US 4,908,662 AGranted

Automatic original feeding apparatus having an image area designating function

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsYasuyoshi Yamamoto, Toshirou Kasamura, Yasunori Maeda, Nobukazu Sasaki, Toshihiko Kusumoto, Naoki Okuda, Tatsuya Shiratori, Takashi Ozawa, Akiyoshi Kimura, Atsushi Kubota, Masashi Ohashi, Michiro Koike

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Abstract

An automatic original feeding apparatus has a coordinates position detecting device provided with a supporting table for supporting thereon a sheet original of which the area during image formation is to be designated, a conveying device for directing the inserted sheet original to a predetermined position, and a feed device provided upstream of the conveying device and responsive to the termination of the area designation to change over to a feeding position and feed the sheet original on the supporting table to the conveying device.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An automatic original feeding apparatus comprising:

original conveying means for introducing an original to a reading position;
a coordinates position detecting device disposed above said original conveying means and provided with a supporting table for supporting thereon a first sheet original with an image surface thereof facing upwardly and having means for designating an area of the first sheet original for image formation;
conveying means for directing the first sheet original along a curved path to said original conveying means;
feed means provided upstream of said conveying means and responsive to the termination of an area designation by said designating means to change over to a feeding condition and feed the first sheet original on said supporting table to said conveying means;
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original supplying means for introducing a second sheet original to said original conveying means with passing through said detecting device and said conveying means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/243,126Filed 7 Sep 1988 · continuation
Priority: JP 61-11579620 May 1986
Granted: 13 Mar 1990
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G03G 15/5016
Machine control of apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern, e.g. regulating differents parts of the machine, multimode…:…
G03B 27/6257
Apparatus which relate to the handling of originals, e.g. presence detectors, inverters: arrangements for moving an original once or repeatedly to…
G03G 15/36
Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern: editing, i.e. producing a composite image by copying one or more original images or…
G03G 15/60
Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern: apparatus which relate to the handling of originals