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Automatic document feeder

US4864366A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 27, 1988
Grant dateSep 5, 1989
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Expiry dateMay 27, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2215/00329
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An automatic document feeder for feeding documents in order to expose a document in a sheet through mode in which an optical system is fixed, a document is moved at constant speed, including; rollers for feeding documents one at a time from a document feeder table to a constant glass plate of a copy machine, a senser for sensing the length of the document, a scale disposed at an end of the contact galss plate at which the document is fed, and a controller for moving the exposure position of the optical system.

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