Patent ID: 8567932

Claim:
A consumable supply item to hold an initial or refillable volume of ink for use in an imaging device, the supply item arranged for forward insertion into a container slot in the imaging device, the imaging device having a rotating latch to keep in place the supply item during use that users activate to eject the supply item from the container slot after use by way of a biasing member in the imaging device acting on the supply item, comprising: a housing defining an interior to retain the volume of ink, the interior oriented during use to deplete the volume of fluid in a direction of gravity toward a bottom surface of the interior, the housing having a top exterior surface to engage the latch of the imaging device to securely seat the housing in the imaging device to flow the volume of fluid to the imaging device without leaking; and a fluid exit port and an air venting port on a side of the housing that gets inserted first into the container slot of the imaging device, wherein a space separates the fluid exit port from the air venting port so that said biasing member of the imaging device can push directly on the side of the housing at said space to eject the supply item from the container slot of the imaging device upon the users activating the latch, the air venting port residing above the fluid exit port as oriented during use and above the volume of ink.