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US 4,047,480 AGranted
Longitudinally flexible squeegee and mounting strips therefor
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorEustathios Vassiliou
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Abstract
A flexible squeegee for use in round or irregularly shaped screen-printing frames, whose design permits it to sweep all, or substantially all, of the screen surface.
Claims3
A squeegee comprising a flexible blade positioned between and projecting downwardly from two flat resilient support strips of about equal length which lie in register and whose flat sides lie in parallel planes, the strips projecting beyond the ends of the blade, to form a blade/strip assembly;
- a plurality of short channel bars positioned astride the assembly, snugly fitting and so spaced along its top edge that at least one bar is on each side of the assembly's longitudinal center, one side of each bar being immovably attached to one support strip but not the other;
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- means for mounting the assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.