Printer and cutter apparatus
AssigneeStar Micronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaaki Morishita, Tomoyuki Kondo
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Abstract
A printer and a cutter apparatus configured to provide a sure full cut without producing an undesirable flake of paper. The cutter apparatus comprises a fixed blade, a first movable blade disposed on one side in a width direction of the paper and configured to move back and forth with respect to the fixed blade, a second movable blade disposed on the other side in the width direction of the paper with a gap provided with respect to the first movable blade and configured to move back and forth with respect to the fixed blade, and an urging member configured to urge each of the first movable blade and the second movable blade in a direction reducing the gap.
Claims6
A cutter apparatus for cutting a paper, comprising:
- a fixed blade;
- a first movable blade disposed on one side in a width direction of the paper and configured to move back and forth with respect to the fixed blade in a direction perpendicular to the width direction of the paper;
- a second movable blade disposed on the other side in the width direction of the paper with a gap provided with respect to the first movable blade and configured to move back and forth with respect to the fixed blade in a direction perpendicular to the width direction of the paper;
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- an urging member configured to continuously urge each of the first movable blade and the second movable blade in a direction reducing the gap for maintaining the gap at a predetermined width.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.