EP0058847A2 - Cassette de ruban encreur pouvant être mise sur une machine à écrire ou sur une machine de bureau analogue - Google Patents

Cassette de ruban encreur pouvant être mise sur une machine à écrire ou sur une machine de bureau analogue Download PDF

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EP0058847A2
EP0058847A2 EP82100727A EP82100727A EP0058847A2 EP 0058847 A2 EP0058847 A2 EP 0058847A2 EP 82100727 A EP82100727 A EP 82100727A EP 82100727 A EP82100727 A EP 82100727A EP 0058847 A2 EP0058847 A2 EP 0058847A2
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Bernd Schmidt
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J32/00—Ink-ribbon cartridges

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  • the invention relates to an ink ribbon cassette that can be placed on a typewriter or similar office machine and has a storage space for a supply reel and a take-up reel for an ink ribbon of the type specified in the preamble of claim 1.
  • the conventional ink ribbon cassettes that can be placed on a typewriter or similar office machine have a storage space for a supply reel and a take-up reel for an ink ribbon, the ink ribbon leading from the supply reel through two guide channels arranged at a distance from one another on the storage space through a printing station of the machine can be rewound onto the take-up reel.
  • the ribbons consist either of textile ribbons, which are transported several times past the printing station from one spool to the other, or of single carbon ribbons, which only run once through the machine, since each surface part of these ribbons can only be used once for printing.
  • the ribbons can consist of multi-carbon ribbons, which also run through the machine only once, but in which individual surface sections provide a repeated impression.
  • the size of the feed step is not important for textile ribbons, since each surface section of the ribbon is used several times.
  • the feed step must be an entire character width, while in the case of multi-carbon ribbons a drive device for the ink ribbon which generates a lower step feed is required for their economical use.
  • the invention has for its object to provide an ink ribbon cassette that allows a compact, all types of ribbon and structure and which can be easily placed on the cradle in the machine with one hand and detached from it without the operator operating the machine a certain Dexterity is required.
  • the ribbon cassette should be designed so that in typewriters with a correction device, the correction tape immediately below the ribbon in the cassette can be arranged.
  • the stroke of the correction tape from the rest position to the impression position should be as short as possible.
  • the ribbon cassette according to the invention is very compact and saves material. Due to the advantageous embodiment of the subject of the invention according to claims 2 and 3, the correction tape can be arranged directly under the ink ribbon, which results in a very small stroke of the correction tape from the rest to the printing position. The correction tape can therefore be brought very quickly from the rest position into the impression position with a small force and then also very quickly reset again.
  • the further embodiment of the subject matter of claim 4 enables the guide channels to have only a height that is only slightly larger than the width of the ribbon.
  • the subject matter of patent claim 6 ensures that the ink ribbon cassettes with ink ribbons, for which a different step feed is required, can be made compact.
  • FIG. 1 shows a top view
  • FIG. 2 shows a side view of an ink ribbon cassette 1.
  • the ribbon cassette 1 consists of a trough-shaped base part 33 and a cover 35 which can be connected to it.
  • the cover 35 has holes 36 which are evenly distributed in order to reduce weight and noise.
  • the cover 35 has bearing journals, not shown, which can be inserted and locked into corresponding bearing bores in the base plate 33.
  • the bottom part 33 of the ribbon cassette 1 has on its rear wall 38 protruding bearing lugs 8, 10 which can be plugged into correspondingly designed bearing recesses 40, 42 of a receiving plate 2 of the receiving device for the ribbon cassette in the machine.
  • the bottom part 33 has on its side walls 44 and 46 locking pins 12, 14, which cooperate with the locking lever mounted in this mounting plate 2 for locking the ink ribbon cassette on the mounting plate 2.
  • the tabs 8, 10 are first inserted into the corresponding bearing recesses 40, 42, then the cassette is pivoted against the mounting plate 2 until the bearings pins 12, 14 are locked by the locking lever in the mounting plate 2. The assembly of the ribbon cassette 1 can therefore be carried out with one hand.
  • the trough-shaped bottom part 33 has a storage space 5 for a supply 3 and a take-up reel 41 for an ink ribbon 11.
  • the supply reel 3 is rotatably mounted in the bottom surface 30 of the storage room 5 (FIG. 9), the ink ribbon 11 from the supply reel 3 via deflection guides 13, 15, 17 and 19, which are arranged on the bottom surface 13 in the storage room 5, as a Guide arm trained guide channel 23 is guided. Then the ink ribbon is passed through a deflection guide 21 arranged in an outlet opening 69 of the guide channel 23 through the printing station and then over a deflection guide 25 in an inlet opening 71 of a guide channel 24 designed as a guide arm.
  • the ink ribbon 11 After leaving the guide channel 24, the ink ribbon 11 is guided to a winding drive 31 via deflection guides 27, 29.
  • the deflection guides 27 and 29 are also arranged on the bottom surface 30 of the storage room 5.
  • the two guide channels 23, 24 are fixedly connected to the base part 33, a type carrier 73 being rotatably mounted between their (23, 24) free ends by means of a stepping motor, not shown.
  • the type support 73 has resilient tines, at the free ends of which the types are arranged in a known manner.
  • the type set in each case is pressed against a recording medium by a print hammer 75 driven by a magnet 77. ger struck 79, with the interposition of the ink ribbon 11 in a known manner an impression is generated.
  • the winding drive 31 has a toothed drive wheel 39, which has the outermost turn the take-up reel 41 is constantly engaged.
  • the take-up spool 41 is rotatably mounted on a pivot lever 45 (43), the pivot lever 45 being pivotable about an axis 49 and being acted upon by a spring 47 in a clockwise direction in such a way that the outermost turn of the take-up spool 41 always engages with the drive gear 39 is held.
  • the drive wheel 39 can be coupled to a drive element 61, which can be driven by a motor 59, via a change-speed gear designed as a step-size changeover device.
  • the change gear has interchangeable gear pairs 63, 65 which can be selected to produce a step feed of the ribbon 11 which is different depending on the type of ribbon and which can also be used immediately before or during the insertion of the supply 3 and the take-up reel 41 into the storage space 5.
  • the gear 63 of the change gearbox is fixedly connected to the drive wheel 39, while the other gear 65 can be coupled to the drive element 61 of the machine and is fixedly connected to a manual setting wheel 67. This hand setting wheel 67 can be rotated in the cover 35 from outside the housing by means of a finger.
  • the supply spool 3 is firmly connected to a toothed brake disk 81.
  • This brake disk 81 has on its outer circumference a toothing 83, into which an arm 15 of a resilient round wire 85 firmly clamped on one side engages.
  • the ink ribbon 11 coming from the supply reel 3 is continued via the deflection guide 13 around the arm 15 and then via the deflection guides 17, 19, 21 in the manner described above.
  • the ink ribbon 11 in the direction of arrow 89 by the Winding drive 31 driven, then the arm 15 is lifted out of the teeth 83 of the brake disc 81, whereby the supply reel 3 is released.
  • the floors 26, 28 of the two guide channels 23, 24 have an offset 16, 18 relative to the floor 30 of the storage space 5 in such a way that below the guide channels 23, 24 in continuation of the floor 30 of the storage room 5 each have a free space 50, 52 for in
  • the receiving device of the ribbon cassette 1 arranged in the machine machine parts arises and that the unwindable from the supply reel 3 ribbon 11 is guided at a close distance above the inner bottom surface 26 of the guide channel 23 with the outlet opening 69.
  • the machine parts are individual parts, e.g. B.
  • the bottoms 26, 28 of the two guide channels 23, 24 each have an outwardly facing, partially cylindrical indentation 20, 22 for the winding surfaces 60, 62 of the supply 56 and the winding reel 58 for the correction tape 54.
  • the supply reel 56 and the take-up reel 58 for the correction tape 54 are rotatably mounted, for example, in the receiving plate 2, the correction tape 54 being guided from the supply reel 56 via a deflection guide 64 through the printing station and via a further deflection guide 66 to the take-up reel 58.
  • the winding reel 58 is driven in a known manner and is not shown in detail.
  • the correction tape 54 is arranged directly under the ink ribbon 11. This enables a small stroke for lifting the correction tape from the rest to the working position.
  • the color and correction device form a compact device on the recording plate 2. Since the flange of the supply reel 3 designed as a brake disk 81, the position lever 45 designed as a holding device for the take-up reel 41 and the interchangeable gears 63, 65 in a part 32 of the storage space 5 lying lower than the inner bottom surfaces 26, 28 of the guide channels 23, 24 Are arranged movably, a compact arrangement of the ribbon cassette 1 is created.
  • the guide channel 23 has in its bottom surface 26 a recess 91 which cooperates with a locking device, not shown, of the machine in such a way that the ribbon cassette with carbon ribbons cannot be brought into the working position.
  • the locking device cooperating with the recess 91 in the guide channel 23 ensures that only ink ribbons can be brought into the working position which have no coating with a dye which adheres to the surface of the paper and can be lifted off from it by an adhesive tape.
  • the bottom surface 30 of the storage space 5 at the transition point 16 to the guide channel 23 with the outlet opening 69 has recesses for contact pins 68, 70 which are arranged in the mounting plate 2 of the mounting device in the machine, connected to a circuit and connected to a warning device, e.g. . B. an indicator lamp is connected.
  • a warning device e.g. . B. an indicator lamp is connected.
  • This warning device is used to monitor the color tape end to warn the operator of the machine of the end of the tape approaching the pressure point.
  • the rear end of the ink ribbon 11 has an electrically conductive means designed as a scanning means, which can be brought into operative connection with contact springs 72, 74 designed as a scanning means.
  • contact springs 72, 74 are mounted on the inner bottom surface 30 of the storage space 5 and can be brought into engagement with the contact pins 68, 70 in the mounting plate 2 of the machine via recesses 78, 76 in the bottom surface 30.
  • the electrically conductive agent attached to the ribbon end can be a vapor-deposited metal layer.
  • the contact springs 72, 74 have cylindrical tongues 80, 82 which scan the ink ribbon 11 and can be anchored on pins 17, 19 which are perpendicular to the inner bottom surface 30 of the storage space 5.
  • the pins 17, 19 have locking recesses 88, 90 into which locking lugs 92, 94 can be snapped onto the cylindrical tongues 80, 82.
  • a compact arrangement of the ribbon cassette 1 has been made possible by the arrangements according to the invention of the supply 3, the take-up spool 41 with the holding lever 45, the change gear and the contact springs for the warning device.
  • the storage space 5 for the supply 3 and the take-up reel 41 has been optimally used by the invention.
  • a compact arrangement of this correction device with the ink ribbon device is possible in typewriters with a correction device.

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DE19813106958 DE3106958A1 (de) 1981-02-25 1981-02-25 Auf eine schreib- oder aehnliche bueromaschine aufsetzbare farbbandkassette
DE3106958 1981-02-25

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FR2575416A1 (fr) * 1984-12-31 1986-07-04 Canon Kk Cassette a ruban encreur et son mecanisme de chargement
EP0194969A1 (fr) * 1985-03-08 1986-09-17 Franz Büttner AG Cassette à ruban encreur
US4725155A (en) * 1984-10-25 1988-02-16 Olympia Werke Ag Ribbon cartridge for a typewriter or similar office machine
US10330791B2 (en) * 2015-07-03 2019-06-25 Thales Method for locating a jamming source jamming signals of a satellite navigation system and associated system

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JPS6198061U (fr) * 1984-11-30 1986-06-23
JPH042064Y2 (fr) * 1984-12-06 1992-01-23
JPS61248773A (ja) * 1985-04-26 1986-11-06 Canon Inc インクリボンカセツト
JPH0696317B2 (ja) * 1985-05-22 1994-11-30 キヤノン株式会社 インクリボンカセツト
DE3601482C1 (de) * 1986-01-20 1987-04-09 Triumph Adler Ag Farbbandkassette

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DE2909231A1 (de) * 1979-03-09 1980-09-11 Triumph Werke Nuernberg Ag Vorrichtung fuer farb- und korrekturbaender in schreib- und aehnlichen maschinen

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DE2909231A1 (de) * 1979-03-09 1980-09-11 Triumph Werke Nuernberg Ag Vorrichtung fuer farb- und korrekturbaender in schreib- und aehnlichen maschinen

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US4725155A (en) * 1984-10-25 1988-02-16 Olympia Werke Ag Ribbon cartridge for a typewriter or similar office machine
FR2575416A1 (fr) * 1984-12-31 1986-07-04 Canon Kk Cassette a ruban encreur et son mecanisme de chargement
US4867586A (en) * 1984-12-31 1989-09-19 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Ink ribbon cassette and loading mechanism therefor
EP0194969A1 (fr) * 1985-03-08 1986-09-17 Franz Büttner AG Cassette à ruban encreur
CH667045A5 (de) * 1985-03-08 1988-09-15 Buettner Ag Franz Farbbandkassette.
US10330791B2 (en) * 2015-07-03 2019-06-25 Thales Method for locating a jamming source jamming signals of a satellite navigation system and associated system

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EP0058847A3 (en) 1983-12-21
JPS57189872A (en) 1982-11-22

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