Patent ID: 6437815
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: B41J,G07C

Abstract:
Tachograph having a shallow, installable housing, having a display apparatus and having provision for inserting and removing driver's data cards from the front side, having buttons for operational control and for retrieving memory contents in the tachograph and having a printing apparatus which records on tape-like recording material, comprises a thermal print head, a transport roller which is actively connected, with a force fit, to the thermal print head, with the recording material located in between, and is driven by a drive, and a holder which stores a roll of tape forming the stock of recording material, and which can be moved out from the front side of the housing of the tachograph in order to reload a roll of tape,characterized in that at least the thermal print head (53), the transport roller (47) and the drive (49, 50, P) driving said transport roller are arranged in a cuboid printing mechanism housing (33) whose front face is essentially flush with the front face of a front wall (1) of the tachograph (3) when the printing apparatus (18) is in the operating position, in that the printing mechanism housing (33) contains an insertion channel (70) used for feeding the recording material (48) to the printing gap between the thermal print head (53) and the transport roller (47) and an output channel (58) used for guiding the printed recording material (48) away from the printing gap, the output channel (58) being designed such that the slot-like outlet opening (26) of the output channel (58) is situated in the region of the intersection between a front plane (65) of an end wall (60) of the printing mechanism housing (33) and a delimiting plane (66), which is essentially at right angles to the end wall (60), of the printing mechanism housing (33).