Severable dispensable substance containers
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJeffrey H. Luke, Mathew Lavigne, Sean Daniel FitzGerald
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Abstract
A dispensable substance container may include a printing substance dispensing nozzle including a first material. The dispensable substance container an elongate body, including a wall, including a second material encompassing a cavity to contain a dispensable substance, and an attachment portion to attach the elongate body to the printing substance dispensing nozzle; and a structurally compromised portion of the elongate body extending along a length of the elongate body, wherein the elongate body and the attachment portion are to be severed along the structurally compromised portion by a pushrod moveable through the cavity to expel the dispensable substance out the dispensing nozzle.
Claims15
A dispensable printing substance container, comprising:
- a printing substance dispensing nozzle comprising a first material;
- an elongate body, comprising:
- a wall, comprising a second material encompassing a cavity to contain a dispensable substance, and
- an attachment portion to attach the elongate body to the printing substance dispensing nozzle;
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- a structurally compromised portion of the elongate body extending along a length of the elongate body, wherein the elongate body and the attachment portion are to be severed along the structurally compromised portion by a pushrod moveable through the cavity to expel the dispensable substance out the dispensing nozzle.
A system, comprising:
- a dispensable printing substance container, including:
- a printing substance dispensing nozzle comprising a first material;
- an elongate body, comprising:
- a wall, comprising a second material encompassing a cavity to contain a dispensable substance,
- an attachment portion to attach the elongate body to the printing substance dispensing nozzle, and
- a structurally compromised portion of the elongate body extending along a length of the elongate body and through the attachment portion of the elongate body, wherein the elongate body and the attachment portion are severable along the structurally compromised portion by a movement of a pushrod through the cavity;
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- a pushrod, comprising a third material, moveable along the length of the elongate body through the cavity to expel the dispensable substance out the dispensing nozzle.
A device, comprising:
- a printing substance dispensing nozzle;
- an elongate body comprising:
- a wall encompassing a cavity to contain a dispensable printing substance,
- an attachment portion to attach the elongate body to the printing substance dispensing nozzle;
- a structurally compromised portion of the wall extending longitudinally along a length of the elongate body;
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- a pushrod, including:
- a central body of the pushrod, to seat within the cavity, moveable longitudinally through the length of the elongate body to expel the dispensable printing substance out the printing substance dispensing nozzle, and
- a projection from the central body to separate the elongate body, the pushrod, and the printing substance dispensing nozzle by introducing a gap into the structurally compromised portion of the wall and the attachment portion when the central body is moved through the cavity in response to a force applied to a handle outside of the wall and connected to the central body through the gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.