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US 6,473,571 B1Granted
Communicating dispensing article
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsPaul M. Wegman, J. Stephen Kittelberger
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Abstract
An article including a container with an opening adapted to accommodate and dispense the contents therefrom; a closure in contact with the container; a signal module in communication with the closure; and a transmitter module adapted to send a signal or signals from the signal module to a receiver module resident in a target printing machine.
Claims9
An article comprising:
- a container with an opening which container is adapted to accommodate and dispense the contents therefrom;
- a closure in contact with the container;
- a signal module in communication with the closure;
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- a transmitter module adapted to send a signal or signals from the signal module to a receiver module resident in a target printing machine, wherein the signal is reprogrammed automatically and wherein the signal is reprogrammed by an act of the user-operator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.