Printer ink supply system
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorsTed Tuern Lee, Juan Carlos Vives
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Abstract
A printer ink supply system that includes a docking station having a pair of separated keying members and another docking station having another pair of separated keying members, wherein the docking station and the other docking station can be arranged in a stacked relationship when one of the keying members on the docking station is interlocked with a keying member on the other docking station. The keying members are distributed on the top, bottom and side walls of both docking stations thereby enabling the two to be interlocked in top to bottom or side to side relationships. The docking stations are interchangeable and any number can be joined in vertical or horizontal relationships, or in combinations of vertical and horizontal relationships.
Claims13
A printer ink supply system, comprising:
- a docking station having a pair of sidewalls, a top wall and a bottom wall, said top wall and said bottom wall each including a keying member;
- and
- another docking station having a pair of sidewalls, a top wall and a bottom wall, said top wall and said bottom wall each including a keying member, wherein said docking station and said another docking station can be arranged in a stacked relationship when said docking station bottom wall keying member is interlocked with said another docking station top wall keying member.
A printer ink supply system, comprising:
- a docking station having a pair of separated keying members and a plurality of other docking stations, each one of said plurality of other docking stations having a pair of separated keying members, wherein said docking station and one or more of said plurality of other docking stations can be arranged in interlocked relationship when one of said pair of keying members on said docking station is connected to one of said pair of keying members on one of said plurality of other docking stations wherein said interlocked relationship comprises a stack of docking stations wherein said docking station is interlocked at a top wall to a bottom wall of one of said plurality of other docking stations.
A method of arranging a plurality of printer ink supply docking stations in stacked relationship, comprising the steps of:
- providing a docking station, said docking station including a bottom having a keying member;
- providing another docking station, said another docking station including a top wall having a keying member receiver;
- and
- interlocking said docking station keying member with said another docking station keying member receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.