the inked ribbon wound thereon after printing with the inked surface directed toward said ribbon takeup spool;
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- an adhesive tape spool adjacent to one of said ribbon spools for feeding said adhesive tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.