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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:
Dec. 21, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
William R Brophy, West Simsbury, CT (US);
Richard G Dolson, Canton, CT (US);
Assignee:
Royal Business Machines, Inc., Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; B26D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
83205 ; 83224 ; 83367 ; 83372 ; 83586 ; 355 13 ; 355 28 ;
Abstract
A roll fed copier is provided with mechanism responsive to depression of a copy button to start or turn on power to the machine and thereby initiate the feed of copy paper from a supply roll and to cock a sprng-powered knife which is tripped by linkage operated by an adjustable copy length control on the movable original carrying platen. Additional mechanism is also provided to break the power lines to the machines if the copy button is not actuated for a predetermined interval.