Printer
AssigneeStar Micronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomoyuki Kondo, Takeshi Ogawa
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Abstract
Provided is a printer in which a cut-off paper is pushed into a paper stacking portion without an additional power source while reducing the maximum load applied to driving means for driving a movable blade. A printer includes a movable blade for cutting a paper disposed between a fixed blade and a movable blade as it moves in a forward direction and separating a printed part as a cut-off paper; driving means for moving the movable blade in a reciprocating manner; a pushing member which is driven to push a cut-off paper in a thickness direction of the cut-off paper; a paper stacking portion for stacking the cut-off paper pushed by the pushing member; and a driving force transferring mechanism for transferring a driving force of the driving means to the pushing member to drive the pushing member.
Claims22
A printer configured to print on paper drawn from a paper roll and separate the printed part of the paper as a cut-off paper, comprising:
- a movable blade for cutting the paper disposed between a fixed blade and the movable blade as the movable blade moves in a forward direction and thereby separating the printed part of the paper as a cut-off paper;
- driving means for moving the movable blade in a reciprocating manner;
- a pushing member configured to be driven to push the cut-off paper in a pushing direction, the pushing direction being a thickness direction of the paper;
- a paper stacking portion for storing the cut-off paper pushed by the pushing member in a stacked manner;
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- a driving force transferring mechanism for transferring a driving force of the driving means to the pushing member so that the pushing member is thereby driven.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.