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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1987
Mitsuhiro Shimada, Nara, JP;
Junichiro Matsumoto, Nara, JP;
Susumu Nonaka, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Haruo Sayama, Nara, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a heat-transfer type thermal recording device capable of recording/printing color pictures by heating an ink tape using a thermal line head and transferring ink from the ink film tape to a continuous sheet of recording paper where the ink film tape and recording paper are conveyed simultaneously, consisting of a vertical cassette unit with an ink-tape supply reel and a take-up reel which allows both to freely rotate by suspending them between two side panels of the cassette unit, with such a configuration in which the ink tape from the supply reel is continuously retrieved by the take-up reel through an inferior aperture in the cassette unit after the ink tape is drawn through a superior aperture in the cassette unit. The cassette unit is installed in a designated position inside the thermal recording device to enable easy loading and unloading and to simplify positioning of the ink film tape between the thermal line head of the recording device and the recording paper platen reel.