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US 4,730,206 AGranted
Copying apparatus having a sheet refeeding device
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShigeru Sawada, Masaru Komura, Masazumi Ito, Masaaki Oyabu
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Abstract
A copying apparatus including a recording module for forming an image on copy paper sheets fed from a sheet feeding portion and discharging the copy paper sheets to a sheet ejecting portion and a sheet processing module mounted detachably on the sheet ejecting portion. The sheet processing module includes a sheet cassette mounted detachably on the sheet processing module and the sheet feeding portion, a copy receiving tray and a changeover device for changing over to the sheet cassette or the copy receiving tray, a passage of the copy paper sheets discharged from the sheet ejecting portion.
Claims27
A copying apparatus comprising:
- a recording module which forms an image on copy paper sheets fed from a sheet feeding portion and discharges the copy paper sheets to a sheet ejecting portion;
- and
- a sheet processing module which is detachably mounted on said sheet ejecting portion;
- said sheet processing module comprising:
- a sheet cassette for accommodating the copy paper sheets, which is detachably mounted on said sheet processing module and said sheet feeding portion;
- a copy receiving tray;
- and
- a changeover means for changing over a passage of the copy paper sheets discharged from said sheet ejecting portion so as to guide the sheet to said sheet cassette or to said copy receiving tray.
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A copying apparatus comprising:
- a recording module which forms an image on copy paper sheets fed from a sheet feeding portion and discharges the copy paper sheets to a sheet ejecting portion;
- and
- a sheet processing module which is detachably mounted on said sheet ejecting portion;
- said sheet processing module comprising:
- a sheet cassette for accommodating the copy paper sheets, which is detachably mounted on said sheet processing module and said sheet feeding portion;
- a copy receiving tray;
- a changeover means for selectively feeding to said copy receiving tray or said sheet cassette, the copy paper sheets discharged from said sheet ejecting portion;
- and
- means for prohibiting withdrawal of said sheet cassette from a predetermined position of said sheet processing module when feeding of the copy paper sheets to said sheet cassette is selected by said changeover means.
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A copying apparatus comprising:
- a recording module which forms an image on copy paper sheets fed from a sheet feeding portion and discharges the copy paper sheets to a sheet ejecting portion;
- and
- a sheet processing module which is detachably mounted on said sheet ejecting portion;
- said sheet processing module comprising:
- a sheet cassette for accommodating the copy paper sheets, which is detachably mounted on said sheet processing module and said sheet feeding portion;
- a first passage for feeding the copy paper sheets into said sheet cassette such that a copied face of each of the copy paper sheets is oriented upwardly;
- a second passage for feeding the copy paper sheets into said sheet cassette such that the copied face of each of the copy paper sheets is oriented downwardly;
- and
- a changeover means for performing changeover of a feed passage of the copy paper sheets between said first passage and said second passage.
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A copying apparatus comprising:
- a recording module which forms an image on copy paper sheets fed from a sheet feeding portion and discharges the copy paper sheets to a sheet ejecting portion;
- and
- a sheet processing module which is detachably mounted on said sheet ejecting portion;
- said sheet processing module comprising:
- a copy receiving tray;
- a sheet cassette for accommodating the copy paper sheets, which is detachably mounted on said sheet processing module and said sheet feeding portion;
- a first passage for feeding into said sheet cassette, the copy paper sheets discharged from said sheet ejecting portion such that a copied face of each of the copy paper sheets is oriented in a first direction;
- a second passage for feeding into said sheet cassette, the copy paper sheets discharged from said sheet ejecting portion such that the copied face of each of the copy paper sheets is oriented in a second direction different from the first direction;
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- a changeover means for feeding the copy paper sheets discharged from said sheet ejecting portion to one of said copy receiving tray, said first passage and said second passage.
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A copying apparatus comprising:
- a recording module which forms an image on copy paper sheets fed from a sheet feeding portion and discharges the copy paper sheets to a sheet ejecting portion;
- and
- a sheet processing module which is detachably mounted on said sheet ejecting portion;
- said sheet processing module comprising:
- a copy receiving tray;
- a sheet cassette for accommodating the copy paper sheets, which is detachably mounted on said sheet processing module and said sheet feeding portion;
- a first passage for feeding into said sheet cassette, the copy paper sheets discharged from said sheet ejecting portion such that a copied face of each of the copy paper sheets is oriented in a first direction;
- a second passage for feeding into said sheet cassette, the copy paper sheets discharged from said sheet ejecting portion such that the copied face of each of the copy paper sheets is oriented in a second direction different from the first direction;
- a changeover means for feeding the copy paper sheets discharged from said sheet ejecting portion to one of said copy receiving tray, said first passage and said second passage;
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- means for prohibiting withdrawal of said sheet cassette from said sheet processing module when said first passage or said second passage is selected by said changeover means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.