Eastman-kodak Company

Kevin J O'Leary

James G Rydelek

Dwight John Petruchik

Edward N Balling

Steven L Moore

A method includes a) providing a detachable seal retainer including: a housing for a seal member; an attachment face having a plurality of attachment members; an outer face opposite the attachment face; a handle including a free end and a hinged end opposite the free end; and a hinge member disposed between the housing and the hinged end of the handle; b) providing a seal member within the housing; c) providing an ink tank including an outlet face having a corresponding plurality of attachment features proximate the at least one outlet port; d) aligning the seal retainer to the ink tank such that the alignment members of the seal retainer are aligned with the corresponding plurality of attachment features of the ink tank; e) pressing the seal retainer against the ink tank such that the seal member is contact with the at least one outlet port.

Method of sealing an inkjet ink tank

A seal for at least one outlet port of an ink tank, the seal includes a seal member; and a seal retainer further includes a housing for the seal member; a first attachment member on a first side of the housing; a second attachment member on a second side of the housing, the second side being opposite the first side; a handle including a free end and a hinged end opposite the free end; and a hinge member disposed between the housing and the hinged end of the handle.

Seal for inkjet ink tank

A detachably mountable ink tank for an inkjet printhead, the ink tank includes a housing for enclosing a reservoir for liquid ink; a rim extending outwardly from the housing; an ink supply port enclosed within the rim; and an ink fill port enclosed within the rim, wherein the ink fill port is configured to receive an ink fill tube to provide liquid ink to the reservoir.

Ink fill port for inkjet ink tank

A one-time-use camera capable of being disassembled and comprising a main body part, a lens secured releasably to the main body part to permit the lens to be released from the main body part during camera disassembly, and a cover part separable from the main body part during camera disassembly, is characterized in that the lens is connected with the cover part to cause the lens to be released from the main body part when the cover part is separated from the main body part during camera disassembly. This facilitates camera disassembly.

One-time-use camera in which lens removed with cover part during camera

A one-time-use camera comprises an opaque main body part; a flash device on the main body part that provides flash illumination; a taking lens on the main body part; a light-transmitting outer cover having an opening for the flash device and an opening for the taking lens; and an opaque inner cover part, behind the light-transmitting outer cover, having an opening for the flash device that is aligned with the opening for the flash device in the light-transmitting outer cover, and including an opaque lens baffle for the taking lens that projects from the opaque inner cover part, through the opening for the taking lens in the light-transmitting outer cover, and protrudes from the light-transmitting outer cover to prevent the light-transmitting outer cover from transmitting flash illumination to the taking lens.

Flash camera with opaque lens baffle protruding from front translucent

A water-resistant camera housing comprises a pair of separable housing sections, and a waterproof sealing band covering a separation seam between the housing sections to provide a water-resistant seal for the seam. The sealing band has a pair of opposite end portions one of which overlaps the other but leaves a slight gap between them adjacent the seam. A waterproof filler occupies the gap to provide a water-resistant seal in the gap for the seam.

Sealing band for water-resistant camera housing

High gloss is provided for multicolor images formed on opposite sides of a receiving sheet in a double pass system using a fuser having a smooth, soft pressure roller surface. Preferably, a thin elastomeric outer layer on the pressure roller has a shore .ANG. durometer less than 40 and a roughness average less than 40 microinches. When a second multicolor image is fused to a receiving sheet by contact with a fusing roller, the gloss of a first multicolor image on the opposite side of the receiving sheet that has already been fused is not reduced by contact with the pressure roller, but is, in fact, enhanced.

Image forming apparatus and method for producing high gloss duplex images

Method and apparatus for applying liquid dispersed toner to the surface of an electrographic recording member, held on a platen which moves relative to a pair of coplanar cylindrical developing electrodes. Toner is deposited on the recording member by passing the record member over a projecting portion of each of the cylindrical developing electrodes in contact with a film of fluid established by the rotating coplanar cylindrical developing electrodes. The fluid has dispersed toner entrained therein and is supplied to the rotating cylinders by a pump which forces the liquid between each rotating cylinder and the shroud which surrounds the roller, except for an opening through which a projecting portion of each cylinder extends above its respective shroud. A dam connects the adjacent portions of the shrouds to collect additional fluid during the operation thereof and provides an elevated toner meniscus above and between the rotating cylinders, increasing the area of the fluid in the processing nip substantially. Wiper blades are provided along the length of each cylinder to remove residual material from the cylinders to insure that a renewed surface on each of the cylindrical developing electrodes is presented to the recording member.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Kevin J O'Leary