Laminating apparatus and sheet cassette
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaru Moriguchi, Motohito Muraki
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Abstract
A laminating apparatus is provided in which the distance between a pair of paper feed rollers and a pair of pinch rollers is adjusted according to the size of the paper or item being laminated and the diameter of sheet rolls between which the paper or item is laminated. The adjustment is synchronized so that the paper sizes and sheet roll diameters are accounted for at once according to the insertion of a detachable housing providing a cassette accommodating different paper sizes. A depression portion on the housing permits the paper feed rollers to adjust to or from the pinch rollers when the selected housing is inserted to the laminating apparatus.
Claims11
A sheet cassette for use in a laminating apparatus including a paper feed roller and a laminate processor in which a pair of upper and lower pinch rollers are rotatably disposed comprising:
- a housing having an accommodating area;
- a pair of upper and lower sheet rolls that are sheets would in a roll shape and that are accommodated in the housing;
- an insertion port formed at a front side of the housing, at which a laminate target is fed into a gap between the sheet rolls;
- a feed-out port formed at a back side of the housing, at which the laminate target, fed through the insertion port, is fed to the laminate processor outside of the housing together with the sheets fed out from the sheet rolls, respectively;
- a depressed portion formed on the housing where the insertion port is depressed toward the feed-out port,
- wherein the paper feed roller is disposed into the depressed portion when the sheet cassette is mounted in the laminating apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.