Abstract: A compliant belt attach assembly for use in a printer includes a belt attach and a drive belt having a drive lug. The belt attach defines a lug chamber for containing the drive lug of the drive belt. First and second drive bars are configured to contact the first and second sides of the drive lug to allow drive lug deformation in response to vibration transmitted by the drive belt.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2002
Date of Patent:
May 24, 2005
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Abstract: A sheet guide in a feeder of a sheet-fed printing press has lateral guide plates for upper sheets of a sheet pile for laterally aligning the upper sheets with one sheet edge, and at least one deformable leaf spring located at a side of the sheet pile opposite to the side thereof at which the aligned sheet edge is disposed and acting by spring force against the upper sheets transversely to a sheet-feeding direction of the upper sheets of the sheet pile, the leaf spring being re-deformable counter to the spring force to behind a surface of the guide plate.