Method and apparatus for cleaning an image transfer member
AssigneeIndigo N.V.
InventorsShmuel Douvdevani, Alex Feygelman, Shlomo Yitzhaik
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Abstract
An imaging device comprising an imaging surface on which images are formed; an image transfer surface which receives the images onto an image transfer portion thereof at a first transfer region and from which images are transferred at a second transfer region; and a cleaning arrangement including a cleaning surface which engages the image transfer portion at a cleaning region of the transfer surface. The image transfer portion receives a non-image pattern from the imaging surface at the first transfer region and the cleaning surface collects the non-image pattern at the cleaning region.
Claims25
An imaging device comprising:
- an imaging surface on which images are formed;
- an image transfer surface which receives the images onto an image transfer portion thereof at a first transfer region and from which images are transferred at a second transfer region;
- and
- a cleaning arrangement including a cleaning surface which engages said image transfer portion at a cleaning region of the transfer portion,
- wherein said image transfer portion receives a non-image pattern from said imaging surface at said first transfer region and wherein said cleaning surface collects said non-image pattern at said cleaning region.
A method of cleaning an image transfer surface in an imaging device comprising an imaging surface on which images are formed, an image transfer surface having an image transfer region thereon, which region receives images at a first transfer region and from which the images are transferred at a second transfer region and a cleaning member having a cleaning surface which engages the image transfer region at a cleaning region to remove residual image material remaining on the transfer surface after transfer of the images therefrom, the method comprising:
- periodically developing a predefined, non-image, pattern on said imaging surface;
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- transferring said predefined non-image pattern onto said image transfer region at said first transfer region and
- engaging said image transfer surface with said cleaning member at said cleaning region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.