摘要 |
<p>A cleaning device and method for cleaning a paper path surface upon which paper travels within a printing apparatus such as a computer printer, a photocopy machine, a fax machine, and the like. The cleaning device is a flexible substrate sheet (10) having a first side (14) and a second side (18), with the first side (14) coated preferably in its entirety with an exposed adhesive (12) having a tack strength between about 0.0002 and about 0.12 pound force-square inch. The second side of the substrate sheet can have laminated thereto a foam resin (16) to provide a flexible thickness that assures pressured contact with all paper path surfaces to be cleaned. A lint-free cloth layer (20) can be laminated to the foam resin (16) if present, or the cloth layer can be laminated directly to the second surface of the sheet substrate (18). The substrate sheet is fed into the printing apparatus and travels therethrough along the paper path surfaces upon which paper is conveyed.</p> |