Tearing tool
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKevin J. Urlaub, Daiquiri Rose Fouch, Frederic Adam Ornellas, Eric L Ames
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Abstract
A tool is provided that has a grasper adapted to selectively grasp a tearable medium, a conveyer adapted to selectively move the grasper along an axis to move the tearable medium against a tear-off edge to sever the tearable medium, and a controller adapted to transmit a first signal for instructing the conveyer to move the grasper and a second signal for instructing the grasper to grasp the tearable medium.
Claims28
A tool comprising:
- a tear-off edge;
- a grasper, adapted to selectively grasp a tearable medium, extending along a first axis;
- a conveyor adapted to selectively move the grasper along second axis oblique to the first axis to move the tearable medium against the tear-off edge to sever the tearable medium;
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- a controller adapted to transmit a first signal for instructing the conveyor to move the gasper and a second signal for instructing the gasper to grasp the tearable medium.
A tool for tearing printable media from an imaging device, the tool comprising:
- a conveyor;
- an actuator attached to the conveyor, the actuator including:
- a slide;
- a first jaw fixedly attached to the actuator;
- a second jaw located opposite the first jaw and slidably attached to the slide of the actuator so as to linearly move towards and away from the first jaw;
- a controller connected to the conveyor and the actuator;
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- a tear-off edge, wherein the first jaw and the second jaw are configured to selectively grasp the printable medium and wherein the conveyor is configured to move the first jaw and the second jaw to move the printable medium against the tear-off edge, wherein the actuator is attached to the conveyor so that the slide of the actuator is oriented at an oblique angle with respect to the conveyor.
A printing system comprising:
- a printer configured to print upon a tearable medium;
- an edge configured to extend along the tearable medium;
- a grasper configured to grasp the tearable medium along a first axis while being moved in a direction oblique to the first axis to urge the tearable medium against the edge to sever the medium.
A tool comprising:
- a tear-off edge;
- first and second jaws;
- an actuator adapted to selectively move the first jaw along a first axis into engagement with a tearable medium to grasp the tearable medium between the first and second jaws and out of engagement with the tearable medium to release the tearable medium from between the first and second jaws;
- a conveyor adapted to selectively move the first and second jaws along a second axis that forms an oblique angle with the first axis to move the tearable medium when grasped by the first and second jaws against the tear-off edge to sever the tearable medium;
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- a controller adapted to transmit a first signal for instructing the conveyor to move the grasper from a first position, and a second signal for instructing the actuator to move the first jaw into engagement with the tearable medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.