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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2000
Hendrik Jan Stolk, Bergen, NL;
Peter Joseph Hollands, Baarlo, NL;
Oce-Technologies B.V., Ma Venlo, NL;
Abstract
A device for delivering ink to a sheet of paper or the like, which includes a body member containing side surface portions which extend into a head surface portion, the head surface portion being inclined at an angle relative to the side surface portions and the body member between the end surface portion and the side surface portions being formed with a curved transition zone, the body member containing an ink inlet for letting in ink originating from an ink reservoir, ink delivery nozzles disposed at the head surface portion and ink passages in the form of ducts extending between the inlet and the ink delivery nozzles along one or more of the side surface portions of the body member, a first ink-tight layer which covers the ducts, the ducts terminating in ends at the ink delivery nozzles, and a second ink-tight layer which covers the ends of the ink passages in which second ink-tight layer the ink delivery nozzles are formed, and ink propulsion device operatively connected with the ink-tight layer for selectively propelling ink through the ink passages to the ink delivery nozzles.