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US 8,616,793 B2Granted
Label producing apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAtsushi Kasugai, Keiji Seo
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Abstract
The disclosure discloses a label producing apparatus comprising: a roll housing part that houses a roll winding a print-receiving tape into a roll shape; a feeding roller that feeds out and transports said print-receiving tape from said roll housed in said roll housing part; a printing device that prints desired print on said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll by the feeding of said feeding roller; and a guide device that guides said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll housed in said roll housing part; wherein: said guide device comprises either a first guide part capable of guiding said roll according to roll diameters of different sizes, or a second guide part capable of guiding said roll according to roll widths of different sizes.
Claims16
A label producing apparatus comprising:
- a roll housing part that houses a roll around which a print-receiving tape is wound into a roll shape;
- a feeding roller that feeds out and transports said print-receiving tape from said roll housed in said roll housing part;
- a printing device that prints desired print on said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll by the feeding of said feeding roller;
- and
- a guide device that guides said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll housed in said roll housing part;
- wherein:
- said guide device comprises either a first guide part capable of guiding said roll according to roll diameters of different sizes, or a second guide part capable of guiding said roll according to roll widths of different sizes, wherein
- said guide device comprises the second guide part;
- said roll housing part comprises a fixed wall part and houses said roll with an end face on one side of said roll along a width direction in contact with said fixed wall part;
- and
- said second guide part is a guide member that is provided in a manner that can advance and retreat to said fixed wall part of said roll housing part, along a width direction of said roll, and guides a side of said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll in a width direction by contacting an end face on the other side of said roll along a width direction, wherein
- the label producing apparatus further comprises:
- an operation member that is provided to said guide member and is capable of switching a state of said guide member into a locked state which disables advance and retreat of said guide member or into an unlocked state which enables advance and retreat of said guide member in accordance with a user operation;
- and
- plurality of first groove parts provided to a base surface of said roll housing part, along a width direction of said roll;
- wherein:
- said operation member comprises a first protruding part capable of engaging with one of said plurality of first groove parts at a lower end portion;
- said guide member becomes the locked state where said first protruding part engages with said first groove part when said operation member is not operated, and becomes the unlocked state where said first protruding part disengages from said first groove part when said operation member is operated.
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A label producing apparatus comprising:
- a roll housing part that houses a roll winding a print receiving tape into a roll shape;
- a feeding roller that feeds out and transports said print-receiving tape from said roll housed in said roll housing part;
- a printing device that prints desired print on said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll by the feeding of said feeding roller;
- and
- a guide device that guides said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll housed in said roll housing part;
- wherein:
- said guide device comprises at least one of a first guide part capable of guiding said roll according to roll diameters of different sizes, and a second guide part capable of guiding said roll according to roll widths of different sizes, wherein
- said guide device comprises the second guide part;
- said roll housing part comprises a fixed wall part and houses said roll with an end face on one side of said roll along a width direction in contact with said fixed wall part;
- and
- said second guide part is a guide member that is provided in a manner that can advance to and retreat from said fixed wall part of said roll housing part, along a width direction of said roll, and guides a side of said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll in a width direction by contacting an end face on the other side of said roll along a width direction, wherein
- said guide member further comprises:
- a grasping part disposed between said guide member and an end face on the other side of said roll along a width direction, that forms a grasping space which said user can grasp with a finger when advancing and retreating said guide member;
- and
- a contact surface that contacts said roll;
- and
- said grasping part is formed so that said contact surface is recessed from a portion having a predetermined height to an upper end of said guide member.
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A label producing apparatus comprising:
- a roll housing part that houses a roll around which a print-receiving tape is wound into a roll shape;
- a feeding roller that feeds out and transports said print-receiving tape from said roll housed in said roll housing part;
- a printing device that prints desired print on said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll by the feeding of said feeding roller;
- and
- a guide device that guides said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll housed in said roll housing part;
- wherein:
- said guide device comprises either a first guide part capable of guiding said roll according to roll diameters of different sizes, or a second guide part capable of guiding said roll according to roll widths of different sizes, wherein
- said guide device comprises the first guide part:
- said first guide part is a feeding guide member that is provided on a feeding path of said print-receiving tape, between a first curvature position where said feeding path first curves after feed-out from said roll and a feeding roller position where said feeding roller and said print-receiving tape come in contact, and guides a side of said print-receiving tape fed by said feeding roller in a width direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.