Tape printing apparatus and tape holding cases
AssigneeEsselte N.V.
InventorsMathew Richard Palmer, Sam Cockerill, Costa Panayi, Robert Charles Lewis Day, Charles Robert Sims, Andrew Buchanan Halket
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Abstract
The invention relates to a tape holding case housing a supply of image receiving tape and includes an angled surface to bend the surface of the tape approximately 90°, the angled surface being provided upstream of the printing position of the tape. The tape holding case also includes a casing that is designed to attach the tape holding case to an identically shaped tape holding case.
Claims10
A tape holding case (443) housing a supply (32) of image receiving tape (24) comprising:
- means to bend the surface of the tape approximately 90° without changing the direction of the tape movement, the tape having a printing position, the means being provided upstream of the printing position of the tape.
A tape holding case (443) housing a supply (32) of image receiving tape (24) comprising:
- a tape spool configured to supply the tape;
- a cutting location in which the tape is to be cut;
- and
- means to bend the surface of the tape approximately 90° only once as the tape moves from the spool to the cutting location without changing the direction of the tape movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.