Gudpod Corp.

Moore Business Forms, Inc.

Ben W Fagen

Brendan J Duffy

Chris Penna

Gary Van Deursen

Gian-Carlo Ochoa

Norman L Milliard

Michael W Raymond

Robert S Rizza

Alex Fung

Thomas B Kegelman

Nickolas T Koken

Peter Feher

Lam Yick Ming

Oscar Chow Hung

A module includes a housing, a sealing feature, a locking feature, and an agitator. The housing has an opening separating inner and outer surfaces and a boss that extends through the housing such that part of the outer surface forms an inner bore of the boss having a terminus pointing toward the opening. The agitator has a base, a shaft, and a mixing element coupled to the base such that the base, in cooperation with the sealing feature, circumferentially seals the opening of the housing to form a cavity defined by the inner surface. The shaft passes through the inner bore. The locking feature when engaged permits independent or simultaneous translational and rotational movement of the shaft while an area between the terminus of the boss and the shaft remains mechanically sealed during the movement against liquid or powder encroachment into a clean area of the inner bore.

System for mixing beverages and method of doing the same

Pod for a beverage mixing system

The print head of an electrographic printer is cleaned electrostatically. The printhead has a number of electrodes in an electrode array, which cooperate with a dielectric belt. Periodically, printing with the printer is interrupted (e.g. after every 100 pages of printing, or about every minute), and then substantially all of the electrodes are energized at the same time for a time period sufficient to effect burning off of contaminants from the electrodes (e.g. about the time it takes to print four pages, or about 3 seconds). A host computer controls the operation of the printer components. The printer developer unit may be moved away from the dielectric belt prior to the energization of all of the electrodes to effect cleaning.

Electrostatic cleaning of electrodes in an electrographic printer

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Enfield, CT, United States of America

Ben W Fagen