Wiper with bias members
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsOscar Moya Rojo, Alejandro Mielgo, Jordi Bas
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Abstract
In an example, a print apparatus may include a print head assembly and a maintenance cartridge. An example maintenance cartridge may include a wiper system. An example wiper system may include a web wipe and a plurality of independently biased members adjacent each other with respect to a width of the web wipe. Another example wiper system may include a plurality of bias members, a plurality of carriers coupled to the plurality of bias members, and a plurality of rollers coupled to the plurality of carriers and located along a width of a wiping area.
Claims16
A wiper system comprising:
- a plurality of bias members;
- a plurality of carriers, a first carrier of the plurality of carriers coupled to a first bias member of the plurality of bias members and a second carrier of the plurality of carriers coupled to a second bias member of the plurality of bias members, the first carrier being independently biased from the second carrier;
- and
- a plurality of rollers located along a width of a wiping area, a first roller of the plurality of rollers coupled to the first carrier and a second roller of the plurality of rollers coupled to the second carrier;
- wherein each bias member provides a biasing force independently on a corresponding carrier and roller, the biasing force being toward members in the wiping area to be wiped by the wiper system.
A wiper system comprising:
- a plurality of bias members;
- a plurality of carriers, a first carrier of the plurality of carriers coupled to a first bias member of the plurality of bias members and a second carrier of the plurality of carriers coupled to a second bias member of the plurality of bias members, the first carrier being independently biased from the second carrier;
- a plurality of rollers located along a width of a wiping area, a first roller of the plurality of rollers coupled to the first carrier and a second roller of the plurality of rollers coupled to the second carrier;
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- a maintenance cartridge enclosing some components of the wiper system including:
- a carrier system comprising the plurality of carriers;
- the plurality of bias members, wherein the bias members are to independently provide bias to the carrier system, the plurality of bias members in contact with a housing for a wiper interface and the carrier system;
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- a web coupled to the carrier system across a wiping area, the carrier system to apply independent bias force across the wiping area based on an independent bias force of the plurality of bias members on the carrier system;
- wherein the housing for the wiper interface is coupled to the wiper system;
- wherein the wiper interface comprises a surface forming a plurality of apertures;
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- wherein the wiper system comprising a plurality of guide members coupled to the plurality of carriers, the guide members having legs insertable into the plurality of apertures, the legs to provide force on walls of the surface forming the plurality of apertures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.