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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:
Oct. 19, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1991
Gregory P Mahoney, Fairport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A reproduction apparatus such as a copier or printer has an endless imaging member such as a flexible web which has a splice and a number of processing stations. The imaging member is divisible into a plural number of imaging portions as well as a non-imaging portion about and including the splice. The imaging member is movable in the copier or printer about a fixed path, and the processing stations are mounted at fixed points along the fixed path. To significantly increase the productivity of the copier or printer, a plural number of sensors are mounted spaced from each other about the fixed path for quickly sensing the splice for use in registering the imaging portions of the imaging member to the processing stations.