Patent ID: 9676214
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: B41J,Y10T

Claim:
1. A docking station for a removable ink-free printer mechanism, comprising: a base with parallel side arms adapted to be fixed to an interior floor of a printer housing; a side wall extending vertically from each of the parallel side arms, the side walls being adapted to guide a printer mechanism into a docked position in the printer, each of the side walls being provided with a slot for accepting alignment studs of the printer mechanism, each of the slots being provided with a detent for retaining the alignment studs to removably fix the printer mechanism in the docked position; a bridge element extending between the parallel side arms at a rear side of the base; a clamping element fixed to the bridge element adapted for clamping and holding a printer-side cable connector in position to accept a corresponding cable connector of the printer mechanism.