EP1165322A1 - Business machine with paper roll printer - Google Patents
Business machine with paper roll printerInfo
- Publication number
- EP1165322A1 EP1165322A1 EP00910956A EP00910956A EP1165322A1 EP 1165322 A1 EP1165322 A1 EP 1165322A1 EP 00910956 A EP00910956 A EP 00910956A EP 00910956 A EP00910956 A EP 00910956A EP 1165322 A1 EP1165322 A1 EP 1165322A1
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- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- cover
- office machine
- machine according
- paper
- housing
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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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
- B41J15/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in continuous form, e.g. webs
- B41J15/04—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
- B41J15/042—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles for loading rolled-up continuous copy material into printers, e.g. for replacing a used-up paper roll; Point-of-sale printers with openable casings allowing access to the rolled-up continuous copy material
Definitions
- the invention relates to office machines comprising a printer associated with a paper roll.
- office machines comprising a printer associated with a paper roll.
- a printer associated with a paper roll.
- a portable payment terminal As such an office machine, one can for example cite a fax machine or a portable payment terminal.
- the roll of paper is received in a housing closed by a cover hinged on the chassis of the machine. When the paper is exhausted, the cover is opened and a refill is given.
- the motor and the kinematics for controlling a drive roller by friction of the paper in front of the print head form a one-piece assembly.
- the positioning of the paper is difficult since it is necessary to introduce the primer end into a slot for access to the drive roller and to the head. You must therefore have both hands and therefore place the machine if it is a payment terminal.
- part of the elements of the kinematic chain is integral with the cover and, being thus mobile, it thus provides better access for placing the refill of paper in its housing and making the primer cooperate with the head.
- the re-gearing of the toothed wheels between the fixed part and the mobile part of the kinematic chain wears them down.
- the kinematic chain is not entirely protected and risks being damaged during handling or by the penetration of polluting particles.
- the present invention aims to avoid these drawbacks.
- the present invention relates to an office machine comprising a roll paper printer in a frame, with a paper roll housing, roll driving means and a housing closing cover, characterized in that that the drive means are mounted on the hood.
- the drive means are mounted on the hood.
- FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing the printer part of a portable payment terminal according to the invention, with a housing, for a roll of paper to be printed, including the cover, carrying a kinematics of paper drive , is in the open position,
- FIG. 2 corresponds to FIG. 1 but the terminal is then in a state to print, cover in the closed position, and
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the cover and the paper drive kinematics which is mounted thereon.
- the payment terminal partially shown in Figure 1 has a print head 2, mounted in a frame 1, on a spring 21, frame 1 which receives a cover 3 for closing a housing 10 of a roll 12 of paper to be printed.
- the cover 3 is mounted mobile on the frame 1 and, in this example, pivots on the latter around a theoretical axis 31, the corresponding mechanical connection being formed, at each end of the axis 31, by interlocking of elements male and female cylindrical.
- the cover 3 could be entirely detachable from the chassis 1, in the manner of a refill or removable cartridge comprising consumable paper, and be fixed thereto by a latching device with possibly guide rails to facilitate placing in place of the cover.
- the cover 3 is integral with a kinematics for driving the paper 12 in front of the head 2, of which only a friction drive roller 4, with pressing by counter-pressure on the head 2, is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2
- the above kinematics mounted on the cover 3 is moved away from the head 1 and frees access to the housing 10 in order to put therein a roll of refill paper 12.
- the head 2 is then accessible, and it suffices to pull the leader end of the paper roll 12 and place it in front of the head 2, against which it is then pressed by the drive roller 4 when the cover 3 is folded down.
- the terminal is therefore in two parts which are movable with respect to each other and arranged to house the paper roll 12 and allow its replacement.
- the cover 3 is in fact an auxiliary chassis carrying the kinematic chain 4, 5, 6 (FIG. 3) and which, preferably as here, forms a sealed wall closing the chassis 1.
- FIG. 2 illustrates the functional position of the drive roller 4, forming a counter-support with the head 2 for pressing and frictionally driving the paper 12.
- FIG. 3 represents in more detail the kinematics for driving the paper 12, carried by the cover 3. It comprises a stepping motor 6 controlling a chain of gears 5, the last of which drives the drive roller 4 in rotation.
- the roller 12 does not rest on the bottom of the housing 10 but is supported by a mandrel 11 rotatably mounted at the end on two bearings carried by two opposite lateral cheeks of the cover 3, only one of the bearings, 33, being represented.
- the cover 3 has a skirt 32 opposite, with respect to the axis 31, to the rest of the cover 3 which carries the kinematic chain 4, 5, 6.
- the skirt 32 protrudes towards the inside of the chassis 1 and occupies a position located at the limit of the housing 10, under the paper roll 12, and serves as a support or guide facilitating the positioning of the roll 12.
- the skirt 32 is folded against the internal face of the chassis 1 and thus seals the chassis 1 in this zone.
- the edge 34 of the cover 3 parallel here to the axis 31 and located near the drive roller 4 forms a stop bearing on an opposite stop edge 14 of the chassis 1, which regulates the relative positions of the head 2 and of the drive roller 4. This therefore regulates the cooperation between head 2 and roller 4 at the desired force or pressure to drive the paper 12 which is pressed between them by friction, without sliding and without excessive stress. .
- the stop of the opposite edges 14 and 34 takes place only at the axially opposite ends of the edges 14 and 34, that is to say that, at each end, at least one of the edges 14 and 34 has a protrusion, not drawn, forming a spacer.
- the two protuberances above are spaced axially by a distance slightly greater than the width of the paper 12. Therefore, the central zones of the opposite edges 14 and 34 are, in the closed position, facing and at a short distance and delimit a paper exhaust slot 12, downstream of the print head 2.
- an elastic damping element can be provided such as an elastic abutment tab or skirt Elastically opposing the closing of the cover 3. It could be a skirt integral with the chassis 1 and on which the cover 3 would abut or any element that it carries.
- the elastic skirt is on the contrary secured to the cover 3 and, precisely, is constituted by the sealing skirt 32, which thus has two functions.
- the elastic deformation of the skirt 32 which occurs during the complete closing of the cover 3 absorbs an additional kinematic energy for folding the cover 3 and thus limits the possible impact of the cover 3 on the chassis 1.
- a disengageable mechanism for holding in position closed cover 3 is then provided, for example a ratchet device. The release of the pawl thus automatically opens, at least partially, the cover 3 thanks to the energy stored in the skirt 32.
- the protection of the kinematic chain 4, 5, 6 is also ensured here by a casing 7, mounted on the cover 3 and represented only by dotted lines for mounting thereon, casing 7 which surrounds so seals the gears 5 and even here the motor 6.
- the drive roller 4, or at least one sector of contact with the head 2, is however accessible.
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- Accessory Devices And Overall Control Thereof (AREA)
- Handling Of Continuous Sheets Of Paper (AREA)
Abstract
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR9903208 | 1999-03-16 | ||
FR9903208A FR2790998B1 (en) | 1999-03-16 | 1999-03-16 | OFFICE MACHINE WITH ROLL PAPER PRINTER |
PCT/FR2000/000632 WO2000054977A1 (en) | 1999-03-16 | 2000-03-16 | Business machine with paper roll printer |
Publications (2)
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EP1165322A1 true EP1165322A1 (en) | 2002-01-02 |
EP1165322B1 EP1165322B1 (en) | 2003-06-18 |
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EP00910956A Expired - Lifetime EP1165322B1 (en) | 1999-03-16 | 2000-03-16 | Business machine with paper roll printer |
Country Status (7)
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US (1) | US6749353B1 (en) |
EP (1) | EP1165322B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JP2002539000A (en) |
DE (1) | DE60003399T2 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2200838T3 (en) |
FR (1) | FR2790998B1 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2000054977A1 (en) |
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ES2249546T3 (en) * | 2002-07-03 | 2006-04-01 | Sagem S.A. | PRINTING MACHINE WITH SLIDING DETAILING TRAMPILLA. |
JP2009078522A (en) * | 2007-09-27 | 2009-04-16 | Seiko Instruments Inc | Continuous paper processor |
US10807390B2 (en) * | 2017-10-30 | 2020-10-20 | Transact Technologies Incorporated | Pivot mechanism for a printer and a printer with a pivoting printer housing |
JP7463805B2 (en) * | 2020-03-31 | 2024-04-09 | ブラザー工業株式会社 | Media Unit |
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- 1999-03-16 FR FR9903208A patent/FR2790998B1/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
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- 2000-03-16 JP JP2000605029A patent/JP2002539000A/en active Pending
- 2000-03-16 DE DE60003399T patent/DE60003399T2/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 2000-03-16 WO PCT/FR2000/000632 patent/WO2000054977A1/en active IP Right Grant
- 2000-03-16 EP EP00910956A patent/EP1165322B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 2000-03-16 ES ES00910956T patent/ES2200838T3/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 2000-03-16 US US09/936,256 patent/US6749353B1/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
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ES2200838T3 (en) | 2004-03-16 |
EP1165322B1 (en) | 2003-06-18 |
FR2790998A1 (en) | 2000-09-22 |
WO2000054977A1 (en) | 2000-09-21 |
FR2790998B1 (en) | 2001-04-20 |
JP2002539000A (en) | 2002-11-19 |
US6749353B1 (en) | 2004-06-15 |
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