STRIPPER FINGER MECHANISM

摘要

A sheet stripping device (91), especially for use at the fuser station (48) of a copier (8), comprises a plurality of flexible stripper fingers (92, 110) arranged with their end portions against a fuser roll surface (49) to initiate separation of a fused copy sheet (32). The stripper fingers each have a raised edge portion (104) which provides a gradually sloping rigid support to guide the fused copy sheet away from the stripper finger surface. The raised edge portion may be formed by a triangular cut-out portion bent at right angles to the main portion (100) of the finger (see Fig. 4). Alternatively, the raised edge portions may be formed by flexing the fingers into a U-shaped, winged configuration (see Fig. 7).