Copying apparatus provided with an automatic original feeding device

A copying apparatus comprising:

• (a) original feeding means for feeding an original document to an exposure position and discharging the original document after exposure;
• (b) image formation means for forming a copy image of the original document;
• (c) stop instruction means for instructing interruption of multiple copy operations during the operation of said image formation means;
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• (d) control means responsive to said stop instruction means for controlling said original feeding means to discharge the original from the exposure position.

A copying apparatus comprising:

• (a) container means for containing originals therein;
• (b) conveyor means for conveying the originals from said container portion to an exposure position;
• (c) image formation means for forming an image corresponding to the image of an original by exposure;
• (d) setting means for setting said conveyor means to its usable condition in which it conveys the originals in response to the setting of the originals into said container portion;
• (e) first time counting means for counting a predetermined time after said conveyor means has been set to said usable condition;
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• (f) means for releasing said usable condition when no original is set in said container portion before the time counting by said first time counting means has been terminated.

A copying apparatus comprising:

• (a) original feeding means for feeding a plurality of originals to an exposure position one by one and discharging the originals from said exposure position;
• (b) light scanning means for exposing to light and reciprocally scanning the original at the exposure position;
• (c) photodetector means for detecting the light from said light scanning means;
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• (d) inhibition means for temporally inhibiting said feeding means from feeding the next original by the output of said photodetector means after termination of the scanning of the original at the exposure position.

A copying apparatus comprising:

• (a) an original carriage surface for supporting an original document thereon for exposure to light;
• (b) feeding means for feeding a sheet-like original to said carriage surface;
• (c) an original positioning member displaceable between a first position proximate to said carriage surface and a second position spaced apart from said carriage surface;
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• (d) a mechanism responsive to said feeding means for maintaining said original positioning member at said first position when said feeding means is not used, and for displacing said original positioning member to said second position when said feeding means is used.