Claims
- 1. A magnetic brush development station for a reproduction apparatus, said magnetic brush development station comprises:a housing forming, at least in part, a reservoir for developer material; a development roller mounted within said housing for delivering developer material from said reservoir to a development zone; and at least three rotatable augers located in said housing for mixing developer material within said reservoir, and arranged substantially side-by-side with respective parallel longitudinal axes, the most outboard of said at least three augers being positioned to be raised and toward the center with respect to said housing of the development station, wherein the overall width of said development station is reduced while maintaining centerline distances between each of said at least three augers so that individual augers of said at least three augers do not interfere with one another.
- 2. The magnetic brush development station according to claim 1, wherein said each of the augers of said at least three augers includes a mixing paddle, and the centerline distances between adjacent ones of said augers is predetermined such that said paddles do not collide when said at least three augers are rotated.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 09/573,903, filed May 18,2000.
US Referenced Citations (5)
Foreign Referenced Citations (1)
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Date |
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09-146373 |
Jun 1997 |
JP |