Patent ID: 8502847

Claim:
An adhesive label issuing device, comprising: a cutter unit for cutting a label sheet having a band shape, in which an adhesive layer is provided on a reverse side of a thermosensitive color-developing surface of thermosensitive paper, to obtain an adhesive label with a desired length by allowing the label sheet to pass through the cutter unit; an adhesive strength exhibiting unit for allowing the adhesive label to exhibit adhesive strength by heating the adhesive label from the reverse side of the thermosensitive color-developing surface; and a sheet loosening unit placed on a downstream side of the cutter unit and an upstream side of the adhesive strength exhibiting unit in a sheet transporting direction, for loosening the label sheet having passed through the cutter unit without being cut between an upstream sheet-passage part and a downstream sheet-passage part that respectively allow the label sheet to pass therethrough, wherein the upstream sheet-passage part has a reference position at which a sheet-passage direction in the upstream sheet-passage part is placed on the same line as a sheet-passage direction in the downstream sheet-passage part, and wherein the adhesive label issuing device further comprises sheet-passage direction changing means for changing the sheet-passage direction in the upstream sheet-passage part by changing a direction of the upstream sheet-passage part from the reference position to an inclined position at which the direction is inclined from the reference position.