IP Library Granted Patent US 7,549,628
Granted Patent B2
US 7,549,628 · App. 12/145,493 · Granted Jun 23, 2009

Printer incorporating opposed printhead assemblies

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Patent No.
US 7,549,628
App. No.
12/145,493
Granted
Jun 23, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A printer comprising: a support structure; a feed arrangement positioned on the support structure and configured to feed an endmost sheet of print media from the stack and including a movable pick-up assembly, the pick-up assembly having an array of spaced apart nozzles configured to direct air on to respective locations along said topmost sheet so that said topmost sheet can be picked-up from the stack by moving said pick-up assembly; a pair of rollers configured to engage with said endmost sheet fed from said feed arrangement; a printing station configured to print ink upon said endmost sheet engaged by said rollers; and an air displacement mechanism connected to the nozzles to displace air out of some expulsion nozzles and into some other suction nozzles, wherein said printing station has a pair of opposed printhead assemblies between which said endmost sheet can be fed so that concurrent duplex printing can be performed on the endmost sheet.

Claims (10)

1. A printer comprising:

a support structure;

a feed arrangement positioned on the support structure and configured to feed an endmost sheet of print media from the stack and including a movable pick-up assembly, the pick-up assembly having an array of spaced apart nozzles configured to direct air on to respective locations along said topmost sheet so that said topmost sheet can be picked-up from the stack by moving said pick-up assembly;

a pair of rollers configured to engage with said endmost sheet fed from said feed arrangement;

a printing station configured to print ink upon said endmost sheet engaged by said rollers; and

an air displacement mechanism connected to the nozzles to displace air out of some expulsion nozzles and into some other suction nozzles, wherein

said printing station has a pair of opposed printhead assemblies between which said endmost sheet can be fed so that concurrent duplex printing can be performed on the endmost sheet.

2. A printer as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said array consists of a one dimensional array.

3. A printer as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the air displacement mechanism includes an air pump in fluid communication with the expulsion nozzles.

4. A printer as claimed in claim 1 , wherein one of said rollers is a drive roller and the other one of said rollers is a driven roller.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 25, 2014
From: ZAMTEC LIMITED
To: MEMJET TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 033244/0276 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 17, 2012
From: SILVERBROOK RESEARCH PTY. LIMITED AND CLAMATE PTY LIMITED
To: ZAMTEC LIMITED
Reel/Frame 028570/0390 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 24, 2008
From: JENSEN, DAVID WILLIAM
To: SILVERBROOK RESEARCH PTY LTD
Reel/Frame 021145/0224 →