摘要 |
A xerographic copying apparatus having a hot roll fuser and a peeler bar which includes a fluid jet to assist in stripping the toned copy sheet from the hot roll. The peeler bar and jet geometry cooperate with the fusing nip to create aerodynamic forces which tend to peel the sheet's leading edge from the hot roll. This force producing means includes an air jet. The air jet produces pressure differentials to initially pick and guide the sheet's leading edge from the hot roll. The combination of these pressure differentials and the peeler bar's guide surface, positioned to one side of the sheet's path downstream of the hot roll, provides an unconfined and sole support guidance means for the sheet as it leaves the hot roll. |