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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1994
Carlos A Velazquez, Walworth, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A sheet transport apparatus for transporting an image carrying sheet into a fusing apparatus without image disturbances from a sheet motion opposing force. The sheet transport apparatus includes a baffle plate positioned along a line of sheet movement into the fusing apparatus, and active means for moving the image carrying sheet over and towards the baffle plate. The sheet transport apparatus also includes a generally triangular member having a flat base positioned on the baffle plate, and an upstream flank as well as a downstream flank forming an apex thereof for creating a convex buckle in the image carrying sheet prior to the image carrying sheet being subjected to a sheet motion opposing force from contact with the fusing apparatus.