Gravity-impelled transport for aligning an original in a copier
CA 1114666 A · Owner: Eastman Kodak Company · Inventors: Boone, Arthur M.; Bloemendaal, John F.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A gravity-impelled transport for moving an original to an exposure station in a photographic printer or copier and there aligning the original in a reference position for exposure. The transport includes an inclined chute defining first and second planar guides for supporting and directing the original along a face and an edge thereof. The chute has a compound slope with respect to the horizontal such that gravitational forces will urge the original into guided association with the separate guide beds while moving the original along the chute. A retractable pin at the exposure station intercepts and stops the moving original thereby permitting the gravitational forces to align the original …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted December 22, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 22, 1998.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.