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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2001
Steven J. Dietl, Ontario, NY (US);
David Cipolla, Macedon, NY (US);
Michael S. Defilippis, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A positionable wiper blade is positioned by a translatable carriage contact and clean a printhead nozzle face. The carriage translates a removable ink tank support structure with an attached ink jet printhead from a printing location to a non-printing location where the positionable wiper blade is located. A replaceable ink supply tank is installed on the support structure and replaced when the ink is depleted. The wiper blade is moved into wiping position by movement of the carriage and when the carriage is translated away from the non-printing location towards the printing location, the wiper blade cleans the printhead nozzle face and flicks the ink removed from the nozzle face into a backstop receptacle. Continued translation by the carriage moves the wiper blade into contact with the backstop receptacle, which then cleans the wiper blade, and subsequently positions the wiper blade away from the wiping position when the carriage returns to the non-printing location, so that the wiper blade does not contact the backstop receptacle until after it cleans the printhead nozzle face.