Photoreceptor plug to enable universal chuck capability
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsSteven Bush, Peter Schmitt
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Abstract
An assembly and method is described as employing a polymeric plug member. The plug member is used in the bottom portion of a photoreceptor drum to prevent leakage of the coating solution into the interior of a photoreceptor drum during dip-coating.
Claims20
An assembly comprising a cylinder-like member having an internal circumferential wall defining a void, a bottom opening end and a top opening end, both of said openings in communication with said void, a compression-resilient polymeric plug sealingly affixed to said bottom opening to prevent leakage to the void of the cylinder-like member when said bottom opening end is immersed into an electrophotographic coating solution.
A method comprising:
- obtaining a cylinder-like member having an internal circumferential wall defining a void, a bottom opening end and a top opening end, both in communication with said void;
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- inserting a compressible resilient polymeric plug member into the bottom opening end of the cylinder-like member to form a hermetic seal at the bottom opening end of said cylinder-like member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.