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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1996
Shiro Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus is provided, which comprises a platform, pressing member which is pivotably supported on the platform and capable of carrying a stencil on a side facing the platform, and a frame member. The frame member is disposed between the platform and the pressing member and movable together with the pressing member with a predetermined angle relative to the pressing member being kept constant until the frame member contacts a sheet of paper stacked on the platform, and may be given a biased force against movement to the pressing member. On the frame member, is disposed a paper holding means which can be a resilient sheet capable of sticking to and peelably holding a sheet of paper. After printing is over, the pressing member is raised. The frame member holds on the platform the uppermost sheet of paper that has been printed so as to be peeled off from the stencil. After peeled, the uppermost sheet of paper is held and raised by the paper holding means as the frame member is raised together with the pressing member. The paper holding means is elastically deformed by the rotation of the frame member and the weight of paper, and thus the raised sheet of paper takes an inclined form so that it can readily be taken out of the printing apparatus by operators.