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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2005
Douglas A. Lundy, Webster, NY (US);
Anthony L. Paolini, Rochester, NY (US);
D Clay Johnson, Rochester, NY (US);
Robert B. Anderson, Jr., Syracuse, NY (US);
Michael Q. LU, Fairport, NY (US);
Douglas A. Lundy, Webster, NY (US);
Anthony L. Paolini, Rochester, NY (US);
D Clay Johnson, Rochester, NY (US);
Robert B. Anderson, Jr., Syracuse, NY (US);
Michael Q. Lu, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A surface-treating apparatus has a dual-purpose surface-treating blade assembly that includes a blade holder for holding and loading a blade member, and a one-piece blade member having a first edge mounted to the blade holder and a second edge for contacting and treating a surface. The one-piece blade member has a mid-portion for applying a first edge-loading force to lightly contact and remove random spots from a central imaging region of the surface, a first end portion, and a second end portion. The dual-purpose blade assembly also includes a first shim device and a second shim device assembled respectively to the first end portion and to the second end portion of the blade member for stiffening such end portions and increasing a magnitude of each of a second and a third different edge-loading forces at such end portions relative to the first edge-loading force.