US 12,304,199 B2
Supply device for roll medium and recording device
Mitsuru Murata, Matsumoto (JP); and Keiichi Yato, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/320,757.
Application 18/320,757 is a continuation of application No. 17/445,982, filed on Aug. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,691,444.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-144252 (JP), filed on Aug. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294430 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 3/60 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/042 (2013.01) [B41J 11/005 (2013.01); B41J 3/60 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A supply device for a roll medium comprising:
a holding unit configured to support a shaft of a roll medium to hold the roll medium; and
a guide member configured to be pressed upward from below to come into contact with the roll medium held by the holding unit is stored in a supply device main body, and be displaced in accordance with a change in an outer diameter of the roll medium, wherein
the holding unit is configured to be drawn from the supply device main body in a first direction,
the guide member comes into contact with an outer periphery of the roll medium when the holding unit, in a drawn-out state, is stored in the supply device main body, and the guide member is caused to be retracted downward from a travel path of the holding unit against a force pressing upward from below, and
the shaft of the roll medium is configured to be driven by being coupled to a drive mechanism when the holding unit is in a stored state.