Ink eradicator system

• US 5,649,999 A
• Filed: 04/08/1996
• Issued: 07/22/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Berol Corp (Newell Brands Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Gillette Company (The Procter & Gamble Company)
• Inventors: Wang, Yichun
• Primary Examiner(s): KLEMANSKI, HELENE G
• Application Number:
  US08/629,096
• Time in Patent Office: 470 Days
• Field of Search: 106/22 B, 106/22 D, 106/22 H, 106/32.5
• US Class Current: 106/31.32
• CPC Class Codes: C09D 10/00 Correcting fluids, e.g. fluid media for correction of typographical errors by coating correcting errors by overprinting B41J29/36
• CPC Class Codes: C09D 11/16 Writing inks

Abstract

An ink/eradicator fluid combination includes an ink containing a dye and a binding agent, and an eradicator fluid containing a basic nitrogen compound. The binding agent is capable of binding to the basic nitrogen compound.

Claims

1. An ink and eradicator fluid combination, comprising

an eradicator fluid containing an amine and water, and

an ink containing a dye that decolorizes if contacted with said amine, a binding agent capable of binding said amine, and water.

2. The combination of claim 1, wherein said eradicator fluid further includes a film-forming polymer.

3. The combination of claim 2, wherein said film-forming polymer comprises a polyacrylic acid salt.

4. The combination of claim 2, wherein said eradicator fluid contains between 8% and 10% of said amine by weight, between 15% and 25% of said film-forming polymer by weight, and between 75% and 85% water by weight.

5. The combination of claim 1, wherein said ink further includes a film-forming polymer.

6. The combination of claim 1, wherein said ink contains between 3% and 4% of said dye by weight, between 8% and 12% of said binding agent by weight, and between 75% and 85% water by weight.

7. The combination of claim 5, wherein said film-forming polymer comprises a polyacrylate.

8. The combination of claim 7 wherein the pH of said eradicator fluid is between about 11 and about 12.

9. The combination of claim 1, wherein said dye comprises a triaryl methane.

10. The combination of claim 1, wherein said ink further comprises an organic acid.

11. The combination of claim 1, wherein said binding agent comprises a metal salt.

12. The combination of claim 11, wherein said metal salt comprises a magnesium salt.

13. The combination of claim 12, wherein said magnesium salt comprises magnesium sulfate.

14. The combination of claim 11, wherein said metal salt comprises a zinc salt.

15. The combination of claim 14, wherein said zinc salt comprises zinc sulfate.

16. The combination of claim 1, wherein said amine comprises sodium glycinate.

17. The combination of claim 1, wherein said eradicator fluid has an eradication time of less than 3 seconds.

18. The combination of claim 1, wherein said eradicator fluid has a write-over time of less than 10 seconds.

19. The combination of claim 1, wherein said ink has a surface tension of between 35 dynes/cm and 40 dynes/cm, and said eradicator fluid has a surface tension of between 25 dynes/cm and 35 dynes/cm.

20. An eradicatible ink, comprising a dye that decolorizes when said ink is contacted with an 8% by weight in water sodium glycinate solution, a metal salt capable of complexing with sodium glycinate, and water.

21. The eradicatible ink of claim 20, wherein said ink further comprises a non-volatile organic acid.

22. The eradicatible ink of claim 20, wherein said metal salt comprises a salt selected from the group consisting of magnesium salts and zinc salts.

23. A method of eradicating an ink marking on a substrate, comprising

applying to said substrate an ink comprising a dye that decolorizes if contacted with an amine, a binding agent capable of binding said amine, and water, to provide a marking on said substrate, and

applying to said marking an eradicator fluid comprising said amine and water, said amine causing said dye to decolorize.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein said binding agent comprises a metal salt.

25. A method of providing a marking, comprising

applying an eradicator fluid containing an amine and water to a substrate to provide an eradicator fluid coating on said substrate, and

applying to said eradicator fluid coating an ink containing a dye that decolorizes if contacted with said amine, a binding agent capable of binding to said amine, and water.