Patent ID: 6386774
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: B26D,B41J

Abstract:
A printing device comprising:a printing mechanism adapted to print a series of letters and characters on a printing tape, which is fed through the printing mechanism in a generally vertical orientation; a manually operated cutting mechanism including a movable cutting blade configured to cut a printed section of the printing tape at a generally vertical cutting region after a printing operation, said movable cutting blade being rotatably supported in a manner positioning its axis of rotation on one side of the cutting region while a fixed cutting blade is positioned on the other side of the cutting region, said movable cutting blade initially contacting the vertically oriented printing tape from a lower face of the blade during cutting of the printing tape, and moving generally in the direction toward the one side of the cutting region; and an operation button provided on a top face of the printing device which moves substantially linearly toward a bottom of the printing device, wherein the movable cutting blade rotates toward a fixed cutting blade when the operation button is depressed to manually cut the printing tape disposed between the movable cutting blade and the fixed cutting blade from the lower face of sad printing tape.