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US 4,213,717 AGranted
Ball point pen, ink and its eradicator system
AssigneeBurroughs Corporation
InventorAn-Chung R. Lin
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Abstract
Disclosed is a ball point ink pen, its ink and its eradicator. The ink is carried at one end of the pen and the eradicator portion is carried at the other. If an error is made, the pen can be reversed and the eradicator used to neutralize the ink. The ink also neutralizes the eradicator so that when one rewrites with the same ink, any remaining eradicator on the paper is neutralized and the original ink acts as fresh ink.
Claims7
A pen for an ink-eradicator system having an ink and its eradicator, wherein said colored ink of said system, which can be eradicated after application, comprises:
- a dye which remains colored in acid solution,
- a vehicle solution in which the dye will dissolve, and
- an acid with a PKa value smaller than 7, and wherein said eradicator for said ink comprises
- an amount of a base effective to neutralize the acid of said ink,
- an amount of an amine effective to act as a decolorizing agent for the dye to form a colorless product, and
- a hydroxy solvent, said pen containing at least one of said ink or its eradicator in solution.
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