Transport device and recording device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKoji Sato, Yoshihisa Horikawa
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Abstract
A transport device includes a transport belt having a support surface configured to support a medium, and configured to transport the medium supported by the support surface, a cleaning roller including an absorbent member configured to absorb cleaning liquid, and configured to clean the support surface as the absorbent member comes into contact with the support surface, a supply unit configured to supply the cleaning liquid to the cleaning roller, and a spray unit configured to spray gas to the support surface cleaned by the cleaning roller. The spray unit is configured to spray the gas to the cleaning roller.
Claims11
A transport device comprising:
- a transport belt having a support surface configured to support a medium, and configured to transport the medium supported by the support surface,
- a cleaning roller including an absorbent member configured to absorb cleaning liquid, and configured to clean the support surface as the absorbent member comes into contact with the support surface,
- a supply unit configured to supply the cleaning liquid to the cleaning roller, and
- a dryer unit configured to spray drying gas to the support surface cleaned by the cleaning roller to dry a wet surface of the support surface, wherein
- the dryer unit is configured to spray the drying gas to the cleaning roller to dry a wet surface of the cleaning roller.
A recording device comprising:
- a recording unit configured to perform recording on a medium,
- a transport belt having a support surface configured to support the medium, and configured to transport the medium supported by the support surface,
- a cleaning roller including an absorbent member configured to absorb cleaning liquid, and configured to clean the support surface as the absorbent member comes into contact with the support surface,
- a supply unit configured to supply the cleaning liquid to the cleaning roller, and
- a dryer unit configured to spray drying gas to the support surface cleaned by the cleaning roller to dry a wet surface of the support surface, wherein
- the dryer unit is configured to spray the drying gas to the cleaning roller to dry a wet surface of the cleaning roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.