Ink tray
CA 2003135 A1 · Owner: Jackson, Jerome E. · Inventors: Buan, Danilo P.; Jackson, Jerome E.; Terry, Betty R.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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An ink pad device for a high speed mailing machine is disclosed. The ink pad device includes an ink pad and an ink chamber in which the ink pad is at least partially disposed to sorb ink therefrom. The ink pad device may also comprise an ink reservoir and/or a pump for pumping ink from the reservoir to the ink chamber. The ink pad device is attachable to a drive for moving the ink pad horizontally and vertically from a horizontal home position to a horizontal inking position in which the ink pad is tamped against a printing device which imprints postage indicia. The ink pump comprises a deformable chamber which is compressed to pump ink from the reservoir to the ink chamber. In one …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 16, 1989. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 16, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 16, 2011.
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