Patent · US Expired

Developer station with a plurality of adjacent developer chambers

US5930563A · kind A · utility

4Cited by

3References

20Claims

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Assignee

Oce Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

Helmut Reichl · Herrsching am Ammersee, DE
Manfred Neufeld · Baierbrunn, DE
Michael Muller · Harper Woods, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 26, 1998
Grant date	Jul 27, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 26, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03G2215/00924
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a developer station for electrophotographic printing apparatus operating in multicolor simplex and duplex mode and having continuous paper. The developer station contains a plurality of adjacent developer chambers with developer drums and transport drums arranged within. The adjacent developer chambers are separated by partition walls with openings though which the drums pass. The drums driven together are positively connected with each other by coupling elements arranged in the area of the openings and having associated toner-proof seals.

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