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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. 28, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Baldwin-Japan Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B / ; B41F / ; B41L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
134-6 ; 134 32 ; 134 33 ; 134 42 ; 101423 ; 101424 ; 101425 ;
Abstract
A method of cleaning the outer surface of a cylinder by using a cleaning fabric intermittently fed from a supply, and engaged with and pressed against the outer surface of the cylinder. The method includes predetermining periods for each of which the cleaning fabric is engaged with the outer surface of the cylinder a time so that at least some of the periods are different in length from other periods in a cleaning cycle.