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US 5,745,157 AGranted
Digital printer with support shoe and translatable media guide member therein
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorMark E. Bridges
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AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorMark E. Bridges
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A printer has (1) a support shoe with a cylindrical inner surface and (2) a write head carried by a rotor which is simultaneously rotatable about and linearly translated along the axis of the cylindrical surface. A media guide member is mounted for movement along the axis of rotation of the rotor. The media guide member is moved to a position within the cylindrical inner surface of the support shoe so as to form a gap between the inner surface of the support shoe and the outer surface of the media guide member. The recording media can advance around a gap formed between the outer surface of the media guide member and inside of the cylindrical inner surface of the support shoe. The rotor is carried by a rotor support member in fixed spacial relationship to the media guide member for simultaneous linear translation along the axis of rotation of the rotor. The rotor support member is attached to a carriage assembly which is supported for movement along a pair of guide rods.
A printer having a support shoe with an at-least-partially cylindrical inner surface for receiving a light-sensitive recording media, a rotor which is simultaneously rotatable about and linearly translated along a fixed axis, a write head assembly carried by the rotor to expose recording media received on the inner surface of the support shoe;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.