Device for fixing a toner image

US4147922A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Naeser · Munich, DE
• Alban Nusser · Freising, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 1977
• Grant date: Apr 3, 1979
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G15/2003
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A preheating saddle for elevating the temperature of a recording carrier upstream of a fixing station in an electrostatic copier or printer. The saddle has heating elements disposed therein in such a manner as to supply the greatest quantity of heat at the upstream end of the saddle while maintaining a constant temperature along the length of the saddle.