Sheet feeding device for facsmile apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasafumi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Morimoto
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Abstract
A compact and efficient facsimile machine sheet feeding device can automatically select either roll or cut sheet paper supplies in response to received signals indicating the size of the remotely located original document being electronically transmitted thereto. The roll paper supply is preferably located in one end of a cut paper supply tray. A dual purpose document receiving bin is also preferably utilized so as to selectively receive scanned original documents at one end and to receive incoming copy documents at the other end. Either a roll sheet or cut sheet paper supply can be selected in accordance with the width of the original document. If the roll sheet supply is selected, it is cut to have the desired length of the original document.
Claims6
A facsimile machine capable of receiving electrical facsimile messages produced from differently sized original sheet documents and also being capable of producing a visual reproduction of such received messages on correspondingly sized copy sheets, said facsimile machine comprising:
- a roll-sheet supply of copy medium having a predetermined width and being selectively cut to predetermined lengths during use;
- at least one cut-sheet supply of copy medium having a predetermined length and width;
- means for determining the width of the original sheet document used to generate the received facsimile message based on the content of said received facsimile message;
- means for selectively activating an available one of said supplies of copy medium best accommodating the determined original sheet document width;
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- means for cutting the roll sheet in accordance with the length of the original document when the roll sheet is selected.
A facsimile machine capable of receiving electrical facsimile messages produced from differently sized original sheet documents and also being capable of producing a visual reproduction of such received messages on correspondingly sized copy sheets, said facsimile machine comprising:
- a roll-sheet supply of copy medium having a predetermined width and being selectively cut to predetermined lengths during use;
- at least one cut-sheet supply of copy medium having a predetermined length and width;
- means for determining the size of the original sheet document used to generate the received facsimile message based on the content of said received facsimile message;
- means for selectively activating an available one of said supplies of copy medium best accommodating the determined original sheet document size;
- means for scanning an original document and generating a transmitted electrical facsimile message;
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- a document receiving bin disposed to collect received copy documents at one end thereof and to collect scanned original documents at an opposite end thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.