These early TV commercials from 1964 demonstrate its capabilities. Burning smell if you opened the doors too fast after a fuser jam A massive clunking machine. Hope all is well. The company had, the previous year, announced the refined development of xerography in collaboration with Battelle Development Corporation, of Columbus, Ohio. Watching the Xerox engineers work here and at other offices I worked at, inspired me to take my C & G in Electronics and also become an engineer from 1980 to 1995 on Toshiba copiersThe 660 caught fire gor the same reason. Starring Brother Dominic and the Xerox 9200 duplicator. I can help with that 3600 circuit diagram .. if it’s not too late ! Balmer had recently left Harley Earl, Inc., where he had been a designer since 1946, to co-establish Armstrong-Balmer & Associates in 1958. It was designed by Jim Balmer and William H. Armstrong of Armstrong-Balmer & Associates, and won a 1964 Certificate of Design Merit from the Industrial Designers Institute (IDI). Manually operated, it was also known as the Ox Box. If this did not happen a photocell; called a “misspuff detector” would stop the machine; an all too common occurrence. Based on Chester Carlson’s invention, the Xerox 914 was the world’s first plain paper copier. One of my assignments was to service the first placement outside of a lab. An improved version, Camera #1, was introduced in 1950. The Xerox 914. The installation was at the Haloid Street facility. The machine was the result of Chester F. Carlson's work in the xerographic process. At company social events wives were heard to ask “Who is this “Miss Puff”my husband is ALWAYS talking about.Early Xerox products and historyTo the left is a picture of a Xerox 720.Hi George. Haloid was renamed Haloid Xerox in 1958, and, after the instant success of the 914, when the name Xerox soon became synonymous with "copy", would become the Xerox Corporation.In 1963, Xerox introduced the first desktop copier to make copies on plain paper, the 813. Xerox 2600 copier commercial 5. The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier which in 1959 revolutionized the document-copying industry.
2. Among those first design employees were William Dalton and Robert Van Valkinburgh. The weight of the machine was 648 pounds and measures 42" high x 46" wide x 45" deep. 3. The only difference being the motor speed. First Xerox commercial. Our breakfast usually consisted of toast made on the 914 fuser.Xerox made four versions of the machine: 914, 420, 720 and 1000.
Xerox Corporation The fast, economical Xerox 914—the first automatic, plain-paper commercial copier—is announced to the public on September 16, 1959, in a televised demonstration and subsequently revolutionizes the industry. I see you still have your sense of humor. A ‘fire wire’ was in place, it would melt to close the doors theory, no oxygen to burn….Haloid Xerox named the 914 because it could copy originals up to 9 inches by 14 inches (229 mm × 356 mm).914s did not catch fire “due to overheating”, they caught fire when paper stopped under the fuser (which melted the toner, fixing the image). By that assignment, I was the first tech rep on a 914.No, not many people were skilled enough to fix the copier, that was one of its major flaws.tecnico xerox dal 1975 al 2016 41 anni e 3 mesi assistito 914,422, ecc ecc ecc un saluto a tutti Brizzi Massimiliano ItalyThe 914 – 1000 series machines used a puff of air ( a solenoid and diaphragm coupled to a manifold) to blow the lead edge of the paper off the drum after image transfer. The culmination of inventor Chester Carlson's work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical. Xerox Monk commercial from 1977. The copier was introduced to the public on September 16, 1959, in a demonstration at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York, shown on live television.