Load and feed apparatus for solid ink

US6705710B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Brent R. Jones · Sherwood, US
• Frederick T. Mattern · Portland, US
• Barry D. Reeves · Lake Oswego, US
• Timothy L. Crawford · Saint Paul, US
• James D. Rise · Lake Oswego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 16, 2004
• Expiry date: May 30, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41J2/17593
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An ink stick push block for use in a system for feeding solid ink sticks in a phase change printer, wherein each solid ink stick has an ink stick face surface having an ink stick face surface contour and an ink stick rear surface having a nonplanar ink stick rear surface contour, the ink stick push block. The push block includes an ink stick push block face having a nonplanar ink stick push block face contour, wherein at least a portion of the nonplanar ink stick push block face contour is the complement of at least a portion of the nonplanar ink stick rear surface contour.