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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Karen Elaine Ballman, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Gregory Daniel Creteau, Winchester, KY (US);
Donald Eugene Proffitt, II, Richmond, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A common media redrive system for use with either a hot roll fuser assembly and a belt roll fuser assembly installed an imaging device. The redrive systems includes an access door movable between a raised closed and a lowered open position. The access door has a media path channel and a deflector mounted over the channel. The deflector has a pivotable gate and includes upper and lower media guide members forming a media entrance and two exits for directing a media sheet from the fuser assembly exits to an output area and duplex path portion, respectively, via the gate and the first and second exits, respectively. A pair of media exit guide portions cantilever from the rear portion of the fuser assembly. The lower media guide members includes a pair of cutouts that receive the pair of media exit guide portions when the access door is in the closed position.