Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Takashi Miki

Teruo Imamaki

Tetsuji Fuwa

Keiji Seo

Takashi Okumura

Koji Sugiyama

Teruyo Katsuno

Yasuhiro Shibata

Takemi Yamamoto

Satoru Moriyama

Susumu Murata

Tsuneo Yasui

Yukihito Takagi

Shigeru Nakata

Toshihide Fujikawa

Naohito Asai

A packaging container includes a first clamshell half, a second clamshell half, a connecting portion that connects an edge of the first clamshell with an edge of the second clamshell half, a sealed portion that fastens the first clamshell and the second clamshell to each other, the sealed portion being located at the edge of the packaging container on a side opposite to the connecting portion, and a severed portion that is provided in at least one of the first clamshell and the second clamshell between the sealed portion and a packaged object, which is accommodated in a room created between the first clamshell and the second clamshell when the clamshell halves are fitted to each other, and that is severed off for opening the packaging container.

Packaging container

A tape printing apparatus including an internal unit having a print mechanism, a cutting mechanism, and a tape discharge mechanism that safely and reliably discharges tapes at a suitable speed to a proximate location relative to an apparatus main body. When printing a tape accommodated in a tape cassette by a thermal head, cutting the tape using a fixed blade and a movable blade and forcibly discharging the tape by a driving roller and a pressing roller, a bisectrix that bisects the width of the tape in a vertical direction is located further upward by a length Lthan a bisectrix of the driving roller and the pressing roller. As a result, the cut end of the tape will be rotated and gradually directed upward in the course of delivery of the tape by the driving roller and the pressing roller to discharge the tape outside of the apparatus main body through the tape discharge slot in a obliquely maintained position.

Tape printing apparatus having a tape discharge mechanism and method of discharging a tape

A stamp member includes a porous resin and a film adhered together by an acrylic adhesive The film is peeled from the porous resin after stamp making operations have been completed for forming a stamp image on a stamp surface of the porous resin Therefore, the stamp surface of the porous resin is protected from fine dirt and dust. Also, because there is no need to proved a film between a stamp making device and the stamp member 11 at stamp making operations, stamp making operations are simplified.

Stamp member and stamp unit using the stamp member

A stamp making apparatus of the invention makes a stamp plate on a stamp material by applying light thereto through a draft sheet. The stamp making apparatus includes an attachment that can be attached to and removed from a predetermined position facing the draft sheet and has a mounting hole where a holder having a stamp material can be inserted into and removed from. A plurality of mounting holes are formed in the attachment so that the holders having various types and shapes can be inserted into and removed from directly or via an auxiliary attachment. Further, the attachment includes a first adjusting device, which moves the mounting hole in a longitudinal direction of the draft sheet (in the Y direction), and a second adjusting device, which moves the mounting hole in a lateral direction (in the X direction), so that the position of the mounting hole in the attachment can be finely adjusted.

Stamp making apparatus and attachment thereof

A stamp device includes a stamp unit that can be designed in a compact size, of a light weight and having a low manufacturing cost while preventing ink leakage, and a thermal perforating device that perforates the print face of the stamp unit. The stamp unit includes a grip portion, a stamp unit that is fixedly linked to the grip portion, a skirt member covering the outer peripheral side of the stamp unit, and a protection cap that is freely detachably mounted on the stamp unit. The thermal perforating device for perforating the print face portion of the stamp unit includes a body frame, a keyboard that is provided at the front portion of the body frame and serves to input a perforation character array, a liquid crystal display for displaying the input character array, a thermal perforating unit provided at the rear portion of the body frame and into which the stamp unit is inserted, and a control unit provided inside of the body frame.

Stamp device including a stamp unit having a print face portion formed

A plate making device and method, wherein when a light sensor detects that the stencil plate inserted into the plate making device is provided with the through hole, the controller supplies a current to the thermal head for T1 seconds to control the heat time to be short, so that the perforation energy of the thermal head is reduced. On the other hand, when the light sensor detects that the stencil plate has no through hole, the controller supplies a current to the thermal head for T2 seconds longer than T1 seconds to control the heat time to be long, so that the perforation energy of the thermal head is increased. In this device, even when any type of stencil plate is used, the plate making process providing the best print quality for each stencil plate can be performed.

Method and apparatus for detecting a type of stencil and controlling

A stamp unit includes a grip portion to be grasped by a hand, a stamp portion that is fixedly linked to the grip portion, a skirt member covering the outer peripheral side of the stamp side, and a protection cap that is freely detachably mounted on the stamp portion. The skirt member is upwardly and downwardly slidably supported. At its nonuse time, the lower end of the skirt member projects to a position lower than a print face portion of the stamp portion. However, by locating the stamp unit at a print position and pressing the grip portion, the skirt member is moved upwardly, and the print face portion of the stamp member is pressed against a print surface, whereby ink oozes out from the print face portion to perform the print operation. The stamp unit is further provided with plural engaging holes formed at the lower portion of the grip member and plural engaging pawls that are provided at the upper portion of the stamp member and elastically engaged with the respective engaging holes. The grip member and the stamp member are mutually detachably mounted to each other through the respective engaging holes and the respective engaging pawls.

Stamp unit whose print face portion is formed of a heat sensitive

In a heat print device for a stamp unit, a dummy stamp unit is mounted on the heat print device to tentatively thermally print a character array of normal characters on the heat sensitive sheet of a dummy stamp unit before a stamp unit is mounted on the heat print device to perform perforation printing of a character array of mirror characters of the normal characters on the print face portion of a stamp unit. If the character array formed on the heat sensitive sheet of the dummy stamp is satisfactory with respect to the character array, the character size, and the arrangement of the character array, the stamp unit is mounted on the heat printing device to perform the perforation print of the character array of the mirror characters on the print face portion of the stamp unit.

Heat print device for stamp unit

To eliminate wasteful use of thermal stencil paper and thereby provide an inexpensive stamp device, a single thermal head is employed for both the thermal recording on a reversible thermal recording sheet for confirmation of a stamp image and the thermal perforation through the thermal stencil paper for creation of a stamp original. The stamp image is first thermally recorded on the reversible thermal recording sheet; the stamp image thus recorded is then confirmed; and the thermal stencil paper is thermally perforated in accordance with the stamp image to create the stamp original. The stamp device of the present invention includes a thermal head 19, a thermal stencil paper 24 adapted to be thermally perforated by the thermal head 19 to form a dot image as a stamp image, a reversible thermal recording sheet 101 adapted to be heated by the thermal head 19 to thermally record an image corresponding to the stamp image, so as to confirm the stamp image, and a heating roller pair 90 for erasing the image thermally recorded on the reversible thermal recording sheet 101.

Stamp device capable of perforating thermal stencil paper

In a stamping device, a stamping stencil is produced and used which does not require manual application of ink to the stencil. Data concerning an image, which may include character, figure and/or symbol data, is input by a input unit, a thermal head generates heat on the basis of the data and transmits the heat to the thermal stencil paper disposed at the printing position. As a result, a corresponding pattern of pores is produced, by the heat of the thermal head, in the thermal stencil paper. Ink is supplied to the pores by an ink supply unit at an ink supplying position when pressure is applied to the back of the ink supply.

Stamp device employing a heat sensitive stencil paper to be perforated

In a tape cutter capable of cutting a tape completely and enhancing the durability of the cutter blade, a cutter holder is rotated by the engagement of a holder gear portion with a lever gear portion according to the rotation of an operation lever so that a cutter blade is moved toward a tape face. A sliding projection slides upwardly along an inclined face and the cutter holder is moved in the widthwise direction of the tape T. Therefore the cutter blade 13 presses the tape face and cuts the tape T while sliding in the widthwise direction of the tape T.

Tape cutter

Print density of a print ink can be adjusted depending on the quality of a print paper or depending on the printing times. A stamp device includes an outer frame, a hand-gripped pressure unit movably supported by the outer frame, an ink cartridge, a pad holder and projection length adjusting unit. The ink cartridge has an ink-impregnated pad contactable with an image receiving sheet through a perforated stencil paper for transferring an ink in the pad to the image receiving sheet through the perforated imaging section. The pad holder supports the ink cartridge. The pressure unit is connected to the pad holder for providing projected and retracted positions of the ink-impregnated pad relative to the outer frame. The projection length adjusting means is positioned between the pad holder and the ink cartridge for adjusting a projecting amount of the ink-impregnated pad from the pad holder.

Stamp device having controlled projection amount of ink pad from pad

A compact portable stamp device which can prevent the ink stains on an operator and his/her clothes and the occurrence of nonuniform printing and, further, simplifies the operation of changing the color of the ink. The stamp device comprises a heat sensitive stencil paper fed between first and second rollers. The heat sensitive stencil paper has a laminate structure including a thermoplastic film layer and a porous carrier layer. The stamp device has a stencil paper feeding unit for drawing the heat sensitive stencil paper from the first roller and winding the heat sensitive stencil paper around the second roller, and elastic ink impregnated member, provided in the feed path of the heat sensitive stencil paper between the first and second rollers, and a moving unit for moving the ink impregnated member between a first position where the ink impregnated member is separate from the heat sensitive stencil paper and a second position where the ink impregnating member is in close contact with the heat sensitive stencil paper. The ink impregnating member is brought into close contact witht the heat sensitive stencil paper to exude ink from the ink impregnated member through a perforated portion of the thermoplastic film thereby transferring an image onto a printing paper.

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Nagoya, Japan

Takashi Miki