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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1996
Lowell W Knapp, Victor, NY (US);
Sam E Stewart, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
In a reproduction machine with modular components movable relative to the mainframe of the machine, a cable controlling system for maintaining a protected electrical cable interconnection when the modular component is moved relative to the mainframe, with a constant force spring system connecting a pulley cable guide to the mainframe to retract the pulley cable guide towards the mainframe when the modular component is moved towards the mainframe, and to allow the pulley cable guide to move away from the mainframe with the substantially constant force when the modular component is moved away from the mainframe, a single bight in the cable of a defined minimum relatively large wrap angle, and a linear cable guide channel member internally confining a substantial portion of the extendable and retractable single bight portion of the cable.