B - Operations – Transporting – 05 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
05
B
B05B 15/02 (2006.01) B41J 2/165 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2349097
A purge/clean system and an associated method for A fluid jet apparatus, such as an ink jet printing system, having a fluid chamber including a chamber wall having an exterior surface and at least one orifice through which fluid is ejected from the fluid chamber toward a substrate involves a cavity defined adjacent the exterior surface of the chamber wall into which fluid which is, expelled from the at least one orifice during a purging or cleaning operation is permitted to flow and a vacuum pump for withdrawing fluid which is contained within the cavity. The cavity can be provided by a plurality of plate arranged in an assembled, or stacked, relationship against the exterior surface of the chamber wall and, with the aid of a fan or compressor, can be used to create a zone of above -atmospheric pressure adjacent the exterior surface of the printer head. With the zone of above-atmospheric pressure created within the cavity, any leakage of air from the region into the atmosphere effects a flow of air out of the region and thereby helps to maintain the at least one orifice in a relatively clean condition.
Finlayson & Singlehurst
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
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