Image printing device

US5268705A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Karl-Heinz Dreinhoff · Berlin, DE
• Thomas Schmidt · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 28, 1991
• Grant date: Dec 7, 1993
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41J13/103
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A recording head of an image printing device is disposed opposite to a pressure roller in a casing. The casing upper side includes a sheet feed aperture for a feed of individual sheets to be printed and a sheet ejection aperture for ejection of the printed individual sheets. The casing upper side exhibits a flap-open cover (29). The flap-open cover can be fixed in an inclined position in the flapped-open state and under formation of a sheet storage cassette (30) for a stack (31) of individual sheets to be printed in order to allow a selective manual or automatic feed of individual sheets while maintaining a compact construction of the known image printing device. A drivable sheet draw-in roller (18) is supported in a casing (1) and is pivotally mounted between two positions at a lever portion (16). In these positions, the drivable sheet draw-in roller (18) is either disposed in the casing interior or rests on the individual sheets, disposed in the sheet storage cassette (30).