Claims
- 1. Passively energized floating guide in a parked head scanner, to enable the original paper to clean a scanning glass slit wherein the scanning glass slit has a first end and a second end which are longitudinally opposing ends and wherein the paper crosses the scanning glass slit latitudinally moving from an entrance side to an exit side, comprising:a first end-plate one having a first slot, mounted to the scanner at the scanning glass slit first end; a second end plate having a second slot, mounted to the scanner at the scanning glass slit second end; and, a wiper bar having a wiper bar first end and an opposing wiper bar second end, and having a pivot point, wherein said wiper bar first end is pivotally attached at said pivot point to said first end-plate through said first slot, and said wiper bar second end is pivotally attached at said pivot point to said second end-plate through said second slot such that when at rest, said wiper bar rests on the scanning glass slit, wherein as paper passes over the scanning glass slit, the force of the paper causes said wiper bar to rotate slightly allowing paper to pass between said wiper bar and the scanning glass slit and passively energizes the wiper bar such that it applies pressure on the paper.
- 2. The passively energized floating guide of claim 1 wherein said pivot point is chosen such that greater than 50% of the weight of said wiper bar is on the exit side of said pivot point.
- 3. The passively energized floating guide of claim 1 wherein when the scanner is at rest, said wiper bar rests on the scanning glass slit on the exit side of said pivot point, and said wiper bar angles upward from the resting point towards the entrance side of the scanning glass slit.
- 4. The passively energized floating guide of claim 1 wherein the wiper bar weight does not exceed 3.5 ounces when used with paper ranging from 16 lbs to 110 lbs weight.
- 5. The passively energized floating guide of claim 1 wherein said wiper bar is aluminum.
- 6. The passively energized floating guide of claim 1 wherein said first end-plate and second end-plate have a first stop and a second stop respectively, and wherein said wiper bar has a protrusion, such that said wiper bar protrusion will hit said first stop and said second stop if said wiper bar is rotated far enough, such that said wiper bar does not over-rotate.
- 7. A method for preventing contamination build-up on a parked scanning head scanner glass slit, comprising:applying pressure to the original paper as it passes over the scanning glass slit such that the original paper wipes the scanning glass clean as it passes over the scanning glass slit, wherein such pressure is applied using a floating guide which is passively energized by the frictional force of the original paper.
Parent Case Info
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/205,018, filed May 17, 2000.
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60/205018 |
May 2000 |
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