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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:
May. 30, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brent W Richtsmeier, San Diego, CA (US);
Todd L Russell, Camas, WA (US);
Stephen B Witte, Poway, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347104 ; 271 10 ;
Abstract
A pinch wheel is mounted to be spring-loaded against an exit drive roller in close proximity to a print zone, with the pinch wheel formed by a dual starwheel having two spaced-apart sets of teeth for contacting a newly-printed media surface without puncturing or damaging the media.