Tape cartridge

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9718636-B2
Application number	US-201314025888-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2013
Priority date	Sep 27, 2012
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

The disclosure discloses a tape cartridge comprising a first tape roll, a second tape roll, a connecting part, and a pair of gripped parts. A first tape consumed by feed-out is wound around the first tape roll. The second tape roll winds a second tape around an axis extending along the first direction and provided on a downstream side of the first tape roll. The second tape is generated by a feeding of the first tape. The connecting part is provided so as to connect the first tape roll and the second tape roll. The pair of gripped parts extends along the second direction, each respectively provided on either side of the connecting part along the first direction. The gripped part comprises a slip preventing part configured to prevent slipping during gripping on an end of the gripped part in the one side along the second direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A tape cartridge comprising:
a first tape roll around which a first tape consumed by feed-out is wound about an axis extending along a first direction;
a second tape roll configured to wind a second tape around an axis extending along said first direction and provided on a downstream side of said first tape roll along a second direction substantially orthogonal to said first direction, the second tape generated by a feeding of said first tape fed out from said first tape roll along said second direction;
a connecting part that is provided so as to connect said first tape roll and said second tape roll, and configured to rotatably support said first tape roll on one side in said second direction, and rotatably support said second tape roll on an other side spaced from the first side in said second direction; and
a pair of gripped parts that extends along said second direction in a section of said connecting part on said one side in said second direction, each of said gripped parts being respectively provided on opposite sides of said connecting part along said first direction,
each of said gripped parts comprising a slip preventing part configured to prevent slipping during gripping on an end of the gripped part in said one side along said second direction,
said connecting part comprising:
a pair of first bracket parts configured to sandwich and rotatably hold said first tape roll between one side and the other side along said axis extending along said first direction, and provided on said one side in said second direction;
a first connecting part that extends substantially along said first direction so as to connect upper ends of said pair of first bracket parts while preventing interference with an outer diameter of said first tape roll;
a pair of second bracket parts configured to sandwich and rotatably hold said second tape roll between one side and the other side along said axis extending along said first direction, provided on said other side of said second direction;
a second connecting part that extends substantially along said first direction so as to connect upper ends of said pair of second bracket parts;
a third connecting part that connects, along said first direction, ends of said pair of gripped parts on said other side of said second direction, and
fourth connecting parts that respectively connect, along a third direction substantially orthogonal to both of said first direction and said second direction, an end of said first connecting part in the first direction to said third connecting part, wherein
said gripped parts are provided so as to respectively protrude outward along said first direction from said pair of first bracket parts, and
said third connecting part lies on said other side of said second direction than said first connecting part.

2. The tape cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein:
said slip preventing part is disposed so that a position in a radial direction of said first tape roll is inner along the radial direction than said first connecting part.

3. The tape cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein:
said slip preventing part is configured so that a dimension along a radial direction of said first tape roll is greater than dimensions of other areas of said gripped part along the radial direction.

4. The tape cartridge according to claim 3 , wherein:
said slip preventing part has a substantially partially arcuate shape as viewed from said first direction.

5. The tape cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein:
said first tape roll is an adhesive tape roll configured to wind an adhesive tape as said first tape, the adhesive tape including an adhesive layer and an separation material layer that covers said adhesive layer; and
said second tape roll is a separation material roll configured to wind said separation material layer peeled from said adhesive tape fed out from said first tape roll and fed.

Assignees

• Tanaka Mitsugi
• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Tanaka Mitsugi

Classifications

• B65H2701/11332

  strip, tape, narrow web · CPC title

• B65H2402/543

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B65H18/028

  Both ends type · CPC title

• B65H2301/51122

  peeling layer of material · CPC title

• B41J15/044 Primary

  Cassettes or cartridges containing continuous copy material, tape, for setting into printing devices · CPC title