Multi-mode scanner

Details Multi-mode scanner Multi-mode scanner

1983-04-29

1985-08-20

Prescott, A. C.

Photocopying

Including fiber optics

355 3R, 355 14SH, 355 24, G03G 1500

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active

045360774

ABSTRACT:
A multi-mode scanner having a first automatic simplex scan mode, a second automatic duplex scan mode, and a third manual simplex scan mode, the scanner including a pair of scan stations for scanning opposing sides of a document, automatic document feeder means for separating a document to be scanned from a document supply and transporting the document to the first one of the scan stations where one side of the document is scanned in the first mode, and thereafter inverting the document and transporting the inverted document to the second one of the scan stations where the opposite side of the document is scanned in the second mode; a platen for manually accepting a document to be scanned in the third mode, and a movable scan carriage positionable in accordance with the mode selected having presettable optics to convey image rays from either the first or second scan station or from the platen to a scanning array.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3844654 (1974-10-01), Guenther
patent: 3980406 (1976-09-01), Lang
patent: 3998543 (1976-12-01), Wick et al.
patent: 4035073 (1977-07-01), Del Vecchio
patent: 4261661 (1981-04-01), Thiers
patent: 4429333 (1984-01-01), Davis et al.

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