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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBarry P. Mandel, Lotfi Belkhir, William R. Burger, Thomas E. Sollitt, Scott Miller, Eduard Kaminker, Thomas N. Taylor
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The pages of a book being held at least partially open may be sequentially automatically turned over from one side of the book to the other by pivoting an elongated arm from one side of the book toward the other and turning over individual pages with a vacuum head pivoting relative to the elongated pivoted arm about a different pivot axis as the elongated arm moves to reduce undesirable forces on the individual book pages being turned over. The vacuum head may initially pivot to bend the edge of an individual page up away from the book, to aid in page separation, and then subsequently differently pivot to help peel the same page gently away from the vacuum head and flip it over onto the opposite side of the book. This may be assisted by moving frictional belts on the vacuum head.
In a method of book page turning in which the individual pages of a book which is being held at least partially open are sequentially automatically turned over from one side of the book to the other side of the book;
In a system for automatically turning the individual pages of a book having gutter margins and unprinted outer margin edges, with a book holder for holding the book at least partially open so that the book has first and second open sides, and with a book page turning apparatus for automatically sequentially turning over individual pages of the book from said first side of the book to the second side of the book;
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