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US 4,266,251 AGranted
Facsimile transmission and reception apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKazuyuki Hara, Takeshi Kamada
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Abstract
The facsimile transmission and reception apparatus comprises transportation means for originals and a recording paper transporation means, which are for transporting and positioning the original document and the recording paper substantially in the same width range normal to the movement direction of the original document and the recording paper, and the original document inserted, with an image information bearing side up, is transported substantially vertically from an upper position to a lower position.
Claims14
Facsimile apparatus comprising:
- an insertion inlet through which to insert original documents into said apparatus, each of said documents having an image information side and being inserted into said insertion inlet with said image information side facing up;
- collection means lower than said inlet to accumulate said original documents;
- channel means comprising a channel to direct the original documents from said inlet to said collection means and to cause said original documents to stack up at said collection means in the same order in which they were inserted into said insertion inlet and with the image information side facing down;
- transducing means comprising photosensitive means and optical means to produce, on said photosensitive means, an optical image of a predetermined object area of a portion of said channel means;
- carrier means for transporting said transducing means in a main scanning direction to scan said object area across a predertmined part of said channel;
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- transportation means to transport each of said original documents in a controlled manner along a sub-scanning direction past said predetermined part of said channel and with the image information side facing in a direction to have an image thereof focused by said optical means on said photosensitive means.
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