Gerald Matthew Devito

US Patent:

53563409, Oct 18, 1994

Filed:

Feb 24, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/021934

Inventors:

Gregory P. Miller - Rochester NY
Mark S. Gibson - Sodus Center NY
Gerald M. DeVito - Ontario NY

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

F16D 352

US Classification:

464 87

Abstract:

A one piece molded flexible drive shaft assembly of a hardened moldable material has an elongated flexible drive shaft core having a shaft drive input end, a shaft drive output end and integrally molded therewith at each end a coupling member of a hardened moldable material to connect the input end and the output end to a drive input and a drive output respectively.

US Patent:

55492916, Aug 27, 1996

Filed:

Dec 1, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/347666

Inventors:

Gerald M. Devito - Ontario NY

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

B65H 506
B65H 2920
B65H 2968

US Classification:

271182

Abstract:

A printing machine having a sheet path for moving sheets, a buffer tray assembly for receiving and holding sheets of various sizes and orientation without skewing such sheets. The buffer tray assembly includes a sheet feeding unit, mounted adjacent to and upstream of a sheet holding unit thereof, relative to sheet movement, for feeding, seriatim and without skewing, sheets of various sizes and orientations from the path into the sheet holding unit. The sheet feeding unit includes a sheet driving roller. The sheet driving roller has a plurality of operative positions that are spaced laterally along the sheet cross-path dimension of the sheet path, and that correspond respectively to the midpoints of cross-path dimensions of the various size sheets being fed into the sheet holding unit for feeding and stacking sheets without sheet skew.

US Patent:

49164937, Apr 10, 1990

Filed:

Aug 24, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/398117

Inventors:

Gerald M. DeVito - Ontario NY

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G03G 2100
G03G 1500
B65H 2966

US Classification:

355321

Abstract:

In a reproduction apparatus outputting copy sheets via exit rollers and stacking the outputted copy sheets adjacent the exit rollers in a stacking tray, and which exit rollers are reversible in their direction of rotation to feed selected copy sheets imaged on one side back into the reproduction apparatus in a return path to be reimaged, an actuatable gate system prevents the previously outputted and stacking copy sheets from being recaptured by the reversed rotation exit rollers, by interposing a guide or baffle between the stacking copy sheets and the exit rollers to prevent accidental re-acquisition of copy sheets by the reversed rollers automatically in response to the reversal in direction of rotation of the exit rollers. The guide or baffle preferably comprises commonly rotatably mounted arcuate fingers closely adjacent the exit rollers, which fingers are automatically rotated to extend outside of the periphery of the exit rollers towards the stacking tray in response to the reversal in direction of rotation of the exit rollers. That may be accomplished by camming this finger rotation from an axial shifting of the exit rollers also providing lateral deregistration.

US Patent:

54144957, May 9, 1995

Filed:

Jan 4, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/177819

Inventors:

Gerald M. DeVito - Ontario NY
Mark S. Gibson - Sodus Center NY

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G03G 2100

US Classification:

355204

Abstract:

A method of programming of a machine jam in an image processing apparatus by selecting a sensor associated with a desired sheet path zone by scrolling a list of sensors on a display screen, setting the control to ignore a non jam signal from the selected sensor, initiating the operation of a job run, recording a jam signal from the selected sensor and displaying selected mimics on a display, and cycling down the machine in response to the jam signal by the selected sensor.