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US 8,045,915 B2Granted
Apparatus for decurling an advancing sheet, and a printing device containing such an apparatus
AssigneeOce-Technologies B.V.
InventorsPals G. Faber, Tom Nagel
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Abstract
An apparatus for decurling an advancing sheet, which contains an endless carrying belt, and multiple rollers for guiding said carrying belt, said rollers including a decurling roller, wherein the mutual orientation between the carrying belt and the decurling roller is adjustable. A printing device is also provided to include such a decurling apparatus.
Claims12
An apparatus for decurling an advancing sheet, comprising:
- an endless carrying belt for carrying said advancing sheet, and
- multiple rollers for guiding the carrying belt, said rollers including a decurling roller and an adjustable roller, the mutual orientation between the carrying belt and said decurling roller being adjustable by displacing said adjustable roller,
- wherein said adjustable roller is positioned such that at least two rollers of said multiple rollers are positioned between said adjustable roller and a sheet discharge location in a path travelled by the advancing sheet, and wherein the mutual orientation of said at least two rollers is substantially fixed, and
- wherein said at least two rollers directly contact opposite surfaces of the carrying belt at different points along the path traveled by the advancing sheet.
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An apparatus for decurling an advancing sheet, comprising:
- a single endless carrying belt for carrying said advancing sheet, and
- multiple rollers for guiding the carrying belt, said rollers including a decurling roller and an adjustable roller, the mutual orientation between the carrying belt and said decurling roller being adjustable by displacing said adjustable roller,
- wherein said adjustable roller is positioned such that at least two rollers of said multiple rollers and a sheet discharge location are downstream of said adjustable roller, and wherein the mutual orientation of said at least two rollers is substantially fixed, and
- wherein the at least two rollers contact the belt at different points along the path travelled by the advancing sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.