Facsimile transceiver apparatus

Abstract

Abstract A FACSIMILE TRANSCEIVER APPARATUS FOR USE IN A FACSIMILE SYSTEM TO CONVERT INFORMATION ON RECORD MEDIA INJTO ELECTRICAL SIGNALS FOR TRANSMISSION TO A REMOTE LOCATION IN A TRANSMIT MODE AND TO CONVERT ELECLTRICAL SIGANLS RECEIVED FROM A REMOTE LOCATION INTO REPRESENTATIVE INFORMATION ON RECORD MEDIA IN A RECEIVE MODE. INFORMATION IS SCANNED AND RECORDED AT A SCANNING STATION AXIALLY LOCATED ALONG A PASSAGEWAY HAVING AN ARCUATE CONFIGURATION IN A LATERAL DIRECTION AND A LINEAR CONFIGURATION IN A LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION. A SUPPORT MEMBER HAVING OPTICAL SCANNING MEANS AND ELECTROGRAPHIC RECORDING MEANS OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED THEREWITH IS ROTATABLE ABOUT THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE PASSAGEWAY AT THE SCANNING STATION. IN THE TRANSMIT MODE, A DOCUMENT CONTAINING INFORMATION TO BE TRANSMITTED IS ADVANCED INTO THE PASSAGEWAY BY AN AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND UPON ROTATION OF THE SUPPORT MEMBER, ELECTRICAL SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INFORMATION ARE GENERATED FOR TRANSMISSION AS THE OPTICAL SCANNING MEANS TRAVERSES THE DOCUMENT. IN THE RECEIVE MODE, A COPY SHEET ONTO WHICH INFORMATION IS TO BE RECORDED IS ADVANCED INTO THE PASSAGEWAY BY AN AUTOMATIC COPY SHEET TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND UPON ROTATION OF THE SUPPORT MEMBER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE PATTERNS ARE PRODUCED ON THE COPY SHEET IN RESPONSE TO RECEIVED ELECTRICAL SIGNALS AS THE ELECTROGRAPHIC RECORDING MEANS TRAVERSES THE COPY SHEET. THE CHARGE PATTERNS OF INFORMATION ON THE COPY SHEET ARE RENDERED VISIBLE BY MEANS OF AN ELECTROSTATIC POWDER DEVELOPING APPARATUS WHICH UNIFORMLY DEPOSITS A QUANTITY OF POWDER MARKING PARTICLES ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE ELECTROSTATICALLY CHARGED COPY SHEET. THE DEVELOPED IMAGE IS THEN FUSED TO THE SURFACE OF THE RECORD MEDIA TO PROVIDE A PERMANENT FACSIMILE COPY OF THE RECEIVED INFORMATION.

Inventors

• 👤 Halbert M Harris
• 👤 Franklin L Headd
• 👤 Ralph R Tilly
• 👤 Charles L Huber
• 👤 Robert H Rugaber

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