Printing apparatus

Details Printing apparatus Printing apparatus

1989-12-11

1991-09-03

Burr, Edgar S.

Typewriting machines

Means auxiliary to typewriting function

Frame, casing, or support for typewriter

400693, B41J 2902

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050448013

ABSTRACT:
A printing apparatus comprises a printer body having an opening on the top side thereof, and a platen for feeding a paper sheet supported by a paper holder disposed in the printer body. The platen is provided in the body to face the opening. A head unit includes a housing having an opening on the bottom side thereof and a print head disposed in the housing to face the opening thereof. The head unit is moveable between an operative position, in which the head unit is located on the printer body so that the opening of the housing and the print head face the opening of the printer body and the platen, respectively, whereby the paper sheet between the platen and the print head is allowed to be ready for printing, and an open position in which the head unit is off the printer body so that the whole opening of the printer body is exposed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4480936 (1984-11-01), Kasun et al.
patent: 4812063 (1989-03-01), Kunimitsu et al.
patent: 4938616 (1990-07-01), Shiozaki et al.
IBM Tech. Disc. Bulletin, vol. 27, No. 6, Nov. 1984 by Kimura.

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