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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:
Sep. 02, 1986
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas W De Young, Stormville, NY (US);
Assignee:
Exxon Printing Systems, Inc., Brookfield, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346-11 ; 3461 / ;
Abstract
Hot melt ink is maintained in a solid state at a fixed location along with a smaller quantity of liquid ink in a buffer reservoir at the same location. When ink is called for in the reservoir of a scanning imaging head, the head is moved to a position coupled to the buffer reservoir whereupon the previously melted ink from the solid state supply may be coupled into the reservoir of the imaging head.