Patent ID: 7976151

Claim:
A cassette for containing a recording sheet and an ink sheet and being detachably mountable in a main body of an apparatus, said cassette comprising: a recording sheet containing portion configured to contain the recording sheet, including a feeding aperture permitting feeding of the contained recording sheet; a first protruded portion, protruding from a first surface of said recording sheet containing portion and configured to contain therein the ink sheet wound on a first shaft; and a second protruded portion, protruding from the first surface of said recording sheet containing portion and configured to contain therein a second shaft for winding the ink sheet received from said first protruded portion, wherein a space is provided between said first protruded portion and said second protruded portion and between the ink sheet drawn from the first shaft and said recording sheet containing portion, and the space is configured to receive a thermal head and a feeding roller when said cassette is mounted on the main body of the apparatus, wherein a first aperture is formed at the first surface of said recording sheet containing portion opposed to the ink sheet exposed between said first protruded portion and said second protruded portion and at a position between said first protruded portion and said second protruded portion, so that the feeding roller contacts with the recording sheet in said recording sheet containing portion when said cassette is mounted on the main body of the apparatus, wherein a second aperture is provided at a second surface of said recording sheet containing portion opposed to the first aperture so that when said cassette is mounted on the main body of the apparatus, a pressing portion of the main body of the apparatus for pressing the recording sheet to the feeding roller is in contact with the recording sheet contained in said recording sheet containing portion, wherein a third aperture is provided at the first surface of said recording sheet containing portion provided with the first aperture, and wherein the third aperture, said first protruded portion, the first aperture and said second protruded portion are provided on the first surface in this order.