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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 1986
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiromi Takada, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400229 ; 4002362 ;
Abstract
A ribbon feed mechanism for a printer which develops a drive force for a printing ribbon utilizing the reciprocating movement of a carriage. Torque is applied to two drive gears through a single wire under tension in response to the movement of the carriage. A ribbon drive gear for feeding the ribbon in a predetermined direction is alternately meshed with the two drive gears during reciprocation of the carriage to be thereby rotated in a predetermined single direction. When the ribbon feed is needless, the tension is removed from the wire.