EP0094905A1 - Ink ribbon cartridge for typewriters - Google Patents
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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
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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
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- the present invention relates to a printing ribbon cassette for a typewriter, consisting of a housing containing a supply reel on which the ribbon is wound and a take-up reel cooperating with drive means and intended to receive the used ribbon, means for braking the supply reel being provided for producing a tension of the ribbon between the two reels, this cassette comprising a blocking mechanism for the take-up reel intended to prevent the unwinding of this reel when the cassette is removed from the typewriter, this mechanism comprising a locking lever whose spout cooperates elastically with the teeth of a toothed wheel.
- a cassette of this kind is already known (European patent application No. 0042955).
- two locking levers are integral with the take-up reel and cooperate with a toothing carried by the casing of the cassette.
- This arrangement has the disadvantage that the locking levers, in rotation when the cassette is mounted on the machine, cannot be moved away from the teeth in a simple manner.
- this arrangement makes the manufacture and assembly of the housing and the take-up reel complicated.
- the object of the present invention is to remedy these drawbacks and it is characterized, for this purpose, in that the toothed wheel is integral with the take-up reel and in that the blocking lever came in one piece with the housing, this lever comprising an exposed portion for cooperating with a member intended to disengage said spout from the toothing when the cassette is mounted on the typewriter.
- the ribbon cassette comprises a housing 1 comprising a cover 3 which fits onto a bottom 2, a supply reel 4 on which a printing ribbon 6 is wound and a take-up reel 5 around which the used ribbon is wound.
- the supply reel 4 is superimposed coaxially with the take-up reel 5, which is rotated by drive means 7 external to the cassette.
- the supply reel 4 has braking means for producing a certain tension in the printing ribbon 6.
- These braking means are constituted by a spring steel wire 8 comprising a braking loop 31 acting on the hub 12 of the supply coil 4, with one end 9 anchored in the housing, with one end 10 having a spout 11
- the printing ribbon 6 forms a loop passing around the folded end 10 of the steel wire 8 guided in height by the spout 11 before being driven on the guide 13 and through the optical reader 14.
- the optical reader 14 intended to detect the end of the ribbon. 6 comprises a light source 15, an optoelectronic detector 16 and a light conducting member 17.
- the source 15 and the detector 16 are fixed to the typewriter, while the member 17 came in one piece with the bottom 2 of casing 3 of the cassette.
- This body is constituted by two light guides 18 and 19 of prismatic shape.
- the upper ends of the two guides have two faces oriented substantially at 45 o from the axis of the guides so as to reflect the light from one of the guides towards the other.
- the printing ribbon 6 passes between the two upper faces of the light guides 18 and 19. It is normally opaque, but has a transparent termination. When this termination reaches the optical reader 17, the light flux coming from the source 15 is transmitted by the ribbon and the other guide 19 to reach the optoelectronic detector 16.
- the latter emits a signal at this moment, capable of acting, after adequate amplification, on the one hand on a switch not shown allowing the printing to stop and on the other hand on an optical or sound signaling device, not illustrated.
- the case 1 has two extensions 20 and 21, the ends of which are open and have guide pieces 22 and 23.
- the portion of tape 6 located outside the case 1 between the guide pieces 22 and 23 is intended to be engaged in a fork and a tape guide, not shown, of a typewriter designed to receive the cassette.
- the ribbon then passes over a guide piece 24 and is wound on the take-up reel 5.
- the cassette has a blocking mechanism 25 of the take-up reel 5 intended to prevent the unwinding of the latter when the cassette is removed from the machine. to write.
- This mechanism 25 is constituted by a lever 26 comprising a spout 27 intended to engage between the teeth 28 of a toothed wheel 29 angularly integral with the take-up reel 5.
- the lever 26 is made of an elastic material, for example a resin synthetic, and came in one piece with the bottom 2 of the housing 1. It is arranged so as to press its beak 27 in a flexible manner against the toothing 28.
- the housing 1 has for this purpose an opening 32 for passage of the member 30 and the lever 26, coming in one piece with the edge of this opening, extends towards the center of the latter.
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La présente invention concerne une cassette à ruban d'impression pour machine à écrire, constituée par un boîtier renfermant une bobine débitrice sur laquelle le ruban est enroulé et une bobine réceptrice coopérant avec des moyens d'entraînement et destinée à recevoir le ruban utilisé, des moyens de freinage de la bobine débitrice étant prévus pour produire une tension du ruban entre les deux bobines, cette cassette comprenant un mécanisme de bloquage de la bobine réceptrice destiné à empêcher le déroulement de cette bobine lorsque la cassette est retirée de la machine à écrire, ce mécanisme comportant un levier de bloquage dont le bec coopère élastiquement avec la denture d'une roue dentée.The present invention relates to a printing ribbon cassette for a typewriter, consisting of a housing containing a supply reel on which the ribbon is wound and a take-up reel cooperating with drive means and intended to receive the used ribbon, means for braking the supply reel being provided for producing a tension of the ribbon between the two reels, this cassette comprising a blocking mechanism for the take-up reel intended to prevent the unwinding of this reel when the cassette is removed from the typewriter, this mechanism comprising a locking lever whose spout cooperates elastically with the teeth of a toothed wheel.
On connaît déjà une cassette de ce genre (demande de brevet européenne No. 0042955). Dans cette cassette, deux leviers de bloquage sont solidaires de la bobine réceptrice et coopèrent avec une denture portée par le boîtier de la cassette.A cassette of this kind is already known (European patent application No. 0042955). In this cassette, two locking levers are integral with the take-up reel and cooperate with a toothing carried by the casing of the cassette.
Cette disposition présente l'inconvénient que les leviers de bloquage, en rotation lorsque la cassette est montée sur la machine, ne peuvent être écartés de la denture de façon simple. En outre, cette disposition rend compliquée la fabrication et l'assemblage du boîtier et de la bobine réceptrice.This arrangement has the disadvantage that the locking levers, in rotation when the cassette is mounted on the machine, cannot be moved away from the teeth in a simple manner. In addition, this arrangement makes the manufacture and assembly of the housing and the take-up reel complicated.
La présente invention a pour objet de remédier à ces inconvénients et elle est caractérisée, à cet effet, en ce que la roue dentée est solidaire de la bobine réceptrice et en ce que Ie levier de bloquage est venu d'une pièce avec le boîtier, ce levier comportant une portion exposée pour coopérer avec un organe destiné à désengager ledit bec de la denture lors du montage de la cassette sur la machine à écrire.The object of the present invention is to remedy these drawbacks and it is characterized, for this purpose, in that the toothed wheel is integral with the take-up reel and in that the blocking lever came in one piece with the housing, this lever comprising an exposed portion for cooperating with a member intended to disengage said spout from the toothing when the cassette is mounted on the typewriter.
Le dessin annexé illustre schématiquement et à titre d'exemple une forme d'exécution d'une cassette à ruban d'impression selon l'invention.
- La figure 1 en est une vue en plan, le boîtier étant ouvert afin de montrer les différents éléments constituant cette eassette.
- La figure 2 est une vue latérale éclatée suivant la direction B de la figure 1.
- La figure 3 est une coupe suivant C - C de la figure 1.
- La figure 4 est une section suivant D - D ie la figure 1.
- Figure 1 is a plan view, the housing being opened to show the various elements constituting this eassette.
- FIG. 2 is an exploded side view in the direction B of FIG. 1.
- Figure 3 is a section along C - C of Figure 1.
- Figure 4 is a section along D - D ie Figure 1.
La cassette à ruban comprend un boîtier 1 comportant un ecuvercle 3 s'adaptant sur un fond 2, une bobine débitrice 4 sur laquelle un ruban d'impression 6 est enroulé et une bobine récep trice 5 autour de laquelle le ruban usagé s'enroule.The ribbon cassette comprises a housing 1 comprising a cover 3 which fits onto a
La bobine débitrice 4 est superposée coaxialement à la bobine réceptrice 5, qui est entraînée en rotation par des moyens d'entraînement 7 extérieurs à la cassette.The
La bobine débitrice 4 comporte des moyens de freinage pour produire une certaine tension du ruban 6 d'impression. Ces moyens de freinage sont constitués par un fil d'acier ressort 8 comportant une boucle de freinage 31 agissant sur le moyeu 12 de la bobine débitrice 4, d'une extrémité 9 ancrée dans le boîtier, d'une extrémité 10 comportant un bec 11. Le ruban 6 d'impression forme une boucle passant autour de l'extrémité 10 pliée du fil d'acier 8 guidé en hauteur par le bec 11 avant d'être entraîné sur le guide 13 et à travers le lecteur optique 14.The
Lorsque le ruban 6 est tendu par les moyens d'entraînement 7 agissant sur la bobine réceptrice 5, la tension du ruban dans la boucle 10 tend à ouvrir la boucle de freinage 31 de sorte que le ruban 6 peut se dérouler. A l'arrêt des moyens d'entraînement 7, la boucle de freinage 31 coopère avec le moyeu 12 pour freiner la bobine débitrice 5.When the
Le lecteur optique 14 destiné à détecter la fin du ruban . 6 comprend une source lumineuse 15, un détecteur optoélectronique 16 et un organe conducteur de lumière 17. La source 15 et le détecteur 16 sont fixés sur la machine à écrirè, tandis que l'organe 17 est venu d'une pièce avec le fond 2 du boîtier 3 de la cassette.The
Cet organe est constitué par deux guides de lumières 18 et 19 de forme prismatique. Les extrémités supérieures des deux guides comportent deux faces orientées sensiblement à 45o de l'axe des guides de façon à réfléchir la lumière de l'un des guides vers l'autre. Le ruban d'impression 6 passe entre les deux faces supérieures des guides de lumières 18 et 19. Il est normalement opaque, mais possède une terminaison transparente. Lorsque cette terminaison atteint le lecteur optique 17, le flux lumineux provenant de la source 15 est transmis par le ruban et l'autre guide 19 pour atteindre le détecteur optoélectronique 16.This body is constituted by two
Ce dernier émet à ce moment un signal, susceptible d'agir, après amplification adéquate, d'une part sur un interrupteur non illustré permettant l'arrêt de l'impression et d'autre part sur un dispositif de signalisation optique ou sonore, non illustré.The latter emits a signal at this moment, capable of acting, after adequate amplification, on the one hand on a switch not shown allowing the printing to stop and on the other hand on an optical or sound signaling device, not illustrated.
Le boitier 1 comporte deux prolongements 20 et 21 dont les extrémités sont ouvertes et comportent des pièces de guidage 22 et 23. La portion de ruban 6 se trouvant à l'extérieur du boîtier 1 entre les pièces de guidage 22 et 23 est destinée à être engagée dans une fourchette et un guide ruban, non représentés, d'une machine à écrire prévue pour recevoir la cassette. Le ruban passe ensuite sur une pièce de guidage 24 et est enroulé sur la bobine réceptrice 5. La cassette comporte un mécanisme de bloquage 25 de la bobine réceptrice 5 destiné à empêcher le déroulement de cette dernière, lorsque la cassette est retirée de la machine à écrire. Ce mécanisme 25 est constitué par un levier 26 comportant un bec 27 destiné à s'engager entre les dents 28 d'une roue dentée 29 angulairement solidaire de la bobine réceptrice 5. Le levier 26 est constitué en une matière élastique, par exemple une résine synthé tique, et est venu d'une pièce avec le fond 2 du boîtier 1. Il est agencé de façon à appuyer son bec 27 de manière souple contre la denture 28. Lors du montage de la cassette sur la machine à écrire un organe 30 solidaire du mécanisme de fixation de la cassette, non illustré, permet d'écarter le bec 27 de la denture 28 contre l'action de la force élastique exercée par le levier 26. Le boîtier 1 comporte à cet effet une ouverture 32 pour le passage de l'organe 30 et le levier 26, venu d'une pièce avec le bord de cette ouverture, s'étend vers le centre de celle-ci.The case 1 has two
Il est bien entendu que le mode dé réalisation décrit ci-dessus ne présente aucun caractère limitatif et qu'il peut recevoir toutes modifications désirables sans sortir pour cela du cadre de l'invention.It is understood that the embodiment described above has no limiting character and that it can receive any desirable modifications without departing from the scope of the invention.
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CH3006/82A CH647981A5 (en) | 1982-05-14 | 1982-05-14 | PRINTING RIBBON CASSETTE FOR TYPEWRITER. |
CH3006/82 | 1982-05-14 |
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EP0094905A1 true EP0094905A1 (en) | 1983-11-23 |
EP0094905B1 EP0094905B1 (en) | 1986-02-26 |
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EP83810163A Expired EP0094905B1 (en) | 1982-05-14 | 1983-04-18 | Ink ribbon cartridge for typewriters |
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JP (1) | JPS58205789A (en) |
CH (1) | CH647981A5 (en) |
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EP0447185A1 (en) * | 1990-03-16 | 1991-09-18 | Ncr International Inc. | Printer ribbon cassette mounting apparatus |
EP0719652A2 (en) * | 1994-12-27 | 1996-07-03 | Pitney Bowes, Inc. | Thermal ribbon cassette for thermal printing device |
EP1403086A1 (en) * | 2002-09-27 | 2004-03-31 | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | Ribbon cassette with ink ribbon slack prevention mechanism |
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JPS60256600A (en) * | 1984-06-01 | 1985-12-18 | Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd | Electric blower |
JPS6128658U (en) * | 1984-07-27 | 1986-02-20 | シルバー精工株式会社 | printing ribbon cassette |
JPH0444374Y2 (en) * | 1985-01-16 | 1992-10-20 | ||
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US4210296A (en) * | 1978-12-26 | 1980-07-01 | Royal Business Machines, Inc. | Ribbon cartridge with integral anti spool rotation device |
US4272202A (en) * | 1978-09-20 | 1981-06-09 | Data Card Corporation | Ribbon cartridge with broken unidirectional friction drive and self cleaning gears |
EP0042955A1 (en) * | 1980-06-27 | 1982-01-06 | International Business Machines Corporation | Anti-reversal device for printer ribbon cartridge take-up spool |
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US4272202A (en) * | 1978-09-20 | 1981-06-09 | Data Card Corporation | Ribbon cartridge with broken unidirectional friction drive and self cleaning gears |
US4210296A (en) * | 1978-12-26 | 1980-07-01 | Royal Business Machines, Inc. | Ribbon cartridge with integral anti spool rotation device |
EP0042955A1 (en) * | 1980-06-27 | 1982-01-06 | International Business Machines Corporation | Anti-reversal device for printer ribbon cartridge take-up spool |
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EP0447185A1 (en) * | 1990-03-16 | 1991-09-18 | Ncr International Inc. | Printer ribbon cassette mounting apparatus |
EP0719652A2 (en) * | 1994-12-27 | 1996-07-03 | Pitney Bowes, Inc. | Thermal ribbon cassette for thermal printing device |
EP0719652A3 (en) * | 1994-12-27 | 1997-02-19 | Pitney Bowes Inc | Thermal ribbon cassette for thermal printing device |
EP1403086A1 (en) * | 2002-09-27 | 2004-03-31 | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | Ribbon cassette with ink ribbon slack prevention mechanism |
US7128483B2 (en) | 2002-09-27 | 2006-10-31 | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | Ribbon cassette with ink ribbon slack prevention mechanism |
CN1331684C (en) * | 2002-09-27 | 2007-08-15 | 兄弟工业株式会社 | Robbon box with ribbon loose-proof mechanism |
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DE3362251D1 (en) | 1986-04-03 |
JPH0377787B2 (en) | 1991-12-11 |
EP0094905B1 (en) | 1986-02-26 |
JPS58205789A (en) | 1983-11-30 |
CH647981A5 (en) | 1985-02-28 |
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