Xerox Corporation

H William Gray

Donald Richard Fess

Richard A Schieck

Thomas P Redding

Don S Walker

Mary A Roux

Vincent S Carrozzi

Gary L Dent, Sr

A tri-roll inverter for use in machines requiring copy sheet inversion for collated copy set output includes input and output nips. All sheets entering the input nip of the inverter are corrugated by a corrugation system as they enter a spring loaded inversion channel. The corrugation system includes an idler roll, a steel driver roll, and two plastic driver rolls on opposite sides of the steel driver roll. The spring and corrugation system urge the sheets back out of the inversion channel into engagement with the output nip for feeding back into a machine for further processing. The plastic rolls enable each sheet to reach zero velocity quickly and invert at a fast rate without stalling or jamming.

Inverter with a friction/corrugating driver

A printing apparatus includes a copy sheet skew adjustment device. The copy sheet adjustment device is a pivotable baffle positioned between transfer and copy sheet registration stations of the printer and hinged at one end. At the other end, the baffle is connected to a screw and a nut such that when the nut is rotated it pivots the baffle further either into or out of the path of the copy sheets. This shortens or lengthens the distance the copy sheets have to travel to the transfer station and in doing so skews the copy sheets to the proper alignment.

Copy sheet skew adjustment device

An apparatus in which successive flexible sheets are advanced from a stack. One edge of the stack of sheets is supported rollably in a substantially vertical orientation. Successive outermost sheets are fed from one side of the stack. The stack of sheets moves toward a sheet feeder so as to position successive outermost sheets of one side thereof in a feeding relationship therewith.

Sheet feeder stack support

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Lima, NY, United States of America

H William Gray