Printing apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaaki Matsui, Akira Katsura, Satoshi Yamaura
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Abstract
A printing apparatus including a paper guide, provided on a frame for guiding recording paper; a platen pivotally supported by the frame; a paper feeding roller rotatably provided in the frame; and a printing driving section reciprocally moving with respect to the recording paper on the platen for performing printing, and a cam rack in engagement with the paper feeding roller for intermittently rotating the paper feeding roller. The cam rack has a projection to be engaged with the paper feeding roller for stopping the rotation of the paper feeding roller.
Claims13
A printing apparatus, comprising:
- a frame including paper guide means for guiding a recording paper;
- a platen pivotably supported by the frame;
- a paper feeding roller rotatably provided in the frame;
- printing driving means including a printing head for reciprocally moving with respect to the recording paper on the platen for performing printing, and;
- cam rack means in engagement with the paper feeding roller and said printing driving means for intermittently rotating the paper feeding roller, the cam rack means having a projection to be engaged with the paper feeding roller for stopping the rotation of the paper feeding roller when the printing driving means is at a prescribed position in its reciprocal movement and for not being engaged with the paper feeding roller when the printing driving means is at other positions in its reciprocal movement.
A printing apparatus, comprising:
- a resin frame having a bottom wall and side walls provided at two ends of the bottom wall;
- a paper feeding roller provided in the frame for guiding recording paper to a printing position;
- a printing head for performing printing on the recording paper fed by the paper feeding roller;
- a paper guide provided integrally on the bottom wall of the frame;
- an elastic member provided on the paper guide for pressing the recording paper on the paper feeding roller;
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- an elastic wire provided between the paper guide and the elastic member for assisting in maintaining the elasticity of the elastic member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.