CA1061400A - Electrostatic or xerographic copying or duplicating machines - Google Patents

Electrostatic or xerographic copying or duplicating machines

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CA1061400A
CA1061400A CA230,390A CA230390A CA1061400A CA 1061400 A CA1061400 A CA 1061400A CA 230390 A CA230390 A CA 230390A CA 1061400 A CA1061400 A CA 1061400A
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sheet
copying
cutting
path
machine
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French (fr)
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Gerhard Ritzerfeld
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GIANELLA CHRISTIANE
RITZERFELD BRIGITTE E
RITZERFELD WILLY-KLAUS (HEIR)
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GIANELLA CHRISTIANE
RITZERFELD BRIGITTE E
RITZERFELD WILLY-KLAUS (HEIR)
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03GELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G15/00Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
    • G03G15/65Apparatus which relate to the handling of copy material
    • G03G15/6517Apparatus for continuous web copy material of plain paper, e.g. supply rolls; Roll holders therefor
    • G03G15/6523Cutting
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00Cutting
    • Y10T83/768Rotatable disc tool pair or tool and carrier
    • Y10T83/7751Means to separate elements of tool pair

Abstract

A B S T R A C T

In a copying machine of the electrostatic or xerographic type having a copy paper feed path extending longitudinally therethrough between a copy paper storage station and a copy receiving station, a transparent support surface above which an original may be supported for copying in a direction parallel to the longitudinal extent of the copy path, and screening means disposed above the transparent support surface and arranged to permit copying of a predetermined portion of the original which is aligned with the longitudinal direction of the copy paper path, the improvement of cutter means mounted intermediate the storage station and the receiver station for cutting the copy paper to a predetermined width in said longi-tudinal direction as the copy paper is driven along said copy paper path.

Description

~.o6~4 The invention relates to an electrostatic or xerographic copying and duplicating apparatus, in which the originals to be copied or duplicated are placed, for illumin-ation, face down on a transparent ~upporting surface, e.g.
a sheet of glass, two covers or templets forming a ~lot being arranged on the said transparent supporting surface, if necessary in plastic envelopes, an additional templet, if necessary in a plastic cover, being arranged line-wise dis-placeably above the said first templet~, and the lines in this additional templet being exposed, for illumination, in the slot in the two covers or templets lying thereunder.
In apparatuses of this kind, as a rule only partial use is made of the sheets of copying paper of conventional size used, since usually only portions of the originals placed in the apparatus are duplicated. However, sheets of copying paper of different sizes cannot be fed into an apparatus of this kind, since the said apparatus is normally designed for one size only and conversion for sheets of different sizes would require considerable structural alterations. Thus the copies made by the apparatus either have blank areas of different sizes or, in order to make better use of the sheets of a given size, several items are copied onto a single sheet.
In either case, the sheets of copying paper must be cut up manually, either to remove the unused portions of each sheet, or to separate the various items on a single sheet.
It ls the purpose of this present invention to dis-pense with this subsequent manual cutting up of the sheets of copying paper, which involves a considerable amount o~ labour.
According to the invention, this purpose is achieved, in the case of the copying and duplicating apparatus mentioned at the beginning hereof, in that a plurality of devices for cutting up the sheets of copying paper is arranged in the path of the said paper between the fixing device and the area where the copies are stacked, the said cutting devices acting in the direction of feed of the said sheet~ of copying paper. ~t i8 desirable that the said cutting devices be in the form of two counter-rotating cutter blades, the individual devices being preferably adapted to be brought into their operative po~itions selectively for specific sizes of sheet.
The invention is explained hereinafter in greater detail in conjunction with the drawings,wherein:
Fig. 1 is a simplified representation of a xerographic copying apparatus with a cutting device, and Fig. 2 show~ the cutting device in Fig. 1 to an en-larged scale.
~ he xerographic copying apparatus illustrated in Fig. 1 has a drum 2 provided with a layer of selenium 1, the 3aid drum being rotated about a shaft 3 by mean~ of a drive, not shown. Arranged at the outer peripbery of drum 2, and extending over the entire length thereof, i8 a charging device 4 by means of which an electrical charge is imparted to the area of selenium layer 1 passing by. By means of a pivotable mirror 5, a lens 6, a stationary mirror 7, and an additional lens 8, a mirrox image of the originals located on a trans-parent supporting surface 9 is projected onto selenium layer 1.
The said original~ are illuminated by means of lamps 10 and reflectors 11 arranged behind the said lamps.
The movement of pivotable mirror 5 is synchronized with that of drum 2, so that the uncovered areas of the originals are projected onto selenium layer 1. The electrical charges 10614~

previously applied to the said selenium layer by charg$ng device 4 are era~ed at the illuminated locations, remaining only at the image locations. As drum 2 moves onwards, the charged image locations in the selenium layer are brought within range of a dusting device 12 where the said selenium layer is brought into contact with a powder which adhere~
only to the charged image locations. A sheet 15, fed by feed rollers 13,14, is moved pa~t drum 2 for a suitable period of time, the powder image being transferred from selenium layer 1 to sheet 15 by means of a transfer device 16. Sheet 15 then passes, with the readable powder image, to a fixing station where the said powder image is fused solid by an infra-red radiator 17. Before selenium layer 1 is charged again, any powder remaining thereon is removed in a cleaning station 18.
After passing through the fixing station, sheet 15 is passed by feed rollers 19,20 to a plurality of cutting devices arranged one behind the other, at right angles to the direction of travel of sheet 15, and over the entire width thereof. The number of cutting devices depends upon the number of piece~ into which it is desired to cut sheet 15. As a result of the aforesaid arrangement of the cutting devices in relation to each other, only one such cutting device ~s visible in Figs. 1 and 2, but the others are of id~ntical design. Each cutting device comprises two rotating blades 21,22 arranged one above the other, both of them being driven by a motor, not shown, through belts 23,24, in the ~ame direc-tion as feed rollers 19,20. Upper blade 21 is held in a frame 25 adapted to pivot ~etween two stops 26,27 about an axis 28.
When an electro-magnet 29 connected to frame 25 is energized, the said frame lies against stop 26, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In this position, blade~ 21,22 are arranged in relation to each other in a ~anner such ~hat a sheet 15 pa~sing through the cutting device is parted in the direction in which it is travelling. If electro-ma~net 29 i8 not energized, a spring 30 causes frame 26 to lie against stop 27. ~n this position, blades 21,22 are far enough ap~rt to allow a sheet to pa~s between them uncut. Thus when individual electro-magnets 29 are energized selectively, sheet 15, before it reaches ~tacking tray 31, may be cut, in its direction of travel, one or more times, at selected locations. If none of the electro-magnets is energized, the sheet passes to the $ray uncut. Electro-magnets 29 are preferably controlled by keys actuated by the operator. It is desirably that one key be assigned to each electro-magnet.
The originals are arranged face down on supporting surface 9, in transparent folders 32,33, the said folders being secured by clamping means 34,35 arranged at the e~dge of the said supporting surface and extendlng over the entire length thered~-; or the said originals may be held directly by the said clamping means. Arranged in lower folder 33 are two templets forming a slot in the scanning direction of pivotable mirror 5, or one templet and one cover. A portion of the original in upper cover 32 is visible from below through the said slot. Clamping means 34 is displaceable longitudinally, i.e. at right angles to the plane of the drawing. Thus the upper original can also be moved, so that the portion thereof projected through the slot onto ~elenium layer 1 may also be changed. A transparent strip of foil 38, carried on spools 36,37, is arranged to move between the two spools. This strip carries various blanks or masks, one of which may be placed between supporting surface 9 and lower folder 33, so that visible parts of the originals can be projected onto selenium layer 1.

Claims (9)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. In a copying machine of the electrostatic or xerographic type having a copy paper feed path extending longi-tudinally therethrough between a copy paper storage station and a copy receiving station, means for transporting a sheet of paper along said feed path, a transparent support surface above which an original may be supported for copying in a direction parallel to the longitudinal extent of the copy path, and screening means disposed above the transparent supp-ort surface and arranged to permit copying of a predetermined portion of the original which is aligned with the longitudinal direction of the copy paper path, the improvement of cutter means mounted intermediate the storage station and the receiver station, said cutter means being oriented to be operative, when activiated, to cut said sheet along a line extending parallel to the copy paper feed path to a predetermined width.
2. A copying machine as claimed in Claim 1 having a plurality of cutter means located at transversely spaced intervals with respect to the longitudinal extent of the copy paper path whereby each sheet of copy paper may be cut to anyone of a plurality of different widths.
3. A copying machine as claimed in Claim 2 inclu-ding means for selectively moving the cutting means into and out of a cutting position with respect to said copy paper path.
4. A copying machine as claimed in Claim 2 wherein each said cutter means includes a rotary cutter blade disposed above said feed path and a rotary cutter blade disposed below said feed path and means for moving one of said blades towards and away from cutting cooperation with the other blade to selectively cut the copy paper or pass the copy paper without cutting as required.
5. An electrostatic or xerographic copying or duplicating machine, comprising, in combination, supporting means for supporting an original to be copied in a prede-termined position; a delivery station for copies; transport means for transporting a sheet of copying paper through the machine in a predetermined travel direction along a prede-termined travel path and into said delivery station; copying means for illuminating the original and forming an image thereof on the sheet of copying paper as the latter travels along said path; cutting means arranged upstream of said delivery station, said cutting means comprising a plurality of cutter units spaced from each other in direction transverse to the sheet travel direction and each operative when acti-vated for cutting the sheet along a respective one of a plurality of different cut lines each extending parallel to the travel direction as the sheet leaves said copying means and travels to said delivery station, and activating means operable by the user of the machine for activating said cutting means, said activating means comprising means for selecting the line along which the sheet is to be cut.
6. The machine defined in claim 5, wherein the copying means further includes a fixing arrangement for fixing the image formed on the sheet, and wherein said cutting means is arranged intermediate said fixing arrange-ment and said delivery station.
7. An electrostatic or xerographic copying or duplicating machine, comprising, in combination, supporting means for supporting an original to be copied in a predeter-mined position, a delivery station for copies, transport means for transporting a sheet of copying paper through the machine in a predetermined travel direction along a pre-determined travel path and into said delivery station, copying means for illuminating the original and forming an image thereof on the sheet of the copying paper as the latter travels along said path, cutting means arranged upstream of said delivery station, said cutting means comprising a plurality of cutter units spaced from each other in direction transverse to the sheet travel direction and each operable when activated for cutting the sheet along a respective one of a plurality of different cut lines each extending parallel to the travel direction as the sheet leaves said copying means and travels to said delivery station, each of said cutter units comprising a pair of cooperating rotating cutting knifes, and activating means operable by the user of the machine for activating said cutting means.
8. An electrostatic or xerographic copying or duplicating machine, comprising, in combination, supporting means for supporting an original to be copied in a predeter-mined position, said supporting means comprising a transparent support body and masking means for blocking all but a pre-determined section of an original supported on the transparent support body, and shifting means for shifting the original relative to said masking means in a direction such as to cause a shift in the portion of the sheet upon which an image is formed, the shift being in direction transverse to the sheet travel direction, a delivery station for copies, trans-port means for transporting a sheet of copying paper through the machine in a predetermined travel direction along a predetermined travel path and into said delivery station;

copying means for illuminating the original and forming an image thereof on the sheet of copying paper as the latter travels along said path; cutting means arranged upstream of said delivery station and operative when activated for cutting the sheet along a line extending parallel to the travel direction of the sheet as the sheet leaves said copying means and travels to said delivery station, and activating means operable by the user of the machine for activating said cutting means.
9. An electrostatic or xerographic copying or duplicating machine, comprising, in combination, supporting means for supporting an original to be copies in a prede-termined position, a delivery station for copies, transport means for transporting a sheet of copying paper through the machine in a predetermined travel direction along a prede-termined travel path and into said delivery station, copying means for illuminating the original and forming an image thereof on the sheet of copying paper as the latter travels along said path, cutting means arranged upstream of said delivery station, said cutting means comprising a plurality of cutter units spaced from each other in direction transverse to the sheet travel direction and each operative when activa-ted for cutting the sheet along a respective one of a plura-lity of different cut lines each extending parallel to the travel direction as the sheet leaves said copying means and travels to said delivery station, and activating means operable by user of the machine for activating said cutting means, said activating means comprising means for selecting the lines along which the sheet is to be cut.
CA230,390A 1974-09-18 1975-06-27 Electrostatic or xerographic copying or duplicating machines Expired CA1061400A (en)

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