Patent ID: 6340215
Filing Date: 2002-01-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An elongated-strip-article processor comprising:(a) a processing section for applying printing to a plurality of continuous elongated strip articles along conveying passages of the elongated strip articles by an ink jet printer; (b) a conveying section disposed in a vicinity of the processing section for intermittently conveying the elongated strip articles by a predetermined length; (c) tension adjusting sections respectively disposed upstream and downstream out of a range of the conveying passages including the processing section and the conveying section for adjusting tension of each of the elongated strip articles at a constant value; (d) sensors respectively provided at the tension adjusting sections for detecting a length of slack of each of the elongated strip articles; and (e) feed sections disposed respectively upstream of the upstream-side tension adjusting section and downstream of the downstream-side tension adjusting section so as to correspond to the individual elongated strip articles, each feed section being adapted to switch between increasing the feed of each elongated strip article and decreasing the feed of each elongated strip article based on detection signals from the respective sensors.