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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Douglas K. Herrmann, Webster, NY (US);
Seemit Praharaj, Webster, NY (US);
Michael J. Levy, Webster, NY (US);
Jason M. Lefevre, Penfield, NY (US);
Paul McConville, Webster, NY (US);
Chu-heng Liu, Penfield, NY (US);
Linn C. Hoover, Webster, NY (US);
David A. VanKouwenberg, Avon, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A vacuum roller system and a method of operation the vacuum roller system can include an assembly of interdigitated rollers, and a vacuum system, wherein the assembly of interdigitated rollers is operably connected to the vacuum system to move sheets of media through a downstream dryer in a printer, wherein a vacuum is drawn between individual rollers among the assembly of interdigitated rollers so that the vacuum is distributed across a sheet of media and is split around the individual rollers. The spacing between the individual rollers among the assembly of interdigitated rollers is variable to vary the vacuum.