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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:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Philip D Klug, Westland, MI (US);
Assignee:
Unisys Corp, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
134-6 ; 15106 ; 15160 ; 134 18 ;
Abstract
A method of providing a track-cleaning wand for use in a document handling machine having a track along which documents are transported past sensors separated by a distance d and recessed away from the side walls of the track, this wand including a rigid handle with, at one end, a rigid elongate spacer bar carrying a pair of like brushes spaced apart by the sensor separation-distance and having bristles long enough to reach the face of a sensor, when the spacer bar is swept along the track.