5 colour printhead design
Posted by OmegaAF
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5 colour printhead design July 31, 2012 05:06PM |
Hello, I give this to you, perhaps, someone with enough ingenuity (and who can afford and bought a printer 
) can make this reality. I am sorry I do not have very good motor skills so my writing can be a mess. It is free for everyone to use and add on to, not for commercial use.
Its just a rough sketch so everyone add your ideas and hopefully we can change the world one small step at a time. I feel it could also be modified to use pellets instead of strands at a much more consumer savvy price
[i.imgur.com]
Lets explain how this works shall we? An electronically controlled magnet is used to push a lever to move either pellets or stranded plastic into a small heatsink sized box with a peltier chip(it is a small flat square that gets extremely hot on one side and extremely cold on the other, they are mainly used to cool an object, not heat it up) that can be electronically measured to incrementally small amounts that can then be mixed and excreted in a very compact way, and by something that has already been built, simply using the magnetic coil, reversing the polarity, you can control the arm or piece of metal in the slide to go backwards and hit a small pump to shoot the desired colour out. Then we can throw out any bulky motor that has been restricting reprap from achieving its full potential.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask anything you need, i know its weird, first time poster putting something like this up, but please I would really love some feedback.
The image is large and uncompressed so people can zoom in and try to read my writing xD
edit: I also think a better design to this would be to use a swivel arm instead of a gearing system to feed the plastic, then it could also use the pellets.
edit 2: perhaps the reverse polarity could be used to 'push' the plastic into the mixer, each coil is for 1 colour
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2012 07:10PM by OmegaAF.
) can make this reality. I am sorry I do not have very good motor skills so my writing can be a mess. It is free for everyone to use and add on to, not for commercial use.Its just a rough sketch so everyone add your ideas and hopefully we can change the world one small step at a time. I feel it could also be modified to use pellets instead of strands at a much more consumer savvy price
[i.imgur.com]
Lets explain how this works shall we? An electronically controlled magnet is used to push a lever to move either pellets or stranded plastic into a small heatsink sized box with a peltier chip(it is a small flat square that gets extremely hot on one side and extremely cold on the other, they are mainly used to cool an object, not heat it up) that can be electronically measured to incrementally small amounts that can then be mixed and excreted in a very compact way, and by something that has already been built, simply using the magnetic coil, reversing the polarity, you can control the arm or piece of metal in the slide to go backwards and hit a small pump to shoot the desired colour out. Then we can throw out any bulky motor that has been restricting reprap from achieving its full potential.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask anything you need, i know its weird, first time poster putting something like this up, but please I would really love some feedback.
The image is large and uncompressed so people can zoom in and try to read my writing xD
edit: I also think a better design to this would be to use a swivel arm instead of a gearing system to feed the plastic, then it could also use the pellets.
edit 2: perhaps the reverse polarity could be used to 'push' the plastic into the mixer, each coil is for 1 colour
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2012 07:10PM by OmegaAF.
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