EP0354863B1 - Mehrfarbengewebeschreibband - Google Patents

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EP0354863B1
EP0354863B1 EP19890480106 EP89480106A EP0354863B1 EP 0354863 B1 EP0354863 B1 EP 0354863B1 EP 19890480106 EP19890480106 EP 19890480106 EP 89480106 A EP89480106 A EP 89480106A EP 0354863 B1 EP0354863 B1 EP 0354863B1
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ribbon
pigments
fabric
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ink
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Hugh Thomas Findlay
Kenneth Howard Froman
James Francis Martone
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Lexmark International Inc
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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
    • B41J31/00—Ink ribbons; Renovating or testing ink ribbons
    • B41J31/02—Ink ribbons characterised by the material from which they are woven

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  • This invention relates to fabric ribbons which are impacted by a print element to print more than one color.
  • the print elements typically are fully formed character images on a daisy wheel or one or more columns of individual wires. Transferable colors are held in the fabric and expressed on to paper or other print-receiving medium by the pressure of printing.
  • the colors are commonly located on the ribbon in strips which extend along the length of the ribbon or in blocks of one color alternating with blocks of another color along the length of the ribbon. Such ribbons become virtually useless if the colors blend together during storage or use.
  • multicolored fabric ribbons were typically made using standard pigments as the coloring matter or dyes as part of the coloring matter with the different colors separated by some physical barrier or gap.
  • the average particle size of standard pigments is nominally 4 to 5 microns, while dyes are molecular in size.
  • Inks with only standard pigments do not blend together in ordinary storage and use. This can be attributed to the fact that the pigment particles are relatively large in comparison with dye molecules, and ambient energy (which includes thermal, osmotic, capillary, Brownian, and other forces) is insufficient to move such pigment particles significantly.
  • Different colored liquid inks with standard pigments only have been applied side-by-side on fabric ribbons without blending, but such ribbons do not replenish used areas well.
  • the ribbon has been designed in a way to block color movement.
  • the weave or continuity of the ribbon is physically interrupted at the boundary between colors, such as by adding an adhesive which is hardened or by crushing or melting the ribbon.
  • This invention completely avoids any change of the weave of the ribbon.
  • a particular coloring matter specifically flushed pigments, are used (average nominally 1/2 to 1 micron, agglomerations up to 2 microns). These are pigments of very small particle size, but do not tend to mix even though the woven fabric of the ribbon is continuous at the boundary between inks of different colors.
  • the very small particle size has been found to provide good ribbon life, the particles exhibiting sufficient limited mobility that colors reconstitute themselves sufficiently near locations from which impact printing has occurred.
  • U.S. Patent No. 385,391 to Underwood et al has an embodiment shown in its Fig. 2 in which no difference in the ribbon at the boundary between colors is specified.
  • the other embodiments of this patent show embodiments in which barriers to mixing of colors are created by the manner the ribbon is woven or formed. Since the nature of the coloring matter in the Fig. 2 embodiment is only generally described, the use of flushed pigments is not suggested.
  • U.S. Patent No. 2,590,200 to Neidich teaches a ribbon in which the fiber of the ribbon is predominantly in the direction of the boundaries of the different colors to prevent mixing across the colors.
  • flushed pigments are not widely used, flushed pigments are known and generally available, and flushed pigments have been used in woven ribbons. No use of flushed pigments in multicolored ribbons is known.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,574,623 to Neumann is cited merely as illustrative that flushed pigments are known.
  • This instant invention is a fabric ribbon having multicolored regions of coloring matter in a liquid vehicle.
  • the coloring matter of the regions is essentially only flushed pigments, which are pigments of particle size generally less than 2 microns and of average particle size of nominally 1/2 to 1 micron. (By contrast, standard pigments are nominally 4 to 5 microns in particle size.) Flushed pigments do not migrate between colored regions under normal conditions, and therefore mixing of the colors is avoided without alteration of the fabric or use of a fabric with special characteristics or regions.
  • the vehicles of the different colored regions are not significant in preventing migration, as the flushed pigments do not migrate with the vehicles. Nevertheless, the flushed pigments have sufficient mobility in regions from which ink has been depleted by printing to refill used areas of the ribbon with pigment, thus providing a ribbon of long useful life.
  • the 12-MO-1434 is described by its supplier as 25% flushed yellow pigment and treated mineral oil as a vehicle.
  • the approximate proportion of pigment to vehicle in the yellow ink therefore is 12.5% by weight pigment to 87.5% by weight vehicle.
  • the 45-MO-1998 is described by its supplier as 35% flushed red pigment and treated mineral oil as a vehicle.
  • the approximate proportion of pigment to vehicle in the red ink is therefore 19% by weight pigment to 81% by weight vehicle.
  • the 70-MO-2324 is described by its supplier as 37% flushed blue pigment, 58% vehicle solids, and treated mineral oil vehicle.
  • the approximate proportion of pigment to vehicle in the blue ink is therefore 14% by weight pigment to 86% by weight vehicle and vehicle solids.
  • the fabric may be a conventional nylon woven fabric commonly used for impact printer ribbons. More specifically, in this preferred embodiment the fabric is highest quality filament nylon type 6,6; pH of 4.5 - 7, 4.0 mil (approximately 0.01016 cm) diameter; weight of 1.6 ounce per square yard (approximately 54.3 grams per square meter); warp (long direction) 174.0 threads per inch (approximately 68.5 threads per cm) and fill (cross direction) 114 threads per inch (approximately 45.7 threads per cm).
  • the details of the fabric are not considered limiting, and fabrics of other materials, such as cotton and other man-made polymers, are considered alternatives for use with this invention.
  • the threads of the fabric may be woven, felted, or otherwise intermixed. However, if the interstices are exceptionally large, which would result from a very loose felting, for example, the boundaries between the colors would be uneven.
  • the fabric is entirely continuous and no change is made at the boundaries between the ink regions.
  • the ink regions may be along the length of the ribbon, resulting in yellow, red, and blue strips side by side, each extending along the full length of a ribbon which typically is stuffed in the chamber of a ribbon cartridge or wound in a spool.
  • the flushed pigments perform like dyes with respect to ribbon life, providing a ribbon which may be reused extensively, a characteristic of ribbons having dyes as the coloring matter. Yet, the ribbon colors do not bleed together, a characteristic of pigments.
  • Flushed pigments are understood to be made in a manner in which the pigments are never a dry solid.
  • the resulting pigments are of much smaller particle size as compared to standard pigments.
  • Agglomerations in flushed pigments may be as large as 2 microns, while the average particle size is nominally 1/2 to 1 micron. By comparison, the average particle size of standard pigments is nominally 4 to 5 microns.

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  • Impression-Transfer Materials And Handling Thereof (AREA)
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Claims (5)

  1. Stoffband, umfassend nebeneinanderliegende Bereiche mit fließbarer Tinte mit verschiedenen Farben in den genannten Bereichen, dadurch gekennzeichent, daß der genannte Stoff zwischen den genannten Bereichen kontinuierlich vorhanden ist und der Farbstoff der genannten fließbaren Tinte im wesentlichen aus geflushten Pigmenten besteht.
  2. Band nach Anspruch 1, in dem der genannte Stoff gewebt und die genannte Webung kontinuierlich zwischen den genannten nebeneinanderliegenden Bereichen vorhanden ist.
  3. Band nach Anspruch 2, bei dem die genannte Tinte jeder der genannten verschiedenen Farben einen aus einem geflushten Pigment bestehenden Farbstoff aufweist und auch einen flüssigen Trägerstoff enthält.
  4. Band nach Anspruch 1, bei dem die genannte Tinte jeder der genannten verschiedenen Farben einen aus einem geflushten Pigment bestehenden Farbstoff aufweist und auch einen flüssigen Trägerstoff enthält.
  5. Stoffband nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, bei dem die genannte fließbare Tinte im wesentlichen aus Pigmenten besteht, die eine durchschnittliche Teilchengröße in der Größenordnung von 0,5 bis 1,5 µm und im wesentlichen keine Teilchengröße über 4 µm aufweisen.
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GB885813A (en) * 1958-01-21 1961-12-28 Caribonum Ltd Improvements in or relating to inked ribbons
US3817773A (en) * 1970-02-25 1974-06-18 Ncr Co Woven fabric printing ribbon having rupturable microcapsules bonded to its surface
US4309320A (en) * 1979-01-03 1982-01-05 Basf Wyandotte Corporation Pigment flushing
DE3118980A1 (de) * 1981-05-09 1982-11-25 Pelikan Ag, 3000 Hannover Multicarbon-material zur schrifterzeugung
DE3321998A1 (de) * 1983-06-18 1984-12-20 Hoechst Ag, 6230 Frankfurt Pigmentpraeparation, verfahren zu ihrer herstellung und ihre verwendung
JPH07396B2 (ja) * 1985-04-25 1995-01-11 沖電気工業株式会社 インクリボン

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