B - Operations – Transporting – 41 – J
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
41
J
B41J 31/14 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2091870
ABSTRACT RE-INKING DEVICE AND METHOD This invention relates to a re-inking device and method for multi-pass fabric ribbons or tapes wound on a spool. We provide a re-inking device (2) for a fabric ribbon (94) having first and second terminal ends, the ribbon being wound on a first spool (90) with the first end innermost and the second end outermost, which includes means to mount the first spool to one side of a base (10), means to mount a second spool (92) to said one side of a base at a position spaced from the first spool, means to connect second terminal end of the ribbon to the second spool to provide an unsupported ribbon length (R) extending between the first and second spools, ink reservoir means (60) mounted to one side of the base and engageable by at least part of the unsupported ribbon length, and means (50,52,40,48,112) to rotate the second spool relative to the base, to effect winding of the ribbon from the first spool onto the second spool, with concurrent ink transfer from the reservoir on to the said portion of the unsupported ribbon length. We also provide a method of re-inking a fabric ribbon which includes the steps of connecting the free terminal ribbon end of a ribbon wound on a first spool (90) to a second spool (92) spaced apart from the first spool to provide an unsupported ribbon length (R) extending between the first and second spools, engaging at least part of the unsupported ribbon length with an ink supply (60,64) and winding the ribbon from the first spool onto the second spool whilst ink is being transferred onto the said part of the unsupported ribbon length from the ink supply.
Armstrong R. Craig
Chung Seng Y.
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