Printing tape cassette with separated recording medium and ink ribbon
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshiaki Nagao, Atsuhiro Kobayashi, Mikio Sakuma
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Abstract
A tape storage cassette contains a thermal transfer ribbon having an ink coating on one surface and a recording tape wound about respective spools. A separator concentric with the recording tape spool wraps partially about the recording tape wound upon the spool to isolate the recording tape from the ink coating on the thermal transfer ribbon and cooperates with a film separator in preventing contact between the transfer ribbon and recording film prior to printing.
Claims13
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 spool of tape recording medium;
- an inked ribbon spool;
- a cassette case member for accommodating the tape recording medium spool and the inked ribbon spool therein;
- a printing location on a portion of said cassette case member at which said printing head prints said characters and symbols on to said tape recording medium;
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- a first separator for separating said tape recording medium spool and said inked ribbon spool;
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- an additional separator extending between adjacent portions of paths of said tape recording medium and inked ribbon to said printing location, said first separator and said additional separator cooperating to provide continuous separation between said tape recording medium and said inked ribbon to prevent any contact between the tape recording medium and inked ribbon prior to said printing location.
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 spool of tape recording medium;
- an inked ribbon spool;
- a cassette case member for accommodating the tape recording medium spool and the inked ribbon spool therein;
- a printing location on a portion of said cassette case member at which said printing head prints said characters and symbols onto said tape recording medium;
- a first separator for separating said tape recording medium spool and said inked ribbon spool;
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- an additional separator extending from said first separator and between adjacent portions of paths of said tape recording medium and inked ribbon to said printing location, said first separator and said additional separator cooperating to provide continuous separation between said tape recording medium and said inked ribbon to prevent any contact between the tape recording medium and inked ribbon prior to said printing location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.