Hot melt ink jet printer
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMakoto Ishii, Shunji Murai
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Abstract
A hot melt ink jet printer includes a central opening provided on its main frame casing that can be opened and closed by one motion. An ink pellet setting opening to allow ink pellets of different colors to be supplemented separately is provided on the top surface of the main frame casing. An inner cover including an ink case that covers over the ink pellet supplementing opening and a side cover body constructed to be joined to one side of the ink case is installed, but allowing for vertical pivotal motion, to close the central opening.
Claims20
A hot melt ink jet printer, comprising:
- a main frame casing including:
- a recording head that ejects hot melt ink to a surface of a medium onto which images are printed;
- a carriage mounting the recording head, the carriage being driven in a scan direction perpendicular to a feed direction of the medium;
- and
- an ink supplying section that supplies ink pellets to the recording head, the ink supplying section being positioned on one end of the scan direction;
- an opening area provided on a top surface of the main frame casing;
- and
- a lid system that selectively covers the opening area, the lid system including an ink case positioned over the ink supplying section, and a side cover body positioned adjacent one side of the ink case,
- wherein the ink case is lifted together with the side cover body in conjunction with the side cover body being opened, and the opening area is exposed by operation of opening the side cover body.
An ink jet printers comprising:
- a recording head that ejects ink to a surface of a medium onto which images are printed;
- an ink supply section that supplies ink to [said] the recording head;
- a paper conveyor system that transports the medium past the ink recording head;
- an opening area provided in a main frame casing above the ink supply section and the paper conveyor system;
- an ink case positioned over the ink supplying section;
- and
- a side cover body positioned over the paper conveyor system and adjacent the ink case,
- wherein the ink case is lifted together with the side cover body in conjunction with the side cover body being opened, and the opening area is exposed by operation of opening the side cover body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.