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Apparatus for the forming of images with a cleaning device for a corona wire

US4811050A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 14, 1987
Grant dateMar 7, 1989
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Expiry dateOct 14, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2221/1693
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus for the formation of images having a body of the apparatus provided with a corona charger, in which a corona wire is strung along a charging opening of the corona charger. An image-forming device is installed in the body of the apparatus. The device is removable from the body of the apparatus along the corona wire. The apparatus further includes a cleaning device that is attached to the end portion of the image-forming device opposite to the direction in which the image-forming device is pulled out of the body of the apparatus. The cleaning device touching the corona wire through the charging opening when the image-forming device moves along the corona wire and separating from the corona wire when the image-forming device is installed into the body of the apparatus.

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