SHEET HOLDING STRUCTURE AND PRINTER FOR ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer for electronic voting equipment which smoothly transfers recording sheets whose leading edges are free edges, and is downsized and simplified. SOLUTION: A fanfold sheet 16 is put on the concave bottom 7b of a vessel 7 mounted on the housing 6a of the printer 6 in a bent condition along the bottom 7b of a concavity form 7b. The fanfold sheet 16 supplied into the housing 6a from the vessel 7 is printed with the descriptions of voting input by voters from a touch panel by a recording head 9, is transferred to a platen roller 10 and advances into the clearance 12c of a window portion 12 through a guide 13. Voters in voting booths confirm prints (descriptions of voting) from the window portion 12 and approve the descriptions of voting by the touch panel. Then a recording head 9 prints characters showing the approvals and the fanfold sheet 16 is cut by a cutter portion 11. The cut portions are discharged from a discharge opening 15 by a discharge roller 14. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT