US 7,320,461 B2
Multifunction flexible media interface system
Robert M. Lofthus, Webster, N.Y. (US); Kristine A. German, Webster, N.Y. (US); David K. Biegelsen, Portola Valley, Calif. (US); Joannes N. M. deJong, Hopewell Junction, N.Y. (US); Lloyd A. Williams, Mahopac, N.Y. (US); and Warren B. Jackson, San Francisco, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, Conn. (US)
Filed on Jun. 03, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/860,195.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/478749, filed on Jun. 16, 2003.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/476374, filed on Jun. 06, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0247365 A1, Dec. 09, 2004
Int. Cl. B65H 5/22 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 271—3.14  [271/9.01; 271/9.05; 271/9.11; 271/9.12] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multifunction flexible media interface system comprising:
a plurality of flexible media input areas for receiving flexible media from a plurality of associated input processors;
a plurality of flexible media output areas for providing outputs to different associated flexible media output processors;
a flexible media position sensing system; and
a reconfigurable flexible media transporting system comprising a multiplicity of spaced and independently operable, variable flexible media-feeding-direction, flexible media transports and a plurality of modular units which together define a plane, each of the modular units comprising at least one of the independently operable, variable-direction, flexible media transports providing variable angle driving for selectable flexible media rotation and translation of flexible media in the plane, each of the modular units being selectively linkable with other modular units to define the flexible media transporting system.