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Automatic sheet feeder and an image recording apparatus provided therewith

US4627709A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Filing dateNov 7, 1984
Grant dateDec 9, 1986
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Expiry dateNov 7, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B27/6264
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An automatic sheet feeder for feeding a sheet to a processing station to record the information on the sheet. Also, an image recording apparatus provided with such an automatic sheet feeder. The automatic sheet feeder includes a sheet stacking tray for supporting a stack of sheets, a feeder for feeding one by one the sheets out of the stack, a processing station for effecting a required processing to the surface of the sheet bearing the information to be recorded, which is being advanced by the feeder, and a conveyor for returning the sheet which has passed through the processing station to the stacking tray.

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