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US 5,347,349 AGranted
Image forming apparatus having a protective gate member
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorsKenji Sato, Hiroyuki Honda
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is equipped with a manual sheet-feeding device to feed a sheet to an image forming section. The manual sheet-feeding device is mounted on a side of a casing in such an arrangement that a manual sheet-feeding entrance is located at the top of the casing and a manual sheet-feeding passage is extended downwardly from the manual sheet-feeding entrance and connected with a sheet passage at the lower portion of the casing.
Claims3
An apparatus for forming an image on a recording sheet comprising a casing;
- an image former disposed in said casing;
- a conveyor for moving a sheet through a sheet passage to said image former so that said sheet receives an image thereon from said image former, said sheet passage positioned at a lower portion of said casing;
- a manual sheet-feeder for manually feeding a sheet to said apparatus, said sheet-feeder being mounted on a side of said casing, there being an entrance for said manual feeder at the top of said casing, a manual sheet-feeder passage extending downwardly from said entrance and connected to said sheet passage through which a manually-fed sheet is conveyed to the image former,
- a gate member adapted to block said manual sheet-feeder passage to prevent a foreign substance entering said manual sheet-feeder passage and from entering said sheet passage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.