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Optical copying arrangement

US4415255A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 25, 1982
Grant dateNov 15, 1983
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Expiry dateJan 25, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B27/525
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical copying arrangement, particularly an electrostatic copying arrangement, has a carriage provided with a transparent supporting plate for an original and movable in a substantially horizontal direction, a drive for moving an image carrier onto which an image is to be copied from the original, and a scanning system arranged to scan the original supported on the supporting plate by successive strips and form a copy on the image carrier, wherein the supporting plate has a part which in initial position of the carriage is located prior to a first strip, considered in direction of carriage movement, and is bent downwardly relative to the main part of the supporting plate.

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