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Velocity compensation for bead bypass

US3945724A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 4, 1974
Grant dateMar 23, 1976
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Expiry dateJun 4, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G17/04
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system employing at least one separation roller continuously contacting the outside surface of a web and tracked to move in a fixed approximately elliptical path for compensating for web motion during separation of the web from another surface to enable a bead of accumulated material built up at the line of contact between the web and the other surface to pass therebetween without changing the web velocity. In a preferred embodiment, the system is employed in photoelectrophoretic imaging to bypass a bead of imaging suspension built up at the imaging nip during separation of two webs immediately after completion of imaging to thereby permit dissipation or passage of the liquid bead without changing the advancing web velocity.

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