Patent · US Expired

Ribbon cassette for word processors, printers and typewriters

US4502801A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 22, 1983
Grant dateMar 5, 1985
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 22, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J32/00
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A typewriting or printer film ribbon cassette has a carrier with fixedly spaced pins forming axes for the takeup and supply spools so that, as the ribbon builds up on the takeup spool, the carrier is shifted away from a feed wheel whose axis is coplanar with the axes of the supply and takeup spools against the force of a spring urging the carrier in the opposite direction.

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