Patent · US Expired

Copy production machines

US4623244A · kind A · utility

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8References

165Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Donald R. Andrews · Mesquite, US
Roger E. Kuseski · Longmont, US
Terence Travis · Boulder, US

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 14, 1977
Grant date	Nov 18, 1986
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 14, 1997

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03G15/221
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Copy production machine having a print mode for making copies under automatic control interruptible by a copy mode of making copies. In the print mode images to be copied are automatically supplied to a copy production portion. In the copy mode, a variety of image supplying techniques may be employed. Copy output means separate copies made from the two modes. In the print mode images are preferably precollated whereas in the copy, mode produced copies are collated. In a print mode plural image sources may be employed, such sources being activated ad seriatim.

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