Claims
- 1. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance from an image holding material in which the image forming substance on the image holding material is heated to be melted or softened, comprising:
- a separating means, having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance, for removing said image forming substance from said image holding member by contacting said separating means with said image holding material to attach said image forming substance from said image holding material to said separating means and separating said separating means from said image holding material in order to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material;
- a heating means for maintaining a heating state during a period until said separating means comes in contact with said image forming substance on said image holding material and said image forming substance is transferred to said separating means; and
- a cleaning means for removing said image forming substance which has been transferred to said separating means and solidified thereon.
- 2. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance on an image holding material, comprising:
- a belt wrapped around rollers, the belt having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a heater which melts or softens said image forming substance on said image holding material so that said image forming substance can be transferred from the image holding material to the belt when the image forming substance on the image holding material and the belt contact each other; and
- a brush roller, contacting the belt, which brushes and thereby removes said image forming substance from said belt after said image forming substance has solidified on the belt.
- 3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein:
- the length from a separating position at which said image holding material and said belt are separated from each other to a cleaning position at which said brush roller removes said image forming substance transferred from said image holding material located on said belt, has a distance such that said melted or softened image forming substance transferred to said belt at said separating position can change from the melted or softened state to a solidified state when said image forming substance on said belt reaches said cleaning position.
- 4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:
- a fan which blows air on said melted or softened image forming substance transferred to said belt from said image holding material in order to change the image forming substance on the belt from the melted or softened state to the solidified state, said fan provided between a separating position at which said image holding material and said belt are separated from each other and a cleaning position at which said brush roller removes said image forming substance transferred from said image holding material located on said belt from said belt.
- 5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2 wherein:
- said belt comprises a material having at least a resin.
- 6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein:
- said belt has at least a surface layer that transfers said image forming substance located on said image holding material, and:
- said surface layer has adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than the adhesive force between said image forming substance and said image holding material.
- 7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, further comprising:
- a roller that comes in contact with a rear surface of said belt opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred from said image holding material, said roller forming a specified curvature in said separating member that is the belt, wherein:
- while the melting or softening state of said image forming substance is maintained, said image holding material and said belt are separated from each other at a position of the curvature formed by said roller.
- 8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:
- a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of said belt; and
- a controller for controlling the heating of said heater on said temperature sensor.
- 9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:
- a liquid supply container which supplies said image holding material with an unstabilizing substance that reduces the adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance before said image forming substance is transferred from said image holding material to said belt.
- 10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:
- a heated drum provided downstream in a drive direction from said belt relative to said separating position at which said image holding material and said belt are separated from each other in order to dry said image holding material.
- 11. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance on an image holding material, comprising:
- a belt wrapped around rollers, the belt having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a heater which melts or softens said image forming substance on said image holding material;
- a motor which drives said separating member; and
- a support surface that contacts a rear surface of said belt opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred, said support surface having a curved separating portion with a specified curvature at a downstream portion of the support surface, relative to a direction in which said belt is driven by said motor, at a position at which a melting or softening state of said image forming substance provided by said heater is maintained and where the belt and the image holding material are separated from each other.
- 12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein:
- said support surface has said heater built therein.
- 13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein:
- said support surface is a fixing block contacting a rear surface of said belt opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred, and
- when said belt is driven by said motor, a rear surface of said belt slides on a surface of said fixing block.
- 14. An apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein:
- at least the surface of said support surface having a predetermined coefficient of friction.
- 15. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, further comprising:
- a roller, opposed to said support surface via said belt, to pressurize said belt so that at least said image forming substance comes in contact with said belt.
- 16. An apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein:
- said roller is a pressurizing roller in which at least a surface thereof that comes in contact with said separating member is elastic.
- 17. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance from an image holding material in which the image forming substance on the image holding material is heated to be melted or softened, comprising:
- a supply means for supplying said image holding material with an unstabilizing substance that reduces an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a separating means having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance, for removing said image forming substance from said image holding member by contacting said separating means with said image holding material to attach said image forming substance from said image holding material on said separating means and coming in contact with said image forming substance and separating said separating member from said image holding material in order to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material; and
- a heating means for maintaining heating until said image holding material and said separating means are separated from each other.
- 18. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance on an image holding material, comprising:
- a liquid supply container which supplies said image holding material with an unstabilizing substance that reduces an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a belt wrapped around rollers, the belt having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a heater which melts or softens said image forming substance on said image holding material so that said image forming substance can be transferred from the image holding material to the belt when the image forming substance on the image holding material and the belt contact each other.
- 19. An apparatus as claimed in claim 18, further comprising:
- a brush roller, contacting the belt, which brushes and thereby removes said image forming substance which has been transferred to said belt from said image holding material when said image forming substance is solidified; and
- a fan which blows air on said image forming substance which has been transferred to said belt from said image holding material from a melted or softened state to a solidified state, said fan located between a separating position at which said image holding material and said belt are separated from each other and a cleaning position at which said brush roller removes from said belt said image forming substance transferred from said image holding material.
- 20. An apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein:
- said belt comprises an endless belt having at least a surface which comes in contact with said image forming substance on said image holding material with an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than the adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance.
- 21. An apparatus as claimed in claim 20, wherein:
- the at least a surface of said endless belt which comes in contact with said image forming substance on said image holding material is formed of a material having at least a resin.
- 22. An apparatus as claimed in claim 20, further comprising:
- a roller which contacts a rear surface of said endless belt opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred from said image holding material, said roller forming a specified curvature in said endless belt, wherein:
- while the melting or softening state of said image forming substance is maintained, said image holding material and said endless belt are separated from each other at a position of the curvature formed by said roller.
- 23. An apparatus as claimed in claim 18, further comprising:
- a support surface that contacts a rear surface of said belt opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred.
- 24. An apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein:
- said support surface is a fixing block with said belt sliding on a surface thereof when said belt is driven by a motor.
- 25. An apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein:
- at least the surface of said fixing block which comes in contact with said belt is subjected to low friction.
- 26. An apparatus as claimed in claim 18, further including:
- a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of said belt; and
- a controller for controlling the heating of said heater using said temperature sensor.
- 27. An apparatus for separating an image forming substance on an image holding material from said image holding material, comprising:
- a separating belt formed so as to have no ends and including at least a surface having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a plurality of drive rollers around which said separating belt is passed and which drive said separating belt;
- a block that supports said separating belt at least from a rear surface of said separating belt opposed to a surface thereof with which said image forming substance comes in contact; and
- a heater for melting or softening said image forming substance on said image holding material, wherein:
- a region where an end of said block which is disposed downstream in the drive direction of said separating belt is a separating position at which said separating belt and said image holding material are separated from each other; and
- said image holding material with said image forming substance which has been melted or softened by said heater contacts with said separating belt, and separates from said separating belt at said separating position while the melting or softening state of said image forming substance is maintained in order to separate said image forming substance from said image holding material.
- 28. An apparatus as claimed in claim 27, further including:
- a liquid supply container which supplies said image holding material with an unstabilizing liquid which unstabilizes the adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance before said separating belt comes in contact with said image forming substance.
- 29. An apparatus as claimed in claim 28, further including:
- a heated drum for drying said unstabilizing liquid which is in said image holding material supplied from said liquid supply containers.
- 30. An apparatus as claimed in claim 27, further including:
- a pressurizing roller opposed to said block via said separating belt and being in pressurized contact with said separating belt.
- 31. An apparatus as claimed in claim 27, wherein:
- said separating belt includes an adhesion layer that comes in contact with at least said image forming substance on said image holding material, and
- said adhesion layer has an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than the adhesive force between said image forming substance and said image holding material.
- 32. An apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein:
- the adhesion layer of said separating belt is formed of a material having at least a resin.
- 33. An apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein:
- at least the surface of said block contacting said separating belt is processed so as to be subjected to low friction.
- 34. An apparatus as claimed in claim 33, wherein:
- said low friction processing coats a low friction layer on at least the surface of said block which contacts said separating belt.
- 35. An apparatus as claimed in claim 27, wherein:
- at least the surface of said block contacting said separating belt is processed so as to be subjected to low friction.
- 36. An apparatus as claimed in claim 35, wherein:
- said low friction processing coats a low friction layer on at least the surface of said block which contacts said separating belt.
- 37. An apparatus as claimed in claim 27, further including:
- a cooling fan for solidifying said melted or softened image forming substance on said separating belt after said separating belt and said image holding material have been separated from each other.
- 38. An apparatus as claimed in claim 37, further including:
- a brush roller for removing said solidified image forming substance from said separating belt.
- 39. An apparatus as claimed in claim 27, further including:
- a supply member configured to supply said image holding material with an unstabilizing liquid which unstabilizes the adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance before said separating belt comes in contact with said image forming substance.
- 40. An apparatus as claimed in claim 39, further including:
- a drying member configured to dry said unstabilizing liquid supplied from said supply unit, said unstabilizing liquid being contained in said image holding material separated from said separating belt at said separating position.
- 41. An apparatus as claimed in claim 39, further including:
- a pressurizing roller opposed to said block via said separating belt and being in pressurized contact with said separating belt.
- 42. An apparatus as claimed in claim 27, further including:
- a cooling member configured to solidify said melted or softened image forming substance on said separating belt after said separating belt and said image holding material have been separated from each other.
- 43. An apparatus as claimed in claim 42, further including:
- a cleaning member configured to remove said solidified image forming substance from said separating belt.
- 44. An apparatus as claimed in claim 43, wherein:
- said cleaning member is a brush roller or a blade.
- 45. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance from an image holding material, comprising:
- a liquid supply means for supplying a liquid to said image holding material on which said image forming substance is stably attached;
- an image forming substance separating means for driving a separating member having a stronger adhesive force than said image holding material with respect to said image forming substance on said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied such that a surface of said separating member comes in contact with said image forming substance on said image holding material and then separates said image forming substance from said image holding material, while gripping said image holding material between the surface of said separating member and a backup member;
- a drying means for drying said image holding material from which said image forming substance has been separated by said image forming substance separating means while gripping and transferring said image holding material; and
- a transfer means for transferring said image holding material while supporting said image holding material;
- wherein an interval between a position at which said separating member and said backup member are opposed to each other and a position in said drying means at which the gripping of said image holding material is started is set longer than a length of said image holding material in a transfer direction thereof and wherein the transfer means is disposed within said interval.
- 46. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance from an image holding material, comprising:
- a liquid supply container which supplies a liquid to said image holding material on which said image forming substance is stably deposited;
- a belt having a stronger adhesive force than said image holding material with respect to said image forming substance on said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied such that said image holding material comes in contact between said belt and backup surface and then separates from said belt, thereby transferring said image forming substance from said image holding material to said belt;
- a heated drum which dries said image holding material from which said image forming substance has been separated by said belt;
- rollers which transfer said image holding material, while supporting said image holding material;
- wherein an interval between a position at which said belt and said backup surface are opposed to each other and a position in said drying member at which the gripping of said image holding material is started is set longer than a length of said image holding material in a transfer direction thereof and wherein the rollers which transfer said image holding material are disposed within said interval.
- 47. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance from an image holding material, said apparatus using a liquid supply means to execute at least a liquid supply processing for said image holding material in order to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material on a surface of which said image forming substance has been attached, characterized in that the apparatus includes:
- a control means for driving and controlling;
- a first gripping and transferring means for transferring said image holding material within the apparatus; and
- a second gripping and transferring means for transferring said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied by said liquid supply means on a downstream side of the transfer direction relative to said first gripping and transferring means such that sagging occurs in said image holding material between said first and second gripping and transferring means.
- 48. An image holding material processing apparatus for executing at least a liquid supply processing for an image holding material using a liquid supply member, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:
- a control means for driving and controlling;
- a first gripping and transferring means for transferring said image holding material within the apparatus; and
- a second gripping and transferring means for transferring said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied by said liquid supply means on a downstream side of the transfer direction relative to said first gripping and transferring means such that sagging occurs in said image holding material between said first and second gripping and transferring means.
- 49. An image holding material processing apparatus for executing at least a liquid supply processing for an image holding material using a liquid supply member, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:
- a control member for driving and controlling;
- a first pair of rollers for transferring said image holding material within the apparatus; and
- a second pair of rollers for transferring said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied by said liquid supply member on a downstream side of the transfer direction relative to said first pair of rollers such that sagging occurs in said image holding material between said first and second pairs of rollers.
- 50. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance from an image holding material, said apparatus using a liquid supply container which supplies liquid to said image forming substance in order to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material on a surface of which said image forming substance has been attached, characterized in that the apparatus includes:
- a control member for driving and controlling;
- a first pair of rollers for transferring said image holding material within the apparatus; and
- a second pair of rollers for transferring said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied by said liquid supply member on a downstream side of the transfer direction relative to said first pair of rollers, such that sagging occurs in said image holding material between said first and second pairs of rollers.
- 51. An apparatus as claimed in claim 50 which is configured such that during a specified period of a duration in which said image holding material is being gripped and transferred by both said first and second gripping and transferring members, a transfer speed of said second gripping and transferring member is set higher than a transfer speed of said first pair of rollers by said control member.
- 52. An apparatus as claimed in claim 50, further comprising:
- a paper detection sensor which detects an amount of sagging in said image holding material between said first and second pairs of rollers, wherein based on an output of said paper detection sensor, said control member switches a condition for driving so as to prevent at least increases in the amount of sagging of said image holding material between said first and second pairs of rollers once said amount of sagging has reached a specified value.
- 53. An apparatus for separating an image forming substance on an image holding material from said image holding material, comprising:
- a separating belt including at least a surface having adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a supply roller around which said separating belt is wrapped;
- a takeup roller for taking up said separating belt via a position at which said separating belt comes in contact with said image holding material and a position at which said separating belt is separated from said image holding material;
- a heater for melting or softening said image forming substance on said image holding material; and
- a motor for driving said separating belt such that said belt from said supply roller is wrapped around said takeup roller, wherein:
- the apparatus attaches said image forming substance from said image holding material, which has been melted or softened by said heater, on said separating belt, and separates said separating belt from said image holding material while a melting or softening state of said image forming substance is maintained in order to separate said image forming substance from said image holding material.
- 54. An apparatus for separating an image forming substance on an image holding material from said image holding material, comprising:
- a belt which removes said image forming substance from said image holding material;
- rollers which transfer said image holding material, from which said image forming substance has been removed by said belt; and
- a tray in which said image holding material transferred by said rollers are stacked in such a way that a surface of said image holding material, from which said image forming substance has been removed by said belt, faces upward.
- 55. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance on an image holding material, comprising:
- a belt wrapped around rollers, the belt having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a heater which melts or softens said image forming substance on said image holding material so that said image forming substance can be transferred from the image holding material to the belt when the image forming substance on the image holding material and the belt contact each other; and
- a blade contacting the belt, which scrapes and thereby removes said image forming substance from said belt after said image forming substance has solidified on the belt.
- 56. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance on an image holding material, comprising:
- a separating member, having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance, configured to remove said image forming substance from said image holding member by contacting said separating member with said image holding material to transfer said image forming substance to said separating member from said image holding material and separating said separating member from said image holding material in order to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material; and
- a heating member configured to heat so that said image forming substance on said image holding material is melted or softened, wherein:
- the apparatus attaches said image forming substance, which has been melted or softened by said heating member, on said separating member from said image holding material while a melting or softening state of said image forming substance is maintained in order to separate said image holding material from said separating member, thereby removing said image forming substance from said image holding material, the apparatus further including:
- a cleaning member configured to remove said image forming substance, which has been transferred onto said separating member from said image holding material, from said separating member while said image forming substance is solidified.
- 57. An apparatus as claimed in claim 56, wherein:
- the length from a separating position at which said image holding material and said separating member are separated from each other to a cleaning position at which said cleaning member removes said image forming substance transferred from said image holding material located on said separating member, has a distance such that said melted or softened image forming substance transferred to said separating member at said separating position can change from the melted or softened state to a solidified state at said cleaning position.
- 58. An apparatus as claimed in claim 56, further comprising:
- a cooling member configured to change said melted or softened image forming substance transferred to said separating member from said image holding material, from the melted or softened state to the solidified state, said cooling member provided between a separating position at which said image holding material and said separating member are separated from each other and a cleaning position at which said cleaning member removes said image forming substance transferred from said image holding material located on said separating member from said separating member.
- 59. An apparatus as claimed in claim 56, wherein:
- said separating member is a belt and is formed of a material having at least a resin.
- 60. An apparatus as claimed in claim 59, wherein:
- said belt has at least a surface layer that transfers said image forming substance located on said image holding material, and
- said surface layer has an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than the adhesive force between said image forming substance and said image holding material.
- 61. An apparatus as claimed in claim 59, further comprising:
- a roller that comes in contact with a rear surface of said separating member opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred from said image holding material, said roller forming a specified curvature in said separating member that is the belt, wherein:
- while the melting or softening state of said image forming substance is maintained, said image holding material and said separating member are separated from each other at a position of the curvature formed by said roller.
- 62. An apparatus as claimed in claim 36, further comprising:
- a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of said separating member; and
- a controller configured to control the heating of said heating member using said temperature sensed by said temperature sensor.
- 63. An apparatus as claimed in claim 56, further comprising:
- a supply member configured to supply said image holding material with an unstabilizing substance that reduces the adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance, said supply member supplying said unstabilizing substance before said image forming substance is transferred from said image holding material to said separating member.
- 64. An apparatus as claimed in claim 63, wherein:
- said supply member is configured to supply said unstabilizing substance which is an unstabilizing liquid.
- 65. An apparatus as claimed in claim 64, further comprising:
- a drying member provided downstream in a drive direction from said separating member relative to said separating position at which said image holding material and said separating member are separated from each other configured to dry said image holding material.
- 66. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance on an image holding material, comprising:
- a separating member having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance, configured to remove said image forming substance from said image holding member by contacting said separating member with said image holding material to transfer said image forming substance to said separating member from said image holding material and separate said separating member from said image holding material in order to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material;
- a heating member configured to heat so that said image forming substance on said image holding material is melted or softened;
- a drive member configured to drive said separating member; and
- a supporting member that contacts with a rear surface of said separating member opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred, said supporting member having a curved separating portion with a specified curvature at a downstream portion of said supporting member, relative to a direction in which said separating member is driven by said drive member, at a position at which a melting or softening state of said image forming substance provided by said heating member is maintained, and wherein:
- said separating member is guided along said curved separating portion, in which said separating member and said image holding material are separated from each other.
- 67. An apparatus as claimed in claim 66, wherein:
- said supporting member has said heating member built therein.
- 68. An apparatus as claimed in claim 67, wherein:
- said heating member is a heater.
- 69. An apparatus as claimed in claim 66, wherein:
- said supporting member is a fixing block contacting a rear surface of said separating member opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred, and
- when said separating member is driven by said drive member, a rear surface of said separating member slides on a surface of said fixing block.
- 70. An apparatus as claimed in claim 69, wherein:
- at least the surface of said supporting member having a predetermined coefficient of friction.
- 71. An apparatus as claimed in claim 66, further comprising:
- a pressurizing member, opposed to said supporting member via said separating member, configured to pressurize said separating member so that at least said image forming substance comes in contact with said separating member.
- 72. An apparatus as claimed in claim 71, wherein:
- said pressurizing member is a pressurizing roller in which at least a surface thereof that comes in contact with said separating member is elastic.
- 73. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance on an image holding material, comprising:
- a supply member configured to supply image holding material with an unstabilizing substance that reduces an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance;
- a separating member having an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than an adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance, said separating member configured to remove said image forming substance from said image holding member by contacting said separating means with said image holding material to transfer said image forming substance to said separating member from said image holding material and separating said separating member from said image holding material in order to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material; and
- a heating member configured to heat said image forming substance on said image holding material so that said image forming substance is melted or softened.
- 74. An apparatus as claimed in claim 73, further comprising:
- a cleaning member configured to remove said image forming substance which has been transferred to said separating member from said image holding material from said separating member when said image forming substance is solidified; and
- a cooling member configured to change said image forming substance which has been transferred to said separating member from said image holding material from a melted or softened state to a solidified state, said cooling member located between a separating position at which said image holding material and said separating member are separated from each other and a cleaning position at which said cleaning member removes said image forming substance transferred from said image holding material located on said separating member from said separating member.
- 75. An apparatus as claimed in claim 73, wherein:
- said separating member comprises an endless belt having at least a surface which comes in contact with said image forming substance on said image holding material with an adhesive force with respect to said image forming substance which is stronger than the adhesive force between said image holding material and said image forming substance.
- 76. An apparatus as claimed in claim 75, wherein:
- the at least a surface of said separating member which comes in contact with said image forming substance on said image holding material is formed of a material having at least a resin.
- 77. An apparatus as claimed in claim 75, further comprising:
- a roller which contacts a rear surface of said separating member opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred from said image holding material, said roller forming a specified curvature in said endless belt, wherein:
- while the melting or softening state of said image forming substance is maintained, said image holding material and said separating member are separated from each other at a position of the curvature formed by said roller.
- 78. An apparatus as claimed in claim 73, further comprising:
- a supporting member that contacts a rear surface of said separating member opposed to a surface thereof to which said image forming substance is transferred.
- 79. An apparatus as claimed in claim 78, wherein:
- said supporting member is a fixing block with said separating member sliding on a surface thereof when said separating member is driven by a drive member.
- 80. An apparatus as claimed in claim 79, wherein:
- at least the surface of said supporting member which comes in contact with said separating member is subjected to low friction.
- 81. An apparatus as claimed in claim 73, further including:
- a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of said separating member; and
- a controller configured to control the heating of said heating member using said temperature sensor.
- 82. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance from an image holding material, comprising:
- a liquid supply member configured to supply a liquid to said image holding material on which said image forming substance is stably deposited;
- an image forming substance separating member configured to drive a separating device having a stronger adhesive force than said image holding material with respect to said image forming substance on said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied such that a surface of said separating device comes in contact with said image forming substance on said image holding material and then separates said image forming substance from said image holding material, while gripping said image holding material between the surface of said separating device and a backup member;
- a drying member configured to dry said image holding material from which said image forming substance has been separated by said image forming substance separating member while gripping and transferring said image holding material;
- a transfer member configured to transfer said image holding material, while supporting said image holding material;
- wherein an interval between a position at which said separating device and said backup member are opposed to each other and a position in said drying member at which the gripping of said image holding material is started is set longer than a length of said image holding material in a transfer direction thereof and wherein the transfer member is disposed within said interval.
- 83. An image holding material processing apparatus for executing at least a liquid supply processing for an image holding material using a liquid supply member, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:
- a control member configured to drive and control;
- a first gripping and transferring member configured to transfer said image holding material within the apparatus; and
- a second gripping and transferring member configured to transfer said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied by said liquid supply member on a downstream side of the transfer direction relative to said first gripping and transferring member such that sagging occurs in said image holding material between said first and second gripping and transferring members.
- 84. An apparatus for removing an image forming substance from an image holding material, said apparatus using a liquid supply member to execute at least a liquid supply processing for said image forming substance in order to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material on a surface of which said image forming substance has been attached, characterized in that the apparatus includes:
- a control member configured to drive and control;
- a first gripping and transferring member configured to transfer said image holding material within the apparatus; and
- a second gripping and transferring member configured to transfer said image holding material to which said liquid has been supplied by said liquid supply member on a downstream side of the transfer direction relative to said first gripping and transferring member, such that sagging occurs in said image holding material between said first and second gripping and transferring members.
- 85. An apparatus as claimed in claim 84 which is configured such that during a specified period of a duration in which said image holding material is being gripped and transferred by both said first and second gripping and transferring members, a transfer speed of said second gripping and transferring member is set higher than a transfer speed of said first gripping and transferring member.
- 86. An apparatus as claimed in claim 84, further comprising:
- a sagging amount detection member configured to detect an amount of sagging in said image holding material between said first and second gripping and transferring members, wherein based on an output of said sagging amount detection means, said control member switches a condition for driving so as to prevent at least increases in the amount of sagging of said image holding material between said first and second gripping and transferring members once said amount of sagging has reached a specified value.
- 87. An apparatus for separating an image forming substance on an image holding material from said image holding material, comprising:
- a removing member configured to remove said image forming substance from said image holding material;
- a transfer member configured to transfer said image holding material, from which said image forming substance has been removed by said removing member; and
- a stacker in which said image holding materials transferred by said transfer member are stacked in such a way that a surface of said image holding material, from which said image forming substance has been removed by said removing member, faces upward.
Priority Claims (3)
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6-305649 |
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Parent Case Info
This is a Division of application Ser. No. 08/385,159 filed on Feb. 7, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,642,550.
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Divisions (1)
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385159 |
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