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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
David Lee Merrifield, Lexington, KY (US);
Royden Thomas Kern, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A skiving seal for blocking toner from entering a gap between adjacent a rotatable member in a toner container system of an image forming apparatus. The skiving seal includes a flexible sheet having a surface and a length. The skiving seal includes a tubular portion formed by folding the flexible sheet over itself from an edge extending along the length of the flexible sheet without creasing the fold and adhesively adhering a portion of the folded portion of the flexible sheet to the surface of the flexible sheet along the length of the flexible sheet. The skiving seal includes an adhesive-coated area unobstructed on the surface of the flexible sheet for adhesively affixing the skiving seal in the toner container system.