Inverter with return/bypass paper path
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorRobert Clark
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Abstract
A printing system and method is provided incorporating inverter assemblies for not only selectively inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media and provide a velocity buffer transport. The selective inverter assemblies include the capability to optionally deskew the media and provide lateral registration corrections. The inverter assembly nip rollers are sufficiently spaced from process drive nip rollers to decouple a document in the inverter assembly from the highway paths. The method comprises combining the inverting function selectively with registering, velocity buffering, and sequencing functions.
Claims26
A printing system comprising:
- a marking engine and a document transport highway path;
- an inverter including an input path and selectively reversing inverter rollers whereby media sheets move from said transport highway path through said input path;
- and,
- said inverter further includes a first output path, said first output path having a return path whereby selected ones of media sheets move in a forward direction through said input path and non-inverted in same said forward direction through said first output path and said return path to said transport highway path.
An inverter apparatus comprising:
- an inverter having selectively reversing inverter rollers, an input path, and a first output path;
- said first output path further includes a return path whereby selected ones of media sheets move in a forward direction through said input path and non-inverted in same said forward direction through said first output path and said return path;
- said inverter further includes a second output path whereby selected other ones of media sheets move inverted in a reverse direction through said second output path.
A method comprising:
- removing the document from a transport highway path and transporting the document into a selective inverter assembly in a forward direction;
- and,
- transporting selected ones of the documents out of said selective inverter assembly in a non-inverted orientation to said transport highway path in same said forward direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.