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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1982
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1980
Richard F Zepko, Oxford, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
The combination of a pressure fixing roller for an electrophotocopying machine and a scraping device operatively associated with the roller for removing toner material accumulated on the roller. The scraping device includes an angled blade having a scraping portion and a supporting portion oriented at an acute angle with respect to the scraping portion, and a plastic bracket surrounding the supporting portion of the angled blade and having a first, angled, reinforcing member extending along most of the downstream side of the scraping portion of the angled blade relative to the rotation of the roller and a second, smaller, angled, stiffening member extending along a small portion of the upstream surface of the scraping portion of the angled blade and terminating in a direction substantially parallel to the scraping portion of the angled blade.