Process for heat treating a flexible electrostatographic imaging member
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorRobert C. U. Yu
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Abstract
A process for treating a flexible electrostatographic imaging web including providing a flexible base layer and a layer including a thermoplastic polymer matrix comprising forming at least a segment of the web into an arc having a radius of curvature between about 10 millimeters and about 25 millimeters measured along the inwardly facing exposed surface of the base layer, the arc having an imaginary axis which traverses the width of the web, heating at least the polymer matrix in the segment to at least the glass transition temperature of the polymer matrix, and cooling the imaging member to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the polymer matrix while maintaining the segment of the web in the shape of the arc.
Claims16
A process for treating a flexible electrostatographic imaging web comprising providing a imaging web comprising a flexible base layer and a coating, said coating comprising a thermoplastic polymer matrix, forming at least a segment of said web into an arc having a radius of curvature between about 10 millimeters and about 25 millimeters measured along the inwardly facing exposed surface of said base layer, said arc having an imaginary axis which traverses the width of said web, heating at least said polymer matrix in said segment to at least the glass transition temperature of said polymer matrix, and cooling said imaging web to a temperature below said glass transition temperature of said polymer matrix while maintaining the shape of said arc.
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