Patents by Inventor Sherwood Anderson Clay

Sherwood Anderson Clay has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4068839
    Abstract: A dual exit tray xerographic machine, having a hot roll fuser, supplies its output copy sheets to a large-capacity exit pocket whereat the sheets are stacked in a vertically extending pile, on a servo-movable elevator platform. The platform height is servo controlled so as to maintain the stack's top sheet at a fixed position relative to a fixed-position, generally horizontally extending, sheet discharge path.Sheet stacking is enhanced by a pair of movable bars. A hold-down bar, in its quiescent position, presses the stack's trailing edge portion down to insure reliable insertion of the next sheet. A pusher bar is maintained in an elevated quiescent position during such insertion.After the sheet has been inserted, the pusher bar lowers onto the stack, at a position between the hold-down bar and the stack's leading edge. The pusher bar thus holds the just-inserted sheet down. The hold-down bar synchronously moves in a generally elliptical path, to first clear the trailing edge of the just-inserted sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kermit Bullock, Sherwood Anderson Clay, Gregory Bingham Overton