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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5540815 | Method of recycling an image carrying medium and an image separating member therefor A method of recycling a copy sheet carrying a hydrophobic image thereon by impregnating the sheet with a water-containing separating liquid, causing the to image contact an image separating member, and heating the sheet for thereby transferring the image ... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5447793 | Apparatus and method for forming fiber filled thermoplastic composite materials This invention relates to fiber reinforced composite materials, and to methods and apparatus for forming such materials. The apparatus includes an impregnation chamber having an elongate impregnation passageway with an entrance end and an exit end, means ... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5275096 | Apparatus for high speed calendering A sheet calendering method and apparatus including a calendering cylinder, a delivering cylinder, and a conveyor for transporting sheets between the calendering cylinder and the delivering cylinder; wherein the conveyor includes two flexible elongated mem... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5248339 | Fusing member comprising fluorine-containing elastomers useful in electrostatography An electrostatographic toner fusing member having a support and a layer containing a crosslinked polyfluorophosphazene elastomer with thermally conductive filler particles. This fusing member is used in a device for fusing electrostatographic toner materi... | 09/28/1993 |
| 4999079 | Process and apparatus for treating articles and preventing their wrap around a roller A method and apparatus is provided for chemically treating articles, often with a liquid treatment fluid that is corrosive, while the articles are being delivered along a path through a substantially closed chamber. During treatment, the articles pass thr... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4985733 | Image fixing unit for use in wet-type electrophotographic copying machine An image fixing unit for a wet-type electrophotographic copying machine capable of forming a latent electrostatic image on a photoconductor element, developing the latent electrostatic image to a visible toner image by a developer comprising a carrier liq... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4978560 | Hot roll glosser method with glossing temperature below free air glass transistion temperature of resin utilized A hot roll glosser and method for the transparentising of resin-coated microencapsulated media includes a pair of heated pressing rolls, in which the roll which comes into contact with a resin surface is formed with an ultra-smooth silicone surface of low... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4809599 | Image forming apparatus with microcapsule pressure rupture A pressure image forming apparatus in which a sheet S of photo-sensitive and pressure-sensitive material is exposed to an original image, a sheet C of image fixing material is overlaid on the sheet S, and the image on the sheet S is transferred by a pair ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4802439 | Pressure applying mechanism for fixing rollers of a copying apparatus A pressure device for applying pressure between an upper fixing roller and a lower fixing roller, the pressure applying device being disposed at each end of the lower fixing roller and including a bearing member for supporting a rotary shaft mounted in th... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4768434 | Pressure development apparatus for imaging sheets Roll-type pressure-treating apparatus, for subjecting sheet or web material to a uniformly high and uniform pressure across a nip, includes a pair of annular pressure rolls mounted in nip-defining relation to each other. Each of the pressure rolls has rec... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4456637 | System for coating and removing excess material from a moving web A web coating method and apparatus includes a web scraping mechanism arranged after a coating section, the scraper being in the form of a wire bar. The scraping efficacy of the device is improved by forming the wire bar from small gauge wire wound upon a ... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4441417 | Pressure fixing device A fixing device for use in an image formation apparatus such as an electrophotographic copying apparatus or recording apparatus, and more particularly a fixing device in which a sheet such as paper having a toner image on the surface thereof is passed bet... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4372247 | Cold pressure fusing apparatus Fusing apparatus for fixing toner material to a copy sheet. The apparatus comprises a pair of parallel, cold pressure fixing rollers, each of said rollers including a cylindrical metal tube open at both ends thereof, a cured elastomer occupying the volume... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4363862 | Pressure-fixing apparatus and method An apparatus for fixing powder images to a receptor to provide low gloss copies is provided. The apparatus comprises first and second contacting pressure members that have skewed longitudinal axes with respect to each other. The first pressure member cont... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4356764 | Pressure rollers for toner fusing station A pressure roller and apparatus for pressure fixing imaging powder in an electrostatic duplicating machine, the apparatus comprising a pair of fixing rollers in pressure contact along a narrow band to define a nip. The fixing rollers are hollow cylindrica... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4343234 | Pressure-fixation apparatus A device for fixing a toner image to a carrier sheet by pressure, comprising a pair of side frame members cooperating with a base frame member, a top roll and a bottom roll forming a pair of pinch rolls, rotatably mounted on said pair of side frame member... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4269140 | Apparatus for positioning a coating thickness control roller in a web coating machine A method and apparatus for positioning a wedge in a web coating machine utilizes hydraulic actuating cylinders for moving the wedge and a multicylinder constant displacement pump for operating the hydraulic actuating cylinder. Valve circuits are provided ... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4259920 | Toner image pressure-fixing device A toner image pressure-fixing device has a pair of pinch rolls arranged in rolling engagement with each other to provide a nip through which a carrier sheet with a deposit of toner particles thereon is passed to fix the deposit to the carrier sheet by pre... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4258095 | Reduced gloss in pressure-fixing of toner powder A novel apparatus and method for pressure fixing imaging powder to a receptor (such as paper) to produce photocopies having reduced gloss is provided. The apparatus comprises non-compliant pressure members (e.g., pressure rollers) one of which has a surfa... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4235166 | Fixing apparatus Apparatus for fixing a toner image on a toner image supporting member in an electrophotographic copying machine is disclosed. The fixing apparatus comprises three rotary rollers which are in contact with each other under the action of pressing means. One ... | 11/25/1980 |
| 3999511 | Apparatus for developing electrophotographic materials An improved apparatus is disclosed for developing images on an electrophotographic copy sheet, characterized by the provision of a distribution roller having a soft porous peripheral surface for evenly spreading the toner dispersion on the electrophotogra... | 12/28/1976 |
