Platen accessory for portable copier
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorDenis J. Stemmle
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Abstract
A reproducing apparatus includes a portable imaging platen and a self contained portable copier not having a platen but having a scanning carriage adapted for scanning movement having a reading head for scanning a document to produce a digital image and a printing head for printing a digital image on a copy sheet. The portable platen includes a pair of parallel copier transport rails mounted to a transparent document support member defining a portable copier transport path across the document support member. The rails have a drive surface and the portable copier is mounted on the rails and has a drive mechanism for transporting the portable copier along the drive surface of the rails.
Claims27
A platen accessory for a portable copier not having a platen comprising a transparent document support member, a pair of parallel copier transport rails mounted to said document support member defining a portable copier transport path across said document support member, said rails having a drive surface for engagement with a drive mechanism on a portable copier to transport the copier along the drive surface and means to movably mount a portable copier to said platen accessory.
Reproducing apparatus comprising a portable imaging platen, a self contained portable copier not having a platen but having a scanning carriage adapted for scanning movement, said scanning carriage having a reading head secured thereto for scanning a document to produce a digital image and a printing head secured thereto for printing said digital image on a copy sheet, said portable platen having a transparent document support member, a pair of parallel copier transport rails mounted to said document support member defining a portable copier transport path across said document support member, said rails having a drive surface, said portable copier being mounted on said transport rails and having a drive mechanism for transporting said portable copier along said drive surface of said rails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.