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Card cleaning roller assembly

  • US 6,582,141 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2001
  • Issued: 06/24/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A cleaning roller assembly cartridge for a printer that feeds a substrate into the printer, comprising a cartridge housing, a cleaning roller rotatably mounted at one end of the cartridge housing about a roller axis for engaging a surface of the substrate to be printed, said cleaning roller having a surface onto which particles will adhere, a pair of spaced film support rollers rotatably supported on the cartridge housing on axes parallel to the roller axis, an endless band of a film having a pressure sensitive adhesive surface mounted on the film support rollers engaging the cleaning roller at a location spaced from a region of engagement of the cleaning roller and the substrate, said film being driven by the cleaning roller and operating to remove debris on the surface of the cleaning roller, and laterally extending studs on the cartridge housing for engaging support members on a printer for removably mounting the cartridge housing on the printer to position the film in contact with the cleaning roller.

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