Printhead drip management using indexing cleaning web-backed flexure chute

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9028043-B2
Application number	US-201314014934-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2013
Priority date	Aug 30, 2013
Publication date	May 12, 2015
Grant date	May 12, 2015

Abstract

A printhead cleaning device is configured to use a cleaning web to absorb the residual ink left on the faceplate of the printhead. The cleaning web is supplied from a feed cartridge and taken up by a take-up cartridge. The cartridges include indexing mechanisms that are configured to dispense and pull-in, respectively, a predetermined length of the cleaning web during each maintenance cycle of the printhead.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printhead cleaning device for use in an inkjet printer comprising:
a flexure chute having a first end and a second end;
an ink receptacle in which the second end of the flexure chute is positioned to enable ink to flow from the first end of the flexure chute along one side of the flexure chute into the ink receptacle;
a length of absorbent material positioned near the first end of the flexure chute, the length of the absorbent material being approximat…

Assignees

• Xerox Corp

Inventors

• Bradway Jeffrey John
• Savoy Matthew D
• Gomez Frank Berkelys Tamarez
• Rodriquez Jorge M
• Swing Jeffrey

Classifications

• B41J2/16547 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16535 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16508 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16517

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16523

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic