Tape label printing device
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1. A tape cassette for a tape printer having a drive shaft, the tape cassette comprising:
- a cassette housing having a printing region;
a tape wound on a tape spool supported within the housing for feeding tape in a feed path to a printing region;
a support hole downstream of the printing region in the feed path for receiving the drive shaft of the tape printer;
an opening in the cassette housing in the feed path between the tape spool and printing region, the opening being defined by a wall within the cassette housing; and
the tape contacting at least a portion of the wall and the wall guiding the tape as it moves from the tape spool to the printing region.
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Abstract
An ink ribbon is serially coated by inks in the three primary colors. A distinction portion is provided at each boundary portion between different colored inks. Each distinction portion is formed from two lines, one having a width common for all the distinction portions and regardless of corresponding ink color and one set with a width peculiar to particular ink color. Because this decreases the region taken up by the distinction portion, the printable region on the ink ribbon can be increased.
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1. A tape cassette for a tape printer having a drive shaft, the tape cassette comprising:
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a cassette housing having a printing region; a tape wound on a tape spool supported within the housing for feeding tape in a feed path to a printing region; a support hole downstream of the printing region in the feed path for receiving the drive shaft of the tape printer; an opening in the cassette housing in the feed path between the tape spool and printing region, the opening being defined by a wall within the cassette housing; and the tape contacting at least a portion of the wall and the wall guiding the tape as it moves from the tape spool to the printing region. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A tape cassette for a printing device, comprising:
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a cassette casing comprising upper and lower surfaces and a lateral surface extending between the upper and lower surfaces, the cassette casing housing a printing tape and defining a feed path through which the tape moves in a feeding direction, the cassette casing defining a head recess adapted to receive a print head of the printing device; the cassette casing further including a support hole adjacent a first corner of the cassette casing downstream of the head recess in the feed direction and adapted to receive a tape drive of the printing device to feed the tape in the feeding direction from a second corner of the cassette casing diagonally opposite the first corner and past a third corner located upstream of the head recess and between the first and second corners in the feed direction; and an opening in the lower surface of the cassette casing in the feed path between the second and third corners of the cassette casing, the opening being defined by a wall within the cassette casing, the wall extending between the upper and lower surfaces, and the tape contacting at least a portion of the wall with the wall guiding the tape as it moves in the feed direction between the second and third corners. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
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Current AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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Original AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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InventorsYamaguchi, Koshiro, Hattori, Mitsuharu
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Primary Examiner(s)Yan, Ren
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Application NumberUS09/310,960Time in Patent Office488 DaysField of Search400/120.16, 400/207, 400/208, 400/613, 400/615.2, 400/586US Class Current400/615.2CPC Class CodesB26D 5/00 Arrangements for operating ...B26D 5/10 Hand or foot actuated meansB26D 5/20 with interrelated action be...B26D 7/24 arranged to disable the ope...B41J 11/703 Cutting of tapeB41J 15/044 Cassettes or cartridges con...B41J 29/38 Drives, motors, controls or...B41J 3/4075 Tape printers; Label printersB41J 31/10 Ink ribbons having arrangem...B41J 32/00 Ink-ribbon cartridgesB41J 33/44 automaticallyB41J 35/18 Colour change effected auto...B41J 35/28 Detachable carriers or hold...
