Appeal No. 1999-1565
Application No. 08/494,227
an adapter plate disposed adjacent and in contact with
said front face of said assembly and having a plurality of
openings corresponding in number to said number of ink chamber
openings in said front face of said assembly, said adapter
plate having a front face;
a nozzle plate disposed adjacent and in contact with said
front face of said adapter plate and having a plurality of
nozzle apertures, said nozzle apertures being disposed in said
nozzle plate in columns with one column allocated to each ink
printer module, the nozzle apertures in respectively said
columns being disposed equidistantly from each other in said
column direction and said nozzle apertures being offset from
column-to-column so that no nozzle aperture is aligned with
another nozzle aperture in a direction orthogonal to said
column direction, said apertures having a second dimension;
and
each opening in said adapter plate having a first region
having said first dimension and a second region having said
second dimension and said nozzle openings being disposed in
said adapter plate with said first regions in registry with
said ink chamber openings in said front face of said assembly
and said second regions in registry with said nozzle
apertures.
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Pond et al. (Pond) 5,057,854 Oct. 15,
1991
Kattner DE 3 117 028 Nov. 18,
1982
Suzuki et al. (Suzuki) EP 486 256 May 20,
1992 (European Patent Application)
Claims 1, 3, 4, 6-10, 12 and 13 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Kattner and Suzuki.
Claims 2, 5, 11, and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
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