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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bradford Billings, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Ryan S Stevenson, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271188 ; 162271 ; 493459 ; 399406 ;
Abstract
A decurler has an arched plate and a rotatable paper sheet feed roll defining an adjustable gap through which paper sheets driven by the roll exiting a copier or printer apparatus which causes the paper sheet to be curled transversely of the feeding direction, and the gap is selectively adjusted to control the decurling effect dependent upon the extent of the curl in the paper induced by the copying or printing process.