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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1997
Kazunosuke Makino, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A character wheel, particularly for a numbering machine, including a character wheel disc having a plurality of printing portion mounting surfaces formed at an interval from each other in a circumferential direction on an outer peripheral surface of the character wheel disc and an engaging groove formed to at least one of portions between the respective printing portion mounting surfaces and a flexible character wheel band mounted to the outer peripheral surface of the character wheel disc. The character wheel band is formed with engaging projections formed at both longitudinal ends thereof and the engaging projections are engaged with the engaging groove formed to the character wheel disc so that the flexible character wheel band is mounted to the character wheel disc therearound.