Document handler

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1979-05-14

1981-04-28

Moses, Richard L.

Photocopying

Projection printing and copying cameras

Combined with or convertible to a contact printer

271245, 271258, 271275, 355 3SH, 355 23, G03G 1500

Patent

active

042641870

ABSTRACT:
An electrophotographic copier has an extended transport path, including a storage for duplex functions, for copying documents which may be reproduced, to a selectable number of copies, from a master. The master is positioned first at an imaging station, so that the desired number of image transfers to copies can be made. The master document transport system recirculates the imaged master, holding it at a storage station spaced apart from the image station, while a second master is positioned at the image station. The system need not be delayed by requiring that all of the copy documents reach an exit position before the second master is inserted. Moreover if a jam occurs in any of a number of modes of operation the system is able to recall one or two masters as needed to complete the run in most expeditious fashion. By employing a first run adjacent the image station and a second run moving in the opposite direction and adjacent thereto, documents at the storage station may selectively be returned to the image station, to the entry mechanism for the system, or may be exited from the system. When duplex copies are being made from simplex or duplex masters, for example, a jam occurring when copying on the second side is followed by completing the copies in the duplex bin, then recalling the first master to undertake duplex copying of the number of added copies needed to make up the number lost in the jam. The system can therefore operate in semiautomatic or automatic document feeding modes to provide simplex copies, duplex copies from simplex masters, or duplex copies of duplex masters.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3815990 (1974-06-01), Newcomb et al.
patent: 3865482 (1975-02-01), Bendall et al.
patent: 4093372 (1978-06-01), Guenther
patent: 4134672 (1979-01-01), Burlew et al.

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