Configuration for toner delivery roller
CA 2255604 A1 · Owner: Moore Business Forms, Inc. · Inventors: Muranyi, Mark J.; Christy, Orrin D.; Hook, Kevin J.
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A system for the delivery of a substantially uniform mono-layer of toner to an electrostatic latent image in an imaging member (such as a rotating cylinder) insures proper handling of the toner, and utilizes first and second rollers which function as a polarity filter for toner allowing only particular , charged toner to be transferred from a toner reservoir to the imaging member. The twin roller delivery system (30) comprises first (31) and second rollers (33) mounted for rotation about substantially parallel substantially horizontal axes, so that the peripheral surface of the first roller receives the toner from the substantially open top reservoir (13) and the second , roller …
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- Filed March 31, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 31, 2018.
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