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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1992
Douglas F Sundquist, Webster, NY (US);
Paul F Schmitt, Palmyra, NY (US);
Charles E Smith, Pittsford, NY (US);
Riley L Warddrip, Pittsford, NY (US);
Thomas M Spangenberg, Wellesley, MA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of recovery from a machine paper jam with a plurality of sheets in a duplex tray of a machine operating in a pre-collation mode to provide multiple copy sets, including the steps of recycling the plurality of pre-collated or pre-ordered serial sheets in the duplex tray out of and back into the duplex tray to reorient the images on the sheets, reimaging the sheets that have exited the duplex tray but are still in process, stacking the reimaged sheets into the top of the duplex tray and recycling a second time the plurality of sheets originally in the duplex tray at time of jam into the duplex tray to reorient the images on the sheets for a second time.