Photocopying – Including fiber optics
Patent
1982-08-02
1985-04-02
Grimley, A. T.
Photocopying
Including fiber optics
355 3SH, 355 14R, 355 14SH, 355 51, 271 4, 271 9, 271 10, 271 65, B65H 506, B65H 906, B65H 344, B65H 502
Patent
active
045084440
ABSTRACT:
A multimode document handling apparatus and reproducing apparatus containing same are described wherein the document handling apparatus comprises an upper frame portion pivotally mounted along its rear edge to a lower base frame portion to provide open and closed positions of the upper frame relative to the lower frame. The lower frame contains a substantially horizontal imaging platen and document transport defining a generally horizontal document transport path. The upper portion contains a vertically inclined document loading chute the lower exit portion of which intersects the generally horizontal document transport path. The document loading chute includes a gate to permit loading of successive copies in the chute while preventing it from being fed as the preceding document is being copied. The device makes single copies by inserting a document into the chute and multiple copies by reversing the direction of the transport rolls to drive the document after having once been copied back across the platen in the horizontal path past the exit portion of the chute to be transported forward again across the imaging platen. At the same time in this multicopy mode the chute can be used as a wait station for insertion of the next document to be copied. The chute is also used as a wait station during the stream feeding of successive documents. To copy pages of a book, the upper frame portion is pivoted up and the book is placed on the transport rolls which transport it across the imaging platen.
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May Joseph N.
Wing Joseph M.
Flower Terry
Grimley A. T.
Xerox Corporation
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