Eastman-Kodak Company

Nexpress Solutions, Inc.

Bonnie J Patterson

Arun Chowdry

Donald Saul Rimai

Thomas Nathaniel Tombs

Joseph A Pavlisko

John W May

Christopher M Muir

Randy Eugene Armbruster

Francisco Luiz Ziegelmuller

Biao Tan

Borden H Mills

Eric P Hochreiter

R Winfield Trafton

Diane Marie Herrick

W Charles Kasiske, Jr

Daniel R Palmer

Dennis J Grabb

Craig M Cody

Duane J Farling

David J Quesnel

James N Alkins

Steven Cormier

Kenneth D Stack

Earl Gregory Gomes

Thomas C Bidwell

Dean R Smith

Robert Charlebois

Kenneth E Stack

A web-guiding system for guiding a web of media travelling from upstream to downstream along a transport path in an in-track direction. A web-guiding structure includes an exterior surface having a pattern of alternating ridges and recesses formed into the exterior surface. The web of media travels past the web-guiding structure with the first side of the web of media contacting at least some of the ridges on the exterior surface of the web-guiding structure. The ridges and recesses are formed into the exterior surface of the web-guiding structure such that the exterior surface has a continuous and smooth surface profile in the cross-track direction having a specified maximum slope magnitude and a specified minimum radius of curvature magnitude.

Web guiding structure with continuous smooth recesses

A cleaning station for removing particulate material from a moving web in an electrographic printer/copier includes a customer-replaceable web-cleaner device with a support bracket/backup shoe assembly. The web-cleaner has two wiper blades, including one or more blades, each having a distinguishment such that the distinguishment distinguishes one wiper blade from the other wiper blade when the blades are locked into the cleaner sump by springs, to facilitate material removed from the web. The wiper cleaning blades are held using a shoe that comprises a 'T-shaped' extrusion wherein the extrusion has a rigidity to reduce shoe deformations.

Toner removal apparatus for electrographic printer

An intermediate transfer roller that functions as an image receiving member within a reproduction apparatus having a rigid cylindrical core member and at least one layer of an elastically deformable structure surrounding the core member, the elastically deformable structure preferably has an effective Poisson's ratio in the range of 0.2 to 0.4.

Method and apparatus for an intermediate image transfer member

An intermediate transfer member (IT) roller for use in an electrostatographic recording apparatus comprising a core member; a compliant layer covering the core member; and a stiffening layer covering the compliant layer, wherein the stiffening layer includes an endless belt that has a thickness in the range of greater than 50 and up to 1000 micrometers.

Intermediate transfer member having a stiffening layer and method of using

Film scanning apparatus having a film cartridge chamber for receiving a film cartridge containing photographic film having images to be scanned, a film takeup chamber and a film scan gate therebetween. The apparatus has an upstream nip roller set positioned between the film cartridge chamber and the film scan gate and includes at least one drive roller and pinch roller set in which the drive roller has a compliant film engagement surface. A downstream nip roller set is positioned between the film scan gate and the film takeup chamber and includes at least one drive roller and pinch roller set in which the drive roller has a compliant film engagement surface. The upstream nip roller set exerts constant tensioning force on film in the film scan gate buffering the film in the film scan gate against variable tensioning effects on the film caused by the film cartridge. A drive motor is directly connected to the downstream drive roller set and the downstream roller set is drivingly connected to the upstream drive roller set by an elastic drive belt. A differential compression force is exerted on the pinch rollers such that the force on the downstream pinch rollers is greater than on the upstream pinch rollers thereby causing a film speed differential between the upstream and downstream roller sets that maintains a desired degree of tension on film transported through the film scan gate.

Film drive apparatus for a photographic film scanner

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Bonnie J Patterson