Media cutter and slicer mechanism for a printer
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDavid M Kwasny, Melissa D. Boyd, Lawrence R Plotkin, George C Ross, Emily B. Winston
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Abstract
A printer for creating specialty-sized prints where media is advanced through the printer along a media advancement path, the printer including a housing, a printing mechanism disposed in the housing and configured to place a desired print on the media, a cutter mechanism disposed in the housing adjacent the printing mechanism and configured to cut the media transverse to a media advancement direction through the cutter mechanism, and a slicing mechanism disposed in the housing adjacent the printing mechanism and configured to cut the media parallel to a media advancement direction through the slicing mechanism.
Claims18
A printer for creating specially-sized prints where media is advanced through the printer along a media advancement path, the printer comprising:
- a housing;
- a printing mechanism disposed in the housing and configured to place a desired print on the media;
- a cutter mechanism disposed in the housing adjacent the printing mechanism and configured to cut the media transverse to a media advancement direction through the cutter mechanism;
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- a slicing mechanism disposed in the housing adjacent the printing mechanism and configured to cut the media parallel to media advancement direction through the slicing mechanism, the slicing mechanism including a plurality of slicer modules that are selectively individually actuable.
A media slicer for a printer, comprising:
- an input roller for driving media through the printer along a media pathway;
- a slicer mechanism along the media pathway, the slicer mechanism having at least a first cam and a second cam on a common camshaft, and at least a first slicer module and a second slicer module, corresponding to the first cam and second cam respectively, the first slicer module being interposed the first cam and the media and the second slicer module being interposed the second cam and the media, such that each slicer module is selectively individually actuable upon rotation of the common camshaft to slice media received from the input roller;
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- an output roller configured to pull the media from the slicer mechanism,
- wherein each slicer module has a blade holder comprising a blade and a spring, such that rotation of the camshaft selectively actuates each cam to engage the spring of the respective blade holder, thereby biasing each blade holder such that the blade is urged into contact with media.
A media slicer mechanism for a printer comprising:
- a cam on a shaft, the cam being positionable in a contact position upon selected rotation of the shaft;
- a blade holder interposed the cam and a media web, the blade holder having a blade and a contact spring,
- wherein, the cam is in the contact position, the cam engages the contact spring of the blade holder to actuate the blade, and thereby, to slice the media web.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.