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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1992

Filed:

Dec. 10, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:

Robert Cassou, Sainte Montaine 18700 Aubigny-sur-Nere, FR;

Maurice Cassou, 61300 L'Aigle, FR;

Bertrand Cassou, 61300 L'Aigle, FR;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ; B41F / ; B65G / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 75 ; 3461 / ; 101 35 ; 101 36 ; 101 37 ; 1984688 ; 1986891 ; 198785 ; 221233 ;
Abstract

An ink jet printing machine for elongate cylindrical articles such as tubes or straws for biological fluids, includes an automatically controlled ink-jet printing station. The printing station includes a printing head, handling apparatus for the straws or tubes comprising an admission passage for receiving, guiding and feeding straws or tubes, a wall panel, a suction port disposed in the wall panel at a downstream end of the admission passage and connected to a source of vacuum, a transfer plunger mounted for reciprocating along the wall panel between the suction port and a conveyor, the leading straw or tubes being transferred from the suction port to the conveyor by displacement of the transfer plunger toward the conveyor.


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