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US 2022/0176691 A1Published application
Ink supply system
AssigneeBobst Bielefeld GmbH
InventorMichael KARAKATSANIS
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Abstract
An ink supply system (10) comprises an ink chamber (12); an ink line (14) with a Venturi nozzle (16), wherein the ink chamber (12) has an inlet (18), which is connected to the ink line (14) upstream of the Venturi nozzle (16), and an outlet (24), which is connected to the suction side of the Venturi nozzle (16); an ink reservoir (30) from which the ink is transferred by a pump (28) to the inlet (18) and into the ink line (32); and an ink return line (32), which connects the downstream end of the Venturi nozzle (16) with the ink reservoir (30).
Claims6
An ink supply system, comprising:
- an ink chamber;
- an ink line with a Venturi nozzle, wherein the ink chamber has an inlet, which is connected to the ink line upstream of the Venturi nozzle, and an outlet, which is connected to a suction side of the Venturi nozzle;
- an ink reservoir from which ink is transferred by a pump to the inlet and into the ink line;
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- an ink return line, which connects a downstream end of the Venturi nozzle with the ink reservoir.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.