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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2012
Applicant:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Inventors:
Brent R. Jones, Sherwood, OR (US);
Frederick T. Mattern, Portland, OR (US);
Brian W. Aznoe, Sherwood, OR (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01); C09D 11/00 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/17593 (2013.01); B41J 2/175 (2013.01); C09D 11/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
A solid ink stick enables identification of the ink stick in a variety of different orientations, while preventing the ink stick from being inserted into an ink loader in an orientation in which the ink stick cannot be identified. The ink stick includes two polygon end surfaces opposite one another. Each edge of the end surfaces has a first and a second identifier, which are identical to one another to enable the ink stick to be inserted into an ink loader without regard to the orientation of the edges.