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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
May. 20, 2010
Yukio Hosaka, Tokyo, JP;
Yukio Hosaka, Tokyo, JP;
JANOME SEWING MACHINE CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imprinter includes a printing base for mounting a card and a print paper to be imprinted on a predetermined area thereof, a carriage that is movable above the printing base, a roller includes a hard material and is provided as is housed within the carriage for transcribing the information represented as embossed on a card, a roller shaft for fixedly supporting the roller, bearings for rotatably supporting the roller shaft at a position of a predetermined height from the card mounting surface of the printing base, and an elastic mechanism provided between the bearings and the roller shaft, the elastic mechanism being radially deformed during an imprinting operation to cause the roller to radially move relative to the bearings so that the embossed information of the card may be transcribed onto the print paper.