Patent ID: 9718636
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B41J,B65H

Claim:
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.