Patent ID: 6644642
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: B41J,B42C,B42P,B65H,G06F,G06K,H04N,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A binding assembly for a printer having a housing, a printing assembly that is positioned in the housing and that includes at least one print engine to print on print media fed through the printing assembly and a media feed mechanism that is mounted on the housing to feed the print media through the printing assembly along a feed path, the binding assembly being mountable in the housing downstream of the printing assembly for binding sheets of printed media together, the binding assembly comprisingan adhesive applicator wheel assembly having a rotatable adhesive applicator wheel that is positioned at an edge of the feed path, the wheel assembly being linearly displaceable relative to the housing towards the feed path into an operative position and away from the feed path into an inoperative position to permit the adhesive applicator wheel to make momentary contact with a longitudinal edge of the print medium, the adhesive applicator wheel being in fluid communication with a supply of adhesive; a displacement mechanism that is operatively engaged with the applicator wheel assembly to displace the applicator wheel between the operative and the inoperative positions; and a cover assembly that is operatively engaged with the wheel assembly and the displacement mechanism, the cover assembly being configured so that, when the wheel assembly is displaced into the inoperative position, the cover assembly moves into a capped position to cap the applicator wheel and when the wheel assembly is displaced into the operative position, the cover assembly moves into an uncapped position so that the applicator wheel can make said momentary contact with the longitudinal edge of the print medium.