Patents by Inventor Thomas Nathaniel Tombs

Thomas Nathaniel Tombs has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20030067529
    Abstract: Apparatus and method of making an ink-jet-ink-derived material image on a receiver. An ink jet device is used to form a coagulable ink image on an intermediate member. Coagulates within the coagulable ink image are formed, and excess liquid is removed from the coagulates so as to form an ink-jet-ink-derived material image. The inkjet-ink-derived image from the operational surface of the intermediate member is transfered to another member, which another member may be a receiver member, a drum or a web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: John Walter May, Arun Chowdry, Thomas Nathaniel Tombs
  • Publication number: 20030067528
    Abstract: Apparatus and method of making an ink-jet-ink-derived material image on a receiver. An ink jet device is used to form a colloidal ink image on a member. The ink for use in the ink jet device includes an aqueous-based colloidal dispersion of particles and a nonaqueous colloidal dispersion of particles. The ink for use in the ink jet device includes an aqueous-based colloidal dispersion of particles, a nonaqueous colloidal dispersion of particles. The particles of the colloidal ink image are caused to become concentrated adjacent an operational surface of the member. Excess liquid is removed from the particles so as to form an ink-jet-ink-derived material image. The ink-jet-ink-derived image is then transferred from the operational surface of the intermediate member to another member, which another member may be a receiver member, a drum or a web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Arun Chowdry, Thomas Nathaniel Tombs, John Walter May
  • Publication number: 20030066751
    Abstract: Apparatus and method of making an ink-jet-ink-derived material image on a receiver. An ink jet device is used to form a coagulable ink image on a member, the ink image including a coagulable marking ink and a non-marking ink. Each smallest resolved imaging area of the ink image includes a predetermined mixed volume of the coagulable marking ink and the non-marking ink, the predetermined mixed volume being coagualable. Coagulates are formed within the coagulable ink image, and excess liquid is removed from the coagulates so as to form an ink-jet-ink-derived material image. The ink-jet-ink-derived image is transferred from the operational surface of the intermediate member to another member, which another member may be a receiver member, a drum or a web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: John Walter May, Arun Chowdry, Thomas Nathaniel Tombs
  • Patent number: 5737677
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a desired image on a receiver are disclosed. The method comprises transferring marking toner particles from an intermediate transfer member to a receiver in the presence of an electric field which urges the marking toner particles toward the receiver. When transferring the marking toner particles to the intermediate transfer member, the surface of the intermediate transfer member contacts non-marking toner particles in some areas which receive marking toner particles. The intermediate transfer member comprises a blanket layer having a Young's modulus of about 10.sup.8 Newtons/m.sup.2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas Nathaniel Tombs, John Walter May, Donald Saul Rimai, Robert E. Zeman