Ribbon cartridge with single supply reel
CA 2071268 A1 · Owner: Narita, Mutsuko · Inventors: Fukahori, Kenichi; Ito, Hideki; Iima, Shin
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A ribbon cartridge comprises a substantially cylindrical cartridge body comprised of upper and lower casing halves. A ribbon supply reel is rotatably housed in the cartridge body having an ink ribbon wound therearound. Affixed to a leading edge of the ink ribbon, a pull sheet is attached which includes an opening allowing easy chucking of the ribbon cartridge in a printer. Also provided on the pull sheet are cut-out portions so arranged as to prevent creasing of the ink ribbon during use. When the ink ribbon has been completely used, the used ribbon is retracted back into the cartridge for easy removal from the printer.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 15, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 15, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 15, 2014.
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