Appeal No. 1999-1565
Application No. 08/494,227
plural individual edge shooter ink printer modules (figure 1,
item numbered 1) disposed in side-by-side contact. Each
module is composed of plural adjacent stacked plates (figure
1, items numbered 11-14) with some of the plates containing
plural ink chambers (figure 1, items numbered 16 and 17) with
an opening at the front of the assembly (specification, page
6, lines 2-4). Plural plate shaped piezoelectric actuators
(figure 1, item number 15) eject ink from the ink chamber
adjacent to the piezoelectric actuator. An adapter plate
(figure 1, item numbered 2; specification, page 6, lines 5-6)
is disposed in contact with the front of the assembly of
plates and has a number of openings (figure 1, items numbered
21 and 22) corresponding to the number of ink chamber
openings. A nozzle plate (figure 1, item numbered 3) is in
contact with the front surface of the adapter plate and has a
plurality of nozzle apertures (figure 1, item number 31) in
columns, with one column allocated to each ink printer module
(specification, page 6, lines 25-26). The nozzle apertures
are arranged equidistantly from one another in each column
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