International Business Machines Corporation

Robert T Rhodes

Stanley L Pond

Sandra L Ludwick

A copier's corona assembly carries arms holding a corona emission wire between a tensioning spring and current limiting resistor. Slugs secure the corona wire to the spring and resistor under tension provided by the arms and the spring while, simultaneously, facilitating a current path through the wire assembly formed by the wire, spring, resistor, and slugs. The slugs, made of a deformable metal receive, in a slot, a corona wire and one lead of the resistor or one end of the spring. A press closes the slot and crimps the slug closed to securely fasten together the wire and the lead or end.

Corona wire assembly and method

A method and apparatus for providing die cast end portions on corona grid wires and the use of a common runner to interconnect a sequence of grid wire assemblies to facilitate simultaneous connection and or assembly of a plurality of grid wires to individual resilient bifurcated retainers to form the completed charge corona assembly.

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Longmont, CO, United States of America

Robert T Rhodes