Cutting modules

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10792829-B2
Application number	US-201616073385-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2016
Priority date	Apr 26, 2016
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

In An example cutting module comprises a housing to engage the cutting module with a drive shaft, a cutter engaged with the housing, and a drive system engaged with the housing. The cutting module movable along the drive shaft laterally to a media path, the cutter cuts media along the media path, and the drive system may lock when the drive shaft rotates in a second drive direction such that the cutting module moves with the drive shaft.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cutting module, comprising:
a housing to engage the cutting module with a drive shaft, the cutting module to be movable along the drive shaft laterally to a media path;
a cutter engaged with the housing, the cutter to cut media along the media path; and
a drive system engaged with the housing, the drive system to lock when the drive shaft rotates in a second drive direction such that the cutting module moves with the drive shaft.

2. The cutting module of claim 1 , wherein the drive system is to drive the cutter such that the cutter cuts media along the media path when the drive shaft rotates in a first drive direction.

3. The cutting module of claim 2 , wherein the drive system comprises a drive wheel to engage with the drive shaft and a lock wheel engaged with the drive wheel, the lock wheel to be rotatable in a free direction, and not rotatable in a locked direction opposite to the free direction.

4. The cutting module of claim 3 , wherein the lock wheel is to lock the drive wheel to the drive shaft when the drive shaft rotates in the second drive direction, such that the drive wheel urges the housing to rotate with the drive shaft in the second drive direction.

5. The cutting module of claim 1 , wherein the drive system is to lock when the drive shaft rotates in a second drive direction such that the cutting module rotates with the drive shaft out of the media path such that the cutting module does not cut media within the media path.

6. The cutting module of claim 5 , wherein the drive system further comprises a cutter drive engaged with the lock wheel, the lock wheel to transmit motion to the cutter drive such that the cutter drive drives the cutter when the lock wheel rotates in the free direction, and to not transmit motion to the cutter drive when the lock wheel is urged in the locked direction.

7. The cutting module of claim 6 , wherein the lock wheel is a one-way bearing.

8. The cutting module of claim 1 , wherein the drive system is to lock to the dive shaft when the drive shaft rotates in the second drive direction such that the cutting module is moved to a position outside a plane defined by the drive shaft and media path.

9. A cutting system, comprising:
a drive shaft extending into a media path; and
a cutting module, comprising:
a housing to engage with the drive shaft to adjustably dispose the cutting module in the media path;
a first cutter, the drive shaft to drive the first cutter to cut media within the media path in a direction along the media path; and
a drive system, comprising a transmission to drive the first cutter in a cutting direction when the drive shaft moves in a first drive direction, the drive system to lock the cutting module to the drive shaft when the drive shaft moves in a second drive direction, such that the cutting module moves with the drive shaft and the drive shaft exerts motion or torque against the cutting module to pivot the cutting module about a center of rotation of the drive shaft.

10. The cutting system of claim 9 , wherein the drive shaft is to pivot the cutting module out of the media path in the second drive direction such that the cutting module does not cut media within the media path.

11. The cutting system of claim 10 , wherein the housing is movable along the length of the drive shaft laterally to the media path to adjustably dispose the cutting module in the media path.

12. The cutting system of claim 11 , wherein the cutting module further comprises a second cutter to cut media along the media path when the drive shaft rotates in the first direction.

13. The cutting module of claim 12 , wherein the first and second cutters are rotary cutters.

14. An imaging device, comprising:
a media path;
a drive shaft extending across the media path;
a first cutting module adjustably disposed on the drive shaft, comprising:
a housing to engage the cutting module with the drive shaft so the first cutting module is disposed in the media path of the imaging device; and
a cutter engaged with the drive shaft through a drive system, the drive shaft to drive the drive system in a first drive direction such that the cutter cuts media moving through the media path within the imaging device, the drive system to lock when the drive shaft when the drive moves in a second drive direction such that continued rotation of the drive shaft in the second drive direction moves the first cutting module out of the media path along the second drive direction.

15. The imaging device of claim 14 , further comprising a second cutting module adjustably disposed on the drive shaft to cut media within the media path when the drive shaft moves in the first drive direction.

16. The imaging device of claim 15 , wherein the second cutting module comprises a drive system to lock when the drive shaft moves in the second drive direction such that the drive shaft moves the second cutting module out of the media path along the second drive direction.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Development Co

Inventors

• Sanz Ananos Isabel
• Urrutia Nebreda Martin

Classifications

• B41J11/66 Primary

  Applications of cutting devices · CPC title

• B26D1/185

  for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like · CPC title

• B26D1/245

  for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like · CPC title

• B41J11/70

  cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed · CPC title

• B41J11/68

  cutting parallel to the direction of paper feed · CPC title