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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:

Yoshio Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Keiichiro Ohta, Yokohama, JP;

Mutsuhito Yoneta, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 3/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 3/500 ;
Abstract

Upon replenishing cleaning members of a plurality of sets of cleaning means of a cleaning apparatus with a cleaning solution, those sets of cleaning means having the cleaning members to be replenished, respectively, are fed with the cleaning solution from a cleaning solution supply source part communicated with the plurality of sets of cleaning means through supplying conduits via supply branching part . The cleaning solution as fed out reaches the supply branching part through the supply pipe, and fed out from the supply branching part in a manner branched into the supplying conduits branched to feeding destinations, respectively, to thereby reach the plurality of cleaning members to be replenished. In this way, upon replenishing a plurality of cleaning members of a bearer cleaning apparatus with a cleaning solution, it becomes possible to replenish the plurality of cleaning members with the cleaning solution from a single location in an extremely simple manner.


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