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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:
Josef Matkan, Malvern, AU;
Assignee:
Research Laboratories of Australia, Eastwood, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355 / ; 3172 / ;
Abstract
In an electrostatic copier particularly of the microfilm reader-printer type an electrically insulating member such as a polyester transport belt is provided onto which an uncharged recording sheet is fed so that no other holding means is required to position the recording sheet at the exposure station, the invention utilizing, at the site of discharging the recording sheet onto the transport belt, a conductive electrode which is interposed between recording sheet and insulating belt to allow a single corona generating device to both apply a surface charge to said recording sheet and assemble it onto the transport belt.