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US 4,286,544 AGranted
Cross-mixing system
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorJohn C. Witte
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Abstract
An apparatus in which developer material is transported to a latent image so as to be deposited thereon to form a powder image thereof. The apparatus includes a mixer disposed interiorly of the transport, for mixing the developer material.
Claims22
An apparatus for developing a latent image with developer material, including:
- a plurality of elongated magnetic members for attracting developer material thereto;
- means for movably supporting said magnetic members with adjacent magnetic members being spaced from one another and the longitudinal axes thereof substantially parallel to one another so that said magnetic members form the exterior circumferential surface of a cylindrical configuration defining an interior chamber with developer material passing between adjacent magnetic members to the interior chamber, said supporting means moving said magnetic members to transport developer material to the latent image so as to deposit developer material thereon;
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- means, mounted on said support means in the interior chamber of the cylindrical configuration defined by said magnetic members to move in unison therewith, for mixing the developer material passing between adjacent magnetic members.
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An electrophotographic printing machine of the type in which an electrostatic latent image recorded on a photoconductive member is developed with a developer material, wherein the improvement includes:
- a plurality of elongated magnetic members for attracting developer material thereto;
- means for movably supporting said magnetic members with adjacent magnetic members being spaced from one another and the longitudinal axes thereof substantially parallel to one another so that said magnetic members form the exterior circumferential surface of a cylindrical configuration defining an interior chamber with developer material passing between adjacent magnetic members to the interior chamber, said supporting means moving said magnetic members to transport developer material to the latent image so as to deposit developer material thereon;
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- means, mounted on said supporting means in the interior chamber of the cylindrical configuration defined by said magnetic members to move in unison therewith, for mixing the developer material passing between adjacent magnetic members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.