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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2006
David L. Keefe, Cato, NY (US);
Karl E. Kurz, Rochester, NY (US);
Mark T. Bartlett, Webster, NY (US);
David L. Keefe, Cato, NY (US);
Karl E. Kurz, Rochester, NY (US);
Mark T. Bartlett, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A guide is used to protect a corona cartridge during shipping and during insertion into an electrostatic marking apparatus. The guide has dimensions that will permit the cartridge to fit therein and has a locking mechanism that securely holds the cartridge in place during shipment or movement. When the cartridge is to be removed from the guide and inserted into an electrostatic marking system, a handle attached to a latch is used to free the latch from a groove in the guide. The groove in the guide is located between two upwardly protruding ramps having a slidable side and a locking side that abuts the latch and holds it in place until activation when the latch handle frees it from the groove.