Cassette for tape printing device

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EP 0 489 717 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	22.07.1992 Bulletin 1992/30

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	10.06.1992 Bulletin 1992/24

(21)	Application number: 92103526.7

(22)	Date of filing: 16.10.1989

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁵: B41J 32/00

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE FR GB IT

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Priority:

14.10.1988 JP 260173/88

(60)	Divisional application:
	93102041.6 / 0545901

(62)	Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
	89310581.7 / 0364305

(71)	Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
	Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken 467 (JP)

(72)	Inventors:
	Nagao, Yoshiaki, c/o BROTHER KOGYO K. K. Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken (JP) Kobayashi, Atsuhiro, c/o BROTHER KOGYO K.K. Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken (JP) Sakuma, Mikio, c/o BROTHER KOGYO K.K. Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken (JP)

(74)	Representative: Senior, Alan Murray et al
	J.A. KEMP & CO., 14 South Square, Gray's Inn London WC1R 5LX London WC1R 5LX (GB)

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	Remarks:
	This application was filed on 02 - 03 - 1992 as a divisional application to the application mentioned under INID code 60.

(54)	Cassette for tape printing device

(57) A cassette to be detachably received in a tape printing device having a printing member (23) to print on a tape-like recording medium (3), means (42) for feeding the recording medium, and a cutter (51) for cutting the recording medium at a cutting position, said cassette housing at least two tapes in a wound state, one of the tapes being a tape-like recording medium (3), to be forwarded to a printing position of the cassette at which, when the cassette is in the device, printing can take place on one of its surfaces using the printing member,
characterised by a tape holder (50) arranged on the cassette upstream of the cutting position at which said cutter (51) cuts, and downstream of said printing position, so as to guide the recording tape to the said cutting position.

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