Transfer material separating device
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuhiko Doi, Yukio Tokura, Koji Imaizumi
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Abstract
A transfer material or copy paper separating device for use in an electrophotographic copying apparatus which includes a driving mechanism for the transfer material, separating claws adapted to pivotally contact or be spaced away from a photoreceptor surface in timed relation to the movement of the copy paper. Each of the separating claws is formed from a flexible elastic film of polyester or the like and has very short fibers, for example, of nylon, on at least front edge portion thereof, contacting the photoreceptor surface for reducing damage to the photoreceptor surface.
Claims12
A transfer material separating device for use in an electrophotographic copying apparatus having:
- a platform for supporting thereon an original object to be copied;
- an optical system beneath said platform for optically transferring the image of said object on said platform;
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- a rotatable photoreceptor having a photoconductive surface for receiving the image from said optical system and for contacting and transferring said image to said transfer material, said separating device comprising:
- separating claw member means adjacent and at least intermittently contacting said photoreceptor for separating said transfer material from said photoconductive surface after said image is transferred to said transfer material, said claw member means having a semi-circular shaped front portion contacting said photoconductive surface, said front portion having short fibers of flexible material thereon;
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- contacting means operatively connected to said claw member means for causing said claw member means to contact said photoconductive surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.