Printer frame made of three panels of one-piece metal

US5904429A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Monarch Marking Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Brent E. Goodwin · Middletown, US
• Thomas P. Keller · Freising, DE
• John D. Mistyurik · Tipp City, US
• Mark W. Moore · Miamisburg, US
• David R. Wisecup · Xenia, US
• Jan M. Watson · Miamisburg, US
• Ronald L. Fogle · Lebanon, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 1998
• Grant date: May 18, 1999
• Expiry date: May 18, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T403/7016
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

There is disclosed an improved thermal printer with a rigid frame made from a main frame plate with compound bends and a base plate, record member supply roll mounting and guide devices, an ink ribbon and record member web feed control system, a print head assembly, and improved ink ribbon cores and spindles.