US 12,285,936 B2
Device, method, and assembly for loading nozzles with fluid
Victor Carey Humberstone, Cambridge (GB); Guy Charles Fernley Newcombe, Cambridge (GB); Daniel Richard Mace, Cambridge (GB); and Gordon Weaver Chapman, Cambridge (GB)
Assigned to Archipelago Technology Group Ltd., Cambridge (GB)
Appl. No. 17/440,610
Filed by ARCHIPELAGO TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD., Cambridge (GB)
PCT Filed Mar. 30, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/059016
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 17, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/193813, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1904365 (GB), filed on Mar. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0161543 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. B41F 9/06 (2006.01); B05C 1/08 (2006.01); B05D 1/28 (2006.01); B41F 9/10 (2006.01)
CPC B41F 9/061 (2013.01) [B05C 1/0813 (2013.01); B05D 1/28 (2013.01); B41F 9/1072 (2013.01); B05C 1/0817 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for loading fluid into one or more nozzles of a cylindrical nozzle-bearing body when the device is assembled into a working configuration with the nozzle-bearing body, the nozzle-bearing body having a body surface defining one or more orifices for receiving the fluid into the one or more nozzles, the device comprising:
a first member having a first surface; and
a second member protruding from the first member, the second member having a second surface and a third surface, the second surface extending from the first surface at an interior angle in a range of 20 degrees to 160 degrees,
wherein the first surface is shaped to substantially complement the shape of the body surface,
wherein a tangent to the third surface, in a region of the third surface proximate to where the second surface meets the third surface, is substantially parallel to a tangent to the first surface, in a region of the first surface where the first surface meets the second surface, when the device is in the working configuration,
wherein the device has a recess defined therein at least in part by the first surface and the second surface, the recess configured to form a pocket for receiving the fluid when the device is assembled into the working configuration, and
wherein the first surface has a cylindrical curvature and is positionable to be substantially concentric with the cylindrical body surface of the nozzle-bearing body and to define an opening with the cylindrical body surface for receiving the fluid when the device is in the working configuration being held proximate to the nozzle-bearing body with the second member protruding toward the cylindrical body surface of the nozzle-bearing body.