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Tape cassette for metering correction tape feed

CA 1316138 C · Owner: Smith Corona Corporation · Inventors: Mueller, Hans W.

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Case Docket T-324, ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE tape cassette has a sensing arm pivotably mounted therein biased against a correction tape on a take-up spool for sensing the amount correction tape thereon. A correction tape feed mechanism mounted in a typewriter has a metering post for engaging the sensing arm at varying locations to cause the correction tape feed mechanism to feed the correction tape at substantially equal amounts regardless of the amount of correction tape on the take-up spool.

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  • Granted April 13, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 13, 2010.
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FiledSeptember 9, 1988
GrantedApril 13, 1993
Term endedApril 13, 2010
Patent numberCA 1316138 C
Classification (IPC)B41J32/00 +1 more

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19891992199519982001200420072010Application filedSep 9, 1988Patent grantedApril 13, 1993Term endedApril 13, 2010

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