Title (en)

MECHANISM FOR A MECHANICAL, IN PARTICULAR AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL PRINTER FOR POSITIONING AN INK RIBBON ON DIFFERENT TRACKS

Publication

EP 0059923 A3 19840912 (DE)

Application

EP 82101596 A 19820302

Priority

DE 3108528 A 19810306

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0059923A2] 1. A device for a mechanical, preferably electromechanical printing mechanism for setting an ink ribbon in different tracks transversely to its travelling direction on a carrier which can be conveyed in the line direction in the printing mechanism, an ink-ribbon reserve being arranged on said carrier and said ink ribbon being moved past a printing device and through a printing region to an ink-ribbon take-up unit possibly also containing the ink-ribbon reserve, characterized in that said ink-ribbon reserve and said ink-ribbon take-up unit are arranged on a holding device (9) movable on said carrier (2) transversely to the travelling direction of the ink ribbon, said holding device being coupled with a drive unit (13) provided on said carrier (2), the stroke of said drive unit being divided into a plurality of steps corresponding to the number of ink-ribbon tracks (4a, 4b, 5a, 5b) provided.

IPC 1-7

B41J 35/14; B41J 35/16

IPC 8 full level

B41J 32/00 (2006.01); B41J 35/10 (2006.01); B41J 35/14 (2006.01); B41J 35/16 (2006.01); B41J 35/22 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

B41J 35/14 (2013.01); B41J 35/16 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

• [Y] DE 2123172 A1 19721123
• [Y] GB 2029327 A 19800319 - IBM
• [A] FR 2403890 A1 19790420 - SIEMENS AG [DE]
• [A] US 2672092 A 19540316 - BEATTIE HORACE S

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT CH DE FR GB IT LI NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0059923 A2 19820915; EP 0059923 A3 19840912; EP 0059923 B1 19860702; AT E20583 T1 19860715; DE 3108528 A1 19820923; DE 3108528 C2 19830901; DE 3271855 D1 19860807; JP S57159683 A 19821001

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 82101596 A 19820302; AT 82101596 T 19820302; DE 3108528 A 19810306; DE 3271855 T 19820302; JP 3412182 A 19820305