Copy machine having plural trays each tray capable of storing two different stacks of sheets
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasayuki Otake, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Shuji Watanabe, Akira Inada, Nobuhiro Mabuchi, Naoyuki Kikuchi, Shigeru Tanabe, Takuo Otoshi
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Abstract
In a copying machine, an original which has been once exposed to be scanned is inverted and transmitted again to an original table glass, and a sheet having one face onto which an image has been fixed is inverted and then transmitted through a transmitting path to an image forming section, whereby the top and back faces of the original are copied to the top and back faces of the sheet, respectively.
Claims18
A copying machine for copying front and back faces of an original to a sheet, comprising:
- means for feeding the original to a predetermined position;
- means for optically scanning the original at said predetermined position to obtain an image;
- sheet-feeding means for feeding the sheet, said sheet-feeding means including a tray having opposing sides for storing a stack of each of two kinds of sheets;
- take out means for selectively taking out sheets separately from each stack in a respective different direction from the respective adjacent opposing side of said tray;
- means for transferring said image onto the fed sheet;
- fixing means for fixing the transferred image to the sheet;
- first transmitting means for inverting the original fed to said predetermined position, and for transmitting the inverted original to said original-feeding means;
- second transmitting means for transmitting the sheet to said sheet-feeding means.
A copying machine for respectively copying front and back faces of an original to front and back faces of a sheet, comprising
- means for optically scanning the original at a predetermined position to obtain an image;
- sheet-feeding means for feeding the sheet, said sheet-feeding means including a tray having opposing sides for storing a stack of each of two kinds of sheets;
- take out means for selectively taking out sheets separately from each stack in a respective different direction from the respective adjacent opposing side of said tray;
- means for transferring said image onto the fed sheet;
- fixing means for fixing the transferred image to the sheet;
- a transmitting path for transmitting the sheet onto which the image has been fixed, to said sheet-feeding means;
- a table having means for receiving the original;
- original-feeding means for feeding the original from said to said predetermined position;
- original-returning means for returning the original from said predetermined position to said table
- first transmitting means, disposed at an intermediate portion of said original-returning means, for inverting the returned original, and for transmitting the inverted original to said original-feeding means;
- second transmitting means, disposed between said fixing means and said transmitting path, for transmitting the sheet to said transmitting path.
A copying machine for copying two originals of an odd-number one and an even-number one stacked in order to one face of a sheet, comprising:
- a table having means for receiving the originals;
- means for feeding the original, received on said table, to a predetermined position;
- means for optically scanning the original fed, to said predetermined position, to obtain an image;
- sheet-feeding means for feeding the sheet, said sheet-feeding means including a tray having opposing sides for storing a stack of each of two kinds of sheets either of different sizes or arranged in different storing directions;
- take out means for selectively taking out sheets separately from each stack in a respective different direction from the respective adjacent opposing side of said tray;
- means for transferring said image onto the fed sheet;
- fixing means for fixing the transferred image to the sheet;
- a transmitting path for transmitting the sheet onto which the image has been fixed, to said sheet-feeding means;
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- original-returning means for returning the original from said predetermined position, to said table, and for stacking the returned original on other originals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.