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US 4,620,699 AGranted
Copy sheet registration assembly for electrophotographic copier
AssigneeSavin Corporation
InventorsBenzion Landa, Oded Sagiv, Nathan A. Levy
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AssigneeSavin Corporation
InventorsBenzion Landa, Oded Sagiv, Nathan A. Levy
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Apparatus for registering a copy sheet prior to feeding the sheet to the image-transfer station of an electrophotographic copier. Opposing pairs of relatively rigid feed rollers are arranged on shafts in alternating relationship with opposing pairs of relatively compliant feed rollers, which are of somewhat larger diameter than the rigid rollers so as to form nips of appreciably greater extent in the direction of feed. Registration gates mounted for rotation on one of the roller shafts through slipping couplings are selectively restrained against rotation with the roller shaft either in a non-blocking position out of the feed path or in a blocking position within the nip area of the compliant rollers but upstream of the nip area of the rigid rollers. A crimper having an anvil rotating with one of the registration gates and a hammer supported by the anvil for pivotal movement into a recess in the anvil deforms a leading edge portion of the copy sheet as it is advanced from the registration rollers to facilitate separation of the sheet from the photoconductor after image transfer by a pickoff element spaced from the photoconductor.
Apparatus for deforming an edge portion of a sheet including in combination a rotatably supported anvil, a hammer carried by said anvil for movement in the direction thereof, said hammer and said anvil being rotatable to a sheet-receiving position for movement of said edge portion therebetween and having surface portions adapted to crimp said edge portion upon movement of said hammer toward said anvil, a deflector disposed along the path swept by said hammer in the course of rotation of said anvil, said deflector being adapted to drive said hammer toward said anvil upon rotation of said anvil from said sheet-receiving position, and means for rotating said anvil from said sheet-receiving position to cause said deflector to drive said hammer toward said anvil to deform said portion of said sheet.
Apparatus for deforming an edge portion of a sheet including in combination a pair of feed members disposed on opposite sides of a path to form a nip, respective shafts supporting said feed members, an anvil carried by one of said shafts, a hammer carried by said anvil for rotation therewith and for movement in the direction thereof, said hammer and said anvil being rotatable to a sheet-receiving position aligned with said nip for movement of a sheet edge therebetween and having surface portions adapted to crimp said edge portion upon movement of said hammer toward said anvil, said hammer being adapted to be deflected toward said anvil by the other of said shafts upon rotation of said anvil from said sheet-receiving position, means for driving one of said feed members to move said sheet through said nip, and means for rotating said anvil from said sheet-receiving position to cause said hammer to be deflected toward said anvil to deform said portion of sheet.
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