Patent ID: 7407130

Claim:
A paper magazine comprising: a shaft portion for rotatably supporting a paper roll inside a box frame including two guide frame members connected to be pivotally opened/closed about a support shaft, said shaft portion being disposed parallel with an axis of the support shaft; a paper transporting system configured for pinching a paper drawn out of the paper roll supported on the shaft portion by transport rollers and delivering the paper through an opening formed in the frame; a transmission mechanism for transmitting a forward drive force and a reverse drive force to the transport rollers to effect the delivery and rewinding of the paper through the opening; and a fixed guide member provided on an inner wall face of the box frame disposed at a lower portion inside the paper magazine, said fixed guide member being configured for contacting a terminal end of the paper and guiding the paper in a rewinding direction when the paper assumes a hanging down posture in a paper rewinding operation effected after detachment of the terminal end of the paper from the shaft portion as a result of a paper delivering operation effected with the paper magazine being set under a predetermined posture; and wherein said fixed guide member is disposed at a portion where said two guide frame members are adjacent to each other; and wherein a distance from said axis to a guide face of one of said guide frame members located on the downstream side in the rewinding direction is set longer than a distance from said axis to a guide face of the other guide frame member located on the upstream side in the rewinding direction, thereby providing a stepped portion.