Locking feature for use in cartridge insertion guide applications
US7756442B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 18, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jul 13, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 13, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2221/1807
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A guide is used to protect a corona cartridge during shipping and during insertion into an electrostatic marking apparatus. The guide has dimensions that will permit the cartridge to fit therein and has a locking mechanism that securely holds the cartridge in place during shipment or movement. When the cartridge is to be removed from the guide and inserted into an electrostatic marking system, a handle attached to a latch is used to free the latch from a groove in the guide. The groove in the guide is located between two upwardly protruding ramps having a slidable side and a locking side that abuts the latch and holds it in place until activation when the latch handle frees it from the groove.
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