Diagraph Corporation

Anthony Bruce Castro

Phillip Leroy Laffoon

Gary Todd Suits

Ronald Parks

James Patrick Lawhorn

An ink jet printing system having an ink accumulator holding a supply of ink for delivery under pressure to printheads of the system, the volume of the supply decreasing as ink is delivered to the printheads, and a pump operable intermittently to pump ink from a supply to the accumulator when the volume in the accumulator decreases to a lower limit, operation of the pump being terminated when the volume in the accumulator increases to an upper limit.

Ink jet printing system

A printhead for ink jet printing comprising a front plate having a chamber therein for ink under pressure, ports extending from the chamber to the back face of the front plate, recesses in the back face, passages extending through the front plate from the recesses to its front face, the ends of the passages at the front face constituting orifices for delivery of ink onto a target surface moving past the front face, a flexible membrane held on the back face by a back plate, and members slidable in holes in the back plate releasably holding the membrane pressed against the back face of the front plate at the back ends of the ports to block flow of ink out of the back ends of the ports to the recesses and the passages and operable to release the membrane for flexing away from the back ends of the ports for delivery of ink.

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Herrin, IL, United States of America

Anthony Bruce Castro