Xerox Corporation

Other

Jacob Eyngorn

Aaron Michael Moore

Brian Clarence Cyr

Scott J Phillips

Donald Richard Fess

John Paul Meyers

Gerald Roy Curry

Donald J Lyon

Steven M Ferrarese

Mark F Scholand

David G Savini

Disclosed is a system for cleaning a print media sheet and, more particularly, for cleaning a specific portion of sheet that is less than the entire length of the sheet. A device moves a cleaning roller between standby, cleaning fluid receiving and cleaning positions. Timing of cleaning roller movement into the cleaning position is controlled to ensure proper positioning of the cleaning roller with respect to the sheet during cleaning. In the cleaning position, the cleaning roller rotates so as to clean only the specific portion. In the cleaning fluid receiving position, the cleaning roller rotates to receive, from a cleaning fluid dispenser, a predetermined amount of cleaning fluid. Optionally, a retractable shutter can be selectively retracted to expose an opening in a sheet transport path guard and, thereby allow the cleaning roller to move into the cleaning position.

Print media cleaning system and method

Disclosed are embodiments of a system and method for treating a printed flexible book cover prior to book binding. In the embodiments, a liquid (e.g., water or a water-oil solvent mixture) can be applied (e.g., by a liquid applicator, such as a spray nozzle, sponge, brush, etc.) to the spine portion only of the book cover so that it pools on the surface. After a predetermined amount of time, the liquid can be removed (e.g., by a liquid remover, such as a vacuum, blower, heater, etc.). Allowing the spine portion of the book cover to soak in the liquid for this predetermined amount of time ensures that the liquid saturates the spine portion. Saturating the spine portion of the book cover alters the surface structure and, thereby enhances adhesion of an adhesive material (e.g., glue or tape) during a subsequent book binding process even in the presence of fuser oil.

System and method for treating printed flexible book covers prior to binding

An apparatus for improving sheet feeding in a direction of movement to a process station, including: a contact surface having ribs spaced along contact surface in the direction of movement, apertures being defined in the space between each rib; a blower; and an air plenum for supplying a vacuum generated by the blower to the contact surface so that when an leading edge of the sheet passes by the contact surface the vacuum pulls the leading edge of the sheet towards contact surface.

Passive vacuum transport

In a document feeder with a superposed sheet input tray and sheet output stacking tray for feeding and then restacking print media paper sheets of variable dimensions, the lateral setting (repositioning) of the at least one variable position side guide of the input tray to the sides of the input sheets automatically correspondingly resets the corresponding side guide of the underlying output stacking tray, to reduce sheet scattering in the sheet stacking, especially skewed sheets. This may be accomplished by a simple direct mechanical integration of these respective side guides into a single repositionable component with upper and lower extending sheet edge guide portions.

Automatic restacking tray side guide repositioning system providing sheet stacking scatter reduction

An edge-lighted neon sign, which is comprised of a one-piece slab of light-transmitting material having spaced, substantially parallel faces and comprising a front parallel face and a back parallel face, wherein integrally connected to the back parallel face are at least two horizontally-extending light-transmitting channels which are comprised of transparent, light-transmitting material. A first horizontally-extending channel is disposed on an edge of said back parallel face of the slab of light-transmitting material and a second horizontally-extending channel is disposed on an edge of the back parallel face of the slab of light-transmitting material which is opposite the edge on which the first horizontally-extending channel is disposed. The sign of this invention is also comprised of at least two neon lamps, wherein at least one of the lamps is so disposed so that it is substantially contiguous with an edge of the second horizontally-extending channel.

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Penfield, NY, United States of America

Jacob Eyngorn