Sheet feeding or delivering – Feeding and delivering
Patent
1997-11-12
2000-02-22
Terrell, William E.
Sheet feeding or delivering
Feeding and delivering
271 401, 271 404, 399110, 399367, B65H 522
Patent
active
060271094
ABSTRACT:
A document feeder to be mounted atop an image reading device having a stationary optical system disposed under a contact glass. The document feeder includes a document original plate for holding thereon document originals, a document original feeding mechanism for feeding a document original from the document original plate onto a contact glass, a document original transporting mechanism for transporting the document original fed by the document original feeding mechanism along the upper surface of the contact glass, a document original discharging mechanism for discharging the document original transported by the document original transporting mechanism, and a document original discharge plate for receiving the document original discharged by the document original discharging mechanism. The document original feeding mechanism, the document original transporting mechanism and the document original discharging mechanism are integrally supported in a unit body to constitute a single unit.
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patent: 5078377 (1992-01-01), DuBois
patent: 5338018 (1994-08-01), Nagao et al.
patent: 5534989 (1996-07-01), Rubscha et al.
Hanano Susumu
Inada Junichi
Kiyosumi Tadahiro
Sakaguchi Takeshi
Takehara Susumu
Deuble Mark
Mita Industrial Co. Ltd.
Terrell William E.
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