Abstract:
In an apertured vacuum belt document handling system for transporting documents to the exposure station of a copier the vacuum apertures are limited to discrete minor areas spaced circumferentially along the belt between unapertured areas, each vacuum apertured area being smaller than the smallest document to be transported. A document is registered in a loading station against the belt completely overlying one vacuum apertured area and advanced on the belt without slippage from the loading station to the exposure station, where the spacing from the other vacuum apertured areas is such that none of them are exposed.
Abstract:
An automatic document handler adapted to receive a stack of documents to be copied for feeding the documents seriatim to the platen of a copy machine and returning the copied documents to the stack. A combination vacuum-belt document separator in conjunction with a multiple orifice air knife and a document tray having a "U" shaped pocket is provided to assure positive feeding of documents without misfeeds or multifeeds.
Abstract:
A belt assembly in which a sub-belt has a photoconductive belt secured releasably thereto. The sub-belt and photoconductive belt move in unison with one another about a defined path.
Abstract:
An electrostatographic copying system in which an image is formed on an imaging surface and transferred at a transfer station to a copy sheet, where the copy sheet is electrostatically transported through the toner transfer station on a belt. As the sheet is loaded onto the belt, skewed spaced fingers hold it against the belt while a corona charge is applied through the fingers to tack the sheet to the belt.