Printing media feed and retaining apparatus for a thermal inkjet

Details Printing media feed and retaining apparatus for a thermal inkjet Printing media feed and retaining apparatus for a thermal inkjet

1994-08-31

1996-06-25

Tran, Huan H.

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Record receivers and/or driving means therefor

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347104, 4006372, B41J 1300

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055304591

ABSTRACT:
In a computer driven printer/plotter, a printing media feed and retaining apparatus which has at least three pinch rollers mounted on a pinch roller support member having a print media guide surface and a support and actuation arm extending from a side of the pinch roller support member opposite the guide surface, and wherein an axis of said support and actuation arm intersects a vertical centerline through the middle of a polygon figure defined by intersection of straight lines between pinch rollers and having one pinch roller at each corner thereof. The pinch rollers are supported such that they are self centering and track without skewing or damaging the printing medium without the use of precision parts or mounting techniques.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4408917 (1983-10-01), Iwai et al.
patent: 5363129 (1994-11-01), Kline et al.

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