Patent ID: 9016457
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: B65H,G07D

Abstract:
1. A medium storage and feeding device that stores and feeds out a medium by winding and unwinding a set of two tapes, which nip the medium, between tape reels and a drum, the medium storage and feeding device comprising: a plurality of sets of the tapes; a plurality of sets of the tape reels that respectively wind up the plurality of sets of tapes; two reel rotation axle shafts that are rotation axles of the tape reels and that are separately provided for one tape reel and another tape reel of the respective sets; a drum that winds the medium nipped by the plurality of sets of tapes together with the plurality of sets of tapes; and torque applying units that are independently provided at each of the tape reels and that apply torques to each of the tape reels such that tensions on the tapes between the tape reels and the drum are constant, when each of the tape reels rotates in a direction of winding the tapes and in a direction of unwinding the tapes.