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Cam operated cutter for roll-fed pen plotters

  • US 5,436,646 A
  • Filed: 05/21/1993
  • Issued: 07/25/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a pen plotter having a pen carriage moving laterally along a support beam over a plotting media, cutting apparatus for cutting the plotting media comprising:

  • a) a first member carried by the pen carriage for lateral movement in combination therewith;

    b) a second member carried by said first member for movement perpendicular to movement of said first member between a first position adjacent the plotting media and a second position removed from the plotting media;

    c) a cutting blade carried by said second member for movement therewith such that when said second member is in said first position said cutting blade has a cutting edge thereof positioned to cut the plotting media and when said second member is in said second position said cutting edge does not contact the plotting media;

    d) a first abutting surface disposed adjacent one end of lateral movement of the pen carriage;

    e) a second abutting surface disposed adjacent an opposite end of lateral movement of the pen carriage; and

    ,f) camming means carried by the pen carriage and connected to said second member for moving said second member to said first position when a first end of said camming means is pushed against said first abutting surface by the pen carriage and for moving said second member to said second position when a second end of said camming means is pushed against said second abutting surface by the pen carriage.

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