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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2003
Barry P. Mandel, Fairport, NY (US);
Lloyd A. Williams, Mahopac, NY (US);
Joannes N. M. Dejong, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Keith A. Buddendeck, Rochester, NY (US);
Barry P. Mandel, Fairport, NY (US);
Lloyd A. Williams, Mahopac, NY (US);
Joannes N. M. deJong, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Keith A. Buddendeck, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system for automatically releasing selected plural sheet feeding nip sets spaced along a print media sheet feeding path of a printer, wherein the idler rollers are rotatably mounted on common idler shafts and a selectable partial rotation system driven by a single low cost motor is flexibly connected to those plural idler shafts to partially rotate eccentric lift cams on each idler shaft into the underlying surface as to lift the idler shaft and thereby move the idler rollers away from their normally mating sheet feed rollers to release all the sheet feeding nips, enabling sheet deskew, inversion, acceleration, deceleration, or sheet jam clearance in that selected area of the sheet feeding path.