Patent ID: 7404684

Claim:
A roll sheet holder employed by a tape printer which includes a feeding device which draws a roll sheet wound in a roll to form a cylindrical through hole and feeds an unwound part thereof, and a printing device which prints on a part of the roll sheet fed by the feeding device, the roll sheet holder being provided with the roll sheet wound in a roll as an attachment and removably mountable in the tape printer, the roll sheet holder comprising: a guide member brought into contact with one end face of the roll sheet; a positioning holding member brought into contact with other end face of the roll sheet; a cylindrical part integrated with the positioning holding member as single piece to hold the roll sheet rotatably with being inserted in the cylindrical through hole; and a connecting member attached to the cylindrical part and equipped with a flange part brought into contact with a face opposite to a face of the guide member where the roll sheet is in contact with, wherein the guide member has an extended portion of which an upper end part is extended over a maximum outside diameter of the roll sheet and a drawn side directional part is extended toward a drawn side direction over the maximum outside diameter continually from the upper end part, the drawn side directional part having an edge that defines a straight line substantially along a direction in which the roll sheet is drawn from the roll to the printing device.