Type positioning mechanism for printing device

Details Type positioning mechanism for printing device Type positioning mechanism for printing device

1978-01-05

1979-12-04

Pieprz, William

Printing

Selective or progressive

Printing members

400146, B41J 120

Patent

active

041766008

ABSTRACT:
A type positioning mechanism for use in a printing device of a hand labeler, or the like, including a plurality of rotatable, coaxial selecting wheels, corresponding rotatable coaxial positioning members juxtaposed to and spaced from the selecting wheels and corresponding endless type bands each formed with a plurality of printing types and arranged to run over a corresponding pair of the selecting wheels and positioning members; the type positioning mechanism includes a guide block which is stationary relative to the selecting wheels and positioning members; the guide block has parallel bores therein; pins are received in the corresponding bores and are slidable back and forth; there are thrust members, each integral with the corresponding pin and having one end formed with a conically or wedge shaped projection that is engageable with a complementary depression in the corresponding positioning member for holding the corresponding type band at a particular printing orientation; biasing means urge the thrust member projections into engagement with the corresponding positioning member depressions.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3977321 (1976-08-01), Pabodie

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