Patent ID: 7201522
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: B41J,B65C,B65H

Abstract:
1. A printer cartridge for housing a roll of label media and dispensing the label media from the cartridge, said cartridge comprising: a housing having a top wall and a bottom wall; a yoke pivotally mounted between said top and bottom walls for pivotal movement about a pivot axis, and including a label media supply shaft for holding a roll of label media, said label media supply shaft having a longitudinal axis spaced from and parallel to said pivot axis; a label media drive roller rotatably mounted between said top and bottom walls and engageable with the roll of label media; at least one first ratchet tooth fixed relative to one of said yoke and said housing to prevent said yoke from pivoting away from said label media drive roller and a biasing means biases at least one said first ratchet tooth toward the said yoke and said housing to engage said at least one first ratchet tooth with structure fixed relative to said other of said yoke and said housing to prevent said yoke from pivoting away from said label media drive roller.