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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:
Feb. 23, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4006152 ; 400120 ; 400188 ; 400208 ; 400621 ; 156387 ;
Abstract
In a tape feed mechanism comprising a tape storage cassette including at least two tapes in respective wound states and a tape feed device feeding the two tapes in an overlapped state, provided is a guide member for guiding the two tapes to a predetermined portion in the tape storage cassette. Thus, the tape storage cassette is detachably mounted from the tape feed device in a condition that each of the leading end portions of the tapes are fixed at the predetermined position and the tape storage cassette is attachably mounted again to the tape feed device in that condition.