Platen knob device of typewriter

摘要

This invention is a platen knob device in a typewriter for releasing a platen of the typewriter from a platen pitch feed mechanism and changing the platen over to a continuous feed. This platen knob device includes a platen variable fixed onto a platen shaft and a platen driver operative in association with the platen pitch feed mechanism and slidably provided on the platen shaft. The platen driver is urged by the platen variable through a spring, whereby the platen driver and the platen variable are engaged with each other, in which condition, if the platen knob is rotated, then the platen is changed over to the pitch feed. If the platen knob is urged in a direction opposite to the direction in which the platen knob is urged by the spring, then the platen driver is urged against an end face of a cylindrical portion of the platen knob to move in the axial direction thereof and separated from the platen variable to change the platen over to the continuous feed.