US 11,850,389 B2
Ink supply unit for a tattooing device
Giulio Simeone, Padua (IT); and Antonio Trani, Dueville (IT)
Assigned to Plus System S.R.L.S., Pordenone (IT)
Appl. No. 17/266,276
Filed by Plus System S.R.L.S., Pordenone (IT)
PCT Filed Sep. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/058161
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/065567, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102018000008997 (IT), filed on Sep. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0299423 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 37/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 37/0084 (2013.01) [A61M 2205/071 (2013.01); A61M 2205/123 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A unit for supplying ink to the needles of a tattooing device, said device comprising a handling unit which comprises:
a grip;
a removable tip provided at one end with one or more tattooing needles;
a coupling element configured to connect said grip and said tip to each other;
drive means operatively associated with said grip to move said needles, by imparting a reciprocating rectilinear motion to them;
an air movement unit driven by said drive means and mechanically connected to said handling unit;
at least one tank for containing the ink, operatively associated with said handling unit,
wherein said air movement unit is configured to push the air moved by said drive means towards said at least one tank, said at least one tank for containing the ink communicating with said air movement unit by means of valve means, in which, once conveyed into said at least one tank by means of said valve means, the air forces the ink to be dispensed from said at least one tank onto said needles.