摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tractor configured such that a tractor paper is hard to twist and hard to create wrinkles at the curved portion of a pin belt where a roller and the pin belt come in contact with each other and to provide a printer. <P>SOLUTION: The tractor comprises: the pin belt; a pair of rotating means; and the roller. The pin belt configured as an endless belt has pins on the outer circumferential surface thereof, wherein the pins are respectively inserted into feeding holes formed in the tractor paper, and the pin belt rotates to convey the tractor paper. The pair of rotating means is configured to rotate the pin belt. The roller, which is arranged between the pair of rotating means, has a groove on the outer circumferential surface thereof, wherein the front end of the pin is fitted into the groove, so that the front end of the pin is abutted against the groove to space between the outer circumferential surface of the pin belt and the outer circumferential surface of the roller. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |