Printing – Inkers
Patent
1991-10-16
1992-09-15
Burr, Edgar S.
Printing
Inkers
101333, 118264, 118270, B41F 3124
Patent
active
051468522
ABSTRACT:
An inking device for a postage meter in a high speed mailing machine is disclosed in which the inking device has an ink reservoir containing an ink pad, and a cover member to secure the ink pad in the reservoir. The reservoir is formed as a generally rectangular tray having a flat bottom wall and upstanding front, rear and side walls, and includes a plurality of elongate upstanding ribs covering most of the area of the bottom wall for supporting an ink pad and for defining ink flow channels between the ribs. There are also relatively short upstanding ribs disposed around the other sides of the tray, and all of the ribs have upwardly inclined portions adjacent the front, rear and side walls against which a cover member presses to compress that portion of the ink pad which overlies the inclined portions of the ribs. The inclined portions also include raised protrusions thereon to increase the compression of the ink pad for a more effective seal and also to prevent the edge portions of the ink pad from creeping down the inclined portions of the ribs during continuous operation of the mailing machine.
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Jackson Jerome E.
Murphy, III Charles F.
Burr Edgar S.
Hendrickson Lynn D.
Parks, Jr. Charles G.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
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