Patent ID: 8240249
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: B41J,B41K,B65C

Abstract:
1. A portable label printing applicator including: a label application device positioned and configured to apply a label to an object; an operation lever positioned and configured to operate the label application device; a printing device connected to and activated by the operation of the operation lever so as to print a label; an ink roller comprising a body configured to retain ink and to apply ink to the printing device; the operation lever being configured to move the ink roller by the operation of the operation lever from a standby state to an operating state in which the ink roller applies ink to the printing device; a fixed ink roller cover fixed to the label application device, the fixed cover is shaped, configured and positioned to store a first portion of the ink roller body in the standby state of the ink roller; a movable ink roller cover shaped and configured to store a second portion of the ink roller, the movable ink roller being positioned and configured to cooperate with the fixed cover for together providing closed storage of the ink roller body between the movable and the fixed covers in the standby state of the ink roller; and the fixed cover being positioned to remain fixed so as to expose the ink roller body towards the printing device in the operating state of the ink roller when the ink roller is moved away from the fixed cover by the operation of the operation lever.