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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2013
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Billy T. Stojanovski, Penfield, NY (US);
Gerald Roy Curry, Lima, NY (US);
Thomas Crofton Hatch, Williamson, NY (US);
Michael J. Linder, Walworth, NY (US);
Todd Maurice Uthman, Rochester, NY (US);
Donald R. Fess, Rochester, NY (US);
XEROX Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided improving stack integrity for a set of image receiving media substrates at an output of a compiler in an image forming device by supplementing a compiler shelf with a pair of augers having a unique planar lead-in for a top surface of the augers. The vertical compiler components reduce a 'stepped' configuration of conventional compiler systems to keep a bottom sheet substantially 'flat' thereby reducing a tendency for the bottom sheet to disadvantageously shift during in-set alignment processing. The large flat surface at the top of the augers effectively extends the plane of the lead edge shelf. A larger contact area with the sheets/sets of image receiving media substrates, along with the flatter shape of the sets, results in a more stable stack with a lesser tendency of individual sheets to migrate away from a registration edge.