Patent · US Expired

Recording sheet package and sheet supply cassette for printer

US6561506B2 · kind B2 · utility

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10Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateDec 18, 2001
Grant dateMay 13, 2003
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Expiry dateDec 18, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H2405/313
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A thermal printer includes a thermal printer component for image recording to a thermosensitive recording sheet. There is a loading opening through which the thermal printer component is supplied with the recording sheet. Plural guiding projections position the recording sheet in the loading opening. A recording sheet package includes a packaging case for containing a loose stack of plural recording sheets. The loading opening is loadable with the packaging case. A package outlet is formed in the packaging case for passage of each recording sheet, and set directed toward the thermal printer component. Plural cutouts are formed in a periphery of the packaging case, and receive the guiding projections. Blocking portions of a blocking frame are disposed inside the packaging case, and close the cut-outs. The blocking portions are shiftable inwards from the cutouts by the guiding projections.

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