US3826379A - Method and means for reducing the effect of electrostatic charges on paper in a copying system - Google Patents

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US3826379A
US3826379A US00336816A US33681673A US3826379A US 3826379 A US3826379 A US 3826379A US 00336816 A US00336816 A US 00336816A US 33681673 A US33681673 A US 33681673A US 3826379 A US3826379 A US 3826379A
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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    • G03G15/00—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
    • G03G15/65—Apparatus which relate to the handling of copy material
    • G03G15/6552—Means for discharging uncollated sheet copy material, e.g. discharging rollers, exit trays
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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    • G03G15/00—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
    • G03G15/65—Apparatus which relate to the handling of copy material
    • G03G15/6555—Handling of sheet copy material taking place in a specific part of the copy material feeding path
    • G03G15/6573—Feeding path after the fixing point and up to the discharge tray or the finisher, e.g. special treatment of copy material to compensate for effects from the fixing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2301/00—Handling processes for sheets or webs
    • B65H2301/50—Auxiliary process performed during handling process
    • B65H2301/51—Modifying a characteristic of handled material
    • B65H2301/513—Modifying electric properties
    • B65H2301/5133—Removing electrostatic charge
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G2215/00—Apparatus for electrophotographic processes
    • G03G2215/00362—Apparatus for electrophotographic processes relating to the copy medium handling
    • G03G2215/00367—The feeding path segment where particular handling of the copy medium occurs, segments being adjacent and non-overlapping. Each segment is identified by the most downstream point in the segment, so that for instance the segment labelled "Fixing device" is referring to the path between the "Transfer device" and the "Fixing device"
    • G03G2215/00417—Post-fixing device
    • G03G2215/00421—Discharging tray, e.g. devices stabilising the quality of the copy medium, postfixing-treatment, inverting, sorting
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    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G2215/00—Apparatus for electrophotographic processes
    • G03G2215/00362—Apparatus for electrophotographic processes relating to the copy medium handling
    • G03G2215/00535—Stable handling of copy medium
    • G03G2215/00654—Charging device

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US4380037A (en) * 1981-05-18 1983-04-12 Burlington Industries, Inc. Electrostatic treatment of paper
JPS59116962U (ja) * 1983-12-02 1984-08-07 株式会社東芝 定着装置
EP0176157A1 (en) * 1984-09-27 1986-04-02 Océ-Nederland B.V. A device for collating sheets
DE3604915A1 (de) * 1985-02-22 1986-08-28 Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd., Tokio/Tokyo Papierfuehrungsvorrichtung fuer einen drucker
EP0179235A3 (en) * 1984-10-19 1987-04-29 Nixdorf Computer Aktiengesellschaft Leaving paper re-entry preventing device for an office machine
US5062764A (en) * 1990-01-08 1991-11-05 Robert A. Foisie Method and apparatus using electrostatic charges to stabilize the upper sheets of a stack of paper
US5228373A (en) * 1990-01-08 1993-07-20 Robert A. Foisie Method and apparatus using electrostatic charges to temporarily hold packets of paper
US6241239B1 (en) 1996-10-22 2001-06-05 Oce Printing Systems Gmbh Device for outputting single sheets from a printer
EP1172711A3 (en) * 2000-06-20 2002-03-13 Oki Data Corporation Electrophotographic printer for preventing toner offset from a fixing unit
WO2002049944A1 (en) * 2000-12-18 2002-06-27 Gbr Systems Corporation Anti-static sheet feeding mechanism
US6505829B2 (en) * 1998-11-27 2003-01-14 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Sheet treating apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same
US8857814B2 (en) * 2012-04-25 2014-10-14 Riso Kagaku Corporation Sheet ejection device
US20160187846A1 (en) * 2014-12-25 2016-06-30 Konica Minolta, Inc. Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and post-processing apparatus

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US2989181A (en) * 1955-12-30 1961-06-20 Ibm Automatic sorting machine
US3071179A (en) * 1961-03-30 1963-01-01 Us Rubber Co Tire building apparatus and method
US3322424A (en) * 1965-01-25 1967-05-30 Warren S D Co Apparatus and method for sheet transport and control
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US2989181A (en) * 1955-12-30 1961-06-20 Ibm Automatic sorting machine
US2891668A (en) * 1956-05-31 1959-06-23 Sylvania Electric Prod Static escapement device
US3071179A (en) * 1961-03-30 1963-01-01 Us Rubber Co Tire building apparatus and method
US3322424A (en) * 1965-01-25 1967-05-30 Warren S D Co Apparatus and method for sheet transport and control
US3668451A (en) * 1970-08-14 1972-06-06 Ian Roderick Mcnab Electrical brush structure

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4380037A (en) * 1981-05-18 1983-04-12 Burlington Industries, Inc. Electrostatic treatment of paper
JPS59116962U (ja) * 1983-12-02 1984-08-07 株式会社東芝 定着装置
EP0176157A1 (en) * 1984-09-27 1986-04-02 Océ-Nederland B.V. A device for collating sheets
EP0179235A3 (en) * 1984-10-19 1987-04-29 Nixdorf Computer Aktiengesellschaft Leaving paper re-entry preventing device for an office machine
DE3604915A1 (de) * 1985-02-22 1986-08-28 Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd., Tokio/Tokyo Papierfuehrungsvorrichtung fuer einen drucker
US5228373A (en) * 1990-01-08 1993-07-20 Robert A. Foisie Method and apparatus using electrostatic charges to temporarily hold packets of paper
US5062764A (en) * 1990-01-08 1991-11-05 Robert A. Foisie Method and apparatus using electrostatic charges to stabilize the upper sheets of a stack of paper
US6241239B1 (en) 1996-10-22 2001-06-05 Oce Printing Systems Gmbh Device for outputting single sheets from a printer
US6505829B2 (en) * 1998-11-27 2003-01-14 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Sheet treating apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same
EP1172711A3 (en) * 2000-06-20 2002-03-13 Oki Data Corporation Electrophotographic printer for preventing toner offset from a fixing unit
US6484009B2 (en) 2000-06-20 2002-11-19 Oki Data Corporation Electrophotographic printer having offset prevention
WO2002049944A1 (en) * 2000-12-18 2002-06-27 Gbr Systems Corporation Anti-static sheet feeding mechanism
US8857814B2 (en) * 2012-04-25 2014-10-14 Riso Kagaku Corporation Sheet ejection device
US20160187846A1 (en) * 2014-12-25 2016-06-30 Konica Minolta, Inc. Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and post-processing apparatus
US9817356B2 (en) * 2014-12-25 2017-11-14 Konica Minolta, Inc. Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and post-processing apparatus

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