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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:
Dec. 10, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeffrey D Bell, Munfreesboro, TN (US);
Assignee:
Pelikan, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ; B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400208 ; 400247 ;
Abstract
A ribbon cassette has a rectangular clip and a mushroom clip on its guide arms for detachably mounting a ribbon protector which has a rectangular slot that attaches to the rectangular clip and allows some lateral and back and forth movement of the ribbon protector, and has a starburst hole with leaves that attach to the mushroom clip for detachably holding the ribbon protector on the cassette and for positioning a central print hole in the protector in a central space between the ribbon guide arms of the cassette.