Patent ID: 7748822
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A cleaning system for an ink jet printhead, wherein droplets of ink are ejected by a plurality of nozzles located on a front wall of said ink jet printhead, said ink jet printhead being movable from a printing zone to a service station, said cleaning system being mounted on a support structure, movable in relation to said ink jet printhead, and comprising a cleaning disc of soft and elastic rubber, rotating on a case, said disc including a central portion and a plurality of discreet radial expansions extending from said central portion, said radial expansions being angularly equidistant each from the other, each expansion having a rectilinear edge, which, in operation, is brought in succession into a position parallel to said front wall in such a way as to prepare for sliding over said front wall and removing the ink deposited around the nozzles.