Patent ID: 9168771
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printer comprising: a housing configured to constitute an apparatus outer frame; a roll storage part provided to one side of said housing in a first horizontal direction and configured to rotatably store a roll that winds a print-receiving tape around an axis line of the winding in a second horizontal direction orthogonal to said first horizontal direction, the print-receiving tape having a print-receiving layer, an adhesive layer for affixing said print-receiving layer to an adherent, and a separation material layer configured to cover said adhesive layer; a platen roller configured to contact said print-receiving tape fed out from said roll stored in said roll storage part from below and feed said print-receiving tape to the other side in said first horizontal direction in a tape posture where a tape width direction is set to said second horizontal direction; a printing head provided above said platen roller and configured to perform desired printing on said print-receiving layer of said print-receiving tape fed by a driving force of said platen roller through an area between said printing head and said platen roller; a separation plate provided on the other side in said first horizontal direction than said platen roller and configured to loop back said separation material layer of said print-receiving tape, which was subjected to print formation on said print-receiving layer by said printing head and fed to the other side in said first horizontal direction, toward a downward side of said platen roller and peel said print-receiving layer and said adhesive layer from said separation material layer; a first discharging exit provided to an area of said housing on the other side in said first horizontal direction than said separation plate and configured to discharge said print-receiving layer and said adhesive layer peeled by said separation plate to the outside of said housing; a pinch roller provided below said platen roller and configured to sandwich said separation material layer looped back by said separation plate toward the one side in said first horizontal direction with said platen roller and feed said separation material layer; a second discharging exit provided in an area of said housing on the downward side than said first discharging exit and configured to discharge said separation material layer fed by said pinch roller to the outside of said housing; and a first rib member provided to a first section of a feeding path of said print-receiving tape and configured to be capable of contacting said print-receiving tape fed through said first section from above, the first section being between a sandwiching position by said platen roller and said printing head and a support position of an end part on the other side of said separation plate in said first horizontal direction; and a second rib member provided to a second section of a feeding path of said separation material layer looped back toward the one side in said first horizontal direction by said separation plate and configured to be capable of contacting said separation material layer fed through said second section from below, the second section being horizontally located between a support position of an end part of said separation plate toward the other side in said first horizontal direction and a sandwiching position by said platen roller and said pinch roller, wherein an end part of said pinch roller on the other side in said first horizontal direction is further disposed toward the one side in said first horizontal direction than an end part of said second rib member.