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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2014
Christopher M. Muir, Rochester, NY (US);
Randy Eugene Armbruster, Rochester, NY (US);
Bonnie J. Patterson, Rochester, NY (US);
W. Charles Kasiske, Jr., Webster, NY (US);
Christopher M. Muir, Rochester, NY (US);
Randy Eugene Armbruster, Rochester, NY (US);
Bonnie J. Patterson, Rochester, NY (US);
W. Charles Kasiske, Jr., Webster, NY (US);
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A web-guiding system for guiding a web of media travelling from upstream to downstream along a transport path in an in-track direction. A web-guiding structure includes an exterior surface having a pattern of alternating ridges and recesses formed into the exterior surface. The web of media travels past the web-guiding structure with the first side of the web of media contacting at least some of the ridges on the exterior surface of the web-guiding structure. The ridges and recesses are formed into the exterior surface of the web-guiding structure such that the exterior surface has a continuous and smooth surface profile in the cross-track direction having a specified maximum slope magnitude and a specified minimum radius of curvature magnitude.