Xerox Corporation

Robert S Foltz

Eugene A Swain

Richard P Millonzi

Richard C Petralia

Peter J Schmitt

John J Darcy

Ronald A Gaither

Robert C U Yu

Geoffrey M Foley

Stanley J Pietrzykowski, Jr

William A Hammond

Edouard E Langlois

John K Williams

Edward C Williams

Warren F Brydges

Ismael R Sanchez

Thong H Vo

William G Herbert

Mark C Petropoulos

John J Wilbert

Mark S Thomas

Harold F Hammond

Kamran U Zaman

Henry T Mastalski

Gene W O'Dell

Alfred O Klein

Richard J Manzolati

Alan D Smith

Robert E McCumiskey

David P Rich

John T Dilko

David J Kilmer

David P Crump

Christopher E Dackson

Thomas E Smith

Leslie W Caccamise

A process for treating an electrostatographic imaging member including providing a hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member having an interior surface, a coated outer surface, a first end and a second end, the interior surface at at least the first end having a coating of adhesive material securing a first end flange to the first end, and propelling solid carbon dioxide pellets against the first end flange and coating of adhesive material with sufficient force to remove the first end flange and coating of adhesive material from the interior surface at at least the first end of the hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member.

Hollow cylindrical imaging member treatment process with solid carbon dioxide pellets

Multiple-seam electrostatographic imaging member belts include two or more imaging member portions joined together by two or more seams. The belts can be formed from imaging member web that either includes or does not include an anti-curl backing layer, and that includes a charge transport layer that is substantially stress free.

Multiple-seam electrostatographic imaging member and method of making electrostatographic imaging member

There is disclosed a carrier system for carrying a substrate batch including:

Substrate carrier system

A hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member supporting end flange including a disk shaped member, a supporting hub extending axially from the disk shaped member and a metal disk coaxially secured to the hub, the disk comprising a plurality of rectangular tabs extending radially from the disk in a direction away from an imaginary axis of the hub for engagement with the hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member upon insertion of the hub and disk shaped member into one end of the hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member. When this end flange is inserted into one end of the hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member, the plurality of rectangular tabs extending radially from the disk engage the inner surface of the hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member.

Imaging member end flange and end flange assembly

There is disclosed a dip coating apparatus including: (a) a single coating vessel capable of containing a batch of substrates vertically positioned in the vessel, wherein there is absent vessel walls defining a separate compartment for each of the substrates; (b) a coating solution disposed in the vessel, wherein the solution is comprised of materials employed in a photosensitive member and including a solvent that gives off a solvent vapor; and (c) a solvent vapor uniformity control apparatus which minimizes any difference in solvent vapor concentration encountered by the batch of the substrates in the air adjacent the solution surface, thereby improving coating uniformity of the substrates.

Dip coating apparatus having a single coating vessel

A reusable photoreceptor assembly has a gear assembly removable from a photoreceptor. A square leaf spring or ring is used to secure and remove the gear assembly to and from the photoreceptor, thereby avoiding damage to both the gear assembly and photoreceptor during the removal of the gear assembly. The undamaged gear assembly and photoreceptor may then be reused.

Method and apparatus for reusing a photoreceptor and gear assembly

A hollow cylinder supporting end flange is disclosed comprising a disk shaped member, a supporting hub extending axially from the disk shaped member and an annular ring supported on the hub, the ring comprising a plurality of sharp protrusions or barbs extending from the ring in a direction away from the hub for engagement with the hollow cylindrical member upon insertion of the annular ring into the hollow cylindrical member. This end flange is utilized in an assembly comprising a hollow cylindrical member having a circular cross section and an inner surface and an end flange comprising a disk shaped member having a circular periphery, a supporting hub extending axially from the disk shaped member into one end of the hollow cylindrical member and an annular ring supported on and secured to the hub, the ring comprising a plurality of sharp protrusions extending from the ring in a direction away from the hub into engagement with inner surface of the hollow cylindrical member to secure the hollow cylindrical member to the end flange.

Barbed ring flange assembly

An electrostatographic imaging member assembly including a hollow electrostatographic imaging drum having a first end and a second end, at least one coating on the drum extending to at least the first end of the drum, the coating having an outer electrostatographic imaging surface and a first drum supporting end cap mounted on the first end of the drum, the first drum supporting end cap including a disk shaped member having an annular skirt encircling an exterior surface of the first end of the cylindrical substrate, the annular skirt having an imaginary axis coextensive with an imaginary axis of the drum. This electrostatographic imaging member assembly may be fabricated by sliding the skirt of the end cap over the end of the drum with or without presoftening of the coating. The electrostatographic imaging member assembly may be utilized in electrostatographic imaging apparatus in which the end caps support electrostatographic imaging apparatus subassembly components.

Electrostatographic imaging drum end cap and drum assembly

A laser ablation apparatus includes a nozzle, disposed through a housing, wherein the nozzle has: (i) a nozzle housing comprised of a bottom surface; (ii) a first orifice defined by the bottom surface; (iii) a second orifice defined by the bottom surface; (iv) a first passageway defined by the nozzle housing in communication with the first orifice; and (v) a second passageway defined by the nozzle housing in communication with the second orifice, wherein the portion of the second passageway adjacent the second orifice forms an angle .theta..sub.3 with the portion of the first passageway adjacent the first orifice, wherein the angle .theta..sub.3 is effective for directing a first fluid stream through the second orifice at the surface of the enclosed substrate portion to facilitate removal of the coating in the form of coating debris during or subsequent to exposure of the coating of an enclosed substrate portion to high energy radiation. A high energy radiation generating apparatus and a first fluid stream generating apparatus are coupled to the nozzle. A second fluid stream nozzle is disposed in a direction for directing a second fluid stream against the first fluid stream to keep coating debris inside the housing. Exhausting apparatus is coupled to the housing.

Laser ablation nozzle

A method and apparatus are disclosed for capturing coating debris during laser ablation of a photoreceptor comprising: (a) enclosing a predetermined length of a coated substrate in a housing to result in an enclosed coated substrate portion, wherein there exists a gap between the enclosed substrate portion and the housing in communication with air outside the housing; (b) directing high energy radiation at the coating of the enclosed substrate portion; (c) directing a first fluid stream against the coating of the enclosed substrate portion to remove at least part of the coating in the form of coating debris during or subsequent to (b), whereby the first fluid stream may move a portion of the coating debris outside the housing in the absence of (d); (d) directing a second fluid stream against the first fluid stream in a direction effective for keeping the coating debris inside the housing, thereby minimizing movement of the coating debris into the air outside the housing; and (e) exhausting the coating debris.

Capture system employing diverter fluid nozzle

A method and apparatus are disclosed for capturing coating debris during laser ablation of a photoreceptor comprising: (a) enclosing a predetermined length of a coated substrate in a housing to result in an enclosed coated substrate portion, wherein there exists a gap between the enclosed substrate portion and the housing in communication with air outside the housing; (b) directing high energy radiation at the coating of the enclosed substrate portion; (c) directing a first fluid stream against the coating of the enclosed substrate portion to remove at least part of the coating in the form of coating debris during or subsequent to (b), whereby the first fluid stream may move a portion of the coating debris outside the housing in the absence of (d); (d) directing an annularly-shaped second fluid stream against the first fluid stream in a direction effective for keeping the coating debris inside the housing, thereby minimizing movement of the coating debris into the air outside the housing; and (e) exhausting the coating debris.

Capture system employing annular fluid stream

A method for applying a coating solution onto a substrate to form a coated portion thereon includes a dipping device for dipping and removing the substrate into and from the coating solution; and a heating device for inductively heating the substrate while the dipping device removes the substrate from the coating solution to uniformly dry an inner surface of the coated portion, the inner surface being adjacent to the substrate. The method advantageously may include a drying device for blowing hot gases onto the coated portion of the substrate while the dipping device removes the substrate from the coating solution. The drying device for blowing hot gases onto the coated portion of the substrate includes a plurality of slits arranged so that a plurality of hot gas streams flowing through corresponding ones of the plurality of slits impinge and exert a gas pressure on the coated portion, the plurality of slits being arranged so that a collective gas pressure from all hot gas streams is uniformly applied across the coated portion along a transverse direction so that the coated portion is squeezed to a uniform thickness as the dipping device removes the substrate.

Method for applying a coating solution

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Robert S Foltz