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|Aug 31, 1999
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|Oct 27, 1997
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|Jun 19, 1997
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|Dean Robert Gary Anderson
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|Anderson; Dean Robert Gary
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|Patent Citations (23), Non-Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (26), Classifications (31), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/878,650, filed Jun. 19, 1997 now pending.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to an apparatus used for digital painting or printing and, more specifically, to an apparatus that employs a metering device for metering a quantity of paint to be deposited on a surface to be painted or printed and that deposits the metered quantity of paint or other pigmented liquid material on the surface.
2. Background of the Invention
As computer technology has advanced, the ability to view high resolution graphics on a computer monitor or other visual display device has improved, and the capacity to reproduce these high resolution graphics onto a tangible medium has improved in both resolution, quality, and speed. One of the more significant and lucrative color printer technologies to be developed in recent years is the ink jet printer, which mixes several colors, typically cyan, magenta, yellow and black, on the print medium (e.g., paper) to form a color image. Conventional ink jet printing heads include a plurality of nozzles and thermal elements. Ink is expelled from the nozzles in a jet by bubble pressure created by heating the ink with the thermal elements while the nozzles and thermal elements are in close proximity. One such ink jet printing head, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,121,143 to Hayamizu, includes a thermal head member having at least one thermal element consisting of a plurality of thermal dot elements and a plurality of electrodes of different widths connected to each thermal element whereby different widths of heated portions of the thermal element are obtainable to vary the amount of ink jetted in one dot. Another such ink jet printing head is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,731,621 to Hayamizu et al.
Another type of print head is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,764,780 to Yamamori et al. in which an ink ejection recording apparatus includes a plurality of ink ejection heads connected to an ink tank. Each of the ink ejection heads have an ink nozzle through which minute ink droplets are discharged in accordance with an electric signal. An air nozzle opposing the ink nozzle and adapted for forming an air stream accelerates the ink droplets toward a recording medium.
A conventional airbrush is manufactured by the Paasche Airbrush Co. In Harwood Heights, Ill. The airbrush employs a reciprocating needle that retrieves paint from a reservoir and exposes the paint on the needle to a jet of air. The paint is blown from the needle and onto a print medium. Metering of the paint, however, is manually controlled by pressing a finger lever to allow air to flow through the airbrush.
Typical desk top ink jet printers for home or office use are relatively inexpensive but are usually limited to printing on standard office size sheets of paper, such as 81/2�11 or similar standard sizes. Printers that can accommodate larger formats such as poster-sized sheets, however, are currently thousands of dollars to purchase. Printing machines that can print billboard-sized sheets are typically tens of thousands of dollars to purchase.
Some wide format printers are able to accommodate 16 feet or wider substrates, such as films, paper, vinyl, and the like, and can print 300 ft2 per hour, depending on the resolution of the print. Such machines sometimes employ piezo printhead technology that employs several printheads per color with numerous nozzles per printhead to deposit ink onto the print medium. Another approach is to employ air brush technology in which inks are metered by valves and/or pumps and deposited onto the substrate. The quantity of ink pumped for each color and the position at which it is deposited on the print medium is typically computer controlled. The print medium is typically provided on a roll in which unmarked medium is fed under the print head and printed medium is re-rolled once the ink has had sufficient time to dry. Large format printers using air brush technology typically have a resolution of up to 70 dpi.
In addition to the cost of the machine itself, which employs relatively small orifices, valves and nozzles for depositing the desired quantity and color of ink on the print medium (e.g., paper), very fine grade inks are used in which particle sizes within the inks are kept to a minimum to help keep the orifices, valves, and nozzles of the ink system from becoming clogged. Such inks are expensive and are not very cost effective for painting or printing billboard sized images. Despite the high quality and expense of ink products, clogging of the printhead is still a problem in current printer technologies.
Many large format printers also use water-based inks that may not be suitable for outdoor use. Accordingly, special waterproofing systems and techniques must be employed, such as treating the printing medium with a substance that binds with the ink once deposited to form a waterproof mark or laminating the print with a weatherproof film. These weatherproofing techniques and processes add expense to the cost of each print.
Thus, it would be advantageous to provide a paint injector or print head employed in a digital printer that does not include orifices and/or nozzles through which the ink or paint must flow and, thus, is not limited by paint particle size or large particle contamination and is relatively insensitive to the physical properties of the paint. It would also be advantageous to provide a device that can utilize paints and inks already designed for the sign and art industries and that can be employed to digitally print on large format media.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a paint injector that can print with many forms of liquid printing materials such as paints and inks.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a paint injector that is relatively simple in construction and relatively inexpensive to manufacture.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a paint injector in which the liquid printing material is metered through computer control.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a plurality of paint injectors in a print head, each paint injector containing a different color, and employing the print head to create a digital image on a print medium.
Accordingly, a paint injector is provided comprising an air nozzle that directs one or more jets of air across a moving member, the member having ink, paint, or other similarly pigmented liquid material disposed thereon. The air pulls the paint from the member and directs it onto a print medium, such as paper, vinyl, film, or other print media known in the art. Preferably, the member is an elongated segment of material that is advanced in front of the air jet or jets by at least one wheel around which the segment is at least partially disposed. Thus, as the segment is advanced in front of the air jet or jets, paint thereon is blown off of the segment and onto the print medium.
In a preferred embodiment, a single wire strand is employed to bring ink or paint contained within a reservoir in proximity with an air stream where it is carried to a print medium. A microprocessor or other controlling device controls the wire so that the speed of the wire's advance through the air stream meters the quantity of paint injected into the air stream. As the wire is advanced through the reservoir, a coating of paint clings to the wire, the thickness of the coating being controlled to a degree by the viscosity of the paint. In addition, a mechanical metering device, such as a scraper riding proximate to or in contact with the wire as it is advanced, may be employed to control the thickness or amount of paint on the wire before it enters the air stream. The wire, having a coating of paint thereon, is then drawn into close proximity to one or more jets of air. As the paint on the wire reaches the jet or jets of air, it is pulled or blown from the wire and into the air stream until it impacts the print medium. In order to keep the wire positioned in front of the air stream, a wire guide may be employed proximate to the air nozzle to prevent the wire from being forced away from the air stream and to reduce vibration of the wire in the air stream.
The wire is preferably drawn through the paint reservoir and thus coated with paint by being disposed at least partially around a pulley or wheel driven by a motor and at least partially around a rotatable or stationary idler or guide that is at least partially immersed in paint or other pigmented liquid material. A processor, controller, microprocessor, processor, or other computing device, controls the advance of the motor and thus movement of the wire. In addition, the processor controls movement of the paint injector or injectors as it is swept across a print medium. By utilizing a plurality of paint injectors in a print head, each containing a different color of paint, and by controlling and coordinating the metering of the paint and the position of the print head, as with error diffusion, stochastic screening, or blue noise algorithms as known in the art, a digital image can be created on the print medium.
FIG. 1A is a front view of a first preferred embodiment of a paint injector in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 1B is a side view of the paint injector illustrated in FIG. 1A;
FIG. 2 is a perspective side view of a scraping device in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 3A is a cross-sectional top view of a nozzle body in accordance with the present invention;
FIGS. 3B-3F are front views of five preferred embodiments of nozzle orifice configurations in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic side view of a second embodiment of a paint injector in accordance with the present invention; and
FIG. 5 is a back view of a printing device employing a print head having a plurality of paint injectors in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 1A illustrates a preferred embodiment of an single color paint injector, generally indicated at 300, in accordance with the present invention for selectively and controllably depositing paint, ink, dye, or other liquified pigmented material onto a print medium. The paint injector 300 is preferably attached to a frame or plate 301 shown in partial view to which a plurality of such paint injectors may be secured. The paint injector 300 comprises a segment of material such as a single strand of wire 302 (e.g., steel music wire, stainless steel, spring metal, nickel/titanium alloy, and/or other metals and alloys or of such materials as kevlar, graphite, nylon or other materials that are flexible and have a substantially high tensile strength), a wire hoop or loop as made from an endless cable or formed by photo etching techniques from flat sheet/shim stock, a band, a ribbon, or a relatively thin structure having material windable from a freely rotatable idler, spool or wheel onto a drive spool or wheel, or any other structure upon which liquified pigmented material could be applied. The wire 302 is drawn in front of a nozzle body 200, and more specifically, in the path of an air stream emanating from a pair of nozzle orifices 204 and 206 defined in the nozzle body 200.
An air supply hose 42 is secured to the nozzle body 200 and supplies air through the nozzle orifices 204 and 206. The nozzle orifices 204 and 206 are aimed at a segment of the wire 302 passing thereby. A wire guide 210 defining a longitudinal slot 212 is positioned proximate the nozzle orifice 204. The wire 302 rides within the slot 212 and is thus held in relative position to the nozzle orifices 204 and 206 so that air passing therethrough does not substantially move the wire 302 from in front of the nozzle orifices 204 and 206 or cause the wire 302 to substantially vibrate.
In this embodiment, the wire 302 is both advanced by and taken up by a single wheel 304. The wire 302 is fed from the wheel 304 into a container or paint reservoir 306, at least partially around a rotatable or stationary idler or guide 308, through the wire guide 210, at least partially around a rotatable or stationary wire biasing idler or guide 310, and rewound upon the wheel 304. The guide 308 is comprised of a substantially cylindrical wheel 250 rotatably attached to a base 252. The wheel 250 is rotatable upon the axil 260, in this embodiment formed from a #10-32 socket head screw comprised of teflon/delrin. Likewise, the guide 308 may comprise a non-cylindrical, non-rotatable member having a groove or slot therein in which the elongate segment of material, in this embodiment a wire 302, can slide upon rotation of the wheel 304. A plurality of projections or paddles 258 are attached to or formed integral with a shaft 260 attached to the wheel 250. These paddles 258 mix the paint contained in the reservoir 306 as the wheel 250 rotates by movement of the wire 302 through the circumferential groove 262. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the paddles 258 may comprise fins or other protuberances or may be configured as slots or grooves in the surface 261 of the wheel 250 in order to create an irregular surface.
The guide 308 is maintained in position within the reservoir 306 by an elongate member 254 depending from a frame or plate 330. The elongate member 254 is secured to the plate 330 through a scraper attachment member 332. The guide 308 is secured to a distal end 253 of the elongate member 254.
The wire 302 is secured to the wheel 304 at both ends 312 and 314 as with threaded fasteners 316 and 318, respectively, or other means known in the art. The wire 302 passes through a larger aperture 315 to the other side of the wheel 304 and is wound onto the wheel 304 from the feed end 314 of the wire 302, around the various components of the injector 300, through a smaller aperture 317, and secured back to the wheel 304 at the take-up end 312. Preferably the wire 302 is comprised of a single strand having a diameter of approximately 0.005 to 0.006 inches in diameter, although wires of other dimensions may work equally as well, and is of a length that can be wrapped around the wheel 304 several times.
As better seen in FIG. 1B, which shows a side view of the paint injector 300 of FIG. 1A, the wheel 304 defines two circumferential grooves 320 and 322. The first circumferential groove 320 defines the feed side of the wheel 304 while the groove 322 defines the take-up side. An electronically controllable drive mechanism, such as a motor 324, is employed to rotate the wheel 304 and thus advance the wire 302. The motor 324 may be a stepper motor, a DC motor, or other device known in the art in which rotational advancement of the wheel 304 can be selectively and/or incrementally controlled. The motor 324 is preferably electronically connected to and controlled by a processor or controller, generally indicated at 350, comprising an electronics module 326 and a signal generating device 352, such as a personal computer employing a microprocessor or other devices that can generate discrete signals to instruct selective rotation of the shaft 303 of the motor 324. The circuitry of the electronics module 326 receives one or more signals from the device 352 and rotates the shaft 303 of the motor according the signal(s). Those skilled in the art will recognize that such circuitry could be incorporated into the device 352 or that the components of the device 352 could be incorporated into the module 326. In the case where the motor 324 is a stepper motor, the signal(s) is sent in the form of one or more electrical pulses, each pulse designating a single step or a certain number of steps that the shaft 303 of the stepper motor 324 is to be rotated. A typical stepper motor provides 200 steps per revolution with each step being activated by a voltage in the range of 0.2 to 5 volts, depending on the voltage requirement of the motor. Thus, if it is desired to deposit the quantity of paint drawn by the wire 302 in one half of a revolution of the wheel 304, 100 pulses would be sent by the device 352, the module 326 would convert each pulse into a voltage depending on the voltage requirement of the stepper motor 304 sufficient to cause the stepper motor 324 to rotate its shaft 303 one step, and the shaft 303 would rotate 100 steps. A power supply line 370 may be connected to the module 326 to provide the requisite voltage to turn the shaft 303 of the motor 324. A preferred way of driving the motor 324 is to perform all shaft 303 advances for the paint injector 300 by time calculations made by the device 352 thereby eliminating the need for a calculating device within the paint injector 300 itself. Such time calculations may employ error diffusion, stochastic screening, or blue noise algorithms as are known in the art. Thus, all wire 302 advances for the same color of paint, in addition to spatial motions of the paint injector 300 relative to the print medium for depositing the metered paint at relatively precise locations, can be made by the device 352 driving logic lines connected to the module 326 driving the motor 324. If a DC servo motor is employed, the signal sent from the device 352 would be converted into a voltage by the module 326 necessary to rotate the shaft 303 of the DC motor a desired portion of a rotation, and a feedback device, such as an optical encoder, would be employed by the module 326 to control the precise rotation. It is also contemplated that a crude metering of paint could be accomplished by simply providing a timed duration of power to a motor without feedback.
When the motor 324 is activated to advance the wire 302 by electronics 326, the wire passes through a first bore or slit 328 extending through the nozzle body 200, through a second bore 327 defined in and extending through a frame or plate 330. The plate 330 is employed to support the electronics 326, elongated support member 329 that supports the reservoir 306, and a scraper attachment member 332. The reservoir is maintained in position relative to the elongated support member 329 by a small plate 371 abutting the bottom surface 372 of the reservoir 306. The small plate 371 is secured to the distal end 374 of the elongated support member 329 with an internally threaded fastener 376 which is threaded onto an externally threaded shaft 378 secured to the distal end 374 of the elongated support member 329. In addition, the elongated support member 329 includes a flange 388 depending from the distal end 374 such that the fastener 376 biases the small plate 371 against the surface 374 of the reservoir 306. Other configurations of reservoirs and containers and means of attaching such containers relative to the plate 330 are also contemplated without departing from the spirit of the present invention. In addition, it is also contemplated that a reservoir may not be required if the pigmented material being deposited is dribbled or otherwise applied, as by wiping across a paint soaked pad, to the wire 302. A scraper attachment member 332 provides both a foundation for attachment of the elongated support member 253, to which the idler or guide 308 is attached, and a scraper device 334 comprised of a pair of elongated plates, only one 336 of which is visible.
As better shown in FIG. 2, the elongate plates 336 and 337 are maintained in substantially parallel relationship proximate to the top edge 390 of the reservoir 306, represented by dashed lines. The plates 336 and 337 are each provided with a slot 394 and 396 for securement to the scraper attachment member 332 illustrated in FIGS. 1A and 1B. As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, the scraper attachment member 332 is preferably comprised of a block attached to the plate 330. The plates 336 and 337 are secured to the block 332 by a small plate 331, which spreads the clamping force across the plates 336 and 337 and a screw 333, such as a 10-32 socket head screw, which passes through the slots 394 and 396 securing the plates 331, 336, and 337 to the block 332. Preferably the plates 336 and 337 are comprised of metal, such as spring steel, having a thickness of approximately 0.013 inches. The wire 302 passes between the plates 336 and 337 of the scraper device 334 proximate a first end 338, is fed around the idler or guide 308 (see FIG. 1B) and through the scraper device 334 a second time proximate a second end 340 thereof. The passage of the wire 302 through the scraper device 334 at the second end 340 wipes a substantial amount of paint from the wire 302 and provides a uniform coating of paint on the wire 302. The thickness of the paint remaining on the wire 302 may be adjusted by providing a spacer 392 between the plates 336 and 337 of the scraper device 334. For example, the spacer 392 could be provided having a thickness of 0.006 inches at the clamped point between the plates 336 and 337 to accommodate a wire 302 having a diameter of 0.006 inches in order to limit wear of the wire 302 but substantially control the amount of paint retained by the wire 302 after passage through the scraper 334. The paint wiped from the wire 302 by the scraper device 334 will accumulate on the scraper device 334 and drip back into the reservoir 306. The remaining paint will be removed from the wire 302 by the air jets passing through the nozzle orifices.
Referring again to FIG. 1B, the wire 302 passes in front of the nozzle body 200 and is held relative thereto by the wire guide 210. As illustrated, the wire guide 210 holds the wire a desired distance D, such as about 0.040 inches, from the nozzle body 200 and thus the nozzle orifices (not visible). In addition, the wire guide 210, in conjunction with the biased wire guide 310 keeps tension on the wire 302 in front of the nozzle orifices by imparting a bend to the wire at the wire guide 210 and thus holds the wire in relative position to the nozzle orifices.
By providing a rotatable wire biasing guide 310, wire tension on both sides of the biasing guide 310 may be maintained on the wire 302 as the wire 302 is unwound and rewound onto the wheel 304. This may prevent the wire 302 from pulling down unequally on the spring 342 and the wire from jumping out of the biasing guide 310. The biasing guide 310 is important because the length of the wire 302 extending between the groove 320 and the groove 322 will vary as the wire 302 is wound and unwound between the two grooves 320 and 322. The guide 310 is secured to an elongated guide support member 341 formed into a ninety-degree elbow configuration. As such, the guide 310 is positioned to feed the wire 302 to near the center of the groove 322. Of course, the guide 310 may be positioned at other points along the path of the wire 302 in order to maintain tension on the wire 302. The support member 341 is secured to the frame or plate 301 in a manner that allows the support member 341 to move (e.g., slide) in directions indicated by the arrow. A biasing device 342, such as a coil spring positioned around the support member 341, is employed to bias the guide 310 away from the wheel 304. Accordingly, depending on the spring force of the biasing device 342, a desired tension can be maintained in the wire 302 during operation of the injector 300. Those skilled in the art will understand that other biasing devices or members and support structures may be employed to maintain tension in the wire 302 during the course of operation of the device.
Of course, only a limited amount of wire 302 can necessarily be wound onto the wheel 304. While it may be possible to provide enough wire 302 that one pass of the wire from the groove 320 to the groove 322 is sufficient to complete an entire printing application, it is more likely the case, especially for a print job of any substantial extent, that the wire 302 will be required to be rewound into the groove 320 during the course of printing. It is preferred that the wire 302 be rewound after each pass of the injector 300 over the print medium. In a rewind cycle, the scraper device 334 provides secondary wiping of the wire 302 as it passes through the scraper device 334 and onto the wheel 304 in groove 320. It is noted that while the scraper device 334 which provides both wiping of the wire 302 when the wire is being advanced and wiping of the wire 302 when it is being rewound could be comprised of two separate scraping devices. The secondary wiping of the wire is obviously important because the wire 302 is recoated with paint as it is drawn through the paint reservoir 306. The bore 328 provides a wire guide to align the wire 302 with the groove 320. In addition, it is preferable that the bore 328 be of a smaller size than the bore 327 such that a wiping device 344 be provided around the wire 302 in the bore 327. Preferably the wiping device 344 is comprised of a string of material, such as dental floss, tied in a knot around the wire 302 that is of a size that it cannot pass through the bore 328 or through the scraper device 334. Preferably, such a knot is formed by wrapping the string of material three or four times around the wire 302 and tying the ends tightly together. Of course, those skilled in the art will recognize that other wiping devices could be employed, such as sponges and other fabrics and materials that can substantially wipe any remaining paint from the wire 302. The wiper device 344 substantially removes the remaining paint from the wire 302 as it is rewound into the groove 320 in order to keep groove 320 substantially free of paint.
As shown in FIG. 1A, in operation, paint or other pigmented liquid material contained in the container 306 is picked up by the wire 302 and advanced by rotation of the wheel 304, indicated by the arrow, in front of the nozzle orifices 204 and 206. In order to help control the speed of rotation of the wheel 304, a series of gears, wheels, belts, or combinations thereof may be employed between the shaft 303 of the motor (see FIG. 1B) and the wheel 304. Air being blown through the nozzle orifices 204 and 206 disperses or pulls paint from the wire 302 toward the painting surface. Depending on the viscosity of the paint, the cross-sectional diameter of the wire 302, the use of a mechanical scraping device, and the diameter of the wheel 304 formed by the groove in which the wire 302 resides, a relatively precise amount of paint can be effectively metered by relatively precisely rotating the shaft 303. Such an apparatus may produce images having a resolution of approximately 100 dpi or better, which is more than adequate for larger format prints such as poster-size, billboard-size, and the like. The force of the air stream upon the wire 302 removes the remaining quantity of paint on the wire 302 in such a manner as to produce a relatively clean wire 302 for engagement with the wheel 304. Thus, the wire 302 can be wound upon the wheel 302 without the wheel 304 becoming filled or otherwise obstructed with paint. While an air stream has been described as the preferred vehicle for transporting the paint from the wire 302 to a print medium, it is also contemplated that other fluid streams, such as thinner or other materials known in the art, may be employed or mixed with air or another gas to transport the paint from the wire 302 to a print medium.
The nozzle body 200 is shown in cross-section in FIG. 3A and includes an air supply connector 59 and two orifices 204 and 206, only one of which is visible, that produce low pressure zones 61 and 63 on both sides of the wire 302 and thus draw the paint 65 from the wire 302 into the air stream 67. The low pressure zones 61 and 63 also help keep the wire 302 centrally located in front of the nozzle orifices 204 and 206 by providing substantially equal pressure on both sides of the wire 302. Preferably, the orifices 204 and 206 each have a diameter of approximately 0.014 inches and a length of 0.050 inches. While a two nozzle configuration has been illustrated, various other nozzle configurations may be equally effective for removing the paint 65 from the wire 302 while reducing spray or divergence of the paint within the air stream 67 and are thus contemplated within the scope of the present invention.
Spatter created by the paint 65 impacting the print medium 69 and by turbulent flow of air around the wire 302 may be controlled by controlling the pressure of air supplied to the orifices 204 and 206, and thus the velocity of the air stream 67. For orifices 204 and 206 as described, an air pressure of approximately 10 psi would be sufficient to direct the paint 65 toward the print medium 69 and substantially clean the wire 302 while minimizing spatter. Higher pressures of 80 psi or more may have equal utility depending on the distance of the wire 302 from the print medium 69, the quantity of paint 65 on the wire 302, and the diameter of the orifices 204 and 206.
FIG. 3B illustrates a front view of the nozzle body 200 which has a substantially cylindrical nozzle insert 202 secured within an opening 201 thereof. The nozzle insert 202 defines the two orifices 204 and 206 therein oriented in substantial alignment with the wire 302. Of course, the two orifices 204 and 206 may be integrally formed with the nozzle body 200. A wire guide 210 is secured to or integrally formed with the nozzle body 200 and defines an elongated slot 212 therein having a length sufficient to guide and stabilize the wire 302 in front of the nozzle orifices 204 and 206. As paint or other pigmented liquid material is drawn in front of the nozzle insert 202, air flowing through the first nozzle orifice 204 removes a substantial amount of paint or pigmented liquid material that has been applied to the wire 302 and disperses the paint onto a print medium. The second nozzle orifice 206 removes substantially all of the remaining paint or pigmented liquid material from the wire 302. Utilizing such a nozzle orifice configuration has been discovered to be important in reducing the amount of splatter that can occur after some period of painting. Paint that would otherwise remain on the wire 208 after passing through the air stream of the nozzle orifice 204 or that is blown upwardly onto the wire guide 210, may accumulate on the lower edge 214 of the wire guide 210. If a sufficient amount of paint or pigmented liquid material is present on the lower edge 214 to form a droplet, the droplet will eventually fall into or be drawn into the air stream depositing a splatter of paint onto the print medium. By providing the second nozzle orifice 206 to remove any remaining paint from the wire 208 and to capture paint directed in an upward direction from the first nozzle orifice 204 that may otherwise be deposited on the wire guide 210, an accumulation of paint does not occur on the lower edge 214 and splattering is substantially reduced and/or prevented, increasing the quality and resolution of the print. Of course more nozzle orifices could be provided, such as three orifices 220, 221, and 222 as illustrated in FIG. 3C, four orifices 225, 226, 227, and 228 as depicted in FIG. 3D to provide efficient paint removal and stabilization of the wire, a single elongated slot orifice 230 as shown in FIG. 3E, or a single cross-shaped orifice 232 as illustrated in FIG. 3F.
While, as previously discussed, a single wheel may be employed to advance and take-up the wire, as schematically illustrated in FIG. 4, it is equally plausible that two wheels 500 and 502 may be employed to advance the wire 504 in front of an air stream 506 emanating from a nozzle body 508. Accordingly, the wheel 500 could advance the wire 504 during the printing sequence and the wheel 502 could rewind the wire at the end of each printing cycle.
Referring now to FIG. 5, a digital printing device 120 employing a plurality of paint injectors, in this example five (5) paint injectors 122, 123, 124, 125, and 126, such as the paint injectors herein described, is attached to a moveable carriage 128. Each paint injector 122, 123, 124, 125, and 126 contains a different color of paint comprising a multi-color print head 121. Of course, more or less paint injectors may be employed depending on the needs of the user. For example, paint injector 122 may contain yellow, paint injector 123 may contain magenta, paint injector 124 may contain cyan, paint injector 125 may contain black, and paint injector 126 may contain white. Because the print medium is typically white, white paint is not used as a standard color in conventional printheads. Standard process colors include yellow, magenta, cyan, and black. Having white paint added to the mix of colors, however, allows a graphics artist to manually add detail to a wet print without "mudding" the colors or the image. It is also contemplated that more or fewer paint injectors may be included with various colors contained therein depending on the desired colors of print to be produced.
To selectively move the carriage 128 in an x-direction, the carriage 128 is mounted on a pair of shafts 130 and 132, preferably 1 inch round shafts, with linear bearings 134, 135, and 136 that allow the carriage 128 to relatively easily slide along the shafts 130 and 132. A motor 133, such as a stepper motor, controlled by x-drive electronics 138 and having a sprocket 137 attached to the shaft 140 thereof is employed to move the carriage 128 along the shafts 130 and 132. The sprocket 137, in conjunction with freely rotatable sprockets or idlers 139 and 141, engages with the drive chain 142 (shown in dashed lines) to move the carriage 128 along the shafts 130 and 132. The drive chain 142 as well as the shafts 130 and 132 are fixed between a left support assembly 144 and a right support assembly 146. It is also contemplated that the motor 133 be mounted on either the left assembly 144 or right assembly 146 or some other structure to lower the mass of the carriage 128. Such a motor would then drive a moveable chain or belt to position the carriage 128 at the desired location.
To selectively move the carriage 128 in a z-direction, the entire printing device 120 is mounted to an overhead structure such as a ceiling 148 with bracket assemblies 150 and 152. The left bracket assembly 150 supports a pair of left z-drive roller chains 154 (only the closest of which is visible) and the right bracket assembly 152 supports a pair of right z-drive roller chains 156 (only the closest of which is visible). A freely rotatable sprocket 158 is mounted to the right assembly 146 and engages one of the right z-drive roller chains 156. Similarly, on the opposite side of the right assembly 146, another freely rotatable sprocket mounted to the right assembly 146 engages the other of the z-drive roller chains 156. Likewise, a freely rotatable sprocket 160 is mounted to the left assembly 144 and engages one of the left z-drive roller chains 154 and another freely rotatable sprocket on the opposite side of the left assembly 144 engages the other of the left z-drive roller chains 154. Both the left z-drive roller chains 154 and the right z-drive roller chains 156 engage with z-drive sprockets 162 (four in all, only the closest of which is visible) and have weights 164, (four in all, only the closest of which is visible) suspended from their distal ends 166 and 168, respectively, to keep the chains 154 and 156 taut around the sprockets 162. Similar to the x-drive assembly, the sprockets 162 are driven by a motor 170, such as a stepper motor, that engages with a worm gear unit 172 as is known in the art to transfer rotational movement of the motor 170 to the sprockets 162 and thus move the left and right assemblies 144 and 146 and thus the carriage 128 in a z-direction. Chain guards, such as chain guard 174, may be utilized near the sprockets 162 to maintain engagement of the chains 154 and 156 with the sprockets 162. Likewise, as illustrated by dashed lines, other freely rotatable sprockets 190 may be employed to direct the chains 154 and 156 around a larger portion of the sprockets 162 and thus prevent the chains 154 and 156 from skipping or falling from the sprockets 162. A retaining rod 192 may also be employed to help maintain the chains 154 and 156 in engaging contact with the freely rotatable sprockets 190.
In order to keep the print head 121 from swaying either away from a print medium 179 or from side to side, a track 181 may be vertically oriented and secured to the structure 183, such as a wall or frame, to which the print medium 179 is temporarily secured. As shown in DETAIL A, the track 181 has a J-shaped cross-section into which a guide member 185 can engage and slide therethrough. In this preferred embodiment, the guide member 185 is comprised of a threaded bolt having its head 187 retained by the track 181 and its shaft 189 secured to the right assembly 146. Accordingly, movement of the right assembly 146 is restricted from moving away from the print medium 179 or toward the left assembly 144. Similarly, a second track 191, having an opposite orientation to the track 181, is secured to the structure 183 to restrict movement of the left assembly 144 from moving away from the print medium 179 or toward the right assembly 146. Those skilled in the art will recognize that other track and guide member assemblies could be employed to maintain the printing device 120 in position relative to the print medium 179, such as a single C-shaped track and retaining member arrangement.
In operation, the print medium 179 is positioned in front of the digital painting device 120 and a controller 180, such as a computer, sends signals to the painting device 120 to direct movement of the print head 121 and dispersion of paint from the paint injectors 122, 123, 124, 125, and 126 to form an image on the print medium 179. More specifically, signals from the controller 180 are sent to the z-drive electronics 182 which in turn convert the signals into movement of the sprocket 162 along the chains 154 and 156 corresponding to the desired z-direction position of the print head 121. Likewise, signals from the controller 180 are sent to the x-drive electronics 138 corresponding to the desired x-direction position of the print head 121 along the shafts 130 and 132. The controller 180 also individually controls each of the paint injectors 122, 123, 124, 125, and 126 to deposit the desired color of paint on the print medium 179 at the desired location. Thus, the printable image size of the printing device 120 is only limited by the length of the chains 154, 156, and 142 and the length of the shafts 130 and 132.
The present invention also contemplates that the print head 121, or individual paint injectors 122, 123, 124, 125, and 126 could be employed with other digital printing devices known in the art for digital painting purposes. For example, the print head 121 could be employed in a device where movement of the print head is along an x-axis while a roll of print medium, such as vinyl, is selectively advanced relative to the print head 121 to affect movement along the y- or z-axis. With such a device, the size of print medium may only be limited by the size of the roll of print medium. Likewise, a rigid frame to which the print head, according to the present invention, can be mounted and upon which the print head could be selectively moved could also be employed to allow z- and x-direction movement or x- and y-direction movement of the print head, depending on the orientation of the frame.
It is also contemplated that a digital printer, such as the digital painting device 120 illustrated in FIG. 5, may be comprised of a single paint injector. Such a machine may be employed to create both monochromatic and multiple color prints. For example, full color prints may be generated by printing each process color individually with a single injector. Accordingly, the injector could print the full image for a particular color separation (e.g. cyan). The injector would then, preferably, be cleaned and filled with another color (e.g. black). The processing device would be instructed as to which color is present in the injector, and the full image for that color separation would be printed. The process would be repeated for each of the other necessary or desired colors (e.g., white, magenta, and yellow) until the image is complete. Such a single injector device would be less expensive to manufacture as requiring fewer injectors to manufacture and would produce the same or comparable quality of prints.
In general, the invention comprises digitally controlling the immersion of an extracting device into paint and the advancement of the once immersed and now coated extracting device in front of a stream of air to remove the paint from the extracting device and deposit it onto a print medium. It is noted that while references are made to paint in the specification and claims, the term is intended to encompass inks, dyes, and any other liquid pigmented material that can be deposited on a surface for printing or painting purposes. Moreover, references to the term "wire" in the specification and claims is intended to encompass a cord, strand, thread, string, ribbon, filament, cable, line, band, belt, strap, or any other elongated segment of material whether in a loop or not and whether in a flexible, resilient, stretchable, or more rigid form. In addition, it is to be understood that the above-described embodiments are only illustrative of the application of the principles of the present invention. Numerous modifications and alternatives may be devised by those skilled in the art, including combinations of the various embodiments, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The appended claims are intended to cover such modifications, alternative arrangements, and combinations.
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From the streets of Chicago to the far-flung galaxies whirling through space, this film tells the story of Jupiter Jones, who was born under a night sky, with signs predicting she was destined for great things.
Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along-her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.
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JAMIE Murray marked the 10th anniversary of his Wimbledon mixed doubles win by lifting the trophy for a second time yesterday. The Scot and Martina Hingis saw off defending champions Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen 6-4, 6-4 as Murray took his Grand Slam total to four, with two mixed doubles successes and two in men's doubles.
Murray was the star of the show and he earned the first break with a dart across the net, but a poor game from his Swiss partner allowed England's Watson and Finland's Kontinen instantly to hit back.
Another Murray intervention sealed a second break for 4-3 and this time they served out when the Scot hammered away a smash.
The second set was close until the seventh game when Watson's serve came under pressure.
A stinging Hingis return set up two break points, and she and Murray converted the second when Watson chipped a short ball into the net.
Serving for the match, Murray and Hingis faced two break points after a pair of punching Watson returns and then a third as Kontinen fired away a pass.
But each was saved and when Watson flashed wide a smash, all that was left was for a booming Murray serve to finish off. Murray said the atmosphere was "a bit strange", given the presence of the two home players.
He added: "It's a great success for British tennis to have two in the final. I had a great week, we played a lot of amazing tennis, especially in the final. I knew we would have to play a good match if we wanted to have a chance to win and we were able to do that."
Hingis, 36, who won the women's singles title at SW19 in 1997, the women's doubles on three occasions and the mixed two years ago with India's Leander Paes, said: "I'm really happy I contacted Jamie before Wimbledon started. I'm really happy how we played.
"You talked about how one British player was going to win Wimbledon this year and I hoped it was going to be mine."
Murray, who won the title with Jelena Jankovic in 2007, had made Hingis sweat over her request to play together, after she texted him before the start of the tournament.
Hingis said: "He left me hanging overnight. I was like, 'Oh my God, did he read it? Did he not?' It worked out, definitely."
Murray was also trying to win his third major in men's doubles alongside Bruno Soares – the pair went out in the second round – and the Scot said he would have said no to any other mixed doubles partner. "The men's doubles for me is obviously my biggest goal of the year," Murray said."It's going to take something pretty special to potentially take my eye off the ball with it."
The pair said they had not yet discussed extending their partnership for future tournaments but they formed a potent team, winning the title without dropping a single set.
"I really enjoyed the whole week. It's a great achievement," Murray said.
"Any time you win a Grand Slam and get your name up on the board again, it's there forever.
No-one will take it away from you."


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|14,000 Holy Infants (Feast Day - December 29)
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The Fourteen Thousand Holy Children of Bethlehem (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)
14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) Slain by Herod in Bethlehem
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non-tilt window channel balance
A quick learner from Valencia, CA says:
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I'd like to correctly identify the replacement window channel balance. Attached are pictures of the broken part I need to replace.
9/16 channel width, 30 inch length
It seems to me Series 380 or 385 should work, but would like to make sure.
Peter H.
9/16 channel width, 30 inch length
It seems to me Series 380 or 385 should work, but would like to make sure.
Peter H.
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Thanks for posting, Pete. Before I can offer an applicable replacement for this channel balance, I just need to know a bit more information about the bottom attachment. Please take a look at our 15-004 and 15-005 channel balance shoes, and note their depths. As you can see, they are 1-3/32" deep and 1" deep, respectively. Which one more closely matches your own bottom attachment?
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July 12, 2012
The depth of the bottom attachment is 1". 15-005 is the matching shoe. Correct? Thus, I would need series 380, I guess.
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A quick learner from Valencia, Ca says:
July 20, 2012
I bought and installed a pair of S380-30 with 2950 option. Now, it's definitely much easier to open and close the window. However, I observed that, oddly enough, slight lift of the sash opens the windos completely. As a result, I am unable to keep the window open to a desired amount or height. Basically, the spring in the balances seem too strong.
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Thanks for getting back to us! I'm sorry to hear that the spring is too strong. Could you please tell me the weight of your window sash?


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Johannesburg - Bongani Moyo, who escaped from custody in August by walking out of the Pretoria Magistrate's Court, and three others will appear in the same court on Tuesday.Moyo and co-accused Leon Ncube, Thabani Sibanda and Khubulani Sibanda face a string of armed robbery charges. Moyo stands accused of more than 35 bank and other robberies.At an October court appearance on these charges, Moyo requested, via video link from Pretoria Central Prison, that his shackles be removed.This was after Magistrate Maryke de la Rey ruled that he and his three co-accused would remain in custody until their next appearance. De La Rey instructed Moyo's Legal Aid Board lawyer to discuss the issue with prison officials.Moyo made headlines when he walked out of the court, which he entered on crutches, on August 10. He was not locked in a cell or wearing shackles at the time. He was rearrested in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, on August 28.It was not the first time the Zimbabwean national had escaped from custody. In March, Moyo escaped from Boksburg Prison and was arrested three months later.
South Africa is a free country, Zims are allowed to walk around without permits.
Merry Christmas Bongani Moyo - may you have your lunch whilst under guard and shackled to something solid!
and they get green ID books like buying a Drum magazine from Pick 'n Pay, it is a free country indeed.
How Many Police and Prison/Court officials have been nailed for helping this guys escape.
So now this time keep him in a cage!
habitual criminal 3 strikes must get death sentence, we have aleady wasted to much time,money and resorces on this oak.
@procold2 , agree with you 200% , three strikes on violent crime and they need to be terminated.
Finished and klaar.
Damn the man, save South Africa from crime.
Freedom without responsibility leads to total anarchy. I'd prefer apartheid's seuring of our borders. Peter should have read about this as he only knows Zimbabweans who are academics. They are still coming in multitudes, the floodgates are open and Zuma will support them. I don't feel safe from unregistered foreigners, do you?
As far as I know an artist requires skill, not much of that required to escape from our prisons.
The power of zimbabwean muti cnt be stoppd...lol. even gibs uses it to avoid expulsion by international community.
The Azanian, nothing like that broer, if it`s
the case stop Mugabe from giving you guys hell
Place 3kg of tick in his pants and ship him to China for a holiday.
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He was caught following a joint investigation by South Yorkshire Police's Operation Minerva and West Yorkshire Police's Operation Recall cold case inquiry teams.
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Quote from: RobertT on Monday, November 13, 2017, 21:17:25
This is just up the road from me, claiming to be family friendly! Looks fun, you lot are nuts.
This is one of the reason's that if I was asked to move to america for a job then this would have to make up part of my remuneration (3 visits per year min.) Yes RobertT, i'm nuts!
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Quote from: bamboonoshoe on Monday, November 13, 2017, 17:49:03
Well, looks like this season is going to be one that gets increasingly better. S8 E4 was back on form. I'll not burden you with a review yet (i'm a cunt but not that much of one), I'll wait till later tonight/tomorrow so those that watch have had a chance to watch it. Where E1 was okay and E2 was bloody annoying. E3 got a bit better and now E4 was much better. Let's hope this trend continues and we get the show a bit more on track.
Talking of "flash forwards" you guys do know what is planned for S9 don't you?
Enjoy tonight's episode. I think most of you will enjoy this one.
Its a spoiler thread, people who read it before watching know the consequences.
I enjoyed 8x4. Who was the dude who looked like hed just come off the set of The Waltons :-).
Poor sheeva/sheeba too.
Looks like its finally going to get to the nitty gritty next week.
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Quote from: Chubbs on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 00:08:36
Its a spoiler thread, people who read it before watching know the consequences.
I enjoyed 8x4. Who was the dude who looked like hed just come off the set of The Waltons :-).
Poor sheeva/sheeba too.
Looks like its finally going to get to the nitty gritty next week.
Haha ruthless. I'd at least let them watch the advertised uk version first
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 08:15:31 »
was pretty good, didn't care much for the flashbacks but hey.
so the pieces are falling into place. particularly the guns, and maybe if the truck driver is still alive Intel too. maybe there is a rat and they'll be outed - more likely he'll know there is a rat but not who it is.
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A little more on the ball this week having watched the US version sometime Monday morning and then had a second look when the UK version aired at 9pm. I'll probably watch this one again as I want to look at some details which may give us some clues for potential long term answers. I'll talk about that later, if you can stomach it.
S8E4: Some Guy
Well, in a nutshell i'd say that was some way of a return to the kind of TWD form we've been used to in previous seasons. It wasn't the all out best ever episode granted, however it was a good episode and much better than E2 (I think we can all put that down as my most infuriating episode in the whole seasons of TWD to date). This kind of episode is the type which makes a good season, well...good or even great.
The main focus for this episode was on King Ezekiel, who up until now I really could not warm to. In part this has been due to lack of character development. We know he's putting on an act and we know a loose background of him working in theatre. Now I know not everyone cares for character development but if we are truly going to give a damn about the character or believe that they are real we have to see the real them (a bit like when the Governor was broken after his first attempt to attack the Prison. We then saw him at rock bottom, almost like the man he may have been before the apocalypse, only to see him rise again.). In this episode we finally got that, with pretty much two thirds of the episode dedicated to King Ez.
This was better than filler in my opinion and the only slight tickle was, "Rick & Daryl" becoming "Jason Bourne & Hitman" respectively. As well as Carol somehow managing to trick some of The Saviours that she was only carrying a handgun, when she'd previously followed and shot at them with a machine gun. Ok i'm being picky. The "Starsky & Hutch" moment was a bit of fun and Carol's ploy was fairly clever. I mean come on, most bad guys henchmen are pretty dim, just look at the James Bond villains henchmen!
I'll now expand on the episode in more detail, so skip this bit if you can't be arsed.
We open with King Ezekiel pretty much getting into character and straightaway we begin to realise him as "just some guy", who has undoubtedly taken on the difficult role of trying to instill hope into the people of which we call The Kingdom. It mirrors his theatrical past quite literally with the open dressing room scene and getting "ready" in front of a mirror. He gives the rousing, usual speech and at this point I almost tut and think "here we go again". This isn't because I'd forgotten that his force were gunned down at the end of E3, but I mistakenly think "how the fuck did they all manage to survive a chain gun attack?".
Oh no, it then cuts, as I should've guessed to present day and the aftermath of the Kingdom fighter massacre. A scene that pans over bullet wounds, Kingdommer guts, and limbs strewn across the Saviour outpost. A searching bloodied hand emerges from a pile of bodies and a distraught King Ez slowly pulls himself free. The realisation that (at this point) all his soldiers are dead and he has an injured leg as he terrifyingly scrambles away while his own soldiers start to turn. The King then has a moment of help, albeit brief, from a surviving soldier (I can't even recall his name, that's bad for me) whom we've never really met before. This is short lived as a Saviour (revealed as Gunther on TTD), shoots Kingdom Soldier #73 in the back. A perfect cameo here from actor Whitmer Thomas, who may well have been an estranged psycho before the apocalypse. I'm not the first to say this by any stretch but a perfect Jeffrey Dahmer-a-like. Gunther taunts King Ez and basically tells him he's worthless while dragging him at gunpoint, towards the intended Saviour outpost (where Carol is staking out). They reach the outpost gateway and it's locked. Gunther, panicking decides he'll jump the gate and take King Ez's head on a stake for Negan (nice bloke). He's just about to kill the King in true medieval style, with King Ez's very own sword. Enter stage right an onrushing, enraged Jerry (no one's stopping an onrushing Jerry) who protects his King with a brutal knife through butter slicing of Gunther, in half with his axe. Nice work Jerry. Jerry and Ezekiel then continue to hold back a horde of Walkers while also trying to chop the chain from the gate.
During this we switch to Carol who (seeing red mist) has made it into the Saviour outpost, where the guys with the chain gun and other arms were shooting from. She cleverly hides in the ceiling as they're packing the guns away and shoots down five of them with a machine gun (AK-Whatever) as they start to leave. Carol must think she's got them all as she emerges from the ceiling but her gunshots must've alerted a few more that were there as then she has to take out another five. They give chase but one says let her go.
Later she's double backed them and they're loading the arms onto a Jeep as she scopes them out. Carol chances it running behind another vehicle. They unleash hell on her and this is the point where she slides her handgun under the vehicle and attempts to break a peace deal with them. Carol has spotted the button for opening a compound gate, which has a horde of Walkers behind. She "surrenders" and one of The Saviours approaches her. She quickly gets him at knifepoint as just as he's distracted by her machine gun hanging on the wing mirror. Events unfold pretty rapidly, she disposes of her hostage, grabs his keys, presses the gate button, and fires back at two other Saviours as they get mauled by Walkers. The other two Saviours shoot down the Walkers but flee behind their Jeep. It's then (while still negotiating) that Carol spots King Ez & Jerry fending off some Walkers at the gate. She goes to aid them and unlocks the gate with said keys. The remaining Saviours take this as their chance to get away and take their arms back to the Sanctuary. King Ez tells Carol "they're getting away with the guns". We hear the sound of Daryls motorbike in the distance and Carol smiles saying "no they're not" or similar. We then cut to...
Daryl & Rick giving chase as the remaining Saviours flee. Rick in a Jeep and Daryl on his trademark bike. Rick is under fire from the mounted chain gun on the back of the Saviour Jeep but Daryl got a hit at him, so the Saviour struggles to maintain a good shot (yes this part is pretty unrealistic as you'd think a mounted chain gun would take out at least the tyres on Ric's Jeep if not Rick himself). Daryl loses i and slides of the road, while Rick continues to give chase. Daryl amazingly appears pretty much injury free and manages to take out the Saviour gunner. Rick gets level with the Saviour Jeep and manages to jump aboard, knife the Saviour in the side, overthrow him, and kick him out the Jeep. Ultimately this sends Rick through a barrier and crashing down a grass verge. Daryl catches up and goes to check out the state of Rick. Rick must've bailed as the Jeep went down the verge because he emerges from the downslope of the verge and both he and Daryl then agree to check out the Jeep to collect the guns.
Carol, King Ez & Jerry have left the Saviour compound and making their way back to the Kingdom through some woods. Reflecting and thinking about Shiva, Ezekiel realises his true worth and tell Carol and Jerry to go on without him as he is holding them up. They fight of some more Walkers and end up having to cross a waste discharge outlet that has pooled there with what we can only tell from a drum is a "Dangerous Substance". We get a great scene of what I call "Well Walkers" (think S3 where Glenn is sent down a well on a rope to check some water and finds a really disgusting looking Walker), who almost are too much for our survivors. Ezekiel again says he'll sacrifice so Carol and Jerry can survive. It's here he's truly broken as Jerry says "I can't leave you, my King." and Ez responds "I am not your King, i'm just some guy!" It's a true reveal of friendship and reality of who this real "King" really is. In that moment, Shiva saves the three of them and overthrows a few Walkers but alas, they are too much for the potentially malnourished Bengal Tiger (i'm aware she's had meals of Saviours and Scavengers of late but I can't imagine her diet too sustainable in this apocalypse so it's valid she would be more lethargic). Shiva comes to her impending fate as Ezekiel helplessly watches on.
The final scene ends similarly as it began but with a contrasting and truly broken Ezekiel. They enter the gates of The Kingdom, defeated and deflated, with no Shiva in tow and it's clear to the Kingdom family that this is such. Even "Master Henry" who Ezekiel gave so much hope to in his rousing speech, is ignored as Ezekiel limps through the crowd back to his quarters.
Ok, so that's most of the bones of the episode. I enjoyed this more than the previous three and there were some really interesting moments. For once it told a story and gave an insight into one of the main characters. It's managed to turn my opinion around of Ezekiel, especially how his character builds from this moment on. Maybe I was too quick to judge the character before and should've understood the the facade that he was playing to his Kingdom. Looking at it now, as annoying as his persona was I now see it better. It's taken me, for him to become a broken man though to actually see that. I think we may see a similar character development with Negan next episode S8:E5 The Big Scary U.
There were a few pointers in this episode or as they like to call "foreshadowing" which got me thinking a little more. First off have any of you noticed how more of the Walkers seem to have a fair amount of their skin pulled off (like the one Ezekiel and crew encountered in the woods a couple episodes back). This could just be their state of decay as not all of them are going to be exactly ermm....fresh, but if you have any interest in the graphic novels/comics then this could be pointing towards the arrival of another group in the near future and they're pretty fucking gruesome. I'll leave that one with you. Another foreshadow is with Rick. In the comics Rick has wait for it lost his right hand. We've been constantly teased this in the TV show through a fair few seasons. In fact right at the beginning when Merle (S1:E3) cut himself free from the rooftop by sawing through his own hand (although i'm not sure how far on the comic was at that point). I thought he was going to lose it sometime during S4 when he and Carl had fled the Prison and were on the road. We've had Negan forcing Rick to cut off Carl's hand, and now more recently crashing the Jeep down the hill could've been a way to do it then. It may not happen in the TV show but I think if it did it could be another big moment for the character which could send him over the edge.
My final future pointer here is to way further down the line (it's not even part of the comics, so it's just a theory really) but it could be an indicator as to how all this apocalypse started. As Dr Jenner (S1:E6) told Rick at the CDC that everyone is infected, something Rick tells his fellow survivors this secret later on (at the end of S2 I think). The indicator for me is in this latest episode. In the waste discharge pool/ditch there is the large drum which has the label "DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE" on it. Is this an indicator to some kind of high level contamination to the water, via these drums possibly illegally released/dumped by the Government? If so i'd like, once all the warring is over, maybe this discovery/possibility come to light and then our survivors to go on a hunt to find out the source of this. Possibly discovering a facility where government officials are holed up and taking it to them with a new combined set of allies in the Saviours.
Will that happen? I don't know, it'd be a good arc and a new direction for the show. They can't keep focussing on waging war, peacetime and then a new war again, surely otherwise it'll fall on it's face. It is a victim of it's successful past though. A storyline like this could breathe even better life in to it. Whichever way you look at it though that story arc would be the beginning of the end. Maybe it will start focussing on something like that though in another seasons time. Survival is the first priority obviously but there would still be the underpinning curiosity of three main issues; How did it start? How do we contain it? Can we produce a cure? So a focus must go to that branch at some point.
Anyway, I've said my piece now, I think it was certainly a better episode for S8 so far and I hope we get a similar kind of character development with Negan in E5. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Give me your added theories and thoughts about the episode and opinion on my theory surrounding the oil drum. As always I await all your unnerving criticism and maybe even a slight hint of praise. Thanks for reading/viewing/listening See you same time next week.
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Nice one Bamboo, enjoy reading your thoughts on the episode and ideas for where its going.
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Quote from: Batch on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 21:29:01
Nice one Bamboo, enjoy reading your thoughts on the episode and ideas for where its going.
Cheers man. Should've proof read that piece properly though, as there are a ton of typos (extra "the", "and" instead of "an", etc. oh well). I definitely think there is scope to create some interesting developments further down the line. I'm not even a published writer, so if I can come up with future plots (good or bad) then their creative writing team must be able to. Especially when the TV Show catches up with the source material because then we'll see how creative the writers down at AMC really are. I'm confident Scott Gimple can deliver on this. He has written some key episodes that really made us feel the character.
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Good to read your ramblings every week Bamboo.
Just one point on Rick's arm. After watching Talking Dead this week, Robert Kirkman indicated that he regretted Rick losing his arm in the comic books. He admitted that he liked the TV story better than the comic in this aspect.
Also bear in mind that to have a limb missing for Rick would take up some considerable budget for the special effects bearing in mind he is in a lot of episodes. I don't think they will lose his arm until possibly right at the end of the series, towards the crescendo let's say..
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I try my best to never let our readership forget that we do try to discuss comics in Afronerd but it is sometimes a daunting task when there are so many other pertinent issues and hobbies that also vie for attention within this blog. Nevertheless, I have three books that I suspect the comic enthusiast portion of our audience might enjoy. Interestingly enough, all three books share two common themes-Greco-Roman/Middle-eastern mythologies and that the gods walk amongst us lowly mortals from time to time. Trials of Shazam has quickly become one of my top twenty books simply because it has given some literary life to the dated Billy Batson and family saga. Initially I was never a big fan of the Shazam mythos because as time goes on the characters still attempted to maintain a childish aesthetic in the midst of an ever maturing comic reading audience. In simpler terms-Batson never grew up. And coupled with the fact that DC acquired the Shazam franchise from a lengthy legal battle with Fawcett Publications going back five decades just added to the comic's murky history. Well now Batson has grown up and has taken on the mantle of the Wizard and the next in line to become Captain Marvel is well.....Marvel, Jr. Junior is on trial to become the Big Red Cheese but he must retrieve his individual powers (hence the acronym SHAZAM....wisdom of Solomon, strength of Hercules-you get the picture) from the gods who live their lives as mortals-but there are others that also want to get these vaunted abilities from the demigods as well.
The second book is in essence an extension or fleshed out sub-plot to Trials, entitled Black Adam: The Dark Age. Again, we are dealing with more murky history here-Adam or his mortal name, Teth-Adam was originally Egytian and essentially the first person to utter the phrase shazam but he went rogue, became the arch-nemesis of the Marvel Family and a citizen of of the fictional Middle-eastern nation known as Khandaq (you'll notice the Iraq War analogies in full abundance if you pick up related books-i.e. Justice Society, 52, etc) in the last 50 or 60 years. Its safe to assume that Adam is of arabic extraction to make things easier. Anyway....Dark Age is a bloody saga showing the depth to which a man will go to reclaim his life and wife. Here's more from Wikipedia:
Black Adam: The Dark Age
In this eight-issue mini-series, which begins sometime after his defeat, the still-powerless Teth-Adam orders his remaining loyal to savagely beat his face in order to alter his physical appearance. Effectively disguised, he leads the group to Kahndaq to retrieve the bones of Isis, while the JSA is in Bialya searching for him. Adam and his men are attacked by unidentified soldiers (who are also searching for Teth-Adam) while leaving the tomb of Isis and Osiris. Adam's followers sacrifice their lives so that he can escape with his wife's remains. Adam then travels to the frozen Himalays, where he eats the corpse of his last remaining henchman after running out of food. Finally reaching a secluded cave, Teth Adam resurrects Isis using a Lazarus Pit. The process is imperfect however, and Isis' new skin decays. Black Adam journeys to Doctor Fate's tower, hoping to retrieve Isis' amulet. He encounters Felix Faust, who offers his assistance in return for being freed from the tower. With Faust's help, Black Adam's magic word is changed to "Isis", and he sets off to retrieve the scattered pieces of Isis' amulet.
To make things simple-A god dies (and you know the likelihood of that remaining a fact) and then is reborn and must find his Asgardian-folk living among...you guessed it....mortals-some are even lurking in a post-Katrina habitat. And thanks to J. Michael Straczynski it seems like the reader will be in for a hell of a ride. Just to give you a taste as to how Straczynski has changed things around (beyond Heimdall living in New Orleans reference) Asgard is no longer located above the heavens with a rainbow transverse but hovers a few inches above the ground in Oklahoma!
Here's more from Wiki once again:
New beginning
The mysterious man seen during the events of Civil War is Donald Blake. When Blake touches the hammer Mjolnir, he is transported to the void where Thor has been in hibernation. Blake explains that when Odin originally removed the Donald Blake persona from Thor, Blake was transported to the void Thor now inhabits, and was returned to New York City when Thor broke the Ragnarok cycle. Blake convinces Thor to wield Mjolnir once more and return to Earth and renew the dual identity with Blake. Blake also reveals that Thor's fellow Asgardians are not dead but hidden on Earth.
Thor rebuilds Asgard in Oklahoma, paying for the land with Asgardian treasure, then goes off to seek his fellow Asgardians. He learns of the events of the superhero-registration "Civil War" and becomes angry that Tony Stark (Iron Man) and others used his DNA to create the Thor Clone without his knowledge or permission. Iron Man soon confronts him, demanding that he move Asgard and register with the government or be considered an enemy. Unimpressed, Thor decimates his former comrade with contemptuous ease. He then makes it clear that he will respond with greater aggression unless he is left in peace, and that his position in regards to the recent conflict is neutral. Seeking a compromise, Stark rationalizes that Asgard may be considered a foreign embassy of sorts, with diplomatic immunity granted to its inhabitants. Though Thor deems this acceptable, he makes it clear that the two men are far from reconciled. Afterwards, Thor finds the first of the lost Asgardians, Heimdall, and restores him to his true form. Observing the new addition to Asgard, Stark advises SHIELD to take no action, at present.
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in WMP 11 there was a tag editor. I used it quite often. I can't find it in WMP 12 anymore. Is it hidden or completley gone?
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Yeah, this is really annoying. I miss WMP11's Tag Editor. The only way I've been able to change tag information is to "Choose Column" and add the tag columns that I want to change. Then I edit the values in the list.
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I also use mp3tag. Its a nice small programm. Better than nothing.
It has some cool features like convert filename to tag...
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I've had some of my "test" MP3 files moved over to WMP12 and Windows 7 only to discover that the ID3 tag information doesn't show up in either. Haven't figured out the cause of this behavior yet either and it's driving me nuts. The tag information was there and showed up when PLAYING the files but not in the LIBRARY or EXPLORER views.
If you look at the files in EXPLORER, there is a tag editor down at the bottom - true, not nearly as complete as WMP11's Advanced Tag Editor function but there nonetheless. Also if you select the MP3 file and choose PROPERTIES, there is a rather extensive ability to edit the tag information, in fact I'm thinking WAY TOO MUCH ability and clearly designed to encompass all types of files. The only thing I could not find to edit was the album cover and of course MP3Tag does that nicely.
BTW, if your MP3 files show up in EXPLORER without any tag information showing and you know there should be some, then you've encountered the problem I was talking about earlier. I was able to fix the ID3 fields by using MP3Tag editor and 1-delete previous information then 2-extend tags. The result is to lose the old information (and the bug that keeps them from being seen!). After extending the tags I was able to reenter all the information using EXPLORER or MP3Tag editior. The bug was not in all of my MP3 files either, only some. I may have narrowed the bug down to files I created with Exact Audio Copy which I used to create the tags with in the first place - not a definite source yet though.
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I myself use a program that I am partial too, and have used for a number of years - ID3-tagit - last updated in '03 but it still works - like a champ.
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It's a great app for the job esp. if you have hundreds of albums like I do.
Here's a link for anyone intrested.
Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2)
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Well, WMP and Explorer do not support mp3s with encrypted ID3 Tags. I think they don't even play them...
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dont see much talk about this around here..... amazed actually.... I have had a thread up for ages regarding this and the parental tags etc....
WMP and ratings / parental controls ... missing something?
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