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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:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dheya Alfekri, San Diego, CA (US);
Gary Staley, La Canada, CA (US);
Bob Chin, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian Hardin, San Diego, CA (US);
Cincin Siswanto, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Encad, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06P / ; D06P / ; D06P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
8445 ; 8495 ; 8551 ; 8554 ; 8606 ; 8595 ; 8922 ; 8918 ;
Abstract
Waterfast ink jet printing onto textiles is performed by treating the textiles with a polymer or copolymer of epihalohydrin prior to the ink jet printing process. A softener such as a tetraalkylammonium salt may also be used, as may be a cationic binder.