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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7354211 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus for perforating a sheet of print media having a front side and a back side includes a printhead carriage for carrying a printhead. A perforator carriage carries a perforation forming mechanism. An isolation damper having elastic, vibration absorbing, ch... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354210 | Label printer A cutting edge of a movable blade mounted to a cutter holder is inclined at an oblique cross angle. The cutting edge of the movable blade obliquely intersects a roll sheet placed on a cutter plate in its cutting direction. This ensures that the cutting edge cuts the... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7273325 | Thermal printer and cutter A thermal printer includes a first module having a motor and a thermal head support member to fix a thermal head, the thermal head support member having a fixed blade part working as a blade and an a second module being detachably coupled with the first module, the ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7234883 | Tape printer It is intended to provide a tape printer which enables to forcibly separate a platen roller and a print head along with an opening operation of a cover element in case the platen roller and the print head have adhered to each other because of a long-period storage o... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7204654 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus for perforating a sheet of media includes a perforation forming mechanism including at least one perforation device. The perforation forming mechanism is configured to drive the perforation device through the sheet of media to extend through the sheet o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7156568 | Tape printing apparatus, method of manufacturing label, program, and memory medium A tape made up of a base tape having a front printing surface and a rear adhesive surface, and a release tape covering the adhesive surface is mounted on a printing apparatus. A plurality of print images are printed on the printing surface in a manner arrayed in a l... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7097373 | Printer A printer including a cutting portion including a plate-shaped fixed blade, a plate-shaped movable blade and a driving unit, which drives the movable blade back and forth with respect to the fixed blade; and a paper stacking portion for stacking a cut-off paper ther... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7059791 | Tape printer A pinion wheel for a spitter mechanism of a tape printer includes a first surface that does not engage with a tape, and a second surface for contact with a portion of the tape. Rotation of the pinion wheel causes the second surface to engage and move the portion of ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7033094 | Paper cutter and thermal printer A paper cutter has a guide for guiding paper from a source of continuous paper in a forward feeding direction. A cutting tool disposed downstream of the guide partially cuts the continuous paper passing through the guide such that one portion of the paper remains un... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6926400 | Media incising printer A printer with a media incising device operably secured thereto and a related method for using the printer is disclosed. The media control device is in communication with a printer controller that commands the media incising device to engage the media. The disclosed... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6821037 | Printing device provided with cutter to cut recording paper A setup application outputs a settings file in which are entered paper types and cutting modes. A print data generated by a design application is appended with data indicating a cutting mode appropriate to the print data and transmitted to a printer. Upon reception ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6814517 | Single pass multi-color printer with improved cutting apparatus and method A printing apparatus and method that provides for severing of prints from receiver media being printed. The receiver media is moved in a process direction past plural printing stations and the printing stations are recording images upon the receiver sheet. While pri... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6749352 | Cutting apparatus and printers provided with cutting apparatus A printer includes a cutting apparatus with a shield that protects the cutting part of a cutter blade in the apparatus. A fixed blade is supported so that the fixed blade can be moved by pressure by a compression coil spring upon a fixed blade supporting frame attac... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6732619 | Cutter mechanism A cutter mechanism for use in a printer. The cutter mechanism includes a base and a cutter blade slidably fixed relative to the base. The cutter blade is movable along a cutting path in a first direction between a retracted position and a forward position through a ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6520701 | Cutter device for cutting sheet and printer having the same A cutter device includes at least one stationary blade, which has a stationary blade cutting edge extending crosswise to a recording sheet. At least one movable blade moves in contact with the stationary blade cutting edge to cut the recording sheet. A st... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6511240 | Rolled-paper holding mechanism and a printer including same A miniaturized rolled-paper holding mechanism is capable of detecting the residual quantity of rolled-paper in both horizontally and vertically installed states of a printer. The rolled-paper holding mechanism includes a rolled-paper holder, a holder cove... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6508600 | Printer In a printer, a body cover is reclosably attached to a printer body (10). A fixed blade (14) and a movable blade (42) are attached to the printer body (10) and the body cover (20), respectively. The movable blade (42) is superposed on the fixed blade (14)... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6491460 | Tape printing apparatus A tape printing apparatus has a tape exit having a slit defined by a pair of opening edges opposed to each other. The slit includes a tape setting space facing a cutter and a tape guide space defined on the tape setting space in a manner continuous with t... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6447187 | Restraining module for a cutter of a printer Disclosed is a printer having: a fixed chassis mounted thereon; a moving chassis being engageable with the fixed chassis between an open position and a closed position; a cutter including a fixed blade and a moving blade; a paper drive roll; a thermal hea... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6408750 | Printer capable of cutting margins A color thermosensitive recording sheet extends two-dimensionally in main and sub scan directions perpendicular to each other. In a thermal printer for use with the recording sheet, two cutters remove front and rear margins from the recording sheet by cut... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6113293 | Label printer having lever actuated cutter A cutting mechanism for a hand held printer includes a lever pivotally mounted to a base and coupled to a slidably mounted blade. Pivotal movement of the lever translates the blade along a cutting axis to cut labeling media. The lever is automatically ret... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5961233 | Continuous paper cutting device for a thermal printer In a thermal printer, a continuous paper cutting device has an upper and a lower separator located downstream of a platen in the intended direction of paper transport and positioned to face each other with the intermediary of a continuous paper. The upper... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5882128 | Self-adjusting wheel for directly positioning and holding media during a cutting operation in a printer A method and device for directly positioning and holding media against an output platen while a cutter traverses across a media path. A cutter assembly is mounted on an arm which periodically passes over the media, and includes a cutter blade and at least... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5839840 | Tape printing apparatus A platen holder 8 is provided with a stopper member 12 which comes into contact with a lever 20 depressed when the platen holder 8 is rotated to a home position by removing of a cassette cover 2B from an upper cover 2A. The stopper member 12 is formed to ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5829897 | Printer and printing method having cutter control Printing on a tape is carried out using an ink ribbon having yellow, magenta, cyan and overprinting ink arranged thereon. First, the ink position of the ink ribbon is aligned with the print position of the tape, and one ink is transferred on the tape. Thi... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5823694 | Cutting device for cutting tape material and printing apparatus incorporating the cutting device There is provided a cutting device for cutting tape material. A tape-cutting block of the cutting device for cutting off the tape material has a pair of tape-cutting edges which slide past each other to thereby cut the tape material to a cut-off piece hav... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5785440 | Form feeding stabilization device A motion-absorbing region is formed in a continuous form, and a passively rotatable fixing roller is moved into contact with the continuous form when the motion-absorbing region is formed. The motion-absorbing region absorbs the difference in relative spe... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5741082 | Tape printers having cutter control In a tape printer which prints text data including characters/symbols on a tape, there is a fixed distance between a position where a thermal head is provided and a position where a cutter cuts a printed tape portion. For first text data to be printed, a ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5727889 | Printer having a cutter with a cover A printer having a cutter for cutting continuous recording paper to length. A cutter fitting stand is secured onto a writing table and fixedly fitted with a cutter having a blade for cutting recording paper. Projections each having holes for supporting a ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5718525 | label printer and dispenser A method and apparatus is disclosed for printing and dispensing labels for precise and accurate placement on an article. The present invention also minimizes label queue and the distance between the point of printing and the point of label dispensing. The... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5658083 | Cassette for a thermal printer A tape holding case is described for use with a thermal printing device which allows for more efficient cutting and feeding of tape. The cassette has a slot into which a cutting blade can pass which avoids the use of an anvil for cutting. Moreover, the ca... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5588762 | Paper discharge apparatus The present invention provides a paper discharge apparatus for collecting a remaining paper which the recipient rejects or forgets to receive so as to facilitate stable paper discharge. The paper discharge apparatus for discharging an arbitrarily cut pape... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5531530 | Printer and a method of sorting out and cutting papers printed thereby In a printer comprising a printing means for performing printing on a continuous paper in response to a print data and a cutter unit for cutting the continuous paper in the paper width direction upon completion of printing, a printed paper needs to be sor... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5482389 | Paper feed driven cutter mechanism of an electronic printer A paper cutting device of an electronic printer which derives its motive power from the drive source operating the paper feed mechanism of the printer. The paper feed mechanism has a one-way clutch coupled to the paper feed drive shaft which locks on to t... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5478161 | Paper discharge apparatus having a feed controller The present invention relates to a paper discharge apparatus provided together with a printer for discharging printed matter such as a receipt or a ticket. The paper discharge apparatus stores paper then feeds it during printing, and discharges the paper ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5423620 | Conveyance apparatus for a continuous form printed by a printing machine Conveyance apparatus for a continuous form having sprocket holes on both sides thereof provided in a high-speed printing system, comprised of a printing machine and an after-treatment machine, including: a constant-speed conveyance roller for feeding the ... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5397190 | Printed slip issuing apparatus A printed slip issuing apparatus is provided with a cutting blade having a cutting portion and disposed with its cutting portion extending along the width of a form web at a position immediately below a printing unit for printing on the form web, and a ni... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5358351 | Printing apparatus and printing tape cassette used therefor A printing apparatus includes a main body in which a sheet-like printing medium or a tape-like printing medium contained in a cassette can be mounted, a printing head capable of printing an image either on the sheet-like printing medium or the tape-like p... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5294782 | Integrated portable device for point of sale transactions A handheld, portable device (10) for processing point of sale transactions includes a housing (20), a magnetic card reader (40) for reading credit card information, the reader (40) carried within the housing (20) substantially adjacent to the first end (2... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5110227 | Color printer A color printer according to the present invention includes a clutch means, an urging member and a positional alignment mechanism. The clutch means is used for engaging and disengaging a driving force used to move a paper holder means. The urging member (... | 05/05/1992 |
