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System to produce a locking connection between a toner reservoir and a cover sealing the toner reservoir

US8260170B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Océ Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

Manfred Lehmann · Cologne, DE
Reinhold Schmidl · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE
Dietrich Pensold · Günzburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 14, 2009
Grant date	Sep 4, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 23, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03G2221/1654
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a method or system to produce a locking connection between a toner reservoir and a cover sealing the toner reservoir, first and second locking units are provided that are locked with one another after sealing the toner reservoir with the cover. The first locking unit is arranged at an inside of the cover and the second locking unit is arranged on an outside of the toner reservoir. At least one of the two locking units has a run-in slope over which the other locking unit slides.

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