Eastman-kodak Company

Nexpress Solutions, Inc.

Curtis Lee Vernon

Robert Michael Peffer

Carl R Bothner

Gregory Leo Kowalski

Robert D LeRoy

Jean Xydias

Tsutumu Miura

James M Montgomery

Gerald M Hitchcock

A device for cooling receiver members after image fixing by the fuser assembly in an electrographic reproduction apparatus wherein a marking particle image is fixed to a receiver member with application of heat by the fuser assembly, the receiver member traveling along a transport path. The cooling device includes an upper housing and a lower housing respectively associated with the receiver member transport path, on opposite sides thereof, immediately downstream, in the direction of receiver member travel along the transport path, of the fuser assembly. The upper and lower housings respectively have transport path guide plates for guiding receiver members along the transport path. A plurality of ports defined in the upper housing transport path guide plate provide flow communication of pressurized air from a pressurized air source to the transport path, and a plurality of ports in the lower housing transport path guide plate provide flow communication of pressurized air from the pressurized air source to the transport path. Accordingly, air impingement for forced air provides convection cooling of receiver members traveling along the transport path and such air impingement also provides for transport of the receiver members via an air bearing thereby substantially preventing the receiver members from contacting the upper and lower guide path plates.

Air impingement post fuser receiver member cooler device

A high-speed sheet inverter mechanism includes a sheet confinement chamber suitable for confining a first sheet and a second sheet at the same time, and three roll assemblies for feeding sheets into, and discharging sheets from, the chamber. The sheet inverter device further includes a simultaneous sheet handling approach angle of about 48.degree. at which a sheet entering the mechanism contacts a sheet exiting the mechanism.

High-speed sheet inverter and method for inverting sheets

Apparatus for cleaning particulate matter from a moving web, such apparatus being held in effective cleaning contact therewith. The apparatus includes a member, which is at least partially formed of magnetically attractable material, for engaging the surface of a moving web to be cleaned. Such member is held in cleaning contact with such web by a magnet which is located adjacent to the surface of the web opposite to the surface to be cleaned, and which induces a magnetic field which attracts the member to the web.

Apparatus for cleaning particulate matter from a moving web

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Curtis Lee Vernon