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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2013
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Billy T. Stojanovski, Penfield, NY (US);
Gerald Roy Curry, Lima, NY (US);
Thomas Crofton Hatch, Williamson, 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 for improving stack integrity for a set of image receiving media substrates at an output of a compiler in an image forming device positioning a plurality of pairs of rotating shelf structures in a vicinity of an exit/ejection port of an image receiving media processing or post-processing unit. The plurality of pairs of rotating shelf structures cycle between a first (support) position and a substantially orthogonal second (drop) position with respect to a rotating axis for the rotating shelf structures. Each of the rotating shelf structures has a uniquely-portioned top surface that includes a substantially-parallel top (supporting) portion and a ramped lead-in portion facing the exit/ejection port from the image receiving media processing or post-processing unit in an effort to reduce any image receiving media substrate 'stubbing' against a first of the plurality of pairs of rotating shelf structures in a process direction.