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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2000
Benjamin Alan Askren, Lexington, KY (US);
John Edward Borsuk, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Donn Duane Bryant, Lexington, KY (US);
Edward Lawrence Kiely, Lexington, KY (US);
Robert Flynt Strean, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A maintenance station of an ink-jet printer includes a maintenance carrier. The maintenance carrier has a plurality of positions, including a pumping position. A respective maintenance function is enabled in each of the positions. A pump pumps ink when the maintenance carrier is in the pumping position. A gear train both translates the maintenance carrier between the plurality of positions and actuates the pump. A single motor drives the gear train to thereby translate the maintenance carrier and actuate the pump.