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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1995
Mark C Petropoulos, Ontario, NY (US);
April M Mattox, Webster, NY (US);
Martha J Stegbauer, Ontario, NY (US);
Richard J Manzolati, Rochester, NY (US);
John F Yanus, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a photoreceptor material reclaim method comprising: (a) centrifuging a first photoreceptor coating solution comprised of a liquid, a photoreceptor material, and impurities, resulting in a residue composition comprised of a lower density material including a portion of the photoreceptor material and a higher density material including a portion of the impurities and a supernatant composition; (b) drying the residue composition to remove a portion of the liquid in the residue composition; (c) grinding the dried residue composition; (d) separating the lower density material from the higher density material of the dried, ground residue composition; (e) forming a second photoreceptor coating solution comprised of the lower density material obtained by (d); and (f) depositing the second photoreceptor coating solution comprised of the lower density material on a substrate.