Continuous flow ink jet-type general purpose surface coating applicator

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EP 0 764 525 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	08.10.1997 Bulletin 1997/41

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	26.03.1997 Bulletin 1997/13

(21)	Application number: 96306774.9

(22)	Date of filing: 18.09.1996

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁶: B41J 2/01, B05D 1/00, A61M 35/00

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE FR GB

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Priority:

19.09.1995 US 530749

(71)	Applicant: SCITEX DIGITAL PRINTING, Inc.
	Dayton, Ohio 45420-4099 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	Fagerquist, Randy L. Union, Ohio 45322 (US) Bahl, Surinder K. Beavercreek, Ohio 45434 (US)

(74)	Representative: Hillier, Peter et al
	Reginald W. Barker & Co., Chancery House, 53-64, Chancery Lane London, WC2A 1QU London, WC2A 1QU (GB)

(54)	Continuous flow ink jet-type general purpose surface coating applicator

(57) A coating applicator method is used to apply a coating substance to an ink jet printer substrate. The method comprises the steps of dissolving a coating substance in a carrier fluid to create a coating product. The coating product is applied as a controllable pattern of discrete droplets onto the substrate. This produces a uniform, controllable surface coating on the ink jet printer substrate, the surface coating typically being a liquid solution.

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