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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1985
Filed:
May. 16, 1983
R Clark DuBois, Fairfield, CT (US);
Other;
Abstract
A continuous web feeder for printers and the like includes side frames, drive and support shafts for the feed tractors, and a cutter wheel movable between the side frames and rotatable as it moves therebetween to cut the web. A drive unit includes an electric motor to effect to transverse and rotary motion, and control means actuated by operation of the printer to actuate the motor for movement of the cutter from one side frame to the other and to change the direction of rotation of the motor at each cycle and thereby the direction of movement of the cutter wheel. In its preferred form, the drive means includes winch and cord means engaged with the cutting wheel and its support to effect the transverse and rotary motion, and the control means includes an actuator operated by the motor to effect operation of switches.