WO2005042259A1 - Substrate cleaning apparatus and method - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
- B41J3/60—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing on both faces of the printing material
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
- B41J11/0035—Handling copy materials differing in thickness
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
- B41J13/10—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides
- B41J13/12—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides specially adapted for small cards, envelopes, or the like, e.g. credit cards, cut visiting cards
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
- B41J3/44—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms having dual functions or combined with, or coupled to, apparatus performing other functions
- B41J3/50—Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other means, e.g. printer combined with RFID writer
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- the present invention relates generally to printers for printing on discrete, flexible, information-bearing substrates such as plastic cards, and particularly to an apparatus and a method for removing particulate matter such as dust and/or other debris from the substrates before information is printed thereon.
- Printers for printing information on discrete, flexible substrates such as plastic identification cards, drivers licenses, prepaid cards, and the like, conventionally comprise a substrate hopper and feeder for storing and supplying a succession of individual substrates to be printed; a substrate cleaning station for cleaning the surface of each substrate prior to printing; a print station typically comprising a thermal printhead cooperating with a thermal transfer ribbon or dye sublimation ribbon to print the information on the information-receiving surface of the substrate; and a discharge station for receiving the printed substrates.
- the thermal printhead is actuated by a drive mechanism to move the head toward and away from a platen roller in synchronization with the sequential transportation of the substrates past the print station.
- Printing is effected through the thermal transfer or dye sublimation ribbon positioned between the printhead and the substrate.
- the thermal printhead has a transverse tip carrying a large number of heatable elements selected ones of which are energized to transfer an ink or a dye from the ribbon to the substrate.
- the ribbon is typically carried by a replaceable ribbon cartridge that is disposed of when the ribbon is spent.
- the printable surface of info ⁇ nation-bearing substrates and particularly those in the form of cards made of plastics such as PVC must be clean so as to provide a high quality representation of the printed information (and particularly so where the information is applied by a high temperature thermal printing process) and to protect the printhead from being damaged.
- a substrate cleaning station is therefore provided upstream of the printing station.
- the cleaning station typically comprises a cleaning platen roller that rides in contact with the information-receiving surface of each of the substrates successively fed through the printer.
- the cleaning platen roller has a surface of, for example, silicone, treated to make the surface tacky so as to lift particulate matter such as dust and/or other debris (hereinafter “debris") from the print-receiving substrate surface.
- debris particulate matter such as dust and/or other debris
- the tacky cleaning roller is periodically cleaned by means of a sticky debris removal member in the form of a sticky tape fed from a tape supply roll against the surface of the tacky cleaning roller and from there to a tape take-up roll.
- the sticky tape supply and take-up rolls are carried by a tape carrier.
- the tape carrier is disposed of and replaced.
- a sticky removal member in the form of a sticky roller riding in contact with the surface of the tacky cleaning platen roller is used to clean the platen roller.
- the sticky roller loses its effectiveness it is disposed of and replaced.
- both the sticky removal member and the ribbon cartridge must be separately removed and individually replaced.
- FIG. 1 is a side elevation view, partly in cross section, of a portion of a thermal transfer substrate printer incorporating one specific, exemplary embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2 is an enlarged side elevation view of a portion of the cleaning station of the printer of FIG. 1
- FIG. 3 is an end elevation view, in cross section, of a portion of the cleaning station of the printer as seen along the line 3-3 in FIG. 1
- FIG. 4 is a side elevation view of a ribbon cartridge in accordance with the invention
- FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the ribbon cartridge of FIG. 4;
- FIG. 6 is a side elevation view of a portion of a substrate cleaning station in accordance with an alternative embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 7 is a side elevation view of a portion of a substrate cleaning station in accordance with another embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 8 is a side elevation view of a portion of a substrate cleaning station in accordance with yet another embodiment of the invention.
- thermal transfer printer 10 incorporating a specific, exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
- thermal transfer printers are typically used to print information in the form of text, graphics, photographs, and so forth, on plastic cards such as I.D. cards, drivers' licenses, and the like using a printer consumable such as a thermal transfer or dye sublimation ribbon carried by a disposable ribbon cartridge.
- the thermal transfer substrate printer 10 generally comprises a printer body or frame 12, a substrate supply and feeder station 14, a substrate cleaning station 16, a substrate print station 18 and a substrate discharge station 20. Individual substrates 22 are transported in succession from right to left, as viewed in FIG. 1, along a substantially horizontal substrate feed path 24 between the substrate supply and feeder station 14 and the discharge station 20.
- the substrate supply and feeder station 14 is conventional and need not be described in detail.
- the substrate supply and feeder station 14 includes a pair of opposed, counter-rotating substrate drive rollers 26 and 28 for transporting individual substrates along the substrate feed path 24 toward the substrate cleaning station 16.
- the substrate cleaning station 16 comprises the stacked combination of a first cleaning member 30 and a second cleaning member 32 above the first member 30.
- the first cleaning member 30 is typically in the form of a roller having end shafts 34 cradled for rotation within vertical slots 36 formed in opposed printer frame side members 38.
- the cleaning roller 30 is thereby vertically displaceable relative to the printer frame 12 in response to the presence of the substrates and to accommodate variations in substrate thickness.
- each substrate 22 passes under the first or primary cleaning roller 30 in contact with an outer surface 44 thereof.
- the surface 44 of the first cleaning roller 30 is tacky so that it lifts any debris from the print-receiving surface of each substrate.
- the surface 44 may comprise silicone that has been treated in well-known fashion to make the surface tacky to cause debris to be lifted from the print-receiving substrate surface.
- the second cleaning roller 32 has an outer sticky surface 46 that rides in contact with the outer tacky surface 44 of the first cleaning roller 30 to remove other debris from the tacky outer surface 44 of the first cleaning roller.
- the sticking power of the sticky surface 46 of the second cleaning roller 32 is greater than that of the tacky outer surface 44 of the first cleaning roller 30.
- the sticky surface 46 of the second roller 32 may be provided by covering the roller with a suitably treated coating or layer 47 that may simply comprise double- sided masking tape. (FIGS. 2 and 3).
- the diameter of the second cleaning roller 32 is greater than that of the first cleaning roller 30 so that the effective cleaning surface area of the second roller is greater than that of the first roller and thus can retain a concomitantly greater amount of debris.
- the circumference of the first roller 30 is equal to the length of one of the substrates or cards being processed.
- the region 48 of engagement between the first and second cleaning rollers is diametrically opposite the region 50 of engagement between the first cleaning roller and the print-receiving surface 51 of the substrate 22 fed along the substrate feed path 24.
- the substrate print station 18 may comprise a conventional thermal printhead 60, a printing platen roller 62 and a cartridge 64 containing a printer consumable comprising a transfer medium 66 typically in the form of a conventional thermal transfer or dye sublimation ribbon.
- the ribbon cartridge 64 is a molded plastic structure comprising a frame 68 including a pair of parallel, spaced-apart, longitudinally oriented support plates 70 and 72.
- the support plates are molded integrally with the bottom portions 74 and 76 of a pair of spaced-apart, 30 transversely oriented cylindrical spool enclosures 78 and 80, respectively.
- the enclosures 78 and 80 include top portions 82 and 84, respectively, releasably attached to the bottom enclosure portions 74 and 76 by compressible snaps 85. When the top portions 82 and 84 of the enclosures are removed, access is gained to ribbon supply and take-up spools 86 and 88, respectively (FIG. 1).
- the ribbon 66 is fed from the ribbon supply spool 86, between the printhead 60 and the printing platen roller 62 and from there to the take-up ribbon spool 88.
- the substrate feed path 24 extends between the thermal transfer ribbon 66 and the printing platen roller 62.
- the ribbon cartridge 64 is a removable, replaceable unit that is typically disposed of by the user when the ribbon 66 has been completely used.
- the second cleaning structure or member in the form of roller 32 that comprises part of the cleaning station 16 is mounted on the ribbon cartridge 64. More specifically, the second cleaning roller 32 is rotatable about outer end shafts 98 and 100 journaled in corresponding bearings 102 and 104 carried by the cartridge frame 68.
- the shaft bearings 102 and 104 are movable vertically within bearing housings 106 and 108 formed integrally with the cartridge frame 68.
- the bearings 102 and 104 within which the outer ends of the roller shaft 100 are journaled are resiliently biased downwardly (as viewed in FIGS. 1-3) to urge the outer sticky surface 46 of the second cleaning roller 32 into engagement with the outer tacky surface 44 of the first or primary cleaning roller 30 when the cartridge is installed in the printer.
- the resilient bias of the second cleaning roller is preferably provided by vertical compression springs 110 and 112 captured between upper, fixed spring retainers 114 and 116, respectively, and the corresponding shaft bearings 102 and 104. It will be evident that other resilient biasing means, for example, elastomeric inserts, may be used.
- the projecting end shafts 34 of the first cleaning roller 30 are pushed down into the slots 36 by the resilient force imposed on the second cleaning roller 32 by the resilient biasing means. Guided by the slots 36, the first cleaning roller 30 is free to move upwardly in response to the substrates 22 passing underneath, the amount of the upward movement of the roller 30 varying with substrate thickness.
- the disposable ribbon cartridge and the disposable sticky cleaning member needed to be changed individually. End users, however, often neglected to change the sticky cleaning member when due for replacement. This allowed debris to remain on the substrate surface and foul the print mechanism.
- FIG. 6 shows a portion of a substrate printer cleaning station 16a in accordance with a specific, exemplary alternative embodiment of the invention. This embodiment is similar to the cleaning station 16 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2; however, in the embodiment of FIG.
- the primary cleaning roller 30 on the printer frame has been eliminated and a cleaning structure comprising a roller 32a, carried by the ribbon cartridge frame 68 of a replaceable ribbon cartridge, is positioned so that the outer surface 46a of the roller 32a comes into direct contact with the print-receiving surface 51 of each substrate 22.
- the outer surface 46a of the roller 32a may comprise the surface of a tacky or sticky coating or layer 47a (such as double-sided masking tape) on the roller 32a so that as each substrate 22 is advanced along the feed path 24, any other debris will be lifted from the card surface 51.
- the useful lives of the cleaning roller 32a and the consumable transfer ribbon are preferably commensurate so that both of these elements will be spent when the ribbon cartridge is replaced.
- the cleaning station 16b comprises a substrate cleaning structure including a pair of vertically spaced-apart upper and lower, transverse rollers 120 and 122, respectively, journaled for rotation on the frame 68 of a replaceable ribbon cartridge.
- the substrate cleaning structure further includes a web or belt 124 having a tacky or sticky outer surface 126, the belt 124 being trained around the rollers 120 and 122.
- FIG. 8 shows a portion of a substrate printer cleaning station 16c in accordance with yet another specific, exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- the cleaning station 16c is similar to the cleaning station 16 of the first embodiment in that it includes a tacky primary cleaning roller 30 that is carried by the printer frame side members 38 and that rides in contact with and removes any debris from the print-receiving surface 51 of each substrate 22 as the substrate is transported along the feed path 24.
- the cleaning station 16c further comprises a substrate cleaning structure in the form of a sticky web or belt 130 trained about a pair of spaced-apart, upper and lower rollers 132 and 134 journaled for rotation on the frame 68 of a replaceable ribbon cartridge. The lower extremity of the sticky belt 130 contacts the surface of the tacky roller 30 to remove any debris therefrom, analogous to the action of the sticky roller 32 of the first embodiment.
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