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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:
Nov. 01, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert J Matoushek, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
226199 ; 226 19 ;
Abstract
A web guidance mechanism for automatically centering a web in a thermal printer has an elongated base member with first and second end portions each defining a slot. A crank is rotatably mounted on the base member and has slider arms attached thereto. Web guides are mounted on the distal end portions of the slider arms and are engageable with the slots for lateral movement. A coil spring biases the web guides towards one another to create two normally equal but opposite centering edge forces so that lateral movement of the web does not occur until twice the nominal edge force is applied to the web.