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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1990
Susan C Baruch, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An electrostatographic fusing apparatus includes a sheet decurling mechanism that has a curl indicating device and a pair of selectable sheet decurling nips formed by a set of hard rollers and a soft roller. The curl indicating device predicts the degree of toner particle laydown of a toned image on an image frame from the value of charge on such frame relative to a given standard charge value of charge. A copy sheet receiving toned images from an image frame having a charge value higher than such standard charge value is selectively deflected through a first decurling nip where the soft roller directly contacts the toned image side of such a copy sheet in order to induce therein a convex curl.