Patent ID: 6173952
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: B65H,G03G

Abstract:
In a sheet handling method for correcting the skew or transverse position of sequential image substrate sheets moving in a process direction in a sheet transport path of a reproduction apparatus, in which selected sheets are partially rotated by a transversely spaced-apart pair of differentially driven sheet steering nips, and said image substrate sheets have a variety of sheet widths transversely of said sheet path, the improvement comprising:obtaining a control signal proportional to the width of an image substrate sheet to be moved in said process direction in said sheet transport path, andautomatically increasing or decreasing the transverse spacing between said transversely spaced-apart pair of differentially driven sheet steering nips in response to a said control signal indicative of an increasing or decreasing width of an image substrate sheet to provide improved said sheet handling.