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US 5,210,582 AGranted
Stretchable cleaner band disturber
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsDouglas A. Lundy, Kenneth S. Palumbo, Robert E. Rosdahl, Jr.
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Abstract
A cleaner band stretchably disposed, across the imaging surface width, between two rotating cleaner brushes. The cleaner band is slightly off center and down process from the brush backup roll. The cleaner band acts as a disturber for dislodging large agglomerate residual particles from the imaging surface.
Claims8
An apparatus for removing residual particles from a moving imaging surface, comprising:
- a housing defining an open ended chamber;
- a pair of cleaner brushes, disposed in the chamber of said housing with a portion of each cleaner brush extending outwardly from the open end of the chamber of the housing into engagement with the imaging surface;
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- means, interposed between said cleaner brushes, for disturbing the residual particles, said disturbing means having a tension force applied thereto in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the imaging surface in a plane substantially parallel to the imaging surface.
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