Facsimile machine provided with a telephonic handset

Details Facsimile machine provided with a telephonic handset Facsimile machine provided with a telephonic handset

1998-09-02

2001-10-02

Grant, II, Jerome (Department: 2624)

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Picture signal generator

C358S400000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06297893

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to a facsimile machine and, more particularly, to a facsimile machine comprising a casing, a lid hinge-mounted on the casing to grant access to the inside of the machine, and a telephone handset.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Facsimile machines having the characteristics listed above are widely known in commerce and are finding more and more favour with the consumer public.
In particular, these facsimile machines, or fax machines as they will be referred to more simply hereinbelow, are capable not only of effecting the usual reading and printing operations, in order respectively to transmit and receive documents, but also of allowing an operator to make normal voice telephone calls.
At the moment, however, there are a number of drawbacks with the fax machines offering these features, consisting essentially of the larger overall dimensions, due to the presence of the telephone handset, than fax machines not provided with the latter.
In particular, on some of these fax machine models, the telephone handset is removably accommodated in a cradle disposed along one side of the fax machine, but this cradle results in the fax machine having increased lateral dimensions.
Other fax machine models are provided with a cradle made in the upper part of their casing and designed for accommodating the telephone handset, but again this solution fails to avoid increasing the overall dimensions of these fax machines.
More specifically, with the solution proposed above, the space occupied by the cradle for the telephone handset detracts from the space available at the upper part of the facsimile, where the devices and associated trays for storage and feeding of paper are arranged, making it necessary in any case to increase the overall dimensions of the fax machine itself, compared to cases when it is not provided with the handset, in order to leave room for these devices.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of this invention is to produce a fax machine which, though provided with a telephone handset, has global dimensions, and in particular plan dimensions, that are not greater on account of presence of the telephone handset, so as to assume a more compact shape with respect to the known fax machines.
This object is attained by the fax machine having the characteristics enunciated in the main claim.
Another object of this invention is to produce a fax machine comprising a telephone handset and a lid suitable for accommodating the handset, wherein the telephone functionality, i.e. the possibility of receiving phone calls from the outside through the handset, is not affected by the action of raising the lid to gain access to the inside of the fax machine.


REFERENCES:
patent: 5265152 (1993-11-01), Kotani
patent: 5276509 (1994-01-01), Mizuno
patent: 5737097 (1998-04-01), Fujimoto
patent: 6040919 (2000-03-01), Iwata

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Facsimile machine provided with a telephonic handset does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Facsimile machine provided with a telephonic handset, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Facsimile machine provided with a telephonic handset will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2585659