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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:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth J. Brown, Rochester, NY (US);
George David Gross, Rochester, NY (US);
Joseph A. Kwiatkowski, Rochester, NY (US);
Francisco L. Ziegelmuller, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
NexPress Solutions LLC, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 2/100 ;
Abstract
A conductive fur brush cleaning assembly for an image processing apparatus. The cleaning assembly has a casing, a plurality of rotating components within the casing and a plurality of sealing devices that divide the casing into a scavenging zone and a detoning zone. The sealing devices prevent airborne marking particles from traveling from the detoning zone into the scavenging zone.