US3851965A - Cleaning apparatus for electrocopying machines - Google Patents

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US3851965A
US3851965A US00357073A US35707373A US3851965A US 3851965 A US3851965 A US 3851965A US 00357073 A US00357073 A US 00357073A US 35707373 A US35707373 A US 35707373A US 3851965 A US3851965 A US 3851965A
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M Furuichi
N Akiba
S Kudo
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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    • G03G21/00—Arrangements not provided for by groups G03G13/00 - G03G19/00, e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
    • G03G21/0005—Arrangements not provided for by groups G03G13/00 - G03G19/00, e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge for removing solid developer or debris from the electrographic recording medium
    • G03G21/0035—Arrangements not provided for by groups G03G13/00 - G03G19/00, e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge for removing solid developer or debris from the electrographic recording medium using a brush; Details of cleaning brushes, e.g. fibre density

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  • a rotary cleaning device utilized to remove toner remaining on a rotary photosensitive drum after transfer printing comprises a plurality of resilient members which are assembled into a cylindrical body, a fabric cover encircling the resilient members and having a peripheral length longer than that of the cylindrical body so that portions of the fabric cover are locally folded back on the surface of the cylindrical body, an air suction nozzle and a spacer rod located between the suction port of the nozzle and the cylindrical body such that the folded back portions of the fabric cover are blown away from the periphery of the cylindrical body by the air stream flowing into the air suction nozzle.
  • the paper may be attracted to the surface of the photosensitive drum by to electrostatic force created by the electric field. For this reason, the recording paper is not always removed after transfer printing, thus rendering inoperative the succeeding cycles.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide an improved cleaning device for an electrocopying machine capable of not only removing toner remaining on the surface of the photosensitive drum but also of eff ciently removing a recording paper that was not re-' tosensitive drum, the latent image is developed into a powder image by applying toner upon the latent image, the powder image is transfer printed onto a recording paper and the toner remaining on the image forming surface is removed by a rotary cleaning device, characterized in that the rotary cleaning device comprises a plurality of resilient segments which are assembled into a cylindrical body with a fabric cover encircling the resilient segments. The peripheral length of the fabric cover is longer than that of the cylindrical body so that portions of the fabric cover are locally folded back on the surface of the cylindrical body.
  • An air suction nozzle is oriented generally in the radial direction of the cylindrical body and a spacer rod is located between the suction port of the suction nozzle and the cylindrical body so that, in use, the folded back portions of the fabric cover are blown away from the periphery of the cylindrical body by the air stream flowing into the air suction port.
  • Means areprovided to'urge the rotary cleaning device against the image forming surface of the rotary photosensitive drum.
  • the present invention is different from the conventional cleaningdevice in the form of a rotary brush, in that the toner isremoved by'the wiping action of the fabric cover yieldably engaging the image forming surfaceof the photosensitive drum so that it is possible to increase the cleaning efficiency.
  • the folded back portions'of the fabric cover project slightly in the radial direction they act as wipers to wipe and collect the toner.
  • the spacer rod assists this blowing action and wipes off the toner collected by the folded portions.
  • FIG. 1 shows a cross-sectional view of a novel clean- .ing device and a photosensitive drum of an electrocopying machine
  • FIG; 2 is an enlarged sectional view showing the operative relation between the cleaning device and its air suction nozzle
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic sectional view showing an DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
  • a photosensitive drum or element 1 is rotated in the clockwise direction as shown by an arrow.
  • the drum may-be of any well known construction.
  • An electrostatic latent image is formed on the peripheral sur-' face thereof and developed by using a charged toner, and the developed powder image is transfer printed onto a recording paper.
  • Such method and apparatus are well known in the art and one example thereof will be described later with reference to FIG. 3.
  • the cleaning de vice '2 comprises rotary cylinder 3 and an air suction nozzle 4 which is connected to an air suction device,
  • the rotary cylinder 3 comprises a I sleeve 6 secured to a shaft 5 and provided with a plurality'of axially extending slits 7.
  • a plurality of flexible members or segments 8, each having a cross-sectional configuration of a sector, are bonded to the outer periphery of sleeve 6 between slits 7.
  • -Cylindrical woven or non-woven fabric panels 9 are clamped between the sleeve 6 and a large diameter portion 5A of shaft 5 with portions of the fabric panels 9 brought to the outside of the cylinder through slits 7 and gaps between adjacent flexible members to completely enclose respective flexible members.
  • the peripheral length of the fabric cover made up of fabric panels 9 is made somewhat longer than that of the cylindrical assembly of the flexible members 8 so that as the cleaning brush 3 is rotated, surplus portions of the fabric cover are folded back on the peripheral surface of the cylinder.
  • Fabric panels 9 may be impregnated with a liquid insulating material such as a silicone oil or liquid paraffin to prober or foamed artificial resin.
  • the cleaning device 2 is rotated in the same direction as the photosensitive drum las shown in FIG. 1. Any relative speed of these rotary members may be selected but it is advantageous to select a peripheral speed of about 220 .mm/sec. forthe cleaning drum 2 when the rotary photosensitive drum is rotated at a peripheral speed of from 80 to l mm/sec.
  • the cleaning device is normally urged against the surface of the rotary photosensitive drum under a slight pressure so that the contacting portion of the resilient cylinder 3. is slightly deformed as shown in FlG. 1. Although this pressure is not critical, it is advantageous that thev maximum depression of the resilientcylinder be about to 6 mm. Similarly, the number of sector shaped resilient members or segment 8 is not critical.
  • this number is chosen such that the fabric panels 9 will not be crimped and such that when a particular resilient mem' her which has been urged against the photosensitive drum is separated therefrom, the deformed portion of that resilient member can readily assume its original expanded form.
  • the resilient cylinder is formed by a plurality of resilient members which are fabricated into a cylindrical body and fabric panels 9 encircling the resilient members, as the resilient cylinder is pressed against the rotary photosensitive drum 1 the portion of the resilient member which is in contact with the drum is deformed to increase the contact area therebetween.
  • spacer bar 10 extending in the axial direction of the cleaning drum'2 is disposed between the suction port of the suction nozzle 4 and the resilient cylinder 3.
  • the air is sucked into the suction port, the folded back portions of the fabric cover are blown away from the periphery of the resilient cylinder by the stream of air thereby removing the toner from the fabric cover.
  • the folded back portion of the fabric cover is blown or bulged outwardly by the stream of air to urge the upper side of the bulged out portion against the spacer bar 10.
  • the sleeve 6 may be made integral with the large diameter portion 5A in which case the fabric panel is divided into a plurality of sections and the opposite ends of each section are secured to the sleeve 'at its slits 7.
  • FIG. 3 shows an electrocopying machine as a whole including a photosensitive drum or element, a transfer printing device, means for separating recording papers after transfer printing, a cleaning device, and means for conveying recording papers which have not been removed by the separating means but are removed by the cleaning device.
  • the photosensitive drum 1 may be of any well known construction and latent images may be formed on the image forming surface thereof 'by any well known method. ln the example shown in FIG. 3, the photosensitive element comprises a transparent insulative layer la, a photoconductive layer lb manifesting persistent internal polarization, and an electrode layer 10, these layers being bonded togetherfirito an integral unit mounted on a rotary drum 1a. Where the rotary drum is made of metal, electrode layer 10 may be omitted.
  • the powder of the toner collectedin this manner is removed by the air cu'rrent flowing a charge of one polarity is deposited on the surface of the insulative layer by means of a first corona discharge unit 22. Then a charge of the opposite polarity is deposited on the surface of the insulative layer by means of a second corona discharge unit 23. Concurrently therewith, alight image is projected upon the photosensitive element through the corona discharge unit 23 as shown by dot and dash lines, whereby an electrostatic image is formed on the surface of the insulative layer la'corresponding to the light. image. Where the photosensitive layer lb contains deep charge trap levels it is advantageous to project uniform light upon the latent image to intensify the same by providing an electric lamp 24.
  • Reference numeral 25 diagrammatically shows a developer station in which charged toner is applied onto the surface of the insulative layer to develop the latent image as a visible powder image. Then the powder image is transfer printed onto a recording paper 26 while it is urged against the photosensitive element by means of a roller 30.
  • a third corona discharge unit 27 may be used for assisting transfer printing.
  • the recording paper 26 is then removed from the photosensitive drum by a peel off device 28 comprising a rotary perforated drum 28b and a stationary air suction pipe 28a contained in the drum 28b and provided that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 but is shown somewhat diagrammatically.
  • the recording paper 26 which has been transfer printed, with the powder image is removed from the periphery of the photosensitive element by the action of the peel off device 28. Any recording paper that has not beenremoved by the action of the peel off device will be positively removed because at the contacting point the cleaning device 2 which is rotating in the opposite direction to that of the rotary photosensitive drum with no gap between the cleaning drum and the photosensitive drum.
  • the recording paper removed in this manner is conveyed by means of a belt conveyor 14 as shown by dot and dash lines. When the charge on the recording paper is neutralized by a corona discharge unit 15 the recording paper can be more readily removed.
  • the recording paper conveyed by conveyor 14 may be fed to fixing device 29.
  • the latent image is formed by utilizing persistent internal polarization and two corona discharge units operating with opposite polarities, it should be understood that the latent image can also be formed bywell known Xerography.
  • Cleaning apparatus for cleaning residual toner from an image forming surface of an electrocopying machine comprising a cylindrical body made up of a plurality of resilient circumferentially adjacent segments, a fabric cover over the outer periphery of said cylindrical body, said fabric cover having aperipheral length longer than that of said cylindrical body, means for securing portions of said fabric cover between said adjacent segments so that portions of said fabric cover are folded back on the surface of said cylindrical body, an air suction nozzle oriented generally in the radial direction of said cylindrical body and having a suction port adjacent thereto, and a spacer rod located between said suction port and said cylindrical body, whereby, in use, said folded back portions of said fabric cover are blown away from the periphery of said cylindrical body and toward said spacer rod by an air stream flowing into said air suction port.
  • said fabric cover comprises a plurality of fabric panels, each panel covering the outer periphery of a corresponding one of said segments, the peripheral length of each of said panels being longer than that of its corresponding segment so that a portion of each fabric panel is locally folded back.
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 4 including a rotary shaft supporting said cylindrical body, and wherein said body includes a sleeve mounted on said shaft having segments corresponding to said resilient segments spaced radially inwardly thereof, wherein each of said fabric panels surrounds one of said sleeve segments and its corresponding resilient segment and is clamped between said sleeve and said shaft.
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 in combination with a rotatable drum having an image forming surface thereon, means for rotating said drum and said cylindrical body in opposite directions, and, positioned in sequence about said drum in the direction of rotation thereof ahead of said cleaning apparatus, means for forming a latent image on said image forming surface, means for developing said latent image by applying toner thereon, and means for transfer printing said latent image onto a recording paper, and further including means for urging said cylindrical body against the image forming surface of said drum to remove residual toner therefrom after transfer printing of said latent image.
  • a combination as claimed in claim 7 including a corona discharge unit disposed between said transfer printing means and said cylindrical body to neutralize the electric charge on said recording paper.

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US4319831A (en) * 1978-12-19 1982-03-16 Kanebo, Ltd. Cleaning device in a copying machine
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US5081505A (en) * 1990-08-01 1992-01-14 Eastman Kodak Company Cleaning apparatus having indexable wiper blades
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US4319831A (en) * 1978-12-19 1982-03-16 Kanebo, Ltd. Cleaning device in a copying machine
US4496236A (en) * 1982-02-05 1985-01-29 Dennison Manufacturing Company Anodized electrostatic imaging surface
US5081505A (en) * 1990-08-01 1992-01-14 Eastman Kodak Company Cleaning apparatus having indexable wiper blades
US5343277A (en) * 1991-08-16 1994-08-30 Oce-Nederland, B.V. Cleaning system for an image transfer device
US20090252544A1 (en) * 2008-04-02 2009-10-08 Natsuki Kuribayashi Cleaning apparatus, image forming apparatus including the same, and process cartridge including the same
US8254821B2 (en) * 2008-04-02 2012-08-28 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Cleaning apparatus, image forming apparatus including the same, and process cartridge including the same
US20160075129A1 (en) * 2014-09-12 2016-03-17 Manroland Web Systems Gmbh Method For Cleaning A Print-Related Surface
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