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Melt plate for solid ink printer and ink-adding machine as well as method for constructing melt plate

A technology of inkjet printers and solid inks, which is applied in printing and other directions, and can solve problems such as restricting the arrangement of drip plates

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-07-18
XEROX CORP
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[0003] Orients the melting surface vertically, limiting the layout of the drip plate

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[0015] As used herein, the term "printer" is meant to include any device that performs a printout function for any purpose, such as a digital copier, bookmaking machine, facsimile machine, multifunction machine, and the like. While this description focuses on a melt plate that receives ink sticks from the chute and directs the ink into the ink reservoir, the melt plate can be used with printers that melt ink in any solid form and deliver it to the printhead.

[0016] figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of an inker 10 for feeding solid ink sticks 12 into the printer. The ink stick 12 is pushed by a spring biased pusher (not shown) through a ramp 16 to a melt plate 18 which melts the ink stick and delivers the melted ink to the ink reservoir 24 . The melting plate comprises an upper part 28 which functions as a melting surface and a lower part 32 which functions as a drip plate. One or both of said portions of the melting plate may be non-planar. The heater 20 is affixed to ...

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A melt plate for use in a solid ink printer is formed with a drip plate to provide controlled flow of melted ink from the melt plate to a drip point. The melt plate includes a first portion having a perimeter, a second portion having a perimeter, the second planar portion angling from the first portion along a transition boundary at a first angle, a first rim extending around the perimeter of thefirst portion except along the transition boundary, the first rim angling from the first portion at a second angle, and a second rim extending around the perimeter of the second portion except along the transition boundary and a drip point, the second rim angling from the second portion at a third angle, the third angle being different than the second angle. The invention also discloses a method for constructing the melt plate as well as an ink adding machine for adding solid ink into a phase change ink printer.

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technical field [0001] The devices and methods described in this disclosure relate primarily to liquid ink printers. More specifically, the devices and methods relate to printers that melt solid ink to produce liquid ink for use with the printer. Background technique [0002] Certain printing systems utilize solid ink that is melted to provide liquid ink. Solid ink is loaded into the printer and delivered to a melting device that heats the solid ink to a melting temperature. The melted ink is collected and delivered to a printhead, which ejects the melted ink, directly or indirectly, onto the media to form an image. Typically, a melting device includes a melting surface that is heated by a heater to melt solid ink proximate to the melting surface. The melting surface is generally oriented vertically to enable molten ink to drain from the interface between the melting surface and solid ink. A drip plate receives molten ink and directs it to a drip point from which the liq...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): B41J2/175
CPCB41J2/17593Y10T29/49002B41J2/17B41J2/185
Inventor M·A·费尔柴尔德J·H·戈特沙E·I·埃斯普林
Owner XEROX CORP