Document feeder having a curved document transportation path

Details Document feeder having a curved document transportation path Document feeder having a curved document transportation path

1998-01-12

1999-08-31

Lee, Susan S. Y.

Electrophotography

Document handling

Original

271 324, 271277, 399367, G03G 1500

Patent

active

059465409

ABSTRACT:
A document feeder which has a document transportation path curved with a curvature radius such that a document original is reversed and fed therethrough to a document setting surface. The document feeder further includes a pair of rollers respectively disposed inside and outside of the curvature of the document transportation path in an opposed relation and adapted to hold the document original therebetween for guiding the document original to the document setting surface. The rollers abut against each other in a position upstream of the vertex of the curvature of the document transportation path with respect to a document transportation direction.

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