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US 6,554,276 B2Granted
Flexible sheet reversion using an omni-directional transport system
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsWarren B. Jackson, David Kalman Biegelsen, Daniel G. Bobrow
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Abstract
A flexible sheet handling apparatus comprising an input section for receiving the flexible sheet, a reversion section for rotating the flexible sheet about an axis of motion and an output section for transferring the rotated flexible sheet to a sheet processing system.
Claims16
A flexible handling apparatus comprising:
- an input section for receiving the flexible sheet;
- a revision section for rotating the flexible sheet about an axis of motion;
- wherein the reversion section comprising:
- an upper channel adapted to receive the flexible sheet having a first surface in a face up orientation;
- a curved channel section adapted to change an orientation of the flexible sheet, wherein the first surface reverts from the face up orientation to a face down orientation;
- and
- a lower channel adapted to receive the flexible sheet from the curved channel and move the flexible sheet into an exit channel;
- and
- an output section for transferring the rotated flexible sheet to a sheet processing system.
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The flexible sheet handling apparatus for reverting sheets in a system having at least one, one-sided processing station:
- a reverter adapted to revert the sheet so that both sides of the sheet can be processed while a leading edge of the sheet is maintained;
- a holonomic actuation system adapted to transport the sheet through the apparatus;
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- a sheet return pathway for transporting the sheet to the one-sided processing station wherein the sheet return pathway is a continued straight path out of the apparatus.
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A reversion module for an object handling system comprising:
- a first channel adapted to receive the object having a first surface in a face up orientation;
- a curved channel section adapted to change an orientation of the object wherein the first surface is in a face down orientation and a second surface is in a face up orientation;
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- a second channel adapted to receive the object from the curved channel and output the object to the object handling system;
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- a fluid transport system adapted to move the object through the reversion module.
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A method for reverting an object in an object handling system comprising the steps of:
- inputting the object into a reversion module;
- reverting the object in the module spiraling the object through a reversion channel, wherein the first surface of the object in a face-up orientation is reverted into a face-down orientation while maintaining a first edge of the object as a leading edge if the object;
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- outputting the reverted object to the object handling system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.