Abstract: A machine optics and paper path cleaner has a relatively stiff backing sheet and a cleaning sheet attached to the backing sheet at a position spaced from the leading edge. The cleaning sheet is folded, flocked or flapped, knitted or engraved with surface variations to aid in the cleaning of paper paths and optics. Wet cleaners are held in absorbent materials and in frangible or openable reservoirs to wet the cleaning material as it is drawn into the machine through the paper path and across the optics. The cleaners are made in single foam sheets of varied thickness and in laminated sheets of stiff backing material and flexible cleaning material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 1994
Date of Patent:
October 17, 1995
Assignees:
Norman J. Olson, Paul J. Gelardi
Inventors:
John A. Gelardi, Paul J. Gelardi, David A. Capotosto, Norman J. Olson
Abstract: A machine optics and paper path cleaner has a relatively stiff backing sheet and a cleaning sheet attached to the backing sheet at a position spaced from the leading edge. The cleaning sheet is folded, flocked or flapped, knitted or engraved with surface variations to aid in the cleaning of paper paths and optics. Wet cleaners are held in absorbent materials and in frangible or openable reservoirs to wet the cleaning material as it is drawn into the machine through the paper path and across the optics. The cleaners are made in single foam sheets of varied thickness and in laminated sheets of stiff backing material and flexible cleaning material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 12, 1990
Date of Patent:
October 13, 1992
Assignees:
Norman J. Olson, Paul J. Gelardi
Inventors:
John A. Gelardi, Paul J. Gelardi, David A. Capotosto, Norman J. Olson