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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:
Sep. 23, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard J Manzolati, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; C23F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430125 ; 216 65 ;
Abstract
A reclaiming process including providing a drum including a hollow cylindrical substrate coated with at least one electrophotographic imaging layer, the substrate having an outer surface describing a curvilinear plane, removing the imaging layer, and removing material from the substrate to a radial distance between about 10 micrometers and about 400 micrometers from the curvilinear plane to form a reclaimed substrate having a total indicated run out variation mean of less than about 160 micrometers and which is free of distortions visible to the naked eye.