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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. 31, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1990
Patrick T Pendell, Rochester, NY (US);
Joel L Respress, Rochester, NY (US);
Susan L West, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A modular, customer installable bypass paper transport allows printed output from a printer to bypass an output tray of the printer and pass directly into a separate finisher so as to ensure no detrimental impact on the IOT of the printer when the units are coupled or decoupled. The bypass transport fits into an output tray of the finisher and is powered by the printer. Alignment is accomplished by the use of two switches on the mating end of the bypass transport that have plunger type actuators that are actuated with minimal contact with the separate finisher in order to indicate correct or incorrect docking of the separate finisher with the bypass transport.