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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2006
Filed:
May. 08, 2001
David B. Russell, Southboro, MA (US);
Walter Henry Zengerle, Iii, Dedham, MA (US);
Peter Charles Conway, Pepperell, MA (US);
James F. Bredt, Watertown, MA (US);
Benjamin Daniel Sweet-block, Cambridge, MA (US);
Robert Anthony Phillips, Acton, MA (US);
David B. Russell, Southboro, MA (US);
Walter Henry Zengerle, III, Dedham, MA (US);
Peter Charles Conway, Pepperell, MA (US);
James F. Bredt, Watertown, MA (US);
Benjamin Daniel Sweet-Block, Cambridge, MA (US);
Robert Anthony Phillips, Acton, MA (US);
Z Corporation, Burlingon, MA (US);
Abstract
A three-dimensional printer includes multiple printheads for printing binder and/or colorant onto a bed of build material in a build chamber. The printheads can be mounted on a gantry that is designed for reciprocal displacement across a build chamber along a slow axis. The printheads, in turn, can reciprocally move across the gantry on a fast axis to enable displacement of the printheads along both the fast and slow axes so that the printheads can deposit binder liquid and/or colorant across the surface of a bed of build material in the build chamber.