THOMAS JAMES HAMLIN
Pilots at Drumlin Dr, Macedon, NY

4564185, Jan 14, 1986

Dec 21, 1984

6/684814

Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY
William B. Edwards - Macedon NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B42B 200

270 53

A copying machine/finisher system is disclosed as having a rotary sorter arranged to receive a stream of copy sheets produced by a processor in conjunction with an automatic document handling apparatus of the type which produces multiple copies of a document sheet placed at an exposure station. The sorter collates the stream into booklets as the sorter is rotated in an indexing manner. An adhesive binder and a stapler are selectively positioned to effect binding while the booklets are still in the bins of the sorter. Binding is effected in timed relationship with sheets still entering the sorter. The sorter/finishing apparatus may also be a stand alone system.

4066254, Jan 3, 1978

Nov 28, 1975

5/636336

Klaus K. Stange - Pittsford NY
Richard E. Smith - Webster NY
Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY
James R. Cassano - Penfield NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B65H 900

271236

In a first embodiment, a stop having a plurality of ports is connected to and covers an end of a rectangular sleeve. In a region near the stop, a narrow wall of the sleeve also has a plurality of ports. A nozzle coupled to a pump provides a flow of air into the other end of the sleeve and the air exits through the ports. With this arrangement, a rectangular sheet inserted into said other end of the sleeve is fluidly brought into registration with the narrow wall and stop. After the sheet has been registered, fluid inserted or drawn through holes in a wide wall of the sleeve maintains the sheet in contact with one of the wide walls, thereby further registering the sheet. In a second embodiment, similar to the first, the narrow wall and stop include internal projections against which an inserted sheet is registered. In a third embodiment, similar to the first, a manifold is coupled to the ports and a vacuum pump is coupled to the manifold to accelerate registration. In a fourth embodiment, similar to the third, the pumps are replaced with a reversible pump to register and discharge a sheet.

4171131, Oct 16, 1979

Dec 12, 1977

5/860009

Klaus K. Stange - Pittsford NY
Richard E. Smith - Webster NY
Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY
James R. Cassano - Penfield NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B65H 900

271236

In a first embodiment a stop having a plurality of ports is connected to and covers an end of a rectangular sleeve. In a region near the stop a narrow wall of the sleeve also has a plurality of ports. A nozzle coupled to a pump provides a flow of air into the other end of the sleeve and the air exits through the ports. With this arrangement, a rectangular sheet inserted into said other end of the sleeve is fluidly brought into registration with the narrow wall and stop. As the sheet is brought into registration fluid injected or drawn through holes in a wide wall of the sleeve is used to force at least a part of the sheet against one of the wide walls and the resulting friction serves to brake the traveling sheet, thereby minimizing impact forces between the sheet, the narrow wall, and the stop. In a second embodiment, similar to the first, the narrow wall and stop include internal projections against which an inserted sheet is registered. In a third embodiment, similar to the first, a manifold is coupled to the ports and a vacuum pump is coupled to the manifold to accelerate registration.

4166614, Sep 4, 1979

Aug 18, 1977

5/825751

Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY
Clifford L. George - Macedon NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B65H 106, B65H 304, B65H 3134

271 31

A sheet stacking and feeding system for a copier with an integral normal force/jogger unit allowing continuous and simultaneous top loading and bottom feeding from opposite or common directions from a stack of documents or copy sheets. Disclosed are continuously rotating foraminous spaced counterbalanced jogging rollers engaging the top of the stack to provide lead edge or trail edge sheet pull-down and stacking registration against the front stack stop, and to provide a controlled uninterrupted normal force to edges of the feed belt of a bottom sheet retard feeder. This system is disclosed in a copying system for copying either duplex or simplex original document sets as pre-collated copy sets. A document handling system provides automatic recirculative pre-collation copying of duplex or simplex document sheets with selective different sheet inversion and different sheet restacking directions.

4823663, Apr 25, 1989

Mar 2, 1987

7/020805

Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B26D 526

83208

A roll supply having a pair of idler belts for supporting a supply roll of sheet material, stationary and movable knife blades, the latter having a V-shaped cutting edge, an eccentric for reciprocating the movable knife blade in one direction into cutting relation with the stationary knife blade, the movable knife blade having projections which rest on the stationary knife blade, a spring biasing the movable knife blade against the stationary knife blade, the movable knife blade being made of spring steel deformed into a slight V-shape relative to the stationary knife blade so that as the movable blade is reciprocated, the movable blade is displaced in a direction substantially normal to the direction of blade movement and a pair of cutting points are established which move together at the center, severing the sheet material, first and second roll pairs for advancing the sheet material to a cutting position, and control for actuating the roll pairs and the eccentric to cut the sheet length selected.

4116431, Sep 26, 1978

Jun 27, 1977

5/809952

Klaus K. Stange - Pittsford NY
Richard E. Smith - Webster NY
Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY
James R. Cassano - Penfield NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B65H 900

271236

A method for registering a stack of sheets with respect to perpendicularly related axes includes the steps of providing a first sleeve for accommodating the stack of sheets; providing a stop at one end of the sleeve; placing the stack in the sleeve; and providing in the sleeve a fluid stream, whereby the fluid stream moves the sheets down the sleeve in unison and moves the sheets into registration with a wall of the sleeve and the stop. In a modified method a second sleeve is provided in alignment with and adjacent to said first sleeve. The sheets are first placed inside the second sleeve and fluid is drawn from the first sleeve to move the stack. Assistance in moving the stack is provided by fluid injected into the second sleeve, care being taken to prevent a net flow of air out of a gap between the first and second sleeves.

RE32541, Nov 10, 1987

Jul 7, 1981

6/281145

Klaus K. Stange - Pittsford NY
Richard E. Smith - Webster NY
Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY
James R. Cassano - Penfield NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B65H 522, B65H 2900

271 3

A system wherein documents are presented to an exposure station of reproduction apparatus includes a housing in which a rack for storing documents is located. The rack includes a plurality of pockets in each of which a document may be stored, the rack being movable in a vertical direction so that any one of its pockets may be aligned with an opening in the housing. Fluid streams are used to either move a document in an aligned pocket through the opening and to the exposure station or from the exposure station into the pocket. Copies of documents presented to the exposure station are made by the reproduction apparatus. Adjacent the housing there is located an inverter into which documents from the rack are fluidically fed as desired. Inverted documents are returned to the rack with the assistance of a fluid stream. Inverted documents may be fed to the exposure station to provide duplex copies.

4060233, Nov 29, 1977

Nov 1, 1976

5/737450

Klaus K. Stange - Pittsford NY
Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B65H 112, B65H 304

271160

A cassette type sheet handling mechanism for a reproduction machine wherein the sheet separator utilized to remove sheets singly from the cassette has a portion thereof permanently mounted in the cassette for removal from the machine when the cassette is removed therefrom, the bottom of the cassette being pivotally mounted and biased in a direction toward the sheet separator to maintain the top sheet in the stack against the sheet separator.

4033574, Jul 5, 1977

Nov 28, 1975

5/635998

Klaus K. Stange - Pittsford NY
Richard E. Smith - Webster NY
Thomas J. Hamlin - Macedon NY
James R. Cassano - Penfield NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B65H 2924

271 3

Embodiments of apparatus for fluidically registering or posing documents in copying systems are disclosed. Each embodiment includes: a document feeder; and fluidic means for registering documents at a station and for discharging documents from the station. Discharged documents are collected in a tray.

4305576, Dec 15, 1981

Oct 3, 1979

6/081594

Thomas L. Hamlin - Macedon NY

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

B65H 106, B65H 312

271 11

An automatic document handler adapted to receive a stack of a stack of documents to be copied for feeding the documents seriatim to the platen of a copy machine and returning the copied documents to the stack. A combination vacuum-document separator in conjunction with an air knife and a document tray having a "U" shaped pocket with ramps formed on both sides thereof is provided to assure positive feeding of various sized documents without misfeeds or multifeeds.