Continuous ink jet printer with a gravity drain, catcher return

Details Continuous ink jet printer with a gravity drain, catcher return Continuous ink jet printer with a gravity drain, catcher return

1989-01-03

1990-05-29

Shaw, Clifford C.

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346140R, G01D 1518

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049299662

ABSTRACT:
A gravity ink return system for a continuous ink jet printer of the kind having droplet generator means for directing streams of ink droplets along a print path and ink supply means including an ink reservoir and means for supplying ink from said reservoir to said generator. The gravity return system includes a catcher having an ink return inlet located laterally adjacent the droplet print path for receiving non-print droplets deflected from said path and a discharge passage constructed and located to slope downwardly from said inlet to an outlet of the catcher. A return conduit slopes continuously downwardly from said catcher outlet to the ink reservoir.

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