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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1980
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshito Kawakami, Koshigaya, JP;
Assignees:
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Nikka Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F / ; B41L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
101425 ; 101169 ;
Abstract
An automatic washing apparatus for an inking arrangement is provided. The apparatus comprises a washing vessel which contains a brush device, a washing pipe and a doctor blade. The washing vessel is openable and the doctor blade is moved toward and away from a roller of the inking arrangement. Ink and foreign matter adhered to the roller are removed by the doctor blade. The doctor blade is reciprocated either linearly or circularly so that same is scraped by the brush device, whereby the ink and foreign matter adhered to the doctor blade are washed out.