Electrostatic copier including photoreceptor storing apparatus
US4173409A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 22, 1976 |
| Grant date | Nov 6, 1979 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 22, 1996 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G15/754
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In a copier including a flexible, endless web-type photoreceptor, and including suitable means for successively advancing the photoreceptor from a storage station and through several processing stations and back to the storage station, there is provided storing apparatus for supporting a major portion of the photoreceptor at the storage station in the form of a series of interconnected U-shaped loops. The supporting apparatus includes a plurality of loop supports, from which the photoreceptor loops are individually hung. In addition, the storing apparatus includes means for intermittently moving the loop supports and thus the photoreceptor loops in timed relation to advancement of the photoreceptor to and from the storage station.
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