Selective control of distributed drives to maintain interdocument gap during jam recovery purge
US5257070A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 8, 1992 |
| Grant date | Oct 26, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 8, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/00556
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method of purging copy sheets after a machine malfunction from a copy sheet path having a plurality of zones including the steps of determining the existence of copy sheets in process in any of the copy sheet path zones, selectively activating a plurality of independent copy sheet drives to maintain a predetermined interdocument space between any copy sheets in process and systematically purging the copy sheets from the zones of the paper path in a predetermined order based upon the particular disposition of the copy sheets in the sheet path zones.
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