Abstract: A mounting stud for supporting a component such as a gear in an imaging machine. The mounting stud is removably securable to a wall.

Abstract: A bearing for use in a reproduction machine includes an elongated body having an elongated first portion and an elongated second portion. The first portion extends radially outward from the second portion. The second portion includes a lumen for receiving and supporting a shaft. Resilient elongated members originate from the second portion and extend radially outward toward the first portion and are spaced from the second portion over a portion thereof. The resilient members are movable between a first position and a second position for removable securement to a wall in a reproduction machine.

Abstract: A mounting stud for supporting a component such as a gear in an imaging machine. The mounting stud is removably securable to a wall.

Abstract: A bearing for use in a reproduction machine includes an elongated body having an elongated first portion and an elongated second portion. The first portion extends radially outward from the second portion. The second portion includes a lumen for receiving and supporting a shaft. Resilient elongated members originate from the second portion and extend radially outward toward the first portion and are spaced from the second portion over a portion thereof. The resilient members are movable between a first position and a second position for removable securement to a wall in a reproduction machine.

Abstract: A mounting stud for supporting a component such as a gear in an imaging machine. The mounting stud is removably securable to a wall.

Abstract: A bearing for use in a reproduction machine includes an elongated body having an elongated first portion and an elongated second portion. The first portion extends radially outward from the second portion. The second portion includes a lumen for receiving and supporting a shaft. Resilient elongated members originate from the second portion and extend radially outward toward the first portion and are spaced from the second portion over a portion thereof. The resilient members are movable between a first position and a second position for removable securement to a wall in a reproduction machine.

Abstract: Apparatus for stacking sheets comprises a duplex tray for holding a sheet in a temporary storage position. A dispense nip is formed at an outlet of the tray. Rollers feed a sheet from the temporary storage position by a predetermined distance through the dispense nip. Any sheets already located in the dispense nip are fed at the same time by substantially the same predetermined distance, whereby a shingled stack of sheets is obtained.

Abstract: A sheet registration and feeding apparatus includes a sheet stacker for compiling sheets delivered serially thereto into a stack. The sheet stacker includes a support surface, a registration member for registering sheets to form a registered stack and a sheet separator-feeder for separating and feeding sheets seriatim from the compiled stack to a feeder for feeding the sheets along a sheet path away from the support surface. An interposer is included in the form of a pivotally mounted elongate member with hooked fingers at one end thereof configured to intercept an incoming sheet fed onto the support surface or onto the stack such that the incoming sheet is intercepted by the fingers without interrupting an outgoing sheet being fed simultaneously out from the support surface or from the bottom of the stack to the feeder.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sheet curl control apparatus including a decurler (350) for reducing the curl in sheet material passing therethrough and adjusting means coupled to the decurler (350) for adjusting the decurling action of the decurler (350). Sensing means (406) in the form of an infra-red emitter (408) and two infra-red detectors (410 and 412) are employed for sensing the extent of any residual curl left in the sheet material after it has passed through the decurler (350), and for feeding a signal indicative of the residual curl to control means, conveniently including a stepper motor, for automatically adjusting the adjusting means, for example a rack and pinion arrangement, thereby to alter the decurling action of the decurler (350) in a predetermined manner. The sheet curl control apparatus is described in relation to its use in a copier for duplex copying.

Abstract: Sheet feeding apparatus for a buffer tray of a xerographic reproduction machine comprises a belt for conveying sheets to the tray, input and output rolls which co-operate with the belt at the input and the output respectively of the apparatus, and an intermediate roll which can co-operate with the belt at a point intermediate its length. The output roll is mounted on an end guide of the buffer tray and, as a result, moves lengthwise of the belt when the end guide is moved to enable the tray to receive sheets of different lengths. If the output roll is moved from one side of the intermediate roll, remote from the input roll, to the other, it causes the intermediate roll to move to an inoperative position (in which it does not co-operate with the belt) and operates a latch to hold the intermediate roll in that position. The reverse movement of the output roll releases the latch and allows the intermediate roll to return to the position in which it co-operates with the belt.

Abstract: A sheet curl control apparatus that includes a pair of coacting rolls and a baffle extending across the path of a sheet exiting the nip between the rolls so as to deflect it about one of the rolls.