EP0658435A1 - Übertragungsbandkassette für einen Wärmeübertragungsdrucker - Google Patents

Übertragungsbandkassette für einen Wärmeübertragungsdrucker Download PDF

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EP0658435A1
EP0658435A1 EP94402826A EP94402826A EP0658435A1 EP 0658435 A1 EP0658435 A1 EP 0658435A1 EP 94402826 A EP94402826 A EP 94402826A EP 94402826 A EP94402826 A EP 94402826A EP 0658435 A1 EP0658435 A1 EP 0658435A1
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Patrick Vegeais
Eric Cavarero
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J17/00—Mechanisms for manipulating page-width impression-transfer material, e.g. carbon paper
    • B41J17/22—Supply arrangements for webs of impression-transfer material
    • B41J17/24—Webs supplied from reels or spools attached to the machine
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J17/00—Mechanisms for manipulating page-width impression-transfer material, e.g. carbon paper
    • B41J17/32—Detachable carriers or holders for impression-transfer material mechanism

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  • the field of the invention is that of printers, peripheral printers of central processing units such as printers integrated into printing devices, such as fax machines.
  • Thermal printing printers provided with a head of resistive heating elements, use as printing medium either thermal paper, in rolls, or plain paper in sheets.
  • the field of the invention is, more particularly, that of thermal printing printers using sheets of plain paper, that is to say thermal transfer printing printers.
  • the printing is carried out, under the action of the print head, by transfer of a hot-melt ink previously coated on a support film, the whole forming a printing ribbon.
  • the invention relates to these printing ink ribbons, therefore of a width at least equal to that of the sheets intended to be printed.
  • the present invention aims to propose a completely different solution.
  • the present invention relates to a shoe for loading, in a thermal transfer printing printer, a thermal transfer printing ribbon, the shoe being arranged to receive and detachably hold and in their relative position d use a roll of supply tape and a roll of receiving tape, each provided with fixing means in the printer, the shoe leaving said fixing means released.
  • the loading of the rollers is thus carried out simply, without the user having to touch the ink ribbon and without having to be rejected by anything.
  • the shoe of the invention with its rolls of tape, ready for use, can be placed in a box or put in a capsule or pouch.
  • the shoe can also be disposable.
  • At least one of the rolls of tape is received in a housing of the shoe provided with at least one friction edge arranged to cooperate with the roller during its detachment from the shoe and thus tension the tape.
  • the housing on the friction edge advantageously comprises a friction tongue with a folded internal wall, beyond the contact zone. of the housing and of the roller in the plane of detachment of the roller, on the other side of this plane.
  • the loading shoe 1, made here of polystyrene, has a generally parallelepiped shape and comprises, formed from one of the large faces, two housings 2 and 3, here of substantially semi-circular sections, extending in parallel one to the other.
  • the housing 2 receives, detachably and here adjusted, a supply roll 5 of a thermal transfer printing ribbon 10 wound around a hub 4, and the housing 3 likewise contains a receiving hub 6 of which is integral l free end 7 of the ribbon 10 and which can nevertheless be qualified as a take-up roll.
  • the supply roller 5 is full and the take-up roller 6 is almost empty.
  • the opening widths of the housings 2 and 3 are slightly smaller respectively than the diameters of the roller 5 and the roller 6, which, for the elasticity of the shoe 1 material, ensures the reception and maintenance thereof while allowing to detach them from shoe 1, in a radial direction, by applying sufficient extraction forces.
  • the distance between the hubs 4 and 6 is equal to that between the fixing bearings of a printer intended to consume the ribbon 10.
  • the housings 2 and 3 are here open at the end and have, in this example, an axial length substantially equal to that of the strip 10.
  • the hubs 4 and 6 project axially from the shoe 1 by fixing ends 8, 9 which are released and described in more detail with reference to Figure 3.
  • FIG. 2 which illustrates the use of the shoe
  • shoe 1 is applied against a ribbon loading area of a printer 11.
  • the printer 11 has two pairs of bearings 12 and 13, here in the form of a lyre, each receiving one of the fixing ends 8 and 9. Between the bearings 12 and 13, there is a writing head 14 and a compressor 15, or writing or support roller, and two tensioning rollers 16 and 17 respectively upstream and downstream of the head 14.
  • the writing roller 15 is shown in the position of use. It can be moved away from this functional position to allow the application of the shoe 1 on the printer 11 and the positioning, or loading, of the rollers 5, 6 with contacting the ribbon 10 and the writing head. 14. The roller 15, after removing the shoe 1, is then folded down to press the ribbon 10 against the head 14.
  • a bearing 22, for receiving and holding, here by clipping, of a hub fixing end 8, 9, of the hubs 4, 6, is shown in FIG. 3.
  • the bearing 22 is formed by a notch 23 formed from an edge of a wall 21 of the printer 11, made of elastic material, here made of plastic.
  • the notch 23 has a flared mouth 24 extended by a channel 25, of width slightly less than the diameter of the fixing end considered 8, 9, which ends in a bearing 26 proper, of generally circular shape.
  • This force is greater than the force for extracting the hubs 4, 6 from the shoe 1, so that the user having pressed the shoe 1 on the printer 11 and thus introduced the fixing ends 8, 9 into their respective bearings 22, these ends remain fixed there when the shoe 1 is removed.
  • the tongue 32 is arranged so, during loading, to remain in contact with the roller 5 at the start of the removal of the shoe 1, in the direction of the arrow F, and thus create a friction couple rotating the roller 5 in the direction of winding of the ribbon 10.
  • the housing 2 maintains the roller 5 as long as it is pinched between the edge 35 and a contact area 36 located near the base of the tongue 32, the area 36 extending in the plane of detachment 34 of the roller 5, parallel to arrow F, and the tongue 32 being folded down on the other side of the plane 34.
  • the shoe of the invention ready for use, is placed in a packaging box; it can also be put in capsule or pouch.

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EP94402826A 1993-12-15 1994-12-08 Übertragungsbandkassette für einen Wärmeübertragungsdrucker Expired - Lifetime EP0658435B1 (de)

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FR9315094A FR2713552B1 (fr) 1993-12-15 1993-12-15 Sabot de chargement de ruban encreur pour imprimante à impression par transfert thermique.
FR9315094 1993-12-15

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USRE39169E1 (en) 1997-01-06 2006-07-11 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Ink ribbon cartridge having a particular spool and spindle arrangement
US6991388B2 (en) 1998-01-06 2006-01-31 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Ink ribbon cartridge having takeup-side cover with opening positioned beneath protrusion in cover
US6257780B1 (en) 1998-01-06 2001-07-10 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Ink ribbon cartridge having one undetachable spool and idle rotation preventing structure
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US6715946B2 (en) 1998-01-06 2004-04-06 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Ink ribbon cartridge and printing device
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AU677456B2 (en) 1997-04-24
FR2713552A1 (fr) 1995-06-16
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