公开(公告)号：US11117386B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16705296

申请日：2019-12-06

Applicant: Xerox Corporation

Inventor： Gregory A. Ludgate ,  Timothy G. Shelhart ,  Michael J. Severn ,  Richard P. Ficarra ,  Dale T. Platteter ,  Victoria L. Warner

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: An inlet seal, an outlet seal, and a piston are connected to a shaft. The inlet seal seals an ink inlet of an ink reservoir. The outlet seal seals an ink outlet of the ink reservoir. Also, the piston is within a cylinder. The inlet seal, the outlet seal, and the piston all move with the shaft. A biasing member contacts the piston to bias the piston in a first direction. Pressurized air simultaneously provided to the cylinder and to the ink reservoir biases the piston in a second direction, opposite the first direction, and pressurizes ink within the ink reservoir. Moving the shaft in the first direction does not seal the ink inlet but does seal the ink outlet. Moving the shaft in the second direction seals the ink inlet but does not seal the ink outlet, thus allowing the pressurized ink out from the ink reservoir.

公开(公告)号：US20210170760A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-10

申请号：US16705296

申请日：2019-12-06

Applicant: Xerox Corporation

Inventor： Gregory A. Ludgate ,  Timothy G. Shelhart ,  Michael J. Severn ,  Richard P. Ficarra ,  Dale T. Platteter ,  Victoria L. Warner

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: An inlet seal, an outlet seal, and a piston are connected to a shaft. The inlet seal seals an ink inlet of an ink reservoir. The outlet seal seals an ink outlet of the ink reservoir. Also, the piston is within a cylinder. The inlet seal, the outlet seal, and the piston all move with the shaft. A biasing member contacts the piston to bias the piston in a first direction. Pressurized air simultaneously provided to the cylinder and to the ink reservoir biases the piston in a second direction, opposite the first direction, and pressurizes ink within the ink reservoir. Moving the shaft in the first direction does not seal the ink inlet but does seal the ink outlet. Moving the shaft in the second direction seals the ink inlet but does not seal the ink outlet, thus allowing the pressurized ink out from the ink reservoir.

公开(公告)号：US20220185614A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-16

申请号：US17117595

申请日：2020-12-10

Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION

Inventor： Gregory A. Ludgate ,  Douglas K. Herrmann

IPC: B65H39/115

Abstract: A system for collating and stacking long cut retail edge marker strips exiting a roll fed high speed slitter/perforator/cutter apparatus includes a media collation apparatus that facilitates automated collation of the long retail edge marker strips by collecting them off a surface and through the use of a device of graduated stair configuration separately lifting the retail edge markers from the surface for downstream accumulation. Individual bundles of slit retail edge marker strips are moved in a cross-process direction on integrated shelves of the media collection apparatus by a connected pusher. This allows the bundles to be transferred through the cross-process move in separate bundles before being collated at the end of the move when the pusher retracts to drop the bundles onto a receiving platform.