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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harold S Foster, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ; B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400248 ; 400208 ; 4002171 ; 400234 ;
Abstract
A ribbon cartridge having a pair of movable arms extending outwardly from the body, over which the ribbon passes on its transit from an internal ribbon supply to an internal used ribbon storage. Each of the arms is supported for movement about an oblique axis which moves the active marking portion of the ribbon so that the path traversed by one edge is equal in length to the path traversed by the opposite edge.