Scalable printhead maintenance cart having maintenance modules
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsRichard A. Kalb, Glenn D. Batchelor, Ali R. Dergham
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Abstract
A maintenance cart is configured so the maintenance units within the cart can be selectively moved to correspond to a scalable printhead array. The maintenance cart includes a body configured to selectively move along a path to the printhead array, the body having a recess; and a plurality of cleaning modules mounted within the recess, the plurality of cleaning modules being adjustably arranged within the recess to correspond to a plurality of printheads of the printhead array to enable each cleaning module in the plurality of cleaning modules to align with a corresponding printhead of the printhead array in response to the body being moved to the printhead array.
Claims18
A maintenance cart for a printhead array comprising:
- a body configured to selectively move along a path to the printhead array, the body having a recess;
- a plurality of cleaning modules mounted within the recess, the plurality of cleaning modules being adjustably arranged within the recess to correspond to a plurality of printheads of the printhead array to enable each cleaning module in the plurality of cleaning modules to align with a corresponding printhead of the printhead array in response to the body being moved to the printhead array;
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- a first shaft arranged within the recess, a first group of the plurality of cleaning modules being mounted and adjustably arranged along the shaft to align with printheads in a first row of printheads of printhead array.
A printer comprising:
- a printhead array have a plurality of printheads that are arranged as a first row of printheads and a second row of printheads;
- a track defining a path leading to and from the printhead array;
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- a maintenance cart configured to selectively move along the track to and from the printhead array to perform maintenance operations on the printhead array, the maintenance cart comprising:
- a body having a recess;
- a plurality of cleaning modules mounted within the recess, the plurality of cleaning modules being adjustably arranged within the recess to correspond to the plurality of printheads of the printhead array to enable each cleaning module in the plurality of cleaning modules to align with a corresponding printhead of the printhead array in response to the body being moved to the printhead array;
- a first shaft arranged within the recess, a first group of the plurality of cleaning modules being mounted and adjustably arranged along the shaft to align with printheads in a first row of printheads of printhead array;
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- a second shaft arranged within the recess, a second group of the plurality of cleaning modules being mounted and adjustably arranged along the shaft to align with printheads in a second row of printheads of printhead array.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.