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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2015
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Kelvin P. Hill, Rochester, NY (US);
Robert R. Bettin, Rochester, NY (US);
James Douglas Shifley, Spencerport, NY (US);
Timothy John Young, Williamson, NY (US);
Gary P. Wainwright, Fairport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A web transport system for transporting a web of media along a web-transport path including a fluid bar for guiding the web of media, and a scavenger blade positioned downstream of the fluid bar. A liquid is pumped through holes in an exterior bearing surface of the fluid bar, thereby pushing the web of media away from the fluid bar. The scavenger bar includes a blade edge facing the first surface of the web of media, the blade edge being spaced apart from the first surface of the web of media by a gap distance. The scavenger blade removes at least some liquid from the first surface of the web of media as it passes by the scavenger blade, thereby reducing the amount of liquid that is carried along to portions of the web-transport path that are downstream of the scavenger blade.